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<br />Mr. Price said what he is trying to figure out if we have one million for the <br />buyout. He wanted to know what the $985,000 is going to be used for because <br />he keeps hearing different numbers. <br /> <br />Ms. Watson said the one million dollar buyout is not part of the discussion as it is <br />not part of operations. She said we are taking that out of our deficit discussion <br />because it is not an operational deficit. The remainder of the budget is an <br />operational deficit and the million dollars is a one-time hit to the reserves. <br /> <br />Mr. Price said the question was if there is the $1 million dollars budgeted out of <br />the reserve and I heard that we were going to take the $985,000 because it was <br />going to help more people. The number he heard was 148 and asked if that was <br />true or not? <br /> <br />Mr. Walker offered to clarify. He said what the City has done was to apply for an <br />additional grant. If the City is awarded that grant it would give us an additional <br />$985,000. He explained the number that Mr. Price was referring to the 148, is <br />the number that was identified in the Corp of Engineering Study. Mr. Walker said <br />it would be a Council decision as to whether we would use the additional grant <br />money to assist other people with flood prone properties. He said the Corp of <br />Engineers identified another 148 homes that were flood prone and if the City was <br />successful in getting this grant what he suggested was to use that for seed <br />money, depending on the wishes of Council, to assist other homeowners. Mr. <br />Walker said it is clear that an additional potential $1,000,000 dollars clearly won’t <br />buy all 148 properties but could use it as seed money to apply for additional <br />grants. <br /> <br />Mr. Price stated what you are saying is we are going to use 1.9 million because if <br />he added 140 folks and 26 folks that is a 166 folks now and we only had <br />$3,000,000 to buy 26 homes, I am trying to figure out how we are going to buy <br />out 166 people with 3 million dollars when the City could only afford 26 homes for <br />3 million. Mr. Price said the numbers are not computing for him if the average <br />house is $150,000 it would be $33,000,000. He said he couldn’t find an extra <br />$30,000,000 for these other folks you are talking about. <br /> <br />Mr. Walker in answer to Mr. Price said as he previously said the City would <br />pursue other funding opportunities in order to purchase the additional 148 <br />properties. He said it would cost the City in the range of about $30,000,000. Mr. <br />Walker said clearly the City would have to look for other matches, and could look <br />incrementally into buying those that were severely impacted, as was done with <br />the original 26, contingent upon Council wishes. <br /> <br />Mr. Price said that was something hoped to do; that is not something that we <br />know as fact. Mr. Walker replied that it is an objective. <br /> <br />Ms. Ricci asked if Ms. Watson could finish her discussion. <br /> <br />Ms. Watson explained the next column showed the next fiscal year projections. <br />She said it shows the revenues the City received in FY 11 and what was <br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />