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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br />Monday, July 27, 2020 <br />6:00 o’clock p.m. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Page 16 of 21 <br /> <br />RECESS & RECONVENE <br /> <br />Mayor Walsh recessed the meeting at 7:25 p.m. The meeting was reconvened at 7:28 p.m. <br /> <br />FINANCE DIRECTOR REPORT <br /> <br />8. SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT <br /> <br />Olson stated revenues are looking pretty good at this point in the year with 55% of revenues. Last year at <br />this time the City was at 58% of revenues. They did receive on the tax settlements another $900,000 on <br />July 3, which is not recorded, and last week the City received $217,000 which would be the first and 70% <br />of the late payments that were made after May 15 but before July 15. He thought by the end of the week <br />the City should receive another $85,000 in tax settlement. He clarified this is general fund taxes. He said <br />the City is around 50% for property taxes, which he was previously concerned about, but at this point the <br />City is on track. Licenses and permits are at 52% for the year, which is pretty good. Building permits are <br />down from a year ago, at 44% of building permits. That number is generally new construction. <br /> <br />Johnson said that can be made up with other types of construction such as remodeling permits. <br /> <br />Olson stated Johnson was correct. The City is $18,000 under 50% of the building permit money, which <br />can be one single permit. <br /> <br />Johnson said that he thinks there will be a surge in building permits soon. <br /> <br />Walsh noted the City kind of depends on that for extra revenue. <br /> <br />Olson stated the City receives the police state aid in October and receives the state training aid from the <br />POST Board later in the year. <br /> <br />Council Members and Staff talked about the golf revenue increase which they thought was due to people <br />being off of work and the nice summer. It is particularly interesting because the golf course was not open <br />right away in the spring, although it was one of the first activities that opened up. <br /> <br />Olson displayed a graph showing building permits for 2020 and said overall the numbers were okay. <br /> <br />Council Members discussed a building permit in the neighborhood not yet received by the City. <br /> <br />Olson stated they are over budget for the year already on the mechanical permits with $62,000 in revenue, <br />although one permit accounts for $31,000. He went over the plan review number and indicated a lot of <br />times a plan review will come before a building permit is issued. He talked about the 2019 and 2020 <br />numbers in that category and said that a plan review can almost be looked at as a leading indicator when it <br />comes to building permits. <br /> <br />Walsh said there is one more meeting in August to get July’s numbers before they need to start setting the <br />budget lobby. <br /> <br />Council Members and Olson discussed the timeline for setting budget numbers.