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Min CC 09/05/2024 Workshop"t X I. S -atyof Choke CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP CIBOLO MUNICIPAL BUILDING 200 S. Main Cibolo, Texas 78108 September 5, 2024 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. 131laillll *y 1. Call to Order— Meeting was called to order by Mayor Allen at 6:34 p.m. 2. Roll Call and Excused Absences — Members Present: Mayor Allen, Councilman Benson, Councilman Roberts, Councilman Mahoney, Councilwoman Cunningham, Councilman Hetzel, and Councilman Hicks.; Members Absent: Councilwoman Sanchez -Stephens. Councilman Hicks made the motion to excuse the absence of Councilwoman Sanchez -Stephens. The motion was seconded by Councilman Mahoney. For: All; Against: None. The motion carried 6 to 0. 3. Citizens to be Heard (Limit 3 Minutes) This is the only time during the Council Meeting that a citizen can address the City Council. It is the opportunity for visitors and guests to address the City Council on any issue to include agenda items. All visitors wishing to speak must fill out the Sign -In Roster prior to the start of the meeting. The City Council may not deliberate any non -agenda issue, nor may any action be taken on any non -agenda issue at this time; however, the City Council may present any factual response to items brought up by citizens. (Attorney General Opinion — JC -0169) (Limit of three minutes each.) All remarks shall be addressed to the Council as a body. Remarks may also be addressed to any individual member of the Council so long as the remarks are (i) about matters of local public concern and (ii) not disruptive to the meeting or threatening to the member or any attendee. Any person violating this policy may be requested to leave the meeting, but no person may be requested to leave or forced to leave the meeting because of the viewpoint expressed. This meeting is livestreamed. If anyone would like to make comments on any matter regarding the City of Cibolo or on an agenda item and have this item read at this meeting, please email pcimies(R)cibolotx.eov and vchapman(a)a,cibolotx.eov or telephone 210-566-6111 before 5:00 pm the date of the meeting. Ms. Patterson spoke during this item. She spoke on employees making over $70,000 a year not to have an increase in pay for FY24/25 as mentioned by a Councilmember at a previous meeting. Ms. Patterson spoke that she was the person in her family that brings in the income to run the household. She has a young son and the cost for school and after school daycare takes a huge amount out of her paycheck. Ms. Patterson also helps both her Mother and Mother -In Law. Her husband has an illness that requires medicine and the expense outside of the city's insurance pay also takes a lot out of her salary. Ms. Patterson ask the Councihnember that made this suggestion at a previous meeting to look at how this could affect numerous employees for the city. Mr. Thompson had sent an email which he would like to read into the minutes of this meeting. He wrote that he had been following the recent council meetings discussing budget cuts and employee pay. Mr. Thompson also felt that the Workshop should be live streamed to increase transparency. He felt it was important to have open and accessible information about how our city's funds are being allocated. 4. Discussion A. Discussion on the FY24/25 General Fund Budget and all other funds. Council was given a briefing on the FY24/25 General Fund Budget and all other funds. The City Manager sent information on Contract Services, Advertising, Marketing, and Promotion, Conference, Travel, and Training, Dues, Fees and Licenses, Professional Services, Other Supplies, Meeting Expenses, and Capital/Non-Capital prior to the meeting date. Some councilmembers had questions on these items in previous budget meetings. He requested that council respond to these items prior to this meeting so staff would have the information that was requested by council. Mr. Reed and Ms. Miranda covered the three propositions that would be on the ballot. Each Councihnember and the Mayor had the opportunity to address items in the budget they felt could be looked at and either cut or removed. Councilman Benson stated if the tax is not approved by the voters there should be no cuts in. Police, Fire, and Road maintenance. Councilman Benson stated that it would be the City Managers responsible to look at the budget and made appropriate changes. Councilman Roberts did say that council's ability to attend events such as golf tournaments is a relationship building time and plays many benefits later on. He stated that he had full confident in Mr. Reed on the budget process. Councilman Mahoney questioned some of the spending with the Senior Program. He was not a fan of EDC paying for billboards. Council training could be reduced. Council training should be allotted a certain dollar amount to each councilmember. Police training could also be looked at. Instead of sending two officers to training this year send one. Councilwoman Cunningham talked about advertising for the council budget by cutting out city coins. Travel for council could be cut by giving each councilmember a certain dollar amount which they could not go over. Uniforms should be removed from all departments with the exception of those required to wear a uniform (Police, Fire and some Public Works employees). Special Events, Other Supplies, Technology, and Training in all departments need to be looked at. The city also needs to look at the storage units that we rent; we could cut this cost. Mayor Allen did not think we should go excessive on cutting the budget. He did have questions on spending in the Senior Program. Mayor Allen thought that we could skip the Gallop Survey which was budgeted for $13,900 and go back to bi-yearly. Travel and Training could be looked at as well across all departments. Councilman Hicks stated that it is Mr. Reed's responsibility to be fiscal responsible. He did not feel like anything should be cut from the budget as the budget had already been approved. Councilman Hetzel stated that San Antonio was increasing pay for Firefighters and was concerned on the pay for Cibolo Firefighters. He also talked about the number of copy machines. Adjournment - Councilman Mahoney made the motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:05 p.m. The motion was seconded by Councilman Roberts. For: All; Against: None. The motion carried 6 to 0. PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 24TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2024. Mark Allen Mayor ATTEST: Peggy Cimics, TRMC City Secretary