FRIDAY OCTOBER 31, 2008

8:04 AM



This has been a busy week. I have spent some more time on the budget for next year. Yesterday we discovered a mistake in one of the budgets. We have spent some time working on that and I think that the budgets are now complete. I will meet next week with the city council budget committee. If they agree with what I have prepared, I will present the budgets to the full city council at the November meeting.



The city council meeting for November is scheduled for November 11. Because that is a city holiday, I have written the city council members and proposed that we move the meeting to November 18. I sent out that letter two weeks ago. I have not received any negative comments, the council I have heard from have said OK. Unless something happens we will meet on the 18th.



Theda and I spent quite a bit of time with the auditors yesterday. We had some questions relating to the budget and some items in the new budget. After the meeting we are all on the same page about what needs to be in the budgets and the proper way to place them in the budget. They also had some questions about some items that they are working on. It seems that we have a problem, but we think that we can correct the items that there were questions about. Overall the audit is going well and there do not seem to be any problems. Theda does and excellent job in keeping the records for the city. If fact, one of the auditors told me that her records made the auditors job easy.



Theda and I have spent some time this week working on cemetery business. We have met with two families that want to purchase burial plots. I have gone to the cemetery with both families and they have chosen the plots that they want to purchase. Both families told us that they plan to come back and purchase plots. I had the cemetery mowed this week. I think that this will be the last mowing for this year.



Lynn and his crew are installing a fence at the fire department. Jerry and his crew have been working on a drain in the south part of the city. The work should improve the water flow in that subdivision. I hope so.



I talked with Amy this week and they have been very busy. She told her mother yesterday that they have three funeral on Saturday.



I will probably go to Mississippi State tomorrow for the football game. The kickoff is at 1:00PM. Because of that time I will be able to go and get back to Wynne at a time that is near to my normal bedtime.



The work on Jessie Wynne Park is progressing very well. I think that the citizens will be pleased with the renovation work at the park.



Today is Halloween and as usual Pat and I plan to leave home during the time children come by. We passed out candy for a number of years, but for the last several years we have left and enjoyed a dinner out of town. In fact last year Pat had another obligation and I went to WBC and enjoyed watching the children participate in the activities sponsored by the church.