Meeker’s Town Board of Trustees this week approved the General Fund budget for 2022-2023 and also voted to approve a supplemental budget for the current fiscal year, 2021-2022.
Later, meeting as the Public Works Authority Trustees, they approved the PWA budget for 2022-2023.
The supplemental budget amount is $49,500.
The Trustees voted 3-0 in favor of passing the proposed General Fund Budget for the 2022-2023 Fiscal Year that begins July 1. It totals $966,791.
Expenditures also total that same amount.
The largest revenue item is $450,000 in sales tax and use tax income is projected at around $105,000. Also included in the revenue projections is $239,196 in carryover cash.
Largest expense item is for personnel expected to be around $610,000 with fuel costs projected at about $30,000.
The General Fund budget for the current fiscal year approved by Trustees in June of 2021 totaled $741,625.
The proposed PWA budget for 2023 also was approved by a 3-0 vote. It totals $887,400.
Largest single revenue item is water/garbage income projected at about $540,000.
Sales tax revenue is expected to be $23,000.
Carryover cash is figured at around $324,000. Expenditures are projected at $887,400 with unreserved cash totaling $254,186. Personnel expense is expected to total around $220,000.
The PWA budget for 2021-2022 that was approved in June of 2021 totaled $519,455.
Only three of the Town’s five trustees were in attendance at Monday evening’s meeting including Mayor Donna Weber and Trustees Lanny Thompson and Mike Orman.
Vice Mayor Aaron Head and Trustee Mike Melton were unable to attend.
The Trustees approved several items dealing with retirement for the Town’s employees.
One was to rescind an ordinance amending the employee retirement system, then another was approving an ordinance amending the system for the position of the city manager and town clerk that was approved by the IRS and has to be done every several years.
An emergency clause was also approved for that ordinance.
Another was to approve an ordinance to amend the defined benefit plan effective July 1, 2022 to include Town Manager Jeff Wilbourn that was inadvertently approved at an earlier meeting and has been rescinded and approving the emergency clause for that ordinance.
Trustees tabled an ordinance that would amend another ordinance adding digital sign fees.
In the PWA portion of the meeting, the Trustees tabled an ordinance to charge a new account deposit for citizens who want trash service only.