 Great. Councillor Jang, you near us and you're with us? Yes, I'm with you. Okay, great. Then let's dive in. I will call more to the Board of Finance at five over three on November 14th, 2022. And the person on the agenda. Recording in progress. Agenda, ready for motion there? I have to make a motion here. Thank you, Councillor McGee. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Councillor Hightower. Thank you. Any discussion of the agenda? Seeing none, we will go to a vote. All those in favor, most simply say aye. Aye. Are there any votes? Aye. I believe those are all ayes. The agenda is about to be announced. The next item is the public forum. I do not see anyone in the room to speak to the public forum. If you have anyone on the line, you do not. So we are going to close the public forum at 5.04 p.m. and move to the short deliberative section of the agenda. So 3.1, approval to enter into a contract with Cardial Inc. for FY23 road salt procurement. This is a DPW item. Are we heading this over you, Chapin? Yeah. Yes, absolutely. Lee Perry's out this time of year walking in the woods. So thanks for the time. We every year need to get council approval for this contract for salt. We use over 4,000 tons of salt a year. We put this bid out. And as you'll see, we got two bids in this year. We are proposing to go with Cargill. They are the cheaper bid. And you'll see a different item this year is because the prices are going up 13% this year and have gone up in many recent years. The budgeted amount that we've budgeted has been the same for the last, at least five to 10 years of $285,000. So this year we're requesting approval for not only the contract up to the 285, but also asking for authorization to use $43,000 of contingency of money that's in a reserve fund for DPW use for either unanticipated fuel costs, overtime costs, or salt costs for winter maintenance activities, things we can't really budget. Reliably, we don't know how many storms we're gonna get. So happy to answer any questions. Great, thank you, Chapin. Discussion, questions, or are we ready for motion? I'm happy to move the item that was for the recommended action listed on board box. Great, thank you. Seconded by Councillor Jang for the discussion. Seeing none, I think we're ready to go to a vote. All those in favor of motion, please say aye. Aye. Aye. And there are any opposed? Don't believe so, motion carries unanimously. And that brings us to 3.02. Thank you, Chapin. But we still have more DPW business reclassification than customer care, finance, manager, and creation to financial and administrative positions at DPW and water resources. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. I want to say that this has been a very productive evaluation with the CT office, with the HR team. Tony, thank you for being here tonight. We know you want us to be successful as an entity here. We have 3 regulated utilities that we manage here and we manage a number of capital grants and our ongoing monthly billing activities. And the fact that we don't have any dedicated financial teams is an unrealistic expectation. And I want to say thanks to CT, who has best supported us as an enterprise entity, even though all other enterprise entities in the city have their own financial capabilities, but really appreciated the kind of collaborative effort here to come with a small focused proposal to really enable our regulated utilities to have the financial acumen that's needed for a successful operation. So with that, I'll turn it over to Megan to give a little of the specifics. Thanks, Chapin. The memo obviously goes into a larger sort of staffing evaluation that Chapin and I and the support of the mayor are looking at. Just be honest, my staff work very hard in very many hours and it is hard to manage three different utilities, which all have different state and federal regulations. And also at a time when deferred capital investment is sort of catching up with us. So the number of emergencies that is happening on a constant basis, there's just creating this overload for my staff. So I just want to be transparent that we are looking at other places where we may need additional capacity, but specifically tonight, we are looking to add capacity to the financial accounting side. Jess, my customer care billing person and I try to keep those plates spinning and it's just getting harder and harder to do that and also do our other jobs, let alone try to lead and innovate and do even better than I think we already do. And so looking to Burlington Electric and the airport, the other enterprise funds, they do all have dedicated accounting staff and so sort of time came when we decided to propose that for water resources. Part of that team will also support the parking and traffic division. So it's a bit of a win-win for us at our enterprise funds as well as the special revenue funds that are under that division. Happy to entertain any other questions, but that is the gist of the matter. These were the approved budget, I should say that for FY23. So you had previously approved the water, wastewater plant assistant a few months back and then with these two positions, I believe that brings us up to the ones that we had proposed. I think there may be one more that will be forthcoming, but they are, it is currently in the budget. Great, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Megan. Floor is open for questions, discussion, motion. I'm happy to make the motion as recommended by the four dogs. Councilor McGee, is there a second? Second. Great, second by Councilor Jang. Further discussion? Seeing none, we'll go to all those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you for the work to strengthen this critical service so we can make sure we're able to keep delivering. Keep the water flowing and wait for the water to come in. And streets raining because some teams don't get involved. Thank you very much, team. Okay, final item tonight is team team donation, acceptance and budget amendments. And it is here to give us a discussion. Do you want to say anything to see things up? Yeah, sure. So thank you everybody for your time. Thank you, Councilor. I hope everybody's read the memo, but if they haven't then I'm happy to do the overview. Other than that, I'll go into questions. Very good. Okay. No questions. All right, we're ready for a motion. Sorry, I do have a question, which is just, and I'm sorry, I didn't, I just barely skimmed the memo, but because it's retroactive, I guess I'm confused as to if this is last year's budget and why, and as opposed to this year's budget, that's it. Do you want to ask a question? I'm not going to take a stab at this because this is kind of a CT issue and the timing piece anyway. And we've been collaborating with Pitt, if I miss anything, let me know. As you can tell in the memo, this is an issue that we've known about since just a couple of weeks before Juneteenth, but we've been working with Pitt and didn't want to bring something to you until we had all of the costs and surprisingly we didn't have all of those trailing costs until a couple of weeks ago when we got all of the invoices, all of the credit cards we were sure about all of the donations. So we're doing this now because we're just finishing the FY22 audit. And so that was the time for us to button this up, but we really wanted to make sure that we had complete documentation to bring to the council. So it's not an REIB issue, it was simply just a timing issue of we tried to bring this maybe six or even eight weeks ago. And then my staff alerted us to the fact that there were a few more costs coming in and we just wanted to have that complete information. Thank you. So yes, to be clear, this is all FY22 money. It's pertaining to FY22 Juneteenth and we're using FY22 money from REIB year that is already passed to fill those goals. So it's all stuff that happened last year. Right, so I'm understanding. So I was confused as to why we're doing a budget amendment for last year's budget when the fiscal year was over, but I'm hearing that it's in compliance with what actually happened for audit reasons. That's correct. Right, so that our CAFR does not show that REIB is in the negative at the end of the year. It is confusing. If there are no further questions, I think we still need a motion to act on this. Happening motion was recommended on more dogs. Thank you, Councillor Yee. Do we have a second? Second. Great, second by Councillor. All right, Dara, thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Motion carries unanimously. There's, I want to confirm that because it's a little bit of a delay here. So I believe they carried unanimously if not, so we're very happy to make that. Thank you all for making this time work. I'm not really able to get this done in 15 minutes. Does help with the management of next week's council meeting. So thank you for logging in remotely. Thank you for being here, Councillor Yee. There's no objection, even though we completed the business. I will adjourn the Board of Finance at 5.15 p.m.