00:00fringe benefits it doesn't really say what it is none of your business the bottom line when this
00:06councilman started questioning the court's budget and expenditures judge oakley bluntly reminded him
00:10that the council only approves the bottom line and not how the court spends discussion will be
00:15the presentation of their proposed 26 27 fiscal year budget the 34th district court so short
00:22numbers our budget went up 7.1 our casebook went up 7.9 which is good mayor and i've been
00:28talking
00:28about for ever since covid actually you know whenever the number is going up and they're
00:32actually they're trending that way so 7.1 increase translates to just under 275 000 and two big
00:40items we've got are about 250 000 that's our mirrors dental you know the stuff that we have no control
00:45of and then wages and salaries we're gonna have to hire some bodies and we're gonna give raises again
00:50this year so that's 250 to 274 275 i get a couple questions uh i'm a i'm a freshman at
00:56this so um
00:56i was looking through this that you you sent through us the direct city of romulus funding
01:02it doesn't say anything on here where it went or 455 000 that came from the city could you explain
01:09that to me i don't understand this yeah you got responsible for all our operating expenses so we
01:14didn't bring in a dollar you have to pay the whole thing because you're our host community but where did
01:18that where does that money go let me answer that okay so the carry boards are outside accounts so this
01:23direct
01:24city funding is when we were really struggling and we didn't have enough money coming in to cover our
01:28invoicing the city of romulus had to send money over to us to cover our expenditures that is no
01:33longer necessary that was only briefly happening during fiscal year june 30th 2024 and now we're
01:39now we're trending back upwards so that's not an issue anymore how many people do you have working
01:42at the court 42 then my other question was the fringe benefits it doesn't really say what it is
01:48could you explain that to me none of your business huh the bottom line the biggest part of that is
01:54the business of mirrors our mirrors is at 48.44 percent so and we have no control over that
01:59i get that but you know don't get pissed off or not but it's like you know i'm a big
02:06big guy
02:06yeah but you guys aren't on the table tonight this is not a line of budget well i'm just trying
02:11to
02:11i'm just trying to learn this brian i don't understand that but either the council approves the number
02:17or you don't you don't get to tell us how we spend that number you just approve it over i
02:21didn't know
02:21that you'd get hostile on this but but i'm just saying that i'm just saying that we're all supposed
02:28to be working together here for for a common good here we got the executive branch the legislative
02:33branch and new judicial branch yeah well and i'm just saying that i'm just asking questions because
02:40i'm new and i'm just answering and none of your business that's the bottom line the details of what we
02:45spend our money on is not this body's purview that's the only thing you can do is say yes or
02:50no
02:50okay thank you representatives of 34 district court and judge oakley
