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VERMONT
AGENDA
SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL
SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOL BOARD
City Hall Community Room
575 Dorset Street
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT
Legislative Breakfast 7:30am Monday, January 6, 2014
1. Call meeting to order— (Pam Mackenzie, Chair, South Burlington City Council)
2. TIF District - The City Center area of South Burlington has now been approved as a Tax
Increment Financing District. The City is advocating for some slight modifications in the
New Town Center and TIF statutes that would significantly enhance and improve the
ultimate build out of City Center. (Ilona Blanchard)
a. Ensuring FBC is considered acceptable for New Town Center designation
b. Allowing 100% TIF District Public Facilities Funding
c. Allowing ascending Repayment plans for Bonds
3. Homeless Housing Voucher Program - status of funding and anticipated reforms. (Trevor
Whipple, Justin Rabidoux)
4. Taser legislation (Trevor Whipple)
5. Precious metal dealers/pawn shops — S. 308 (Trevor Whipple)
6. Stormwater (Tom DiPietro)
a) Act 138 or any new legislation relating to a Statewide Water Quality Fund —There is
likely to be a bill drafted regarding statewide water quality concerns and a system to
collect funding to pay for new water quality initiatives.
b) ANR collection of money for stream flow monitoring
7. Amending/simplifying/repealing 32 V.S.A. 5410(J) - appeal of the homestead late filing
penalty. (Jim Barlow)
8. A quick-fix amendment to the City Charter to correct the clerk term issue. The term of the
City Clerk for South Burlington was inadvertently changed through a mistake made by the
Legislative Counsel's office. The three year term long ago approved by the voters was
deleted as other amendments to the Charter were approved thereby creating a situation
where the fall back term for Clerk is one year. (Jim Barlow and Donna Kinville)
9. Election law amendments (Donna Kinville)
10. Open forum — overview and comments by Legislative Delegation
11. Other issues
12. Future meetings
ISSUES WE ARE WATCHING BUT FOR WHICH WE HAVE NO CURRENT POSITION
1. Fair Share for Transportation Improvements
2. Transportation Revenue Sharing
3. Shoreland Protection Bill --- H.526
Respectfully Submitted:
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Kevin Dorn
City Manager
South Burlington City Council Meeting Participation Guidelines
City Council meetings are the only time we have to discuss and decide on City matters. We want to be as open and
informal as possible; but Council meetings are not town meetings. In an effort to conduct orderly and efficient
meetings,we kindly request your cooperation and compliance with the following guidelines.
1. Please be respectful of each other(Council members, staff,the public).
2. Please raise your hand to be recognized by the Chair. Once recognized please state your name and address.
3. Please address the Chair and not other members of the public, staff,or presenters.
4. Please abide by any time limits that have been set. Time limits will be used to insure everyone is heard and
there is sufficient time for the Council to conduct all the business on the agenda.
5. The Chair will make a reasonable effort to allow everyone to speak once before speakers address the Council a
second time.
6. The Chair may ask that discussion be limited to the Councilors once the public input has been heard.
7. Please do not interrupt when others are speaking.
8. Please do not repeat the points made by others, except to briefly say whether you agree or disagree with others
views.
9. Please use the outside hallway for side conversations. It is difficult to hear speaker remarks when there are
other conversations occurring.
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2014 Items for Legislative Reps from School District Jan 6 2014
1. Impact on SB School budget due to state variables (shift from Education
fund to general, tax rate, etc.)
The increase of seven cents on the state base education rate and the change
in the base education amount translate into an increase of 8.52 cents or
5.5% if actual spending and local revenues remain at the same level as last
year.
2. Act 129 Impact to revenues- Revenue to the South Burlington School District
decreased as follows as a result of money no longer following the student.
FY In Out Net
2012 $ 349,853 $61,944 $287,909
2013 $ 329,874 $47,976 $281,898
2014 $ 273,497 $46,972 $226,525
2015 $ 209,940 $29,000 $180,940
2016 $ 74,625 $14,000 $ 60,625
2017 $ - $ - $ -
3. Anticipated 3% + increase in school spending and impact on SB budget- a 3%
increase in school spending, on top of the residential tax rate impact, would
translate into 12.83 cent tax increase, an increase of 8.4%.
4. Funds for capital improvements dried up and many projects postponed to
meet past state targets- For many years, there have been no funds allocated
from the State to help with the financing of building repairs. NY State still
provides support to local districts for this purpose.
5. No support for codified ADA projects- As referenced in question #4 no
money has been available via the state to assist in updating facilities to be
compliant with the new ADAAA (Americans With Disabilities Act
Amendments Act) that was approved and published on the Federal Register
on March 25th 2011.
6. past track record of minimizing increases using ARRA money effectively-
SB's
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$1,600,000
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FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020
—+—Total Federal Stlmulus Funds —0—Local Funds --w—Federal Title&IDEA Funds
7. Last year's significant increase to taxpayers being followed by another
double digit tax % increase-There were tax decreases in 3 of the past 8
years.
Recent History of Budget Votes&the FY 2015 Preliminary Budget
Projected
Fiscal Budget %Increase Passed/ %Tax Tax Change in Tax Increase
Year Request Proposed Failed Increase Rate Tax Rate Avg.Home
2007 $34,271,049 1.70% Vote Failed 0.90% $ 1.3120
2008 $36,742,377 7.21% charter limit-Board cut$163K -2.06% $ 1.2850 $ (0.0270)
2009 $38,250,988 4.11% passed by 4 votes 5.45% $ 1.3550 $ 0.0700
2010 $39,923,685 4.37% passed 4.58% $ 1.4170 $ 0.0620
2011 $40,296,044 0.93% passed -2.40% $ 1.3830 $ (0.0340)
2012 $40,587,607 0.72% passed -0.72% $ 1.3730 $ (0.0100)
2013 $42,106,183 3.74% passed 2.78% $ 1.4112 $ 0.0382
2014 Leg $42,986,751 2.09% passed 7.50% $ 1.5171 $ 0.1059 $342
2015 $44,994,699 4.67% 8.46% $ 1.6454 $ 0.1283 $418
8. Federal, state mandates (re: common core, education quality standards,
ILPs...) all which cost more money
9. Decreasing enrollment and small school grants issues- In FY 2013, the AOE
reported that $7,386,127 in small school support grants were distributed to
104 school districts.
10. Income Sensitivity- Supplemental Property Tax Relief Fund. Using the
annual letter from State Tax Commissioner Mary Peterson as the basis for
information, The FY 2015 Education Fund adjustments for income sensitized
taxpayers are projected to increase by $7.9M. In FY 2014, the total of these
adjustments was projected to be $142.8M. This indicates that the total is
approaching $150M. It looks like a 5.5% increase. Should there be a cap on
how much is set aside for this purpose?
11. Percent change in education spending per pupil-
Spending per Equalized pupil
Amount %Increase
2008 $ 12,164
2009 $ 12,825 5.43%
2010 $ 13,563 5.75%
2011 $ 13,143 -3.10%
2012 $ 12,978 -1.26%
2013 $ 13,411 3.34%
2014 $ 14,435 7.64%
2015 $ 14.919 3.35%
12. Predicted change in homestead education tax rate-
HOMESTEAD EDUCATION TAX RATE
Forecast % Forecast
Fiscal Year Tax Rate Change Fiscal Year Tax Rate Change
2014 0.94 base yr 2018 1.04 1.40%
2015 1.01 6.30% 2019 1.05 1.40%
2016 1.02 1.40% 2020 1.07 1.40%
2017 1.04 1.40%