1999-084-ANTI-DRUG-ABUSE ACT OF 1988 PROVIDES FUNDS TO TNCP

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City CODnCll 'Meeting Seplembcr 16. 1998 Page 2 tJle Plum Street PmjecL City Manager Malone said there are some things tJlat could be done with funds that are in the budget that might help to some small degree. City Manager Malone said the budget presented to tJle Council was balanced in all ways that one would want to balance the budget, and tile reoccurring expenses are met by reoccurring revenues. City Manager Malone said he proposed tJlat the City Council consider in the near future, and during tJlis budget year, issuing certificates of obligation in some amount from two and one- half to five millions dollars for a v:lIity of projects, including drainage, and knew that this particular project is one tJlat has received a lot of attention, and there has been a lot of input from citizens of Paris. If tJle Council docs issue the certificate of obligation, tllis is one project that would come forward, and something would be accomplished next summer. 3. Do we have any plans in tJIC budget fo/' st/'eets in the newly annexed areas, such as 46'h N. E. and 47'. S. E.'! City Manager Malone said that befOl'e anything is done about street~ in the Margraves Addition, the water and sewer lines will have to be addressed, tJlen following that, would be the development of stl"eets. The citizens of Ihat al'e;1 can petition for streets and help pay for a pottion of the cost as an asscssment progl~UIl. There currently is, and has been, when funded an opportunity to up-grade the streets in Paris. City Manager Malone said that there is a program to upgrade gravel street, and the M:lI'gmves Addition will now be included in that program. 4. Our budget is increasing by two millions dollars, can we justify this in a city that has had the same population since 1963 with no increase services? City Manager Malone said the City has increased services everywhere. For example, we have mOI-e police oflicers, more firefighters, added more personnel in the Libm'1'. hotmix overlay, drainage projects. city pool, new fire station. and improved the parks. City Attomey Foster advised that the City of Pads's population is not the same as we had in 1963. It has grown approximately 30%. 5. Is itt.-ue that employee's salal'y aCCllunl is ((II' 13.5 million dollars in thc budget, or 48% of the budget'! City Manager yIalone said he would nol be suqIJised, and advised that anyone in the community would observe we have incn':lsed senices, which in turn increased the need for additional personnel. 6. Why should the ncwly annexed arcas I", laxed whell serviccs were nol pf'Ovided to any llf the al'cas, not just the oncs that II'c,'e under protcs!'! -- ".