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Section 1 Parks and Wildlife Department Summary of Recommendations - Senate Page VI-37 Carter Smith, Executive Director Tina Beck, LBB Analyst RECOMMENDED FUNDING BY METHOD OF FINANCING 2012-13 2014-15 Biennial % Method of Financing Base Recommended Change Change General General Revenue Funds $139,046,539 $145,097,839 $6,051,300 4.4% Other 10.6% Revenue GR Dedicated Funds $244,073,338 $238,854,216 ($5,219,122) (2.1%) Federal Funds Total GR-Related Funds $383,119,877 $383,952,055 $832,178 0.2% Funds 28.1% 14.9% Federal Funds $112,454,530 $76,838,762 ($35,615,768) (31.7%) Other $75,901,144 $54,860,822 ($21,040,322) (27.7%) GR Dedicated All Funds $571,475,551 $515,651,639 ($55,823,912) (9.8%) Funds 46.3% FY 2013 FY 2015 Biennial % Budgeted Recommended Change Change FTEs 3,037.8 3,032.2 (5.6) (0.2%) The bill pattern for this agency (2014-15 Recommended) represents an estimated 99.9% of the agency's estimated total available funds for the 2014-15 biennium. Agency 802 2/4/2013 Section 1 Parks and Wildlife Department 2014-2015 BIENNIUM TOTAL= $515.7 MILLION IN MILLIONS ALL FUNDS GENERAL REVENUE AND FULL-TIME-EQUIVALENT POSITIONS GENERAL REVENUE-DEDICATED FUNDS APPROPRIATED 3,180.3 REQUESTED REQUESTED 3,115.2 3,115.2 REQUESTED APPROPRIATED APPROPRIATED $344.3 3,006.2 3,006.0 APPROPRIATED $246.3 APPROPRIATED APPROPRIATED $282.8 $291.3 REQUESTED REQUESTED APPROPRIATED $222.6 $224.1 $267.9 REQUESTED $266.0 APPROPRIATED $195.3 APPROPRIATED $198.2 $352.7 $301.6 $269.8 $284.0 $231.7 $257.4 $183.6 $199.5 $194.2 $189.7 3,092.7 2,858.6 3,037.8 3,032.2 3,032.2 EXPENDED ESTIMATED BUDGETED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED EXPENDED ESTIMATED BUDGETED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED EXPENDED ESTIMATED BUDGETED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Note: 2011-2012 Expended/Estimated Funds exceed 2011-2012 Appropriated Funds primarily because of unexpended balances of bond proceeds carried forward from previous fiscal years and receipt of additional federal funds. In fiscal year 2011, General Revenue and General Revenue-Dedicated expenditures exceeded appropriated amounts because of an unexpended balance of Hurricane Ike-related funds from 2010 to 2011. Agency 802 2/4/2013 Section 2 Parks and Wildlife Department Summary of Recommendations - Senate, By Method of Finance -- ALL FUNDS 2012-13 2014-15 Biennial % Strategy/Goal Base Recommended Change Change Comments Summary: Recommendations include an All Funds decrease of $55.8 million, or 9.8 percent, which includes the following: 1) an increase of $6.1 million in General Revenue Funds, primarily for reduced debt service requirements for prior year issuances of revenue bonds for statewide park repairs ($2.4 million), offset by an increase in the Sporting Goods Sales Tax transfer to the State Parks Account for an estimated revenue shortfall restored in recommendations ($6.9 million) and Data Center Service cost increases ($1.6 million); 2) a decrease of $5.2 million in General Revenue-Dedicated Funds, primarily to reflect debt service savings from the Game, Fish and Water Safety Account No. 9 for completion of the East Texas Fish Hatchery; 3) a decrease of $35.6 million in anticipated federal funds; and 4) a decrease of $21.0 million in Other Funds, primarily in Appropriated Receipts for one-time donations to the Artificial Reef program ($10.7 million), wildlife, fishery, and state park donations and completed ecological assessments ($6.2 million), completed park, wildlife, and fishery construction projects ($5.4 million), and land sale proceeds ($2.6 million). These and other amounts are offset by an increase of $7.2 million in unexpended balances of General Obligation bonds carried forward from fiscal year 2013 to 2014. WILDLIFE CONSERVATION A.1.1 $43,764,603 $34,739,882 $ (9,024,721) -20.6% Recommendations include a decrease of $0.5 million from General Revenue- Dedicated (GRD) accounts in alignment with the agency's baseline request; a decrease of $7.3 million in federal funds primarily for pass-through grants to universities for endangered species research ($4.5 million) and various wildlife research grants ($2.8 million); and, a decrease of $1.2 million in Other Funds, due primarily to one-time Appropriated Receipts for donations ($0.8 million) and one- time contracts and mitigation payments ($0.3 million). TECHNICAL GUIDANCE A.1.2 $5,179,944 $5,016,474 $ (163,470) -3.2% HUNTING AND WILDLIFE RECREATION A.1.3 $6,076,454 $5,053,434 $ (1,023,020) -16.8% Recommendations include a decrease of $0.8 million in federal funds for a public access and habitat incentive program. A decrease of $0.2 million in Other Funds reflects a lapse in appropriation authority for receipts of federally defined program income, which would have been a GRD cost to the 2012-13 General Appropriations Act (GAA). Agency 802 2/4/2013 Section 2 Parks and Wildlife Department Summary of Recommendations - Senate, By Method of Finance -- ALL FUNDS 2012-13 2014-15 Biennial % Strategy/Goal Base Recommended Change Change Comments INLAND FISHERIES MANAGEMENT A.2.1 $27,617,099 $23,264,122 $ (4,352,977) -15.8% Recommendations include an increase of $1.9 million in GRD accounts in alignment with the agency's baseline request; offset by a decrease of $5.0 million in federal funds, primarily for fish lake surveys; and, a $1.2 million reduction in Other Funds, primarily for an ecological assessment and restoration analysis contract. INLAND HATCHERIES OPERATIONS A.2.2 $10,365,346 $8,178,076 $ (2,187,270) -21.1% Recommendations include a decrease of $0.2 million in GRD accounts in alignment with the agency's baseline request; and, a decrease of $0.8 million in federal funds, primarily for fish hatchery and stocking activity. A decrease of $1.2 million in Other Funds include donations ($0.4 million), receipts for a rainbow trout stocking program ($0.3 million), and a lapse in appropriation authority for receipts of federally defined program income, which would have been a GRD cost to the 2012-13 GAA ($0.4 million). COASTAL FISHERIES MANAGEMENT A.2.3 $39,081,229 $19,128,524 $ (19,952,705) -51.1% Recommendations include a decrease of $2.0 million in GRD accounts in alignment with the agency's baseline request; $7.2 million in federal funds, primarily for grants to restore wetlands damaged by Hurricane Ike ($3.0 million), disaster grants to commercial oyster fisherman ($1.4 million), and other completed coastal wildlife, saltwater fish, and artificial reef research projects ($2.8 million); and $10.7 million in Other Funds, primarily for one-time donations to the Artificial Reef program. COASTAL HATCHERIES OPERATIONS A.2.4 $6,473,595 $6,762,164 $ 288,569 4.5% Total, Goal A, CONSERVE NATURAL RESOURCES $138,558,270 $102,142,676 $ (36,415,594) -26.3% STATE PARK OPERATIONS B.1.1 $121,809,758 $125,684,390 $ 3,874,632 3.2% Recommendations include an increase of $6.9 million in the Sporting Goods Sales Tax Transfer to the State Parks Account No. 64 for an estimated revenue shortfall in the 2012-13 biennium that is restored in recommendations for the operation of 11 park sites, including 75.3 FTEs. See Selected Fiscal and Policy Issue #1(a). This amount is offset by a $2.5 million decrease in Other Funds, primarily for donations related to the agency's appeal to the public to support state parks, including recovery efforts at Bastrop State Park. Agency 802 2/4/2013 Section 2 Parks and Wildlife Department Summary of Recommendations - Senate, By Method of Finance -- ALL FUNDS 2012-13 2014-15 Biennial % Strategy/Goal Base Recommended Change Change Comments MOF Swap: The recommendations include a method-of-financing swap of $10.0 million from the General Revenue - Boat and Boat Motor Sales and Use Tax to the Sporting Goods Sales Tax Transfer to the State Parks Account No. 64. See Selected Fiscal and Policy Issue #1(b). PARKS MINOR REPAIR PROGRAM B.1.2 $7,702,915 $7,195,144 $ (507,771) -6.6% Recommendations include an increase of $0.2 million in General Revenue and GRD accounts in alignment with the agency's baseline request. This amount is offset by a decrease in federal funds for a park trail improvement grant ($0.5 million) and donations to the park minor repair program ($0.1 million). PARKS SUPPORT B.1.3 $7,806,479 $7,816,600 $ 10,121 0.1% LOCAL PARK GRANTS B.2.1 $2,375,956 $868,960 $ (1,506,996) -63.4% Recommendations include a decrease of $1.5 million in federal funds for completed local park acquisition and development projects. BOATING ACCESS AND OTHER GRANTS B.2.2 $15,039,523 $12,193,220 $ (2,846,303) -18.9% Recommendations include a decrease of $2.8 million in federal funds for completed local boat ramp and recreational trail grant projects. Total, Goal B, ACCESS TO STATE AND LOCAL PARKS $154,734,631 $153,758,314 $ (976,317) -0.6% ENFORCEMENT PROGRAMS C.1.1 $89,008,332 $85,485,832 $ (3,522,500) -4.0% Recommendations include an increase of $1.5 million in GRD accounts the agency reallocated primarily from the Texas Game Warden Training Center (Strategy C.1.2) to reflect cadets becoming game wardens. This amount is offset by a decrease of $3.7 million in federal funds, primarily for one-time water and boating safety grants ($1.8 million), one-time purchases of smartphone, surveillance, and body armor equipment ($1.1 million), and FEMA disaster reimbursements ($0.8 million).
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    City of l\finen1! \Velis P 0 Box 460, 1\tinenil \Velis, Texas 76068 Telephone: 940.328.7700 Fa.\: 940,328.7704 NOTICE OF MEETING The Mineral Wells City Council will hold a regular meeting at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 in the City Council Chambers at the City Hall Annex, 115 S.W. JS' Street, Mineral Wells, Texas to consider the following agenda: Call to Order Invocation-Reverend Brian Nierman of First Christian Church of Mineral Wells Pledges of Allegiance to U.S. and Texas Flags CITIZEN COMMENT Citizells must provide informotioll required Oil Speake1· Card. The Speaker Card must be given to lite City Clerk before tlte meetillg starts. Tlte Council requests tltat commellls be limited to tltree (3) minutes. Tlte Texas Opell Meetings Act provides the fol/owillg: (a) If, 111 tt meeting oftt governmentttl bot{J" a member ofthe public or ofthe governmelllttl body inquiries about a subject for wlliclz notice /tas not been given as required by this subcltapter, the notice provisions oft/tis subcltapter tlo llOI ttpply to: (I) tt statement ofspecific factual informatioll given in respollse to the inquiry; or (2) a recitation ofexisting policy in response to tile inquiry. (b) Any delibemtion of or decision about the subject of the inquiry sltal/ be limited to a proposal to pl11ce the subject 011 tlte agenda for a subsequent 111eeti11g. CONSENT AGENPA ( 4) I. Consider approval of minutes of meeting held April 16, 2019. ( 1 O) 2. Consider approval of budgeted expenditures over $500. ( 11 ) 3. Consider and take action on pay request from Parker, Smith & Cooper, Inc.