The Rollingwood City Council has passed its proposed budget on to the city secretary for 30 days of citizen review. But even after three consecutive nights of meetings last week, questions still linger over the continued employment of city administrator Vicky Rudy and the Rollingwood Community Development Corporation budget.

The proposed budget, which faces a month of citizen review and a public forum before formal adoption, includes Rudy’s current $90,000 salary and $70,000 worth of funds from the RCDC for parks and capital improvement. The coming weeks could significantly alter both of those numbers.

“No action will be taken on the [city administrator] contract items tonight,” Mayor Dale Dingley said after a second round of executive session at the Aug. 27 meeting. “A special meeting is set for next Wednesday at 6 p.m. to discuss those topics.”

When Rudy advised the mayor that the Utility Commission was scheduled to use the room for their meeting at 6 p.m., he replied that it would not take long.

At a meeting earlier this month, the council rejected the RCDC’s proposed budget, which included about $135,000 worth of city and park improvement projects currently in the city’s budget. The RCDC said it was taking on those in lieu of paying for the water lines since legal questions have been raised over their ability to do so.

The council has been meeting with its lawyers and the RCDC to determine the best way to use RCDC money to hopefully fund as much of the Edgegrove and Pickwick lines as possible

The currently proposed budget puts the total of those two projects, and the pressure-reducing valve, at $689,749. In this version, the funding for those, and other capital improvement projects breaks down as such: RCDC, $45,000; general fund, $470,749; street maintenance and sales tax revenue, $39,382; and wastewater, $260,000.

The RCDC has not yet scheduled a meeting to finalize its budget, and the only deadline its members face is submitting one by Oct. 1, when the city must adopt its final budget.

“It’s hard for me to anticipate how the budget is going to change,” city administrator Vicky Rudy said. “But I know the RCDC budget will need to be incorporated.”

City council members created the conservative working budget based upon a flat sales tax revenue projection and the effective tax rate of 11.16 cents per $100 valuation, which will generate $511,773.

The City Council will hold public hearings on both the tax rate and the budget at the regularly scheduled meeting Sept. 16.

The Council is expected to adopt the final budget and tax rate at a special meeting Sept. 28.