By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET
for Glasgow News 1
The Glasgow Common Council has a relatively lengthy agenda that includes the coming fiscal year’s budget and an ordinance prohibiting “all cannabis business operations” for its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Monday. In addition, a hearing on the intended uses of municipal road aid funding from the state, as well as Local Government Economic Assistance Funds, is scheduled to begin at 5:45 p.m. Monday.
It is rare for members of the public to attend such hearings or provide feedback.
The proposed budget ordinance, which, like all ordinances, requires approval of two readings before it is adopted. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, an estimated $13.14 million, roughly, is expected to be carried over in the General Fund. General Fund revenue is estimated at roughly $22 million, and expenses are estimated at roughly $30.6 million, with the hope of having approximately $4.5 million left in the General Fund at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2024. The General Fund includes the monies things such as administrative and legislative functions, police, fire, emergency communications, public works and recreation.
Nine other funds are accounted for separately, such as the ones for the Plaza; for Glasgow Municipal Cemetery and for its perpetual upkeep; for sanitation and landfill functions and for the landfill’s cell closure and postclosure costs.
The approximate totals with all the funds included are:
– estimated FY 24 carryover – $30.2 million;
– estimated FY 25 revenue – $30 million;
– estimated FY 25 expenses – $38.3 million; and
– estimated end-of-FY 25 remaining balance – $21.9 million.
The city is required to have a copy of the full proposed budget available at the mayor’s office for review by residents to wish to do so.
Also on the agenda are five other first readings of proposed ordinances, two resolutions, a municipal order, all part of new business; unfinished business of a second reading of an ordinance; and a handful of informational items.
Those five proposed ordinances would, in summary:
– amend the budget for the current fiscal year by appropriating $676,000 from the General Fund that has not yet been appropriated for other uses to grant expenditures, the Plaza Theatre and, Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund, which provides funding for mandatory training of Kentucky law enforcement officers, and overtime; officially receiving $860,630.23 from grants, opioid settlement funds and the sale of property into the General Fund; and appropriating $300,400 from the unappropriated portion of the Sanitation and Landfill Fund for equipment rent and repairs;
– accept Hudson Lane as a city street;
– prohibit all cannabis business operations within the city limits;
– annex approximately 5.53 acres at 2420 New Bowling Green Road and establish B-3 (highway service business district) zoning for it; and
– annex approximately 0.608 acre at 2384 New Bowling Green Road and establish B-3 zoning for it.
The resolutions would authorize two grant applications, and the municipal order would amend a previous such order from 2023 relating to the personnel policies and procedures manual.
Informational items include:
– notifications of three executive orders changing portions of the Glasgow Police Department Standard Operating Procedures and interpretation and clarification of a portion of the city’s personnel manual relating to attendance and tardiness;
– notification of the mayor’s intended appointees to various boards, commissions, etc., such as reappointing Thomas Grubbs to the Glasgow Board of Adjustment and the Joint City-County Planning Commission of Barren County, reappointing Debbie Livingston to the Glasgow Economic Development Loan Fund board, and Melissa Gibson and Ale Gomez Garcia to the Glasgow-Barren County Tourist and Convention Commission; and
– notification that Glasgow City Hall is to be closed June 19 in observance of Juneteenth Freedom Day.
The one item of unfinished business on the agenda is the second reading of an ordinance closing a public way known as Branham Avenue that was designated for use as a street but wasn’t developed as such.
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