JUST IN: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE 2019 CITY BUDGET BY MEMBERS OF THE EVANSVILLE CITY COUNCIL

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This memo was just sent to members of the Evansville City Council by their Legal Counsel, Joshua Claybourn.
DEAR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS;
I’ve attached all of the budget amendments that I’ve received so far and had a brief summary below.  Please review any that you are sponsoring as soon as possible in order to let me know if you have any changes.
  1. Amendment 1 (Weaver): This amendment calls for a $3 million cut from the budget to line items designated and specified by the administration. If this amendment passes, the Council tables final passage of a budget until October 22nd in order to allow the administration to identify and propose its specific cuts.
  1. Amendment 2 (McGinn & Elpers): This proposes cutting the City’s $130,000 contract with New Hope for a Highway 41 bus service.
  1. Amendment 3 (McGinn): This proposes reducing the grant to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund from $500,000 to $100,000.
  1. Amendment 4 (Adams): This holds in abeyance the grant to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund allocation from $500,000 to $0 until City Council has received the Affordable Housing Trust Fund’s first two quarterly financial reports in 2019 for review and approval. After such approval, the City Council will entertain a new appropriation of $500,000 for the Fund.
  1. Amendment 5 (McGinn & Elpers): This proposes cutting all non-profit grants by 25% except for I-69 Bridgelink and UNOE.
  1. Amendment 5A (Mercer): This proposes cutting all non-profit grants by 25% except for I-69 Bridgelink, UNOE, Leadership Evansville, and SWIRCA.
  1. Amendment 6 (Elpers): This amendment reduces the City’s contribution to employee health insurance premiums by $10.00 per month ($120 per year) for each employee, which will have the effect of requiring employees to increase their share of health insurance premiums by $10.00 per month ($120 per year). This would not apply to Teamsters since they are on their own health insurance plan.

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  1. Well, well . . .amends 2-7 will produce approx $750,000. Amend 1 will of course produce $3 mil. This administration has been deficit spending averaging 10-12 million per year. The increase in our county option income tax produces increases revenue by approx 4 mil . . so, as it seems, cuts in spending need to be in the neighbor of 6-8 mil . . please remember, the 3 million diverted into the Riverboat fund for computer/IT costs which should have NEVER been approved by the Council. So, 3 mil is a good start, but is far, far short of obtaining a balanced budget. And, this budget crisis is after this Administration blow the 25 million advance lease payments from Tropicana. People, time is running out!!!!

    • They are 1% ers. They cut a whopping 1% of the total budget. This isn’t even a good try.

  2. Time for Vanderburgh County to annex the City of Evansville and can the Mayor, the City Council, & Russ Lloyd, Jr.

  3. Elpers’ idea of requiring the non-teamsters employees (Cops and Fighters essentially) will reduce spending by a whopping $110,000 when we are talking about the General Fund expenditures in the range of $93,000,000. The average salary plus benefits costs the city nearly $60,000 per employee. So, folks remember what happened in 1980 after eight year of wild-eyed spending of Lloyd, Sr. Vandeveer was forced to furlough nearly 360 employees. The four horsemen have saddled up. btw, Vandeveer also turned off half of the street lights.

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