City Council

May 24, 2012 A budget worksession of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, was held on May 24, 2012, in Council Chambers, Municipal Building, at 4:15 PM, with Mayor Kim Adkins presiding. Council Members present included: Mayor Adkins, Vice Mayor Kimble Reynolds, Gene Teague, Mark Stroud, Sr., and Danny Turner. Staff present included: Leon Towarnicki, Interim City Manager, Brenda Prillaman, Linda Conover, Eric Monday, Dennis Bowles, Kenneth Draper, Ashby Pritchett, Steve Draper, Ruth Easley, Donna Odell, Cindy Dickerson, and Andy Lash. Mayor Adkins called the meeting to order. Constitutional officer’s budget recommendations: Clerk of Circuit Court Ashby Pritchett presented the following Constitutional Officer Plan for achieving $50,000 in FY13 City Budget: After lengthy discussion on the insurance issue, Sheriff Steve Draper reported he can commit $10,000 out of his department’s budget without affecting personnel. Library funding: Drusilla Carter of the library reported impact on cutting library funding $61,000 in FY13 noting it would affect state aid and federal funding. Council discussion included reviewing the original regional funding agreement for the library which was made more than 20 years ago. Southside Fire station funding: Chief Kenneth Draper presented the following information for Council consideration: May 24, 2012 May 24, 2012 Leon Towarnicki presented the following recap of information from 5/22/12 Council FY13 budget actions: Council discussion included: acceptable use of fund balance; capital list and priorities; continuing year after year same budget issues; electric capital future costs; options for reducing city capital costs figure; financing options for capital other than fire truck; need to review city vehicles’ policy and take-home vehicles; reversion options and financial analysis and importance of citizen input on reversion issue; City Attorney to present Council reversion details at next meeting. May 24, 2012 On a motion by Gene Teague, seconded by Mark Stroud, with a 5-0 vote, Council accepted the $10,000 budget reduction for the Sheriff’s budget which now brings use of fund balance to $961,000. No other actions were taken and the meeting adjourned at 6:50 pm. _____________________________________ ___________________________________ Brenda Prillaman, Clerk of Council Kim Adkins, Mayor