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CITY OF SHELLEY WORK MEETING MINUTES August 04, 2026 PRESENT: Mayor Westergard Council Members: Leif Watson, Sean Kress, Louise Street Public Works Director: Justin Johnson Building Inspector/Planner: Jordon Johnson Police Chief: Chad Purser City Clerk: Lisa Ybarra The meeting was called to order at 6:35 p.m. This meeting is being held to discuss the fiscal year budget for 2026-2027. Lisa mentioned that the department heads met on August 28" to discuss their “wish lists” for the new budget year. Justin would like to get a lawn mower with a cost of up to $25,000.00 which would come out of Park Maintenance Capital Outlay. A Split Unit for the break room with a cost of up to $6,500.00 which would come out of street, water, sewer, and sanitation R&M building and structure. Justin would like to surplus/sell the red ford his crew drives and keep the silver ford for the crew. He would like a new truck with the cost of $55,000.00 to replace his truck which would then be for the crew to drive. Sewer Vactor Truck would need new control boxes and has a cost of $10,000.00. this would come out of R&M equipment. Lisa mentioned that she would like to add a line item and add $50-$100 each year to pay for the Parks Subdivision Annual retention pond expense. Jordon said he would like to get a Bluebeam Plan review software because Zipflow is changing some of their software. The cost for the Bluebeam would be $350 a year. He would like to get two office chairs and two stationary chairs with a cost of $1,500.00. Jordon would also like a second iPad for a second inspector for about $1,200.00. Lisa would like to add a line item for building inspector uniform allowance so it is separate from Justin’s crew’s uniform allowance. Chad would like to like to replace the 26 P tasers with tasers 10’s. He would purchase between 10-15 tasers. The cost would be about $84,475.00 for a five-year plan. Annual payments would be $16,895.00 per year for five years for mid-range bundle; everything supplied for patrol, training for five years with a five-year warranty. This would come out of the general fund. He would also like to get two leased patrol cars and one unmarked detective vehicle which would be from the State Revenue Sharing. Currently the lease is $117,000 and it would increase to about $172,000.00. the patrol cars would be about $18,000 each and the unmarked detective car would be about $16,000. Chad also mentioned that the department would need to start helping with investigative supplies/equipment/licensing for our detective’s portion with the county. This line item would be about $5,000 per year. Lisa suggested add additional into the line item incase it were to raise. Chad would like to transition from his SIG P320 to S&W MP 2.0 for the department. This would have a cost of about $15,000.00. He would also like an iPad for himself and a patrol car laptop for Dakota, these two would have a cost of up to $4,000. Lastly, Chad would like to start a line item for fitness and wellness incentive. This would be a fitness test twice a year which would follow the requirement of the POST fitness test. Each incentive would be a $400 incentive bonus ($800 annually) with a pass. This would be about $9,600.00. Chad mentioned that this could be done for all city employees. For the recreation department, a new pool pump was in the works with a cost of about $7,500.00. This would come out of pool capital outlay. Pam would like to have Epoxy paint in the locker room for the floors which could be about $1,000.00. Last year a new pool filter system was purchased with two sets of filters. Lisa mentioned starting a new line item to build bunds yearly and buy the filters every year or every other year. Each set of filters is about $2,500.00. Lisa would like to add a line item, Parks -R&M Vehicle/Auto which would allow the recreation director to purchase tires, do oil changes etc. and have the expense separate from Justin’s budgets. The line item could begin with $3,000.00. Lisa mentioned that she would like to budget for a council room sound system which would come out of general. Lisa also mentioned that she would like to rebudget for a stand-up desk and add $1,000.00 to purchase a sturdy stand up desk that would last for years. Leif mentioned that the printer Tori uses are going to go out soon and she would need a new printer. Louise mentioned that the Tree City committee would like to have a budget to purchase new trees and replace the old trees. The budget would be about $3,500.00. Lisa was asked to try to budget all of the items talked about and then discuss further at the next work meeting. A work meeting was set for August 26 2026 at 6:00 p.m. oe o™ APPROVE: ©(AAASR on ATTEST: ie ie, og
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