The Perryville Board of Aldermen held a public hearing on the proposed fiscal year 2024-25 City of Perryville budget at the city council meeting on Feb. 21.
“Our budget is a little unusual in that we start on April1 and ends on March 31 the next year,” Perryville City Administrator Brent Buerck said. “We had the public presentation of the budget of which there were no comments. The next two meetings we will finalize and adopt it. It will then go into effect in April.”
Buerck went over some of the highlights in the budget.
The city will be hiring a second building inspector. Additional funds were added for hiring a second person to begin certification and training.
“We have a lot of projects coming up,” Buerck said. “We also want to add some strength to the team so that we do have a retirement, we have someone ready to step in.”
Buerck and his team is also working a rewrite of some of the zoning code.
“That probably hasn’t been done in 40 years,” Buerck said. “We are on the orginals and it should help with what housing restrictions should be and things like that.”
The city has allocated funds to repaint Perryville City Hall and Public Works if needed.
“We want to paint the outside of City Hall to make it all match,” Buerck said. “We have some new signs in front of City Hall at the intersection to better identify where people need to go to pay bills.”
A new van for employee travel . A new van is needed at the Perry Park Center so the current travel van will be transferred there.
The City recently ordered six new police cruisers and they need to be outfitted with radar equipment and mobile data terminals.
“They should arrive in April or May and be outfitted,” Buerck said.
The City will purchase a Cyclone Port Weather System. It allows for real time weather/lightning detection with a video feed. It will be used by Emergency Management in conjuction with park sporting events and community activities.
“It’s more accurate than just saying, that someone hears thunder,” Buerck said.
The City will look to repair hangars 4 and 7 at the at the Perryville Regional Airport.
“They haven’t really been touched since we took the airport back,” Buerck said.