good evening i'm going to open a public hearing on the two thousand and fourteen budget in the two thousand and fourteen to two thousand and eighteen capital improvement program roll call mr alluded to earlier the purpose of this evening's public hearing is to accept comments on the two thousand and fourteen budget and the two thousand and fourteen through two thousand and eighteen capital improvement program this leavings hearing was advertised in the observer reporter on november nineteenth and twenty fifth the hearing notice was placed on the township bulletin boards the website and cable television copies of the proposed budget were available on the website the option of the budget products up to comments mr sylvester he will make a detailed presentation of the budget for the benefit of the audience and those viewing this hearing on cable television thank you mr sylvester one thing to point out with the transfer taxes that this year i did not include any would people would consider a windfall there weren't any large properties that were sold this is been purely on on the strong housing market so it's pretty much all based on residential sales so that that indicates a really good housing base and a good transfer tax base we're also one point eight million less conference playing provided purpose was completed we're going to be dealing with that issue of the next council meeting numerous storms are privates were completed all the energy improvement projects that were in the budget  for next year anticipated about sixty point four million and this is in addition to the ten million that were carried over from two thousand and thirteen our milage rate supposed to be cremated thirteen year olds are reduced in two thousand which is about seven thousand more than we estimate indicating a significant increase in household income we're using percent for our household income decreased next year that varies depending on the housing market and so we try to be conservative the last year in two thousand and nine it was at one million two hundred thousand also in the last few years is perceived differently higher local services taxes about an trying to mitigate the cost of that with less inspections from our consulting engineers and how that person do that work we are looking at planning and that's something that will be reviewed early in the year and overall expenditures probably work says is the largest at thirty percent and mainly because of all the capital projects public safety comes second which is least the a messy planning and building inspection and  has no idea of the reason the budget has to go up as there are a number of projects that we that we did not hear that we you know we didn't buy those many capital items in the rather larger cap items in the budget last year that we're not that was an extra two hundred sixty thousand that we did not budget for that but we did put that into the paving program because in two thousand and thirteen even though our your pay to go to pay program was contract was probably when you talked about the personnel changes he listed a number of positions by a couple of them were actually replacements they weren't actually new positions so if you knew delineate again which would be added as ations versus the potential the the engineering players are part time secretary and those are all and the council at the time decided to use it to buy a membership for the senior citizens in a town which is citizens that are over sixty five and reside in the township ah but this is going on back then history traditions were probably five this current year is fifty dollars going up to fifty five next year and what that covers is anyone who is in the in a household provides for unlimited ammo services which are going to get it anyway but what  does is reduce the amount of the co pays and deductibles which were all being faced with that as it goes along we're still going to respond no matter what but as far as the billing we will build the insurance company and if there's a co pay we will write off a co pay if there's a deductible we write off fifty percent a co pay if you do not have a membership you pay one hundred percent of all that so that is the benefit of having a membership it is tax deductible we are exempt monthly membership letters to we we started years ago started doing it all of one time of the year we do it on a rolling basis every month through different people and it's a good for a year from january to january a donation which will it stop but we will not send out it billing to any of the very requests for membership to senior citizens and if they would send it in and they say i'm a senior citizen we'd reach trying to back them into the water and i think one of the things that i and i feel like completely aware a lot of charity and how this simple one of the things that i'm just trying to understand is that a couple of things there's no record keeping per se we have a census and we kind of generally know how many seniors are in that time chip but we don't really know how many subscribers how many use the service so one of the questions i have and i want to say concern but the question was how do thirty first you're covered but that's what i mean but if they didn't buy a membership in dance once you provide service then they're considered a member are you talking by senior citizens or other senior citizens  that we had was one thousand seven hundred four which i think was a twenty ten cents is perhaps we have not increased the sense that we kept that times fifty five dollars that was how was to write if you're for it now if there was one thousand nine hundred senior citizens always come to this is an optional thing you're doing this for a senior citizen multimode service so if if you take the example you did not want to do this then we would bill the senior citizens the full co pay the revenue all comes from going insurance companies donations and memberships that's our sources of revenue on it we don't break it out which part of it is a profit center if you will it all goes into one and we compare just like a regular the ear so therefore we're calling within the doc to pull our cash looking good on the beginning of the year as people are paying their own deductibles and it's easier to collect from an insurance company than it is from an individual so do the townships funding coming in in the first quarter actually can help us with the cash and that's that's appointed in the days to the membership is we don't know what's going to happen with the changes and all the other things that we hear daily and as a deductible is go up and the ca well for the for the regular membership is for a member it if you buy it is fifty five dollars for the household we couldn't do with the senior citizen because a lot of them live in with their families and so on so a have an idea what's going on so they're going to be able to give aid to the pave the patient right there so you're picking up i'm there so there's a response time there benny amounts can come there are certain cases where the fire department also responds so depending where the location can be you can have the aid to the patient very quickly and because the township made a decision to get into patient care with the fire department and police both that has helped the entire stacia in case they need medical attention in addition there's communities where only the illness is this past and if you're going from our base to the hack it is a lot different than going across the street could be perhaps what was difficult to answer your question before we actually are software that we do that the patient trip tickets on and takes care of the timing and we can look on there and see the timing by as an example we may have a case where the ambulances the cancer hospital is going to respond from there because it's not a life threatening emergency so therefore if they got here eight minutes versus minutes it's time to change patient care this maybe somebody who didn't have flu symptoms for we can really wasn't changing or something like that or as if it was a bad emergency in that scenario we would send it to the police do their analysis on you had to do the cost analysis on what you can do if you're doing one or two calls overnight it doesn't pay to keep two crews on and you just can't cost justified that's why you have a backup service we have aren't there so it's just a so is are more resources needed we're cautiously looking at we've rearranged the number shifts that we have we put additional shifts on at different times we've moved the timing iran we we spent a lot of time looking at when do or calls come in just one quick question chuck them going from fifty to fifty five in my math is right that's a ten percent increase really expected ten or fifteen percent next year and year after year after year are we the last time we raised it was in zero five so we went nine years township has the bill or the in some way shape or form to you know like when we get che call gets a steal soon and various programs give us deals on various equipment i don't know whether that would accomplish ambulances and whether