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- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 13 passages longer discussion2:01… one relating to the uh audio quality uh in the room um which has been brought up before. are in the request that we look about during the budget process. Um, but those communications are on fire. Um, may I have a motion and second to place communications on file? Uh, Claire second. Uh, Gary. All in favor? I opposed. So, we're starting this evening with a presentation on the …
- 7:28that was used to balance the 2026 budget. Uh other is one of 1.032 million. Those are the incumbrances. So those are basically commitments and expenditures we had in 24 that got moved into the 25 budget. Um which gives us a total fund balance of oh and then unassigned uh according to the audited financial statements of 2.197 million. So for a total net of 4.463 million. That's …
- 3:52… Hi Felton. Hi Marine. Hi K. Uh the next I apologize to the council is a resolution that we received late yesterday uh authorizing a budget transfer from the police department. This is time sensitive. Um as you know with rising gas costs and so forth there that line item was depleted and they
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/2632 passages longer discussion2:12… at 12, this is at 8, which is pretty much tracking where we are. Yep. Um yeah and the big thing the big change was in the last year's budget the buy
- 4:04Um, budget outlook. So, I don't have our budget. In a little bit, we'll go over the Htf budget. Um, but there'll be three things kind of impacting our budget. The HHA closing, the BEA contribution, the amount, what they do, so on. Um, and RFP. And I don't have any updates really on the RFP. We've gotten one um proposal. Um but it's open till September 30th. So I, you know, …
- 2:01And the only uh thing I want to mention on finance is as you are aware um the departments have submitted their um their budget documents which I have circulated to everyone. The BEA meetings are beginning I believe the week of the 28th. Uh there will be no meetings on the week of October uh 5th. Um but otherwise those meetings occur in the afternoons uh Tuesdays and Fridays …
- 2026-09-17CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Governance and Nominating Committee Meeting 9/17/265 passages longer discussion12:27So, there's about seven of us. We've got about a $13 million budget. Uh we have a healthy balance sheet, which we're going to keep healthy. And uh that's who we are. You know, we do a lot of engagement. Um and one of the products that we're probably most well known for in the business community, both in Hudson and countywide, is Martha and Steve's loan program. We uh run a …
- 2026-09-16Housing AuthorityHudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners 9/16/2620 passages longer discussion28:08… Um uh the last thing I would say is that um uh just to take a step back, part of the way this is financed, we talked about this is tax credit uh funding and um and we have to go out and get an equity provider, somebody to buy the tax credits uh and um the tax credit market
- 2026-09-16County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || September 16, 202623 passages longer discussion43:04it's going to stay in the highway fund balance. Yeah. But I think that to your point, I think usually there's some money budgeted already. So it doesn't look like it's surplus and you know, if you only meet the budgeted number. So [clears throat] I I'll check on that. We got a budget meeting tomorrow. I can run that by Jim. [clears throat]
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20265 passages longer discussion53:26I just didn't know the numbers reference. I read the contract and what the c why it's, you know, what the value proposition is being presented. I just couldn't I went to the budget because we had the budget meeting and I couldn't tell what that number is like how much we paid for hotels.
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting21 passages longer discussion1:18:05… which connects back to what Mark just spoke about too in that presentation schedule for the year for board meetings, the key ones that are budget-related. So the first one is in December, so again that might seem a little early but really not because it's important for us to be thinking about the budget process. So the December budget presentation is really an overview of the …
- 0:06… We're going to begin with our two committee meet before moving into the full board meeting. So it is 2:03 p.m. call to order the IDA audit committee agenda. Um we have a brief agenda here. Uh the first is election of the audit committee chair and for those uh just for awareness the members are myself, Ron Bogle and Vicki Dascaludi. Uh can I get a nomination for audit committee …
- 12:42Yes, please. For August, we issued 3,34 parking tickets. Uh during the month of August, 2459 of the parking tickets were paid. Um so the revenue for last August 2025 was 100,000 for total revenue. And this year for August 2026 was 139,000. So we were up 28% in revenue. We had 12 vehicles booted for $2,800. And that's about it. A lot. Um thank you. Welcome.
- 2026-09-09County Board of SupervisorsFull Board || September 9, 2026 HD 720p3 passages longer discussion20:59… a reason why they are looking for a specific plate number. We are ahead of the curve in that we put safeguards in place. We do self audits. We have two administrators who routinely just come in and I don't give them a time frame. They can check it whenever they want.
- 0:46… kind of meet and bring ideas and um I will double check. I think we still have some money like we still have money in the small line item budget. Um but also maybe just do some I got to check on the logistics of asking for gift cards or you know as a city thing and see what's allowed or not. Um so I'll check on that. Anything donated? I think so. I just got to double check on …
- 45:29… you don't know whether you're going to be driving 120 foot piles or 80 foot piles. You got to pay per foot. So, if you're trying to do a budget for a project and you don't know how much money that is going to cost, um it it could blow the budget. And in this case, my guess is that's probably what happened is um they discounted doing pilots because of the cost.
- 44:47So, uh staffing is looking uh so we are in a in a good spot in terms of staffing. um provided budget season and the the financial state of the city, we do need to um kind of trim the fat um as they say and come in at a num at a number that's pretty close to last year's budget. Um so, uh some creativity will have to be applied to to to do that.
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- 2026-03-17HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 3/17/2026 Board of Education Meeting93 passages longer discussion2:08:28Okay. So I did wanna talk a little bit about the tax levy adjustment. I know when I was here last time and I talked about this, we were over 7%. But I did wanna explain that there's a possibility of a reduction in the tax cap. And due to, so let me start from the beginning. So there's the estimated levy limit that we have, which is 3.44%. And that is what allows us to go to …
- 2026-04-14HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/14/2026 Board of Education Meeting79 passages longer discussion19:00So, our budget position after this revenue strategy, our initial proposed expenditures based on our current programming and the increases that we have um proposed for this year was $63,000,000, 63,100,047 dollars. Our expected revenue based on our revenue plan that you just saw is $59,071,704. And this creates a gap between the revenue and the expenditures that needs to be …
- 2026-03-24HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 3/24/2026 Board of Education Meeting72 passages longer discussion16:21Either we would have to have a tax levy that was double digit to try and bridge the gap of our expenditures and revenues. Um, or we'd have to significantly reduce workforce to try and meet that, uh, that gap. The idea is to try and figure out the best combination of ways to achieve what we need to do to close the gap between revenues and expenditures.
- 2026-02-24HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 2/24/2026 Board of Education Meeting65 passages longer discussion50:23So, the prior year tax levy, this is part of a um a part one of the tax cap formula. So, we're going to start with the um prior year tax levy. And this determines the estimated levy limit this formula which is the base in which the state the state allows us to grow from. So we're beginning with the prior year tax levy of 26.36 million and apply that to the taxbased growth …
- 4:24admin expenses CEDC obviously the audit is the audit legal thesis Chris Shaw um and then you can see the pilot distributions here which correspond to the pilot revenue in the revenue section and that's basically that any questions on that okay then if you look to the third page it's the list of bills for approval to be paid uh it's a July and the August they're all road house …
- 2026-04-21HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/21/2026 Board of Education Meeting64 passages longer discussion40:38The other option is to go above the tax cap. And this is at 6.94%, which would require a majority or 60% vote in order to pass. It increases the tax levy with that 300,000 dollar amount that we had talked about needing for the expenses. And only use uses 1.5 million of the assigned fund balance in this in this option. But again, this does require that 60% majority vote. And …
- 40:44up to you know 1.6 million it goes to 13.5 percent but that is only the case if two things happen one which is revenues in 2021 either have to equal or exceed expenditures because otherwise that will be a negative impact um and we would have to commit to not using fund balance to balance the 2022 budget um so obviously that number is probably not going to say that number um to …
- 1:08:20and for those of you who don't know municipal budgets have to be balanced so revenues and expenditures have to match and that's because unlike a you know non-profit or a for-profit we're not trying to actually make money um the 2020 adjusted budget um was 13.2 million just about and actuals so far prior to chargebacks uh we have revenue of 9.9 million and expenditures of 11 …
- 2025-04-22HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/22/2025 Board of Education Meeting56 passages longer discussion25:02So, here we're looking at our revenue sources. Um, in order to create a balanced budget, there needs to be an increase in revenue to align with the increase in expenses with an increase of 3.55% tax levy, an increase of $150,000 of interest income, $2,118,72 use of assigned fund balance, and an increase of 96 63,762 plan use of reserve. The total revenue is 58,544 I'm sorry …
- 2024-02-12Common CouncilCommon Council Informal Meeting - Feb. 12, 202455 passages longer discussion1:10:58reflecting the revenue that was earned in 2023 in 2023 regardless of when it was received um so that First Column that you're seeing of 925,000 in change for the various parking revenues uh is subject to change uh pretty much only going up um the next column is the 2024 budget so uh you can see that we budgeted um a little more aggressively compared to where we came in in 2023 …
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- 8:35… interrupt you. Please don't interrupt me. Sometimes. The proposal came to the council first, but the foundation was seeking a significant tax reduction. Or was seeking a significant tax reduction. In exchange for providing affordable housing. The foundation asked the council approval for a pilot, a payment in lieu of taxes. In a complicated structure, Galvin would donate the …
- 34:03… property line of the color. So doc property over here to the left. So south of that parcel is the is the parcel that is per per current tax records, etc. Owned by color. So, however, that is, as I understand it, the parcel or part of the parcel that is in discussion about whether the city maintains ownership to the north here. So on the right side of my screen. There is a …
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 13 passages longer discussion2:01… one relating to the uh audio quality uh in the room um which has been brought up before. are in the request that we look about during the budget process. Um, but those communications are on fire. Um, may I have a motion and second to place communications on file? Uh, Claire second. Uh, Gary. All in favor? I opposed. So, we're starting this evening with a presentation on the …
- 7:28that was used to balance the 2026 budget. Uh other is one of 1.032 million. Those are the incumbrances. So those are basically commitments and expenditures we had in 24 that got moved into the 25 budget. Um which gives us a total fund balance of oh and then unassigned uh according to the audited financial statements of 2.197 million. So for a total net of 4.463 million. That's …
- 3:52… Hi Felton. Hi Marine. Hi K. Uh the next I apologize to the council is a resolution that we received late yesterday uh authorizing a budget transfer from the police department. This is time sensitive. Um as you know with rising gas costs and so forth there that line item was depleted and they
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/2632 passages longer discussion2:12… at 12, this is at 8, which is pretty much tracking where we are. Yep. Um yeah and the big thing the big change was in the last year's budget the buy
- 4:04Um, budget outlook. So, I don't have our budget. In a little bit, we'll go over the Htf budget. Um, but there'll be three things kind of impacting our budget. The HHA closing, the BEA contribution, the amount, what they do, so on. Um, and RFP. And I don't have any updates really on the RFP. We've gotten one um proposal. Um but it's open till September 30th. So I, you know, …
- 2:01And the only uh thing I want to mention on finance is as you are aware um the departments have submitted their um their budget documents which I have circulated to everyone. The BEA meetings are beginning I believe the week of the 28th. Uh there will be no meetings on the week of October uh 5th. Um but otherwise those meetings occur in the afternoons uh Tuesdays and Fridays …
- 2026-09-17CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Governance and Nominating Committee Meeting 9/17/265 passages longer discussion12:27So, there's about seven of us. We've got about a $13 million budget. Uh we have a healthy balance sheet, which we're going to keep healthy. And uh that's who we are. You know, we do a lot of engagement. Um and one of the products that we're probably most well known for in the business community, both in Hudson and countywide, is Martha and Steve's loan program. We uh run a …
- 2026-09-16Housing AuthorityHudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners 9/16/2620 passages longer discussion28:08… Um uh the last thing I would say is that um uh just to take a step back, part of the way this is financed, we talked about this is tax credit uh funding and um and we have to go out and get an equity provider, somebody to buy the tax credits uh and um the tax credit market
- 2026-09-16County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || September 16, 202623 passages longer discussion43:04it's going to stay in the highway fund balance. Yeah. But I think that to your point, I think usually there's some money budgeted already. So it doesn't look like it's surplus and you know, if you only meet the budgeted number. So [clears throat] I I'll check on that. We got a budget meeting tomorrow. I can run that by Jim. [clears throat]
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20265 passages longer discussion53:26I just didn't know the numbers reference. I read the contract and what the c why it's, you know, what the value proposition is being presented. I just couldn't I went to the budget because we had the budget meeting and I couldn't tell what that number is like how much we paid for hotels.
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting21 passages longer discussion1:18:05… which connects back to what Mark just spoke about too in that presentation schedule for the year for board meetings, the key ones that are budget-related. So the first one is in December, so again that might seem a little early but really not because it's important for us to be thinking about the budget process. So the December budget presentation is really an overview of the …
- 0:06… We're going to begin with our two committee meet before moving into the full board meeting. So it is 2:03 p.m. call to order the IDA audit committee agenda. Um we have a brief agenda here. Uh the first is election of the audit committee chair and for those uh just for awareness the members are myself, Ron Bogle and Vicki Dascaludi. Uh can I get a nomination for audit committee …
- 12:42Yes, please. For August, we issued 3,34 parking tickets. Uh during the month of August, 2459 of the parking tickets were paid. Um so the revenue for last August 2025 was 100,000 for total revenue. And this year for August 2026 was 139,000. So we were up 28% in revenue. We had 12 vehicles booted for $2,800. And that's about it. A lot. Um thank you. Welcome.
- 2026-09-09County Board of SupervisorsFull Board || September 9, 2026 HD 720p3 passages longer discussion20:59… a reason why they are looking for a specific plate number. We are ahead of the curve in that we put safeguards in place. We do self audits. We have two administrators who routinely just come in and I don't give them a time frame. They can check it whenever they want.
- 0:46… kind of meet and bring ideas and um I will double check. I think we still have some money like we still have money in the small line item budget. Um but also maybe just do some I got to check on the logistics of asking for gift cards or you know as a city thing and see what's allowed or not. Um so I'll check on that. Anything donated? I think so. I just got to double check on …
- 45:29… you don't know whether you're going to be driving 120 foot piles or 80 foot piles. You got to pay per foot. So, if you're trying to do a budget for a project and you don't know how much money that is going to cost, um it it could blow the budget. And in this case, my guess is that's probably what happened is um they discounted doing pilots because of the cost.
- 44:47So, uh staffing is looking uh so we are in a in a good spot in terms of staffing. um provided budget season and the the financial state of the city, we do need to um kind of trim the fat um as they say and come in at a num at a number that's pretty close to last year's budget. Um so, uh some creativity will have to be applied to to to do that.
- 4:27Okay, so that's um where that is at. Uh our next item, so HTF HTF board met right before ours. Um they approved their budget, um which I'm not going to have us, you know, approve tonight or approve our own budget just because it's not posted material or or circulated, but it's significant because our CD matures um on the 15th of September, which will be before our next …
- 2026-08-26County Finance CommitteeTobacco Securitization || Finance || August 26, 2026 HD 720p16 passages longer discussion0:09Sure. Um well, I will be brief because there's not a lot to talk about. We issued the audit report back in March. Um it's a clean unmodified audit opinion, which is what you would expect. Um we had no adjustments that we proposed to post. We have no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies that we included in the Yellow Book report, which is the last two pages of the …
- 7:02Well, there is one thing I would bring up. Let me turn off my hearing. I'm having trouble hearing. So, um [clears throat] I guess about 6 weeks ago, I sent out a request for estimates for all legal work from now to the end of the year. This was when we did the budget adjustment for $40,000 to cover expenses last month.
- 54:57I mean, one of the things for that I would like to see the fire reform commission do is the only issue that we had last year budget process was that the uh council was given the budget but we were not as we weren't able to actually amend that budget. We were given like a yay or nay and then that was it. But even then it was even debatable whether or not we even had any sort of …
- 2026-08-25CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Full Board Meeting 8/25/265 passages longer discussion0:55Sure. Both revenues and expenses are within budget. Total income year to date 747,733, slightly higher than budget of 747,200. Of note, administrative revenues are about 18,000 below. Interest revenues of 99,000 are about 5,000 K above budget. The membership revenues are below budget about 15,000 below. Total expenses year to date are 702,000, which is about 118,000 below …
- 2026-08-25HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 8/25/2026 Board of Education Meeting3 passages longer discussion8:35Um the audit committee has not met since our last meeting, but the uh I'm aware that the audit the annual external audit is uh on schedule.
- 2026-08-19County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || August 19, 20265 passages longer discussion43:51And that's what happened. That's what happened to us. You know, it got to the point where we were able to reduce that budget with CO and everything. That was one kind of budget.
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 202641 passages longer discussion1:16:22No, I understand. But it's checked yes for the position being budgeted, but it's creating a new position. So, where is it budgeted? So how we came up with it is being budgeted right now is you filled with it overtime every month.
- 53:42… parking, we changed the code so that there are requirements about parking for development and then we you know, we had not a fine, not a tax, but we had a suggestion of here's here's an alternative to what to the building things. He still considered that a tax. So, why wouldn't he consider this a tax? But I don't know. Well, well,
- 1:41Thank you. Here, we have a series of public hearings that we're going to be doing. The first public hearing uh I'm going to open. It's for local law 2 of 2026. It's a hearing to impose an additional mortgage tax. When when additional it means keeping mortgage tax at the same level. Um in Columbia County. So I'm going to ask the clerk to read the notice.
- 17:06I mean the the resident should know about what's going how how are things going to get prepared like is is the brownfield going to be carried up properly and is is the house and Hudson authority when how is it going to budget to pay for the various repairs and none of that is in the is in the public record.
- 2026-08-10Common CouncilCommon Council Code and Infrastructure Committee 8/10/264 passages longer discussion0:55Uh, acceptance for June was 54,875. Uh the significance is at this point we're actually on par to make our revenue uh for the 20 2026 uh sewing line item. The um last month I talked about our new speed permit which uh actually took effect this August 1st which is a week or so ago, week and a half ago. So we've received the the new composite sampler for the contact tank. It …
- 20:53… together. Uh uh or and uh executed documents uh for IDA financial assistance uh and he benefited from a $25,000 mortgage recording tax exemption at the closing. You'll recall that the IDA has three incentive benefits that are included when it's been approved for financial assistance. One is a mortgage recording tax equal to 1 and 1/4% of the uh mortgage amount.
- 36:11… apologies. For July, uh we issued 2,817 parking tickets during the month, which 2,475 were paid, uh generating a little bit over 62,000 in revenue for July alone. Also, for quarter 1 and two for parking, for revenue, uh we're at $812,400. So, we're doing all right with that. And for traffic for quarter 1 and two, uh, we wrote almost 600 traffic uh, tickets throughout the city.
- 16:38… not necessarily going to end up being what it is at the end of the year because at the end of the year it really depends on did your revenues come in? Did you get your full expenditures That's what that's what actually impacts And it's like people talk, you know, it when people have been looking at the past budgets and talking about all of the years that we've used fund …
- 2026-07-28CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Full Board Meeting 7/28/265 passages longer discussion2:18… you everyone for bearing with us. We've had to get our own signature, but I know it's not that we want to bother you. Um, we uh county budget requests are due on August 10th. So, next week we'll have an internal um budget planning workshop where we'll build out the budget for next year based on last year's. So, chances are unless something uh miraculous comes up in the next …
- 23:53… Um when I went to go make uh the entry for the wire transfer, I realized there was only $177,000 in the bank. Obviously there are other expenditures um that we have to take into account like payroll and you know expenses. So um this would be a temporary interfund loan which the sewer department would pay back once it has enough cash on hand to do so. This happens it hasn't …
- 21:08harder to help people on the common glass. Um, I'm going to see if maybe we can move the budget around and add something, but um, and we yeah, we had two households since our last meeting who utilized the funds um, and again, Alex kind of went through the other channel sources of funds and uh, to help folks. And so those two people both one was about um uh just like decrease …
- 2026-07-21CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Finance Committee Meeting 7/21/2613 passages longer discussion26:00balance sheet is pretty stable and the uh P&L uh and is is very stable and about 500 $600,000 of our million3 budget is non-payroll and uh you know we're getting ready the county asked that we provide a budget in advance of uh their budget process. I think it's August 15th uh they wanted or August 1st. So, we're working on the budget for next year. That'll help Lisa to get it …
- 2026-07-21HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 7/21/2026 Board of Education Meeting10 passages longer discussion35:14And the fourth item, I know Mr. Wolf left, but just cycling back to what he was sharing with the audit from 2425 and he spoke to that, but I'm just going to emphasize a couple of key points. um in the audit committee meeting when that was shared the 2425 so you know 2425 not this past year the year before um really predates Christy Ferry being in the the position that she's in …
- 52:02bunch of questions. All they really need There's some other areas where they tax ID number, things like that. But as approximate address or even a what they call phase one, which is like factually what some of the contaminants into phase two. And we've got about maybe a dozen But we're hoping to add more. And then assistance. We've got a list, and then we've got, and you move …