City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call to order the July 8th, 2026 meeting of the Fond du Lac City Council. The first item of business is roll call, which is done electronically, and I will declare a quorum present with Mr. Heisler absent. The next item on our agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance, which is followed by a moment of silent reflection. Please rise. And next on our agenda, we have the introduction of our new Senior Center Director. Mr. Moore, was that gonna be you or?

Jules.

You wanna come on down or? Whatever you're more comfortable with, I'm fine.

I wanted to introduce our new senior center director who was recently promoted into her role just a few weeks ago, Sarah Docter. She has been with the city for over a decade at this point working as our activity and program coordinator and has been stepping up significantly in the last several months and with the retirement of Kathy Lumens earlier this week, she has gone through a transitionary period and is well suited to the role and to take on this additional responsibility. So I'll turn it over to Sarah.

Good evening. Like Juliana said, I've been at the center for over 11 years as a program coordinator. I am honored and thrilled to step in to this role. The seniors are the foundation of our community. They have built the the neighborhoods we live in. My goal is to build upon the fantastic work that has already been done and to continue to make this a place that is vibrant and active and welcoming. Thank you.

Thank you so much. We're so excited to have you still with us and stepping into this new role. So congratulations. Thank you. And I'll let you know, you don't have to stay for the whole meeting if you don't want to. And that goes for anybody who's here for a specific agenda item. All right, we'll see you later. I mean, you're here. So anybody who's here for a specific agenda item, you can stay for the whole meeting or you can leave once we're through with your item. You're not obligated to stay for the entire meeting, but you're welcome to. All right, and with that, we'll move on to our consent agenda. The consent agenda finalizes the proposed actions for the meeting. A, June 24th, 2026 minutes. B, July 1st, 2026 list of claims. And C, denial of claim, claimant Randall C. Comeau. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. Approval of the. A motion by Mr. Mullin. Second by Mr. Zimmerman. We don't seem to have the boxes popping up for that. I don't know. I'm still not seeing anything. Is anybody seeing the motion boxes? All right. Okay, let's try that.

Sorry, technical difficulties.

Okay, so for that motion, we have Mr. Mullin motioned and Mr. Zimmerman seconded, but hopefully now it'll work in the iPads for the following resolutions. So with that, seeing no other discussion, please proceed to vote. It's always something. All right, and that passes unanimously. All right, hopefully it'll work better later on, but now we are gonna move on to audience comments, agenda and non-agenda items. The presiding officer will limit speaking time for non-agenda items to two minutes and items noticed on the agenda to five minutes. Ms. Hefter, do we have anyone wishing to speak? All right, we have Laura DeGallier who wishes to speak on the non-agenda item, the parade of prairies.

Thank you, President, Vice President Rault. Yes, this weekend, on the 11th of July, we are having the first annual Parade of Prairies, and it starts out with the Godfrey Prairie, and then it goes on to the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, the Prairie House, which is William Nettlehorst's private studio, and then the Loudolph Ledge, and finally we come to the Greenway Arboretum. Greenway Arboretum is the only one of all of these that is native. It's native plants, native... everything that is there is pretty much regenerated from when it was always there. This is a part of the city that was never sold, so it's been a part of the city since anybody thought of Fond du Lac at all. We will be taking our visitors through the prairie, one quarter of it, which unfortunately has been destroyed in the current stabilization project, and leading them on into Wichita Woods, which is Oak Hickory Woods, and was a field and is regenerating, and then on to the wet prairie part of which we've told has never been plowed, and the homestead which was once there. So I hope that all of you have a chance to come to ours if you have not ever been to the Greenway, because I'll be able to tell you a bit more about the history of the Greenway, and if you don't do that, please come to some of the others. We are prairie land here. This is where the prairie started, below the ledge and then spread west across Wisconsin. Thank you.

All right, thank you so much. And with that, we have no other speakers. So that concludes our audience comments. Next, we move on to our action items. Action item A is sell alcohol in park, applicant in tandem theater Inc, events Shakespeare in the Park Festival, location, Buttermilk Creek Park, date, August 27th, 28th and 29th, 2026. And our introduction is by our city clerk, Ms. Hefter.

Thank you, President Brault. In Tandem Theater is requesting to sell fermented malt beverages on park property on August 27th through 29th for a Shakespeare in the Park Festival at Buttermilk Creek Park. Special event application has been submitted and approved and city staff recommends approval with the condition that no carry-ins are permitted in the designated area. Thank you. Are there any questions for Ms. Hefter?

Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Mr. Mullen and a second by Ms. Mayweather. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Action item B is a class B fermented malt license and class C wine license. Entity is OEOD Mexican Kitchen Inc. Agent name Ragubista, doing business as Martinez. Business address 1305 South Main Street, Suite B. Alcohol license committee recommendation is to approve. And our introduction is by our city clerk, Ms. Hefter.

Thank you again. Martinez, located at 1305 South Main Street, is requesting a Class B fermented milk and Class C wine license to serve in the restaurant next to the convenience store. Background checks were done on the officers of the corporation, and city staff and alcohol license committee recommend approval.

Thank you. Are there any questions for Ms. Hefter? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Ms. Learing and a second by Mr. Zimmerman. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously.

All right.

Item C is a Class B fermented malt license and Class C wine license. Entity Gao Family LLC. Agent name Junwan Gao. Doing business as Sushi Tail. Business address 525 North Peters Avenue, Suite 100. Alcohol License Committee recommends approval. And again, our introduction is by our city clerk, Ms. Hefter. Thank you.

Thank you again. Sushi Tale at 525 North Peters Ave, Suite 100 has also requested a Class B fermented malt and Class C wine license to serve in the restaurant. Background checks were also done and city staff and alcohol license committee recommend approval.

Thank you. Are there any questions for Ms. Hefter? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Ms. Mayweather and a second by Mr. Biber. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Item D is a Class B fermented malt license. Entity is Vendee Cards, LLC. Agent name, Logan Rinn. Doing business as Vendee Cards. Business address, 49 North Main Street. Alcohol License Committee recommendation is to approve. And again, our introduction is by our City Clerk, Ms. Hefter.

Thank you. Fendi Cards at 49 North Main Street has applied for a Class B fermented malt license so that participants signing up for special events can have fermented malt. Background checks were also done and city staff and Alcohol License Committee recommend approval.

Thank you again. Is there any questions for Ms. Hefter? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion.

I think we had a fight over it.

We had a motion by Ms. Leering. And a second by Mr. Mullin. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Item E is resolution number 9247, a resolution making appointment to the Frontenac Public Library Board. Our introduction is by our city manager, Mr. Moore.

Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I'd like to appoint Ms. Rasma-Barbee to the library board. This would be a first appointment. She's been a poll worker with the city for quite some time, local teacher, recommend approval.

Thank you. Are there any questions for Mr. Moore? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. All right, we have a motion by Mr. Mullin and a second by Mr. Zimmerman. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Item F is resolution number 9248, a resolution making reappointments to the Board of Plan Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, and Fond du Lac Public Library Board. And again, our introduction is by our city manager, Mr. Moore.

Thanks again. There are four people who've stepped up to re-up. Derek Chubise for Planning Commission, Thomas Herlock for Historic Preservation, and Dusty Cracker on Emily Hayes for the Library Board. I recommend reappointment and approval.

All right, thank you. Are there any questions for Mr. Moore? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. Looks like we have a motion from Ms. Learing and a second by Mr. Biber. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Item G is resolution number 9249, a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of up to 3,265,000 taxable sewerage system revenue bonds, series 2026A, and providing for other details and covenants with respect thereto and approval of related financial assistance agreement. Our introduction is by our Director of Administration, Ms. Davey.

Thank you. Now the construction on the biogas project at wastewater is well underway, the DNR is ready to close on the clean water fund loans that we'll be using to fund the majority of the project.

There are two resolutions for this loan.

The first is for the design, engineering and inspection costs. And then the second is for the actual construction costs themselves. By adopting these resolutions, Council authorizes the DNR to sell the bonds to finance the project, and then authorizes the appropriate city staff to sign all of the necessary paperwork. So happy to answer any questions.

All right, thank you so much. Are there any questions for Ms. Davey? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Mr. Mullin and a second by Ms. Mayweather. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Item H is resolution number 9250, a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of up to $12,135,000 taxable sewerage system revenue bonds, series 2026B, and providing for other details and covenants with respect thereto and approval of related financial assistance agreement. Our introductions by our director of administration, Ms. Davey, but we know this is related to the first resolution, so. I don't think there's anything more to say.

No additional comments, no.

But does anybody have any questions on this resolution? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Ms. Mayweather and a second by Mr. Biber. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. All right, action item I is ordinance number 3827, an ordinance amending chapter 630, vehicles and traffic of the code of the city of Fond du Lac to add no left turn restrictions on Wettstein Avenue at Stowe Street and at South Brooks Street at South Military Road. Advisory Parking and Traffic Board recommendation is to approve and our introduction is by our city engineer, Mr. Johnson.

Thank you. This first ordinance is to, again, as stated, to add no left-turn restrictions at two different locations within the city. The first was initiated by the Fond du Lac School District over at Rosenau Elementary School. They've been having backup problems of people turning from Wettstein onto Stowe Street during school pickup. in the afternoon hours. They've requested that we make it a no left turn lane or no left turn onto Stowe Street between the hours of 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. on school days. And then the second is the location is over at South Brook Street onto South Military. This is initiated by the engineering department. Back in 2022, this military road was reconstructed and this intersection was reconfigured a little. So the design engineer at the time recommended a no left turn from Brook Street onto Military for safety reasons. And this is basically now codifying it into the Code of Ordinances. ENGINEERING AND TRAFFIC DOES SUPPORT THESE ADDITIONS, AND THERE WAS ADVISORY PARKING AND TRAFFIC. SO IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER IT.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. JOHNSON? WELL, IF I COULD JUST ASK ONE. I THINK YOU'D MENTIONED IN THE MEMO, BUT AT BROOK AND MILITARY, THERE'S, I THINK, ALREADY A NO LEFT TURN SIGN, CORRECT?

THAT'S CORRECT, YES. THE SIGNS HAVE BEEN UP SINCE 2022, BASICALLY. And that no left turn would be any time. There's not a time restriction on that.

Okay. All right. Thank you. Mr. Biber?

Does it have, will it have, I guess, maybe a right turn only arrow then put there? So make sure to make sure.

The pavement, I believe, is already marked with a right turn.

I've been that far down. I go by a Western, so I never see that part of it.

But it has something there already, you're saying? I believe there is a pavement marking that shows a right turn lane. Okay, good.

All right, thank you. Seeing no other questions, I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Mr. Biber and a second by Ms. Learing. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Action item J is ordinance number 3828, an ordinance amending chapter 630, vehicles and traffic, of the code of the city of Fond du Lac to add limited time parking restrictions on East 13th Street. Advisory Parking and Traffic Board recommends approval. And again, our introduction is by our city engineer, Mr. Johnson.

Thank you. I stated this is a request by the Fond du Lac School District, along with City of Fond du Lac Engineering Department to add no parking restrictions, or limited time parking restrictions, I'm sorry, on East 13th Street from Park to Wabash during the hours of, I believe, 7.30 to 4.30 on school days. This particular section of road is a little narrow than most of your city streets, so currently parking is allowed on both sides of the road, and then during school pickup and drop-off, there's two-way traffic that's also trying to traverse down this road, and there's just not enough room. So the request is to, again, make a no parking zone during the hours from 7.30 a.m. till 4.30 p.m. on the north side of East 13th Street during school days. Engineering and traffic, along with advisory parking and traffic, does recommend the addition of these parking restrictions. Any questions? I'll be glad to answer it.

All right, thank you. Are there any questions for Mr. Johnson? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Ms. Leering and a second by Ms. Mayweather. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. Action item K. is ordinance number 3829, an ordinance amending chapter 630, vehicles and traffic of the code of the city of Fond du Lac to amend bus loading zone restrictions on Walker Street. Advisory parking and traffic board recommendation is to approve. And again, our introductions by our city engineer, Mr. Johnson.

Thank you again. This request was made by the Fond du Lac school district along with the principal of STEM. Currently, there's no bus service here to STEM. It's all passenger pickup and drop off is done by individuals in cars. The majority of that occurs off of Ann Street and goes through the parking lot of STEM and then exits out onto military. The school is also requesting that passenger pickup and drop off be allowed in front of STEM on the west side of Walker Street. There is a current bus loading zone. What this request is is to remove the existing no parking restrictions north of that no parking zone and convert it over to a proposed bus loading zone. And the reason for that is the code of ordinances state that you can do a passenger pick up and drop off and the language is temporary. for the purpose of taking in or discharging passengers unless parking is allowed for other official language on the sign. So a bus loading zone, you can also do passenger pickup and drop off and we would sign it accordingly with basically no parking passenger loading zones in these particular areas. Engineering and traffic along with advisory parking and traffic does make these recommendations. Any questions?

All right, thank you. Are there any questions for Mr. Johnson on this one? I am not seeing any, so I will entertain a motion. We got a motion by Mr. Biber and a second by Mr. Mullin. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passes unanimously. All right, last one and then you're off the hook. We got action item L, ordinance number 3830, an ordinance amending chapter 630, vehicles and traffic of the code of the city of Fond du Lac to add bus loading zone restrictions on East 13th Street and Wabash Avenue. Advisory parking and traffic board recommendation is to approve with amendments. And our introduction is by city engineer, Mr. Johnson.

Thank you again. As stated, this is to basically modify the parking restrictions in and around Waters Elementary. This request was made by, again, the Fond du Lac School District along with the principal out at Waters Elementary. This is a multi-part request. They are looking to change the pick-up and drop-off locations at Waters. Currently, all pick-up and drop-off, whether it's passenger vehicle or bus, loading and unloading, all done in front of Waters Elementary out on Wabash. As you can imagine, that's a lot of traffic. It's a lot of in and out. It's very congested over there. The recommendation is to change the parking restrictions and split it up into two separate sections where the passenger pickup and drop-off would continue on Wabash, while the bus loading and unloading zone would be moved over to East 13th Street on the backside of Waters Elementary. So this particular request would impose a bus loading zone on the north side of East 13th Street adjacent to Waters Elementary. And it also would create, again, a bus loading zone in front of Waters Elementary. with the same signage as I previously indicated at STEM where we would actually put up signs that say no parking passenger loading zone. The amendment that was alluded to, and I guess I didn't get it up on this map, is to also add a limited time parking restrictions on the south side of East 13th Street. It was brought up at Advisory Parking and Traffic by a resident. He reached out to me before the meeting, but he also came to the meeting to discuss it that He would recommend, and we all agreed, that to add a limited time, no parking restrictions on the south side of East 13th Street during the hours of, I believe, 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. And what that would do is allow the road to not get too congested over there with the buses coming in and out to give additional room while the buses are operating. That being said, Engineering and Traffic along with Advisory Parking and Traffic recommends these changes to the parking code. So if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Okay, thank you. There's a lot there, so does anybody have any questions? We have Mr. Biber.

I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, BUT IT WAS A VERY GOOD, WITH A RESIDENT COMING IN AND VERY RESPECTFULLY AND WORKED WITH CHRIS BEFOREHAND, ALSO CAME TO THE MEETING AND TOLD ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. AND I THINK IT WORKED OUT VERY WELL WITH IT. IT'S JUST A GREAT EXAMPLE OF US WORKING WITH THE CITY, WORKING WITH THE RESIDENTS.

All right, thank you. I am not seeing any other questions or comments, so I will entertain a motion. We have a motion by Ms. Learing and a second by Mr. Mullin. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none, please proceed to vote. And that passed, did someone vote no on that one? Mr. Zimmerman. Sorry, I didn't see who had the no, so thank you. Okay, so that passes with five in favor and one opposed. All right, and with that, that ends our action items. So we will begin our presentation of input items with a 2027 initial budget forecast presented by city manager, Mr. Moore and director of administration, Ms. Davey.

Thank you. And each year at either the end of June or beginning of July, we lay out for you our forecast for the upcoming year and for the following five years for the capital improvement plan. And that's what we're going to do tonight to set the conditions for what you're going to hear over the next few weeks from each of the departments. After I'm done tonight, Chief Gerritsen is gonna lead off the first departmental presentation for fire rescue. There are a few things before we go on. I wanted to share with you because after all, you are the board of directors. I think that as our governing body, you'll take great pride in these 12 points I'm gonna make very quickly. Number one, our finance office, Tricia's team, received the Government Finance Officers Association's highest accolade called its Certificate in Excellence in Financial Reporting. We just a few days ago received exceptional results for our most recent annual external audit with zero findings, and we will be presenting that to you in a few weeks. Third, all public safety operations are accredited. Four, 2026 is the first year of the wage study. We fully implemented what we told you last year. And it was also the first year in over a decade where every city employee received a step increase. Number five, all five of our collective bargaining agreements are in place for the long term. Six, our reserves, what we refer to as our unassigned fund balance, is better funded than it has been in over 15 years. 2027 will be the third consecutive year our health insurance has performed below forecasted expenditures, and what that has allowed us to do is keep premiums flat. we have used only 42% of our debt capacity. Debt capacity is set by statute, and when you hear that we have used less than half, in this case 42%, that's good news. That means you've got flexibility in upcoming capital improvement plans. Number nine, we will complete the multi-year renovation of the police department next year, and you'll see that investment laid out in the capital improvement plan. 10, with the improvements made to the wastewater plant, and Tricia referred to some of those when we were talking about borrowing, we will soon begin selling refined natural gas to Alliant Energy. I bring that up because that is somewhat of a standard setting We've had a number of people here visiting to learn about that, and obviously we're really excited about that. And you know Cody is, you've heard that. So that project is exciting and moving along. Number 11, we can and will meet every mission with the levy limit constraint. And I'll talk a little bit about levy limits. And number 12, we can and will meet every mission with the expenditure restraint program. restraint. And so I'll also talk about that. What's all that mean? That means that we're in great shape for 2027. We're going to have a good year. The department heads are going to be funded as per their request. You'll see that both in the operating budget and the capital improvement plan. So with that, I'm going to start and then I'll turn it over to Tricia Davey. Next please, Maggie. Some of this is review, some of this is new, depending on how long you've been on council. The takeaway here is not necessarily the numbers, it's just the magnitudes. On the right side, what we're indicating there is we put our financial priorities into primarily four departments. Our supporting departments on the left side are, if you look at across the state of Wisconsin, what's called general government, in other words, that 3.5 million, we allocate much less in that regard than you would find on average around the state. And the reason why is because we have a priority for public safety, public works, and community development. Then you can see our layout for employees in parentheses. That's what each of those departmental numbers mean. And then you can see the summation in the bottom. I would note that aside from the referendum that added 12 positions for budget year 2022, we have only added one position in net since 2019. Next please. So if you are ever asked what drives the decisions about what we propose in the budget, it's about growth. And why is it about that? Because we need to grow for our labor force, meaning our business. Success, we need to grow so that the enrollment in our schools doesn't drop. We need to grow so that our tax base can grow and particularly as the community has gotten a bit older over the years, we need to grow so that there's a workforce here that is supporting the tax base as a number or a higher ratio of the community is older. And so below that in those five points, what I'm laying out here is the priorities in residential development. You've heard a lot about that. We talked about that recently with two more neighborhoods being inaugurated. Our efforts with commercial and retail support that includes on the outlying parts of the city as well as the downtown. superior recreation assets. How does that manifest itself? It manifests itself in a project like what will be done on Pioneer Road next year between Park and Main. There will be bike trails there. That's because we have this priority of increasing our recreation assets, providing excellence in infrastructure. You will hear from Public Works when they do their presentation about where our investments are next year in various bridges and streets. And then lastly, we aspire to operational excellence for everything we do. And the department heads will talk about that as well. Next, please. There are a few constraints that are really, really important to understand, not the details, not the formulas or anything like that, just the concepts, because the concepts are the answer often to why can you or why can't you? Why is there a limit? Why isn't there a limit? So the levy limit, really important concept. The state of Wisconsin says municipalities, counties, you can't spend much more next year than you're spending this year. That's kind of the overall concept. And the way they do that is by tying the increase to the change in net new construction. So I'll just say this, net new construction, imagine it, we're adding up the value of all the newly built buildings in one year, and we're subtracting the value of all the buildings that were demolished. that leaves you with a net number of what was constructed. That's then converted into a percentage based on the overall value of real estate in this city. And I'll show you on the next slide what that looks like in just a minute. But I wanted to emphasize that, you know, the last few years we've had notable inflation. And strangely, it's a reminder that net new construction has nothing to do with that. So if inflation's running at 5%, net new construction is at 1%, that's a challenge. And that's something we have to pay attention to when we're putting the operating budget together. Shared revenue comes from the state of Wisconsin. It's also capped. It's now adjusted based on a new law. The adjustments are in our favor. They have represented a great benefit to the city of Fond du Lac. Next please. So Tricia and I have forecasted a half a percent in net new construction. We wanted to be extremely cautious based on what we've seen this year in terms of construction and demolition, so that we didn't find ourselves on the wrong side of a forecast when we actually get the numbers. So that 0.5% is very conservative, but It's against what we see as a CPI, meaning inflation roughly, that's going to exceed 2.5%. So, you know, right there is a challenge we have had to figure out. But we figured it out, and we'll be explaining that over the next few weeks. Next. So I'm going to talk about sources and uses. Sources mean, where do our revenues come from? You can see the two big ones. The one in orange, that's shared revenue and a few other things that come from the state, like transportation aids. And in red, the tax levy, property taxpayers. All the others are fairly small, pretty self-explanatory. And in our budget book, they're detailed in detail. quite a bit more detail so that you will see in those categories all the components thereof. Next, please. I mentioned expenditure restraint. This is an interesting subject because the state of Wisconsin says, cities, if you are willing to constrain your spending, we will reward you with money. And so for the City of Fond du Lac in 2026, we did that, we stayed within the expenditure restraint limit and the state rewarded us with a million dollars. That's part of that wedge I showed you on the sources, meaning state funding, super important. But the takeaway is also that it creates a cap on spending. Levy limits create a cap on how much money we can raise. Expenditure restraint is how much we can spend. And so the state wants us to be relatively conservative because they've tied that to CPI. So somewhere between net new construction and CPI is where we gotta fall. Next, please. So this is money going out the door, investments by virtue of expenditures. I mentioned when I showed you the slide of the leadership group and how we allocated funding by department and where the people were allocated by department, I said that we have prioritized those four departments, and you can see it here. This is representative where the investments are, 55% in public safety. Public works is that 20%, but it's also parks and transit. So that's about 30%. The rest is general government. That's city attorney, HR, director of administration, IT, et cetera. And so that's how we allocate our funds based on our priorities. Next, please. I am by no means going to go through this. I just wanted to hit a couple of highlights because this is a page that you'll find early in the 2027 proposed budget. If you can understand or at least track these numbers along with the ones on the next slide I'm going to show you, It's incredibly useful. You don't really even have to look too much further if these numbers make sense to you. I will say that because of what I've said about the expenditure restraint and the levy limits, what we've spent in 26 will be similar to what we spent in 27. So under the total expenditures column, just so that Ms. Mayweather and Mr. Biber, you have numbers in mind, the general fund this year, we're expending 41 and a half million. So that gives you an idea of what it costs to operate our departments. You see some other lines there. It's notable that wastewater and water, they're not supported by tax dollars at all. They're all supported by rate payers. They've got their own budgets. We track those and manage those just like we do the operating budget. But I point that out because it's a different source of funds. And then down below, what you see is What you will be asked to approve in November is the tax levy. And we asked the city council last November to approve a tax levy of a little over $35 million. You can see that in the bottom right. Then above that, you can see how that 35 million is allocated, where that money goes. And so 19.1 of it goes to the general fund. The rest is fairly self-explanatory. Maggie, let's go to the next. Okay, there you see in the middle right that 41.5 million. Again, you see the sources above that You see the line that says general property taxes, 19.1. You saw that number on the previous slide, the allocation from the tax levy. And the great news that you saw in both 2025 and 2026 is this very, very small use of fund balance. That is less than a half a percent of the overall Revenue, that's a great place to be. It's very sustainable, not a worry about that at all. And that's what gets us to a balanced budget. Then you go from there, but the memo in 27 will be formatted the same way. That's why I recommend looking at the one from 26. Thank you. You're welcome.

All right, thank you.

In relation to my budget presentation, to give you a small taste of exactly what this methodology accomplishes for Fond du Lac Fire Rescue and the Fond du Lac community. Next slide. Category one, governance and administration. CIPSI defines governance as the recognition of authority that allows an agency to legally form and operate. Whereas administration is defined as the responsibility