Weatherford
Weatherford City Council, Aug. 9, 2022: 3 items; Presentation of the City Manager's FY23 Proposed Budget
2 consent items, 1 regular item, 1 public hearing; 5 recorded votes, all unanimous. Written from the minutes.
Consent agenda, approved as one vote (5-0, on the motion of Heidi Wilder, second by Kevin Cleveland): Accepted the FY22 3rd Quarter Investment Report for quarter ended June 30, 2022. Accepted the FY22 3rd Quarter Budget Status Report. Consider authorizing the City Manager to execute change order #1 to the contract with Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors for the City Hall Renovation Project in the amount not to exceed $179,601.43. This item was removed from the Consent Agenda for separate consideration. Director of Capital Projects Chad Marbut presented this item. Council Member Kevin Cleveland reviewed the contract with Hill & Wilkinson and is of the opinion that some allowances requested were specifically covered and should have been foreseen when the contractor bid the project; Mr. Cleveland suggested the amounts for the full cost of repair of the walls in the corridors and half of the cost for the cords and replacement for lighting. the City Manager to execute a change order not to exceed $117,338.52. Motion carried 5 - 0.
Presentation of the City Manager's FY23 Proposed Budget. Director of Finance Dawn Brooks presented the proposed budget. This was the initial presentation of the document to the Council. The budget calendar is as follows: • August 23, 2022 o Vote to propose tax rate o Public Hearing on the FY23 Budget o Grant funding request • September 13, 2022 o Public Hearing on tax rate o Adoption of FY23 Budget o Adoption of tax rate Council requested a work session to discuss long-term priorities. No action was required at this time. Receive Notice of Publication of the Tax Year 2022 Property Tax Rates. Ms. Brooks presented this item as well. The Texas Tax Code 26.04 requires municipalities to publish their no-new-revenue and voter-approval tax rates. The primary purpose of this publication is to inform taxpayers of these tax rates and how they were calculated. The "Notice of Tax Rates" has been placed on the City's homepage of the website, as required by this code. The tax rates for Tax Year 2022 (FY23) are: • No-New-Revenue Tax Rate: $0.456344 per $100 • Voter-Approval Tax Rate: $0.566353 per $100 The Tax Code requires one public meeting on the tax rate, the scheduled public hearing for the FY23 tax rate is: September 13th, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. to be held in the Council Chambers at 303 Palo Pinto Street. On the motion of Heidi Wilder, second by Matt Ticzkus, the Council voted unanimously [...]
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Sources: City of Weatherford: council minutes, Aug. 9, 2022 (Granicus); Agenda for this meeting (Granicus); Meeting video (Granicus)