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Home My WebLink About03-24-1997 Meeting I I I FINANCE & APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ROOM - March 24, 1997 1:00 P. M. PRESENT: Hons. Larry E. Sconyers, Mayor; J. Brigham, Chairman; Handy, Vice-Chairman; Bridges and Beard, members; Jim Wall, Attorney; Randy Oliver, Administrator; Drew Goins, Asst. Com. of P.W. & Director of Engineering; A. B. McKie, Jr., Comptroller; Cheryl Nelson of the Finance Department; Kip Plowman, Internal Auditor; Harrison Sears, Tax Assessor; A. C. McLane and Mary Anne Gibbs of the Sheriff's Department; Lena Bonner, Clerk of Commission and Nancy Morawski, Deputy Clerk of Commission. Also Present: Sylvia Cooper of the Augusta Chronicle, George Eskola of WJBF Television and Rosemary Forrest of The Metropolitan Spirit. Mr. Chairman: We have four items to add as an addendum agenda. Mr. Beard: I move we add those to the agenda. Mr. Bridges: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. A Lease Agreement with Alonzo P. Boardman, Jr., Trustee, for Riverwalk Special Events Office (#15 8th Street) for a term of one (1) year, was read. Mr. Beard: I move that we approve this. Mr. Bridges: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. A waiver of taxes on property purchased by Richmond County during calendar year 1996, was read. Mr. Wall: This is for four properties acquired by the County last year and I recommend approval. Mr. Bridges: I so move. Mr. Beard: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. A refund of prior year taxes to David Walkowitz, was read. Mr. Sears: He filed this properly but we coded it wrong and we recommend approval on this. Mr. Bridges: I so move. Mr. Beard: Second. I Motion adopted unanimously. A refund of prior year taxes to Virginia W. Barnes, was read. Mr. Sears: The homestead exemption was dropped and not reentered in a land split and we recommend approval of this. Mr. Bridges: I make a motion the refund be made. Mr. Beard: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. The Committee next considered approval of the four (4) Lektriever Filing Systems from Modern Business in the amount of $46,000 (funds are budgeted). Mr. Bridges: I make a motion we approve the purchase. Mr. Beard: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. A waiver of penalty by Lyons & Associates, Inc., was read. II The Clerk: This was considered previously. The caption on the agenda stated to approve but the recommendation from the Committee was to disapprove so it was unclear what was meant. Mr. Chairman: Let's take it back to the Commission as a "no recommendation" from this Committee. The Committee next considered approval of an increase in compensation paid to bailiffs from $60.00 per day to $70.00 per day and juror compensation be increased from $25.00 per day to $35.00 per day. Mr. Oliver: I'm not in agreement with increasing the juror compensation because I feel that it is a public service and it would also have a budgetary impact on us as well on a continuing basis. I don't have enough information on the bailiff request to make a recommendation and I don't think we should do anything anyway until we implement the compensation and classification study that is ongoing. I would ask that you not take any action at this time on that issue. Mr. Beard: I move that we accept this as information. Mr. Bridges: Second. I Motion adopted unanimously. I I I A request regarding computer equipment related to the completion of the new Booking/Processing/Medical Center located at the Fourth Street Jail. Mr. Oliver: This is a request for $90,000 for computer equipment. Mr. Rushton concurs in this request and we recommend proceeding with it. Mr. Beard: I move that we approve it. Mr. Bridges: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. Mr. Beard presented a report from the sub-committee reviewing the projects in Phase II of the Special 1% Sales Tax. He noted that funding for the projects on Walton Way, Rae's Creek, Laney Walker, Kissingbower Road, the 9th Street Parking Deck was established. Mr. Beard: Does anyone have any information about the Springfield Village project? Perhaps the Administrator can look --at that and give us a report. Mr. Chairman: Do I hear a motion that we receive this as information? Mr. Beard: I so move. Mr. Chairman: And also, since we need to move forward with Walton Way, maybe we could approve the funding for that portion. Mr. Beard: Yes. Mr. Oliver: We also need to reprogram everything on this sheet to accommodate this. The project on the Third Level Canal also needs to be done. Mr. Chairman: So we're receiving this as information with the exception of Walton Way which we're adding to the committed projects. Mr. Bridges: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. Mr. Bridges made a report on the sub-committee meeting regarding Phase III Urban Service District projects. Mr. Bridges: The projects we would do are broken into two portions. One is roadway and drainage projects which amount to about $38.8 million and the other is historic and cultural projects for $4 million. We will contact some of these organizations to see if they can live with our allocations and if they can't, we will come back and see if we can move anything around. We want to have everyone in agreement as to how these funds are expended so that we won't have these different groups approaching us asking for their money before it's available. When we get this back, we'll bring our recommendation to you at that time. II Mr. Beard: I move we receive this as information. Mr. Bridges: Second. Motion adopted unanimously. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned. Lena J. Bonner Clerk of Commission NWM II I