CITY OF CLEAR LAKE SHORES  WORKSHOP MINUTES Budget Workshop #4 September3 3,2024 @ 6:00 pm  These are the certified minutes of the Budget Workshop oft the City Council fort the City of Clearl Lake Shores, County of Galveston, State of Texas, that was held on the above-mentioned. date and time.  1.  CALLTO ORDER & DETERMINATION OF QUORUM: Mayor Chronister called the workshop to order at 6:03 pm  Present: Mayor Chronister, Mayor Pro-Tem Fenwick, Councilman Waters, Councilman Fisher, CA  Mike Kramm, Police Chief Donaldson, Finance Director Cheryl Hunter.  Absent: Councilman Scanlon, Councilman Terrell  2.  DISCUSSION ITEMS: a.  Fourth discussion of FY25 budget Discussion topics: Salary increases for staff.  Finance Director Hunter, outlined the changes tot the budget that was presented at Budget Workshop #3. The proposed changes were the 3% across the board increase fors staffanda 30% increase for the Building Permit Tech/asst city secretary, a reduction of $100,000t to the Roads & Drainage Fund, with $50,000 allocated towards the proposed budget shortfall and a $50,000 contribution to the Rainy Day Fund. The FY25 budget shortfall of $134,919 CA Mike Kramm discussed the proposed! 30% increase to the Building Permit Tech/ass. city secretary. Mike Kramm stated the "Tech's current salaryi is around $53,000, employee has been here 15 years, Assistant City Secretaryi is only scratching the surface ofv what she does fort the City. She processes every transfer of waterfront properties, catalogs all of those and keeps up with everything they do. She processes every permit request. She is the person that puts out most of the fires that come into City Hall. The complaints that we get are primarily around code enforcement issues or building & permitting issues. She handles thosej just amazingly. My office is connected to her office by a door which is almost always open, I can hear heri interactions with people. I have had several people come to me. justi in myshortt time heret tot tell mej just how valuable shei is. Those aret thep people that are actually in the construction trade and building things. They talk about how smooth she makes everything compared to what it has been at othert times. Didy you all get my email last week and had a chance to read it?lwould be happy to answer any questions if you have them."  to be funded by the FY24 projected surplus.    Mayor Pro-Tem Fenwick's only question was "she still going to remain as asst city CAI Kramm responded. "She was still goingt to hold those duties but would liket tor retitle her position to bldg. services manager. Part of her duties will remain asst. city secretary." Mayor Pro-Tem Fenwick stated. "She thinks it's the right thing to do. Thanking CA Kramm for looking intoi it and doing due diligence. That was an employee that has been promised al lot of things in the past and not happened and sO we need to fixt that." Mayor Chronister stated. "We thought they did fix it with the research Brad did was doing last and unfortunately that did not happen. That's why they were back revisiting thei issue. The ass. City secretary title is the least she does, you don't see her very much at these meetings, Christy usually has a goods strong holdi it andi is very good at what she does. When someone is out on vacation or sick we dol have people cross trained. Thank goodness we do because everyone is able to step up. Angie was out last week at training for some PIA information and Christy had to come in ani issue al building permit. Thankgoodness' wel have Mayor Chronister further stated. "There was al lotoft things that the employee (bldg. permit tech) has to do, one of the questionslhadi for Mike was what wouldi it take to replace that employee, probably another employee and your looking at paying two people rather than just one person. Iknowt there are othert titles shei is willing tot take ont for the City andi talking to Mike we need to do some more cross training in that department because there are so CAKrammstated. "lwould! liket tol bringyourattention to one thing, the $100, 000allocation to Roads & Drainage is not going to be made this year because the Road's balance is sO robust, its just not needed. So using that $100,000, the earmark for that is going to be $50,000 to be used towards employees which was number one on the council's list of priorities, the other $50,000 with your approval will goi into the Rainy Day Fund. So we are going to be able to address at least two of the four primary concerns to some degree this year because we are not going to make that allocation to Roads & Drainage." Mayor Chronister stated."lwould like to thank Roads & Drainage board member Richard Richard Sowrey, 918 Forest, addressed council. He stated. "lwould like to thank Cheryl for the works shel has been doing to get this budget together with changes here andi there. Have had good participation at Roads & Drainage meetings to puti itt together. Didn't have al heart attack when Isaw the $100,000 change until Isaw we had interest income of $86,000 to Mayor Chronister: stated: "I was worried about Richard having a heart attack." FDI Hunter stated. "It was a pleasure working with Richard and he is very good at what he does andi it would be nice to have people like him in other cities because hei is verygood." Mayor Chronister: statedto FD CherylHunter. "Iti is nicet tol have youi iny your position because now al lot of these committees and all of us know exactly how much money wel have, every  secretary"?  people to do that."  many things in that department."  Sowrey for being sO open and listening to the meeting."  offset, sof for this year we are doing pretty good."  5 minutes if we wanted. Thank you for all of the hard worky you do."    Mayor Chronister stated. "Does anyone have any questions about the salary that we just Mayor Pro-Tem Fenwick asked FDI Hunter "Will you go back and plug those numbers in and give us an updated budget and that is what we will vote on, right? At our next meeting.  talked about.?"  FDI Hunter: stated. "Correct."  Mayor Chronister asked "ifa anyone has any questions on the budget?"  There were none. ADIOURNMENT:  3.  Mayor Chronister adjourned the workshop at 6:20 pm.  (Date)  CLEA SEAK  Signature of Mayor  ATTEST:  Ee  Signature of Finance Director  *Please excuse any grammatical or spelling errors, as the document is based on actual spoken dialogue.