Description Gallatin County Commission Offsite Budget Meeting Minutes Summary Journal No. 51 June 14, 2012
Date 06/14/2012 Location County Commission
Time Speaker Note
8:39:35 AM These log notes provide only a part of the official record. The remainder of the official record is in the audio recording of the meeting, Section 2-3-212, MCA. The audio recording is available upon request.
9:05:05 AM Chairman White Call to Order. Present were Commissioners White, Murdock and Skinner, Finance Director Ed Blackman, CAO Earl Mathers, HR Director Cynde Hertzog, and Acting Clerk to the Board Mary Miller.
9:05:12 AM Finance Director Ed Blackman Status after Day One- As of yesterday the budget was in the positive without taking into consideration union negotiations of approximately $96,000. Areas still to be decided are CIP -L & J planning- $100,000 (current $50,000), Noxious Weed-position & Capital and Road-$92,000 increase in taxes
9:07:53 AM Discussion between the Commission, Ed Blackman, Earl Mathers, County Attorney Marty Lambert, and Undersheriff Dan Springer
9:19:18 AM Commissioner Skinner I'm gonna move to go ahead and appropriate the $100,000. (CIP- L & J planning - the existing $50,000 plus $50,000)
9:19:32 AM Commissioner Murdock Second
9:19:33 AM Board discussion including Earl Mathers
9:22:35 AM Motion passed 2:1. Chairman White opposed.
9:23:00 AM Finance Director Ed Blackman Noxious Weed-position & Capital
9:23:46 AM Weed Supervisor John Ansley Comments, submitted Weed Department Budget Requests FY 13 labeled Exhibit A
9:25:18 AM Discussion between the Commission, John Ansley, and Ed Blackman
9:26:55 AM Commissioner Murdock I'm going to move that we, and the motion Mary, will be to approve the amended budget request as the Weed Department has asked for and to set a properly noticed meeting to reduce the grant fee as requested, which we can't do today.
9:27:24 AM Chairman White Second
9:27:27 AM Board discussion including John Ansley and Earl Mathers
9:32:03 AM Motion failed 1:2. Chairman White and Commissioner Skinner opposed.
9:32:29 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to delete the merit increases.
9:32:54 AM Chairman White Second
9:32:57 AM Board discussion including Ed Blackman
9:33:36 AM Motion passed 2:1. Commissioner Murdock opposed.
9:33:41 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to fund Rosemary's retirement and additionally, I think we should have a little bit of money in there to train somebody for a month or two before Rosemary leaves, comments. (that's my intent)
9:34:11 AM Discussion between the Commission, Ed Blackman, and John Ansley
9:34:58 AM Commissioner Murdock Second
9:35:02 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:35:06 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to put this half time position into the Parking Garage and work with Fair to come up with a reasonable sharing of a position.
9:35:21 AM Commissioner Murdock Second
9:35:25 AM Motion passed 2:1. Commissioner Murdock opposed.
9:35:40 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to retain his Capital request.
9:35:46 AM Commissioner Murdock Second
9:35:50 AM Board discussion including Ed Blackman
9:36:31 AM Motion passed unanimously.
9:36:35 AM Discussion between the Commission, John Ansley, and Ed Blackman
9:38:31 AM Finance Director Ed Blackman Road-$92,000 increase in taxes
9:39:56 AM Discussion and Questions
9:41:03 AM Commissioner Skinner I will move to raise the inflationary millage on roads.
9:41:07 AM Commissioner Murdock Second
9:41:15 AM Board discussion including Road and Bridge Superintendent Lee Provance
9:43:52 AM Motion failed 1:2. Chairman White and Commissioner Murdock opposed.
9:43:56 AM Commissioner Murdock I'm going to move that we fund the amount that has been described here but not by raising taxes, with dealing with it elsewhere in our budget.
9:44:10 AM Chairman White Second
9:44:12 AM Board discussion
9:44:46 AM Motion passed 2:1. Commissioner Skinner opposed.
9:44:51 AM Discussion between the Commission, Ed Blackman, and County Attorney Marty Lambert
9:53:54 AM Finance Director Ed Blackman Re-Visit prior decisions
9:54:21 AM Commissioner Murdock Asks Grants and Projects Administrator Larry Watson about $1,000 request
9:54:39 AM Grants and Projects Administrator Larry Watson Comments
9:55:14 AM Discussion between the Commission, Larry Watson, Ed Blackman, and CAO Earl Mathers
9:56:51 AM Commissioner Murdock I'm gonna change my mind, I gonna move that we, I know it going in the wrong direction Ed, but I think we should put that $1,000 bucks in there.
9:57:04 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
9:57:07 AM Board discussion
9:57:26 AM Motion passed 2:1. Chairman White opposed.
9:57:40 AM Discussion between the Commission and Ed Blackman
10:00:30 AM Chairman White I'll make a motion to move $50,000 of the L & J Planning money into the Parking Garage, for discussion and consideration at a future date.
10:00:54 AM Commissioner Murdock Second
10:01:04 AM Motion passed 2:1 Commissioner Skinner opposed.
10:01:18 AM Discussion between the Commission, Ed Blackman, and Undersheriff Dan Springer
10:06:06 AM HR Director Cynde Hertzog Health Department (Retirement) and Fairgrounds, read Stephanie Murphy's (Health Dept) retirement letter into the record
10:07:20 AM Discussion between the Commission, Marty Lambert, Cynde Hertzog, Ed Blackman, and Earl Mathers
10:10:46 AM No new action taken.
10:10:49 AM HR Director Cynde Hertzog Health Department (Merit increases)
10:11:32 AM Discussion between the Commission, Cynde Hertzog, Ed Blackman, and Earl Mathers
10:18:07 AM Commissioner Skinner I would move to remove the special merit increases.
10:18:12 AM Chairman White Second
10:18:15 AM Board discussion
10:18:31 AM Motion passed 2:1. Commissioner Murdock opposed.
10:18:35 AM Discussion between the Commission, Ed Blackman, Cynde Hertzog, and Marty Lambert
10:20:37 AM HR Director Cynde Hertzog Fairgrounds-Comp time increase to 80 hours
10:21:04 AM Commissioner Murdock I move to deny that request.
10:21:06 AM Commissioner Skinner Second
10:21:10 AM Motion passed unanimously.
10:22:26 AM Meeting adjourned.
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