Special Board of Aldermen 06-21-2021 Page 10
Office; 108 — Energy Management; 109 — Civic Community Activities; 131 — Hunt Building; 158 — Parking
Enforcement; 166 - Parking Operations and 183 - Economic Development. That particular Division has a
lot of Departments but most of them are relatively small and you can ask a question on Revenue or
Appropriations. Is there anyone that has any questions on General Government Division? Please give
your name and address for the record?
Fred Teeboom 24 Cheyenne, former Alderman-at-Large, elected twice. First of all, where does this 3
minutes come from? I’ve never heard of that before?
Chairman Dowd
Itis by Legislation passed by the Board of Aldermen.
Mr. Teeboom — Of Public Hearings?
Chairman Dowd
Yes.
Mr. Teeboom — Well that makes it very a very difficult public hearing. | thought there was no limit on the
public hearing.
Chairman Dowd
Well we found that at all the public hearings that we’ve had that 3 minutes doesn’t seem to limit people if
they have a question.
Mr. Teeboom — We will have to change that, get around to change that. What | want to do is skip to page
54 but | want to skip to an earlier page like page 10. | know that Mayor Donchess made a presentation
which | could hardly read. But on Page 10 and | think Page 10 gets interesting. He compared the
departments taking out the pensions and Medicare and social security. That’s a very unusual way to
compare departments, maybe you do that for internal purposes, but | am a taxpayer. | have no interest, |
don’t have that much interest in how you manage things internally. What | am interested in is how you pay,
how many taxes | have to pay. Now when | look at the Budget what | did is | took the current budget, | had
to go to City Hall to get a copy of the budget, | don’t see there’s any of them here. And then | got my
(inaudible) budget out, which is (inaudible) and | made that comparison. | come up, Mayor, with a
completely different conclusion than you did. First of all, the Police Department increase between this
budget and last year’s budget is 6.6%. The Fire Department, 9.1% increase. The School Department a
3.5% increase. All you do is take the budget for that department this year and the budget for that
department year, take the difference and compute the percentage increase. That’s not 1% it’s 6% for the
Police; 9% for the Fire; 3% for the schools; City Hall 2% only. And DPW took a hit they only show 1%. So
there’s nothing equitable about this budget. The General Fund increase is 2.6% which is about the
percentage over the inflation rate. There’s no cap right now but | just got notice today that Governor
Sununu signed the cap. The cap is back.
Chairman Dowd
30 seconds.
Mr. Teeboom The Cap is back. By the way when | come back, you’ve only got 30 seconds, | can come
back a second time, and a third time and a fourth time, correct? The total appropriations is a combination
of taxes and fees. That went up 4.7%, not 2.6% which is the General Fund but you take into account
Enterprise Funds, (inaudible) funds the total appropriations went up $15 million dollars about 4.7%.
