The Morrow City Council meets at 6:30 p.m., followed by the regular business meeting at 7 p.m.

The work session agenda includes a review of the June 14 minutes and ordinances on the fiscal year 2023 budget and 2o13 Juneteenth holiday.

Morrow Center manager Warren Thomas also will give a presentation.

The unusually short regular meeting agenda includes a second reading of the FY 2023 budget, a first reading of an ordinance to add Juneteenth as a city holiday in 2023, and an executive session on personnel matters. Lieutenant Bill will receive a five-year service pin.

Also on the agenda: approval of minutes from the June 14 work session and business meeting and the June 21 special called meeting, which was a seven-minute public hearing on the proposed FY 2023 budget. No speakers were noted on that agenda.

The budget would give “all eligible employees…if they meet certain standards” a $4,000 raise on July 1. It also “fixes the number of established Morrow full-time positions at 89,” which “may only be increased or decreased through approval of the Mayor and City Council.”

The proposed $11,326,778 budget includes these funds:

DESCRIPTIONBUDGET
General Fund$11,326,778
Hotel-Motel Tax Fund$1,160,000
Product Development Fund$217,500
Confiscated Asset Fund$5,800
SPLOST20 Fund$1,500,000
Sanitation Fund$1,986,408
DMO/MCTA Fund$507,500
Municipal Court Agency Fund$250,000

General fund budget revenue is proposed as follows:

SOURCEPROPOSED BUDGET
Taxes$7,785,000
Licenses and Permits$196,800
Intergovernmental$75,000
Charges for Services$401,000
Fines and Forfeitures$1,720,000
Investment Income$7,500
Contributions and Donations
Miscellaneous Revenue$30,000
Other Financing Sources$1,111,478
TOTAL GENERAL FUND RECEIPTS$11,326,778

Here are the proposed general fund budget expenditures:

DEPARTMENTPROPOSED BUDGET
Mayor and Council$271,822
City Clerk$100,491
City Manager$245,074
Elections$16,000
Finance$946,343
General Admin.$1,000
Legal$120,000
Information Technology$255,277
Courts$413,305
Police$3,093,265
Police-SD$100,000
Fire$2,477,167
Public Works$1,835,460
Planning and Economic Development$417,852
Debt Service$1,033,722
TOTAL GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES$11,326,778

Looking ahead: On June 30 at 6 p.m., there will be a special called meeting of the Downtown Development Authority and Urban Redevelopment Authority. New business includes a quit claim deed and a sales contract on a property on Meadowbrook.

Robin Kemp is executive editor and CEO of The Clayton Crescent, which she founded in 2020. She has worked for Gambit, CNN, The Weather Channel, Clayton News, Henry Herald, and numerous freelance outlets....

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