15 - PARIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP FY 2016-17 BUDGET

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Item No. 15 memorandum TO: Mayor & City Council FROM: John Godwin, City Manager SUBJECT: 2016 -17 BUDGET DATE: July 15, 2016 Highlights of the final 2016 -17 recommended general fund budget include: • Maintaining a flat tax rate of 50.195 cents per $100 valuation. • One new FTE police video technician, effective April 1, 2017, to manage new camera data and additional mandated public information requirements. • One replacement ambulance and associated equipment. • Architectural & engineering costs ($30,000) for a replacement EMS station in northwest Paris, and the start of construction ($100,000 of total estimated $300,000). • Debt service on the new fire engine delivered last year and the new quint truck now under construction, totaling $186,692.77. • Grant matches for a new airport hangar deferred by TXDOT from 2016, CDBG sidewalk and utility improvements, and the West Paris Trail. • One new replacement garbage truck, to be paid from accrued funds out of the 2015 equipment replacement fee. • Initial payments for a new library roof. • Costs related to implementing the new ADA transition plan. • Costs related to adoption of the International Property Management Code and updating all other international building and fire codes.