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STATE OF WYOMING ) LANDER, WYOMING ) ss. OFFICE OF THE FREMONT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COUNTY OF FREMONT ) June 4, 2008 The Board of Fremont County Commissioners met in Special Session at 9:00 a.m. with the following members present: Chairman Douglas L. Thompson, Vice-Chairman Pat Hickerson, Jane Adamson, Keja Whiteman and Dennis Heckart. Also present was County Clerk and Clerk of the Board Julie A. Freese. The purpose of the meeting was to continue working on budgets. As currently projected, the Assessed Valuation is based on $834,738,198. With all requests loaded into the computer, the mill levy currently sets at 30.857 mills. Since the general fund mill levy cannot exceed 12 mills, the Commissioners will have to cut $15,740,658 from the budget requests. The County Commissioners reviewed their goals and finalized them. The board also reviewed the preliminary budget and adjusted their budget with the new proposed budget being $327,822. Commissioner Whiteman suggested giving a flat dollar amount to each employee rather than trying to give percentage raises to each person or department. Discussion ensued on other options to this suggestion. It was decided to have the County Clerk work with each department’s salaries by giving each full time employee $2,000 as a flat rate (with a proportionate amount for part time employees) then to add 3% in another line to each employee’s current salary. On a spreadsheet, the Commissioners would like to see how much money would be needed for that scenario, as well as costs for any new employees, health insurance increase at 12% rather than 23.3% as proposed, and increased operational costs. This information will be further discussed at the June 10, 2008 meeting. Fremont County Association of Governments Capital Project requests were reviewed. The Board made the determination to -$2,103,555 from the Town of Hudson’s request and -$250,000 from the Town of Pavillion’s request, making the projected amount to fund FCAG at $331,332. Road Capital Projects were reviewed as submitted from Transportation Superintendent Dave Pendleton. Carry-over special projects are Lyons Valley Phase 2 - $25,000, Burma Road Preliminary Engineering - $50,000, Right-of-Way Survey Reconciliation and Monumentation 2008 - $100,000, Railroad Street Paving - $213,000 for a grand total of $388,000. Requested Special Projects for 2009 are 1) Burma Road Phase I Design - $425,000 (50% IRP Grant), 2) Dutch Ed Lane Safety Shoulder Improvements - -$990,000 ($495,000 Consensus Block Grant), 3) South Fork Road Overlay and Chip seal - $2,240,000, 4) East Fork Pit Gravel Crushing - $705,000, 5) Right of Way Survey Reconciliation and Monumentation 2009 - $100,000, 6) Paradise Valley Road 1-1/2” Leveling and Chip seal - $2,075,000 (11 miles), 7) 8 Mile Road Overlay and Chip seal - $3,616,000 (50% IRP or 50% Consensus Block Grant, and 8) Shoshoni Lake Road - $2,353,000 for a grand total of $12,892,000. After discussion, the carry-over project of the right-of-way survey for $100,000 was cut. Under the requested special projects for 2009, the Dutch Ed Lane project was cut in half due to the consensus list block grant money available. The East Fork Pit Gravel and Right of Way survey ($705,000 and $100,000 respectively) were moved from this request into the Transportation Budget request. The Paradise Valley Road, 8-Mile Road and Shoshone Lake Road projects were cut. The final total is $3,448,000. Health and Welfare budgets were reviewed as follows: Care and Share Food Bank requested $6,000 and this request was cut entirely. Child Development Services requested $43,350 and was cut to $24,000. Good Samaritan Center requested $8,000 and was cut to $5,000. Fremont County Alcohol Crisis Center requested $100,000 and no cuts were made. One Stop Help Center requested $15,000 and this request was cut entirely. Fremont County Alliance Against Domestic Violence requested $5,000 and no cuts were made. Foster Grandparents requested $3,000 and no cuts were made. Wyoming Senior Citizens requested $1,200 and was reduced to $1,000. Fremont County Predator Management District requested $5,000 and no cuts were made. Lower Wind River Conservation District requested $30,000 and was cut to $15,000. Injury Prevention requested $24,000 and was cut to $5,000. All four Senior Citizens’ Center requests were reduced to last year’s allocations: Lander $23,000, Riverton $26,000, Shoshoni $2,000 and High Country $7,000. Fremont Counseling requested $50,000 and was reduced to $25,000. Dubois Youth Activities Association requested $100,000 and was not funded. PAWS requested either $266,000 for a new building or $48,000 to help with expenses. Their request was funded at $48,000. Wind River Health Systems requested $60,000 and was not funded. Hospice Home requested $100,000 and this was moved into their endowment budget. Riverton Airport requested $240,000 and then said they could reduce this to $102,248 (the same as last year). This budget was reduced to $50,000 Dubois Airport requested $31,500 and it was cut entirely. Other budgets were reviewed as follows: Fire Warden requested $15,000 and it was not cut. Transfer to Adult Drug Court was requested at $143,685 and was reduced to $94,126 by cutting the new case manager position. Juvenile Drug Court requested $44,847 and was increased to $46,028. Statutory Medical Costs were budgeted at $250,000, but it was noted that the current fiscal year’s budget is already at $350,000. This budget was increased to $350,000. Indigent Care was budgeted at $258,000 and not reduced at this time. Transfer to Capital Revolving was budgeted at $200,000 and this was cut entirely. Rental payment was subsequently reduced from $75,000 to $50,000. All other accounts under Support Services were left as requested: Vital Statistics $500, Audit Fees $49,000, Service Agreements $43,000, Communications $4,000, Advertising $35,000, Insurance and Bonds 182,000, Telephone $16,500, Capital Outlay $34,500, FCAG dues $9,000, Transfer to Transit Study $5,225, Fair Improvements $475,052 and Museum Transfer $120,000. Recreation Board requested $544,788 and this was cut to $444,788. No other budgets could be reviewed until the County Clerk compiles the requested information. It was determined they would continue with a budget work session on June 10, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. At this time the mill levy now sets at 15.151 mills and the amount still left to cut is $2,630,260.
/s/ DOUGLAS L. THOMPSON, CHAIRMAN FREMONT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
/s/ JULIE A. FREESE, COUNTY CLERK AND CLERK OF THE BOARD
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