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® Town of Garner, NC Recommended Annual Operating Budget Fiscal Year 2019-2020 /townofgarner • garnernc.gov TOWN OF GARNER NORTH CAROLINA RECOMMENDED FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET Submitted To: The Honorable Mayor and Town Council Prepared By: The Office of the Town Manager Annual Operating Budget Fiscal Year 2019 - 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE BUDGET AWARD i. INTRODUCTION SECTION Community Profile 1 Accomplishments and Accolades 6 Elected & Appointed Officials 8 Organizational Chart 10 Budgetary Approach 11 Budget Development 13 Budget Calendar 15 A Citizen's Budget Guide 16 Town Strategic Plan 19 Fiscal & Budgetary Policy Guide 27 Current Initiatives 35 BUDGET SUMMARY SECTION Budget Message 36 Budget Summary 39 Authorized Positions 58 General Fund Staffing Summary 60 Town of Garner Pay Plan 62 Town of Garner Position Classification Plan 66 GENERAL FUND General Fund Revenues by Source 71 General Fund Expenditures by Department 73 Revenue Savings Plan 75 Debt Capacity Model 76 Ad Valorem Tax Base and Anticipated Levy 77 Debt Service Schedule 78 Capital Outlay 79 Legal Debt Margin 80 Fund Balance Projection 81 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Departmental Budget Detail: Governing Body 82 Administration 88 Finance 105 Economic Development 109 Planning 114 Inspections 119 Engineering 123 Information Technologies 127 Police 130 Public Works 135 Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources 153 Debt Service 167 Special Appropriations 168 GARNER VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE Town Funding Summary 173 Funding Request 174 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM Capital Improvement Plan 210 PRESENTED TO Town of Garner North Carolina For the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 2018 Executive Director The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) presented a Distinguished Budget Presentation Award to the Town of Garner, North Carolina for the annual budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018. In order to receive this award, a governmental unit must publish a budget document that meets program criteria as a policy document, an operations guides, as a financial plan, and as a communication device. This award is only valid for a period of one year. The FY 2019 – 2020 budget will be submitted to GFOA for award consideration. i COMMUNITY PROFILE Population Growth 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 Population: 32,696 10,000 Land Area: 16.2 sq. miles 5,000 0 Total Employment: 15,871 1980 1990 2000 2010 2019 Civilian Labor Force: 16,449 The Town makes available to its citizens Unemployment Rate: 3.5% six community parks and several neighborhood parks consisting, in total, GOVERNMENT of 475 acres. The nationally accredited Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources The Town of Garner has a Council- Department offers programs that include Manager form of government with a an annual Independence Day celebration, Mayor and five-member Town Council. Trick or Treat the Trails, and a Elections for the office of Council are held Groundhog Day celebration. The system at two-year intervals in November of odd- also includes White Deer Park, a 160-acre passive park with a 2,500 sq. ft. LEED© numbered years. Elections are non- certified nature center, and the Garner partisan and all members of Council are Senior Center, a North Carolina Center of elected for four-year staggered terms. Excellence. The Mayor is elected for a four-year term at the same time elections for Town Council are held. The Town Council sets Town policies, enacts ordinances and appoints the Town Manager. The Town Manager ALL-AMERICA CITY administers the daily operations and The Town was named by the National programs of the municipal government Civic League as one of 10 All-America through the department heads, other staff Cities in June 2013. The program recognizes citizen engagement, cross- members and employees. sector collaboration, innovation and The City of Raleigh owns and operates a inclusiveness. It showcases grassroots water distribution system, a sanitary solutions to meeting pressing challenges and critical needs in communities across sewer collection system and a wastewater the country. This prestigious award has treatment facility which provides service been dubbed the “Nobel Prize” for civic to the Town. accomplishment. FY 2019 - 2020 Recommended Budget - Page 1 TOWN HISTORY roughly located in what is now downtown Garner. Although it wasn’t a When the North Carolina Railroad was depot, the railroad must have contributed built in the 1850s, it initiated the creation to the growth of the settlement area, of many towns; Garner is one such town. evidenced by the need for a post office by Garner got its start with the coming of the 1878. railroad through the area beginning in 1847. In that year, after a tie-breaker vote In the closing days of the Civil War, by the Speaker of the State House of skirmishes occurred in the Garner area, as Representatives, state leaders designated witnessed by the carefully preserved what is now Garner for the location of a bullet holes in Bethel Church (now New new station of the North Carolina Bethel Baptist Church) and the still- Railroad that ran between Goldsboro and standing “Samuel Dupree” house, which Charlotte. the Union Army used as a makeshift hospital for their wounded; Union soldiers also camped on the Dupree farm. BUSINESS, SERVICES GROW In 1874 Henry Fort (1815-1876, married Martha Jane “Jenny” Dunston ca 1876), an African American farmer, cabinetmaker, Landowners who sold property to the and carpenter, purchased 52 acres of land NC Railroad Company included: Lewis from Eli Dupree on the north side of the Dupree 1853, Joseph Broughton 1853, railroad near Hayes Chapel Church. Hardy Britt, Aisley Bagwell and heirs Moses N. Amis wrote in his book 1854, and Absalom Smith and Joseph M. Historical Raleigh in 1913 that Fort was “a Smith. fine carpenter who made bureaus, wardrobes, and almost any piece of Before the railroad tracks traversed the furniture the people wished.” He sold off area that would soon become Garner, portions of his land to other African cotton and tobacco dominated the American families, including Partha landscape; both crops were vital to the Taylor, Candice Taylor, a midwife, and growth of Garner through the 20th Thomas Haywood. In 1877 Eli Dupree century. The lack of buildings on right-of- sold a lot on current Main Street in way maps from the 1850s illustrates how downtown Garner to Allen Haywood, an sparsely populated this area was. African American school teacher. Sometime before 1870, the railroad acquired a “wood and water” stop, FY 2019 - 2020 Recommended Budget - Page 2 It is believed that Henry Fort and situated in the St. Mary's Township, Thomas A. Bingham had the first which got its name from a Church of businesses in Garner. Bingham, a wagon England parish. Built in 1902, the depot, a maker and owner of a general store, made four-room building with a tin roof, application for a post office, requesting quickly became essential to the that it be named Garner’s Station. He was community for delivering mail, carrying the first postmaster for Garner’s Station passengers once a day to Raleigh, and from 1878 to June 1882. In 1883 Garner’s establishing Garner as a local market and Station was incorporated and Bingham shipping point for cotton. was the Mayor in 1883 and 1884. The first Town officials in 1905 were Commissioners were Eli Dupree, T. W. Mayor J. B. Richardson, and Bennett and J. M. Spence. The Constable commissioners H. D. Rand, J. J. Bagwell, was E. Rogers. Henry Bryan, M.C. Penny, and Dr. J. S. Businesses operating in Garner’s Buffaloe. These gentlemen were Station in 1886 were: J. R. Bagwell – appointed to serve one year or until their furniture & groceries; T. W. Bennett, C. H. successors were duly elected and Dupree, and A. C. Carroll – owners of qualified. grocery stores; W. H. Britt, J. T. Farming was the chief source of income Broughton, and Crocker & Crocker – for the early settlers of Garner and nearby owners of cotton gins; T. Hall – areas, with cotton the principal crop. blacksmith shop; Richard Hinton, Landowners were: J.T. Broughton, Eli African-American – barber shop; J. D. Dupree and his siblings, W.D. Johnson, Johnson – meat market; G. B. Montague – William D. Buffaloe, Martha Dupree drugs; and J. A. Spence & Bro. – general Gattis, S.G. Holleman, J.A. Spence, M.C. store. Some of the land owners were: Penny, Willis L. Moring, and G.R. Henry Fort, Thomas A. Bingham, T. W. Bagwell. In 1910 the first bank was Bennett, J. T. Broughton, Eli Dupree and established in Garner, population 280; his siblings, W. D. Johnson, J. A. Spence, H.D. Rand was president and J.A. and G. R. Bagwell. Weathers was the cashier. Mayor was J. D. Garner’s Station was a prospering Johnson, Police Chief was W.E. Smith and town with several general stores, yet for Railroad Agent and Telegraph Manager unknown reasons, its charter was for Western Union was G. W. Riddle. repealed in 1891. Once the town acquired a railroad depot it was reincorporated in 1905, this time as the Town of Garner. Garner is FY 2019 - 2020 Recommended Budget - Page 3 HISTORIC HIGHWAY NO CARD PLAYING ON SUNDAY An old map dated 1887 shows Garner Early ordinances for the Town of connected with the City of Raleigh by a Garner provide a nostalgic glimpse of a road listed as Holloman's Road. This was simpler place and time. They addressed a typical country road at the time, “disorderly houses, indecent dress, unpaved until about 1918. Its importance, disorderly conduct and public aside from its serving as a link between drunkenness.” Further, “no hog, sow, or the small Garner community and the state pig is permitted to run at large in the capital, lay in the fact that it was a small town; no wagon, cart, carriage, buggy, or section of what was to become one of the other vehicle is permitted to stand in any oldest and longest traveled corridors in street at night; no person is to be allowed North Carolina, the Central Highway.