City Plan Commission - Regular Meeting

Oh, here it is. All right. Good evening, everyone. We would like to welcome you to tonight's budget meeting. I am Kota Dewan Kris Neto, your representative for District 8. This is the meeting of all District 8. We always try to ensure that this budget meeting can be known by the people. So this meeting is an opportunity for you to do a few things. First, listen to the presentation and see what our city manager has proposed. If you haven't watched the work session, you can watch it again on YouTube. Then you can also ask questions about what is actually being proposed and how we can change the situation. In the last session, the City Council has tried to say, hey, we like this, we like that. We want you to know that the budget has not been closed. The budget is not finished. That's why we're here tonight. So this is your chance to listen to the budget and then ask questions. And we have city staff around us who can also ask questions from various departments. So right now, without further ado, we will hand it over to J. Chopper, our City Manager.

Thank you, City Council. Thank you all for being here. So I will hand it over to Christian who will deliver the presentation, but as a short guide, as you know, most of you know that this city is really a conglomerate, isn't it? This city has a variety of different activities. It has various sources of income related to various funds. Gulf funds, flight funds, water funds. One of the major topics that we have talked about is public funds, because that's where most people pay attention, because that's where your property tax is, that's where your sales tax is, that's where the police and fire department and public servants are paid for. And you will see through the presentation that public funds are only one-third of the total city operational budget. The problem is, if you have all the other funds that work well, you can't take money from the funds and move it to the general fund to help because, based on the laws of the state and the fiscal requirements, the funds must remain in that area. The water funds must remain in the water department. So, as mentioned, the budget is not finished. This is only the budget that was issued by me and my staff to the City Council. Based on the Law of the State, the City Council must approve a balanced budget in September. The government can make a decision-making budget, such as the following. The budget must be balanced. So, this budget is balanced. This budget does include the increase in tax rates, but also includes a lot of cuts because of us. Good evening everyone, I am Christine Siemens, I am the director of Fort Worth Lab for Fort Worth.

As mentioned by Jay, the lab makes the budget and we also handle the city's data and performance. So I'm happy to be with you tonight on Sunday night. Thank you for coming. Some of you may have participated in other budget-related items throughout the year. We have carried out survival priorities and several other things. So you have...

I actually don't know where my clicker is.

So I will try to make this budget event as interesting as possible in the middle of the night. And don't hesitate to wave your hand if you have any questions. Okay, so every year, every process of budget development, like several themes that appear differently and every year sometimes you know it feels a little different. And I will say this year how we characterize the story of the budget is that the large growth of the fourth world is not translated into the growth of property value and property tax revenue and tax revenue. And the reason is because of activities in the Teran Evaluation District, So, some of you may be familiar with these activities. If not, here is the summary version. TAD adopts a re-evaluation plan where they only evaluate the rent property every two years. So, the value of the property that formed the budget next year has been frozen for two years now. So that's the first thing. But the second thing, and really above that, we see historical activities by TAD in the matter of repealing protests and also half-year litigations. So we lost more value than before. We call it erosion, but the value that is lost between when we started to estimate and when we really made the budget, the budget was at the highest point. So, even though we add various values to Fort Worth, our values in terms of income are not always appropriate. So, this is a slightly interesting situation that we face. So, we try to calculate it as well as possible. Then, when we start to make a budget, we know we have to make a reduction, and our main goal is to try to minimize the impact of the level of service through that process. And then prioritizing things that are consistently said by the citizens as the most important thing for them. Number one is public safety. and you will see it reflected in the budget. Now, last night we were in District 6, and I have discussed my presentation, and then a citizen said, I still don't understand why we are facing poverty. So, last night or today, we added this slide, which in my opinion can help. Well, this is what you see. This is from the last five years of history and then to the next year. So, 4 plus 1 fiscal year 2023 to fiscal year 2027, this is the tax rate from the average house. So look at Taran and how the value remains and then goes down for the next year. And then look at Dallas, like Dallas-Siedi and Collins-Siedi, which are still valued in a regular normal year. So, see how the house value is affected by our tax, and see Dallas and Collin grow, even though we know that we have the same significant activity. I will make you use the microphone. I know this is weird, but because we are streaming, so that's the reason.

So, this is handling the house value.

How about commercial property business? Does it go up? Does it go down? This is a good question. So, this is just a house. That's what the data shows. In Fort Worth, our total value, even commercially, only grew by 0.19%. So, like last year, we are in the planning of this revaluation, and we estimate that the growth is not too big on the housing side, but we still see growth of almost 6% because of new and commercial growth. This year, we still see good commercial growth. It is in line with the historical value. It's like 2.5 or 3%. But the decrease in housing value really balances that commercial growth. So, the housing side of the TAD evaluation activity really makes us confused here. And 60% of our tax base is housing, while 40% is commercial. And then, as I mentioned here, 92% of the tax rate comes from tariff. So, we have Tenton and Parker and Atta twice, but they are very small compared to tariff. So, when TAD does something, we have to handle it correctly. Good question. So, it's like setting a level about property taxes, if it's useful. I will discuss some numbers for people in this room. So, the total operational budget for the city is 3.3 billion in fiscal year 2027. So, it's about 8% growth in all different funds. It's not just the general fund, it's all our operational budget. As mentioned, Jay, the general fund is about 1.3 billion. So, the budget projection for next year is Rp1.15 billion, which is around 4.5%. There are also other types of funds. The second largest type is corporate funds, if you go through several rows below. Corporate funds are city funds that operate more like business. So the funds are not paid by property taxes, but by the cost and use rate, so what you know best may be water. Okay, we will talk a little more about this type of fund. And then the special income is the third largest type of operational fund. That is a fund that, once again, is not a property tax, in many cases it funds all of that, but it has a special income source. The largest fund is the CCPD, and you may be familiar with the crime prevention and control district. So, for example, the special income source is a half-cent sales tax. The other special income funds now are MS. As you know, this city is operating MS from the fire extinguisher now. Okay, and we will discuss this in a little more detail, but that is a rough picture of the budget. When we convey the budget that is recommended to the committee, we guide them through the entire budget process. So I want to show you a very brief version of what we show them. If you want to discuss every step in detail, as stated by the committee members, you can go back and watch some details. Okay, but this is how it is. If everything happens at once, this is what happens. So, the highest cost in the process is Rp. 94 million. So, in our initial projection, we thought we would experience a loss of around Rp 50 million, because you know the difference between the income from property taxes and the output that we projected. However, then you know that the budget development process is taking place and you have to prioritize public safety and that includes increasing the contractual salary and all those things that we add along the way. And then we reached our values and it turned out to be much worse than we thought. So this is how it all came to be. So now that we know there will be a delay from the beginning, we asked the department to cut 1% of their budget exactly at the beginning of the budget process. So at the beginning of the summer. So we convey the budget to the department that is already 1% lower than the previous year. So it's like raising the balance from the beginning. Then we do a reduction of 3% again. So we ask the department to give various kinds of ideas to reduce their budget by 3%. Thus, we have a choice menu to choose from and once again try to minimize the impact on the level of service, but also try to close the budget gap. So both of these things together yielded Rp 7.8 million per 1%, Rp 14.5 million per 3%. Then, we started to balance the budget through these activities through some reductions that we made during the implementation process. Then, at the end of July, on July 25, that's when we got the certified value from the Judicial District and that's when we realized that the situation was worse than our worst scenario. So we have to turn to a deeper cut and you will see some of them. Then, throughout the process, we also see the cost and income, so we do it as part of the process as well. Then, we still have a budget of 37 million rupiahs. So, at that time, you know, to prioritize public safety, to minimize the impact on the level of service. The city manager chooses to issue a tax increase to the council. The tax increase is 3.2 cents. So, the annual tax rate is 67 cents. The tax rate issued for fiscal year 27 is 70.2 cents. And this is how to divide the 70.2 cents to pay for various things. So if you are involved, you may have seen this part even before the obligation settlement. And other times, we try to show how the tax rate operates. So, 70.2 cents, most of it is used for the operation and maintenance of the city. So in the upper right corner you see the operation which is the source of funding for the general fund. The largest source of funding is around So think about funding for the police, fire extinguishers, transportation and codes, parks and libraries. Some of these services you consider as the service of the city of Inti in the general fund. And then the other bottom line in the city of Fort Worth, we use part of the tax rate for the maintenance of capital. Funding it with cash or income that is available, not with debt. That is what is called PAYO, Payment Management according to the user. So we want to maintain the portion of the tax rate too, because we don't want to be left in the capital maintenance as a city that is developing. Then the lowest is the debt rate. So the rate must also remain stable because of paying the existing debt, including the capacity for the 2026 obligation program, which may have been followed by some of you in May. I will briefly discuss the budget based on our priorities. So here you will see and hear in more detail about what some of the major reductions are. However, we will start with the safety of the community that has an addition to this budget. So one type of reduction that we are talking about, which is actually more vain, is about the Fire Hope program. So, this budget removes or changes the purpose of the Fire Hope program. So, if you don't know, there are four fire extinguishers who do the work for the prevention of colonialism, prevention, and education. There is also the police department. However, what we are talking about is only the fire extinguishers. The four fire extinguishers are trained to extinguish the fire. That is their main job. But they have been re-employed for HOPE work, which is also very important. However, every time they perform a HOPE operation in full time, their position in the fire extinguisher truck must be filled again and those people are paid to fill it. So we pay the fire extinguisher staff to do the HOPE operation and we pay the people who are not assigned to fill their position in the fire extinguisher. So our goal is to move those four people back to the fire extinguisher activities and then partner with The joint health team that came as part of MedStar EMS to continue the work. So the work will not be lost. It's just like sending fire extinguisher personnel back to the fire extinguishing activities. And then let the work be continued by the other team. So the fire extinguisher supports this approach. And that's a savings because we don't have to pay any more. The rest of the slide is about the addition of public safety. So, we have added funding to meet the contractual requirements of fire extinguishers and their fleet more accurately. So, the cost of fuel, repair, and maintenance for fire extinguishing vehicles and vehicles has increased. We also added some patrol officers to the police. So, we continue to study the police staff because during our growth, of course, we want the police department to have the right number of people in the patrol. to meet their response time target and become proactive in the community. So we added 76 patrol officers to match the city's growth projection. And we also added a few corporal positions in the patrol. There will be operational corporals on the field. But right now in the police force, if you are a great patrol officer and you want to get promoted, you have to leave the patrol and become a detective or a special unit corporal or something. So sometimes people don't come back to patrol even though they really like it. Because you have to get promoted out of the patrol and then choose to come back again. So it makes it possible for someone who wants to get promoted but still patrols to do it. So the police are very happy to have a path to get promoted in the patrol. So this really changed 30 employees into corporals. Then on the emergency communication side, we funded, we conducted a test this year with the Axon 9-11 solution that helps eliminate non-emergency calls. So when you call, it helps to direct your call to the right person. So it saves staff workload and allows them to handle more complicated 9-11 calls. So the test was successful, so we agreed to fund the project in the budget. Okay, let's move on to the infrastructure. So I mentioned the part of the tax rate that is called PAYO or pay according to the use for the maintenance of capital. We let the tax rate part remain the same at the figure of 7.25, but remember that the value of our property is decreasing. So 7.25% next year does not yield the same amount of income as this year. So there is a decrease according to PIGO. 2.8 million from the drop in value. It is spread across all types of things we do at PIGO. The total budget of PAYO, you will see later, is around 80, I think around 80 million. So, 2.8 million is nothing, but you know, it's just like a small reduction that is appropriate to be spread in TPW, which is a transportation department. They still get their salaries, and the park still gets their salaries, but there are some reductions that result in 2.8 million. Some of you may also be involved in discussions about road maintenance costs over the past few years. This budget, you will not be affected by the cost of road maintenance. However, we estimate the cost in this budget so that it can be implemented next year.

That's because the cost will appear on the water supply and right now they are working on the water supply system.

So there will be no impact on the income or water supply. and also change its name. If you see it that way, you will know that the cost of road management is a mention that you will see in the future. That reflects the fact that this is not only about the maintenance or handling of problems in a reactive way. This is really about planning for the entire cycle of road management and being proactive with the planning and management. I know we have a table there about road management costs if you want to discuss. And then there are a lot of water capital investments in this budget as usual. So the water is used as a regional utility along with urban growth. So there is a large amount of capital investment in the budget of the Department of Water, including the program for the replacement of sewage and the work in the Meris Creek Reclamation Facility.

Alright.

So what you will see here in a moment when I show it, I have another graphic that will help describe this, but because the fire prevention and emergency management police get what they are, they are the largest part of the budget in the general fund, and then they get the largest part of every additional budget, many reductions come from other places, including community investment. And here we get a lot of questions, of course, from the citizens and the council. So I think you will also have questions. Okay, but once again, I feel that I have said it several times, but our effort is to minimize the impact on the level of service while balancing the budget. So this is our initial effort to do it. I will tell you that the council has asked for several changes. So the first thing is, this budget avoids the closure of libraries or large community centers. You may have read that other cities are struggling to close various facilities. Our budget does not admit that in fiscal 2020. The budget that was recommended at the beginning did recommend or anticipate the closure of the Alliance Animal Welfare Adoption Center. And that is one of the things that was said by several members of the committee yesterday.

You know, they don't want to do it.

So we are looking for alternative options that affect the level of release of urban animals and send those animals to a shelter that is already somewhat full. However, the budget that was recommended at the beginning did say that. We also reduce the budget for the priority improvement program, which is a program worth 2.1 million, and then there is a grant of 2 million more. So, 75 thousand dollars does not lose the program in any way, but it is part of the reduction of 3.5 million. So, that's 3.5 million. Once again. What is its function?

Is there anyone from the Ministry of Environment who wants to talk about the priority program? Oh, of course. I'm Dana Budha, one of the city's assistant managers. So, my understanding of the Priority Improvement Program is that for people who have reached a certain level of income or below, they meet the requirements to apply for the use of funds to replace or repair items such as floors or AC units or other equipment in the house, which is a priority for them to get a comfortable life in their house.

The Perkakas Gudang Program is a program that we tested in fiscal year 2025, so it has been running for about a year. I think we funded it at a higher level in this year's budget. However, as part of the 3% reduction, this program will experience a small reduction in the next year's budget. Once again, it does not lose the program, but it has the potential to make the waiting time to get perkakas a little longer. There is a team of 4 people who run this program. This program will work again one by one. So there will be 3 people who work on the program and send it to you. So once again we try to maintain the running program, but also balance the budget without affecting the level of service at a non-continuous level. Then some of you may be familiar with the environment improvement program and this is a popular program that does not want to reduce its budget by the council. However, what we see when we see the decrease is that we usually fund the same new environment. We give them all the funding on the spot. However, usually the first year there are a lot of planning activities and they want to get along with the people around them and they say, okay, we need a sidewalk here and a lamp here. So, we funded the first year of the program for Rp. 4 million, but the first year of the program never exceeded Rp. 1 million. And what we have decided to do in this budget is, you will see, we changed the budget from Rp. 4 million to Rp. 1 million. This is the payment program. However, it allows us to only do the delivery phase of the program so that it is more even with the usual releases. So once again, it is not an impact on the level of service, but only a different approach to how we fund environmental programs. So there will still be something new every year, but you will see a kind of decline of maybe 1 million in the first year and then rise again to 2 million in the second year and then maybe the last 1 million in the third year and then maybe the last 1 million in the third year. And then this year, we conducted a test with the code and other departments, such as the so-called net force police, and that is the reduction of disturbance. We call it like being a disturbance on a disturbing property. So there are three properties in the net force test this year, and we found that the effort succeeded in improving many problems of code and other problems of disturbance. So we want to keep investing in that program in fiscal year 2027. Economic development, the strategic priority of other city councils. This budget reduces our transfer from public funds to other funds, which are called economic development initiative funds. And the funds are available for distribution such as strategy, business attraction, and the funds have a balance in it. So, even though we don't want to lose transfers at the same time, we think we can save 1 year. We do a 90% reduction. So, 5 million is a general transfer. For next year, it will be 500,000 dollars just to keep the transfer running. This is because the city of Fort Worth does not have to have a 4A or 4B sales tax, like those owned by some cities that are our business competitors.

Our special sales tax goes into the CCPD, but we still want to

to attract in the business development space. So we will continue the transfer, but at a much lower level for the fiscal year. Twenty-seven, we continue our partnership with our local trading rooms and our small business development program, which is really starting to be renewed this year. So we will continue that effort. This budget also reflects the management transition for Will Rogers. So they switch to the third party management structure. So you will see it in several places if you see the budget outline. And then we have targeted the environmental revitalization area. This budget adds a position in economic development to coordinate Responsible growth is one of the priorities that includes many things that can be included in the program. So we try to highlight a few things here. The city will continue to replace vehicles and equipment, but we will use a different funding strategy. These vehicles and equipment are usually replaced through project management budget. These vehicles and equipment will now be replaced with some of our debt capacity in the notary. So it helps to lighten the operational part of the public funds. We also see an increase in costs for health claims. So, we have to fix some of the lack of group health funds. So, we increase the contribution of workers for group health. We don't want to burden the cost to the employees, but when you see the budget of the department increases, some of them still go down, but each department has to pay a higher cost for group health. We keep seeing that the demand for public information or open records is also increasing. So, we have provided support in this budget for people who help answer it according to the country's conditions to do it. We have talked a little about inflation on vehicle maintenance and fuel.

So, the budget responds to the increase correctly.

We will talk more about the budget structure later. Then, on the city side, we have reduced our own maintenance costs and some of the maintenance that we do, such as So I know we have talked a lot about public funds, but I will discuss more about public funds because that is the area we are fighting for. The property tax is at the top, you will see the comparison of annual income in the coming year. The property tax is once again the largest source of income in the general fund. And we have talked a little about our challenge with TA. The second largest source in the general fund is the sales tax. So both together make up about 80% of the general fund. Our sales tax, we projected growth of about 5%. That's good. This is not a two-digit growth that we might see after COVID, but it will not last forever. So, this is still a very healthy and steady growth from what we have seen in the past few years. Then, we balance the output with the income. As mentioned, you can see at the bottom that we have offered the same budget. Debt and loans spend most of the public funds, 70% and most of it is the police and the fire department. This is just the output table according to the department. And I know there are many numbers and up and down, everywhere. So I will show you the graphics in a moment that can help. However, you can see this as in the sequence of department updates and show growth and or decrease in the department until next year. So once again, overall growth in the general fund is 4.6%, but the departments are everywhere. Either they grow a little, grow a lot, or decrease a lot. In my opinion, this is a useful graph to narrow down the areas that we can reduce. So on the left side, you will see the total operational budget, so 3.3 billion, a large amount that covers general funds and all other types of funds. Most of the funds are limited for certain purposes. So for example, if the Water Department has, I don't know, like the money that is available, we can't use it to compensate for the lack of police or fire extinguishers in general funds. So the funds are limited for use. So when you look at the public funds in the middle, 1.15 billion and 57% of it is public safety. So that's the police, fire prevention and emergency communication, as well as emergency management. So you see the big purple part of the circle diagram there. So what I mean is, if we don't break the public safety budget, then where can we break it? And that brings you to the right side of the graph, which is all departments, the other public funds are 413 million. So this is not about the figure of 3.3 billion, this is not about the figure of 1.11 billion, this is really about what we can get from the Department of Public Funds.

The following graph shows our growth for fiscal year 2027, so you will see the growth figure of 52.6 million. And I want to explain the figure a little.

When we took over MedStar EMS on July 1, 2025, we had to subsidize that service. About 60% of us were self-employed, but we still needed to deposit funds from the general fund to the special EMS income fund. So, from Rp. 52 million to Rp. 30 million is the general fund subsidy. This year, it's Rp. 20 million, and it's not included in the budget. So, we added Rp. 20 million, and the amount increased to Rp. 30 million. So that's Rp. 32 million. We also have a mark in that number for the promise to offer a new fire extinguisher. So they are in negotiation. We are in negotiation now with the fire extinguisher Rp. 440 million. So we estimate where the agreement will end and try to negotiate. And then they also get an increase in their contractual wages every year. So it is planted in the range. And then I tell you that we also add a number of cash and cash to their budget to be more accurate in describing what are the obligations and issuance of their contractual. So that's the growth of the fire extinguisher, then the police colluded with a growth of 26 million, which is almost all related to their meeting and negotiation agreements, which is a kind of contractual work agreement that increases their wages. And the third largest is emergency management and communication, other public safety departments. And some of the growth is the Akson sample project that I mentioned with non-emergency triage. And some of them are just increasing health allocations. They are a new department, so they are the first to see the allocation. I will go straight to the bottom three, because they also look a bit crazy. At the bottom, you have property management at the bottom. That's the group that manages city facilities. And the reason they look like they are experiencing a big decrease is, I think, I have mentioned that we no longer fund the replacement of vehicles and equipment from their budget. So we moved it to the debt part of our financing strategy. They are funded with interest rates. So it seems that property management is experiencing a big decrease, but it's actually just a movement of money there. And then economic development. All of that is related to the transfer that I told you that we made the economic development initiative funds and all kinds of years, almost full years. And then environmental services. The reduction of the department is related to the program for the improvement of the environment and how we will complete the first year of graduation with all planning activities and then the second year of graduation will be higher. So that's what's related to the reduction. So it can be explained, but I know it's visible. I will take you to the next question.

Explain that.

is the budget for economic development. So that's an addition to their budget. Do you want to discuss it too?

Yes. Good evening again, Dano Bird. So, in our Department of Economic Development, we have a community development team. So, there are several areas of revitalization that are shown where they work with community groups, for example community commissioners. In some cases, they are called to help identify where they can help support small businesses, where they can help support revitalization. Maybe that's why we're trying to challenge HIPAA for infrastructure or connecting people with resources, either through cities or other resources that we might have. It is often associated with commercial corridors or districts that may experience a decrease in investment over the years. So, trying to help see if there is something that we can do to help support the community and bring it back, you know, people to take over a building that may be empty or help someone who still lives in the community who wants to live a smart life. We need some revitalization at the entrance to Highland Hill.

And I ask, do you have someone who can contact us? They will come and see some things that can be done here.

But especially the entrance. From where? From 20. With whom do you have to talk? We are interested in getting a revitalization idea. Thank you.

Okay, so that concludes the general fund part, and I know some of you wrote questions, and we can go back there. How many more slides are there? So the company funds that I mentioned are a different group of operational funds, and those are funds that operate more like business. So they are not funded by taxes, but funded by users and taxpayers who use services. So once again, the water you will see here is the largest one up there. So they see about 8.7% growth in their budget. That's not a growth rate. That's their budget and capital, which is operational funds, and their capital that continues to increase. Solid waste is the other company's funds. So that's the collection of household waste and waste disposal places. So I will show you in a moment how The presentation here is a woman asking this question last night and I feel guilty because I didn't explain it. The presentation here is not like an increase in the rate. It's just like a growth. So it doesn't mean it's like an increase in your salary. I'll show you your salary in a moment. So, solid waste grows not only for the management of their waste, increasing the contract with Waste Management, which is a vendor for collecting our neighbors' house waste, but also a plan to replace the long-term waste disposal site, and several other capital needs. Well, and the utility of rainwater is another cost that you see on your water supply, and they continue the planned capital program. They are the ones who are involved in the project of mitigating the flood in the middle and more network inspections. So all the things you think about rainwater management and mental health problems that can happen due to flooding. Airport. That is the city airport. And that is Mecum, Spinex, and Perauville. And their budget actually grows, especially because they help pay for the cost of the fire extinguisher station, the fire extinguisher officer related to flights. So, two fire extinguisher stations related to airports, FAA allows flights to pay for it as a fee that meets the requirements. And it actually helps the public funds because they will include some of the income into the public funds for the cost of the fire. So, that's the parking and metro garages in the city. is another independent operation with growth of about 10%. It's just an investment in some new parking technology, capital, and maintenance. Then another group of funds that we want to talk about is special income funds. So these are funds that have a special source of income that is limited for the activity. The largest is the CCPD. As I mentioned, it is a half-cent sales tax that was last issued by the voters. In 2020, the number increased by about 5%, which is the number of sales tax increases. And they have a number of initiatives. That's as a reminder, because this also appears in other reports. Whatever is in the CCPD must have a direct relationship with the control and prevention of crime. That is the limit. So once again, this is one of the things when we have a department in the public funds, such as a library. I think anyone can argue that there is a relationship with the department, but it is not easy to just push the public funds to the CCPD. Not all conditions are for that. So we always see it as a strategy.

So I think maybe the members of the DENLES committee who asked questions yesterday about ensuring that we see the CCPD as a strategy for some powers.

So, and we do it. Publicly, it is cultural and tourism funds. So, the source of special income here is hotel rent and the funds must fund activities related to tourism. So, think like a convention center. Here is Will Rogers funded. And their budget seems to be decreasing because the Convention Center is developing, the expansion phase that they went through for fiscal year 27 actually made some of the main offline places. So we lost some of the income because we were not available to be rented as part of the expansion. So that's why it looks like that, like it's going down. Meanwhile, EMS is another new type of large-scale income. And it's really new for the first full year of this year. So they grow by about 16%, as you can see, the budget is Rp. 104 million. That includes the Rp. 30 million subsidy that I mentioned that was sent by the public funds to EMS. And the city continues to look for strategies to close the gap and have EMS, you know. Maybe a few additional creative income streams to help close the gap so that the public funds do not need to send a lot of money. But for next year, the public funds are still subsidizing EMS, including some of the fee, the fleet fee, Not only the fire in the emergency room, there is also some support from lawyers and finance, some SDM support, as well as the office of the medical director who brought the license. Let's look at environmental protection. This is the final cost that I think we have talked about, which you see on your monthly balance sheet. This is the total cost. I think the cost will increase. Oh, and this pays for waste reduction in the whole city. If you see a street sweeper, it pays for it. Illegal waste, such as waste cleaning, and such as illegal waste disposal, and the reduction of pollution, it's all there.

I'm just with the environmental protection, does that include all the protection?

Like we have a field behind us, and now they're working.

What does it mean? Does it mean inside? I think so. So that's air quality, chocolate fields, everything like that. Who do we report that we want to get?

Especially for the fields.

I will continue to be your representative and I will do it until it is finished. After that, if you have the garbage provided by the property or enter your neighborhood, I will still be your person. So did you get the phone number I gave you?

I will write it down for you.

I think it was on the previous slide.

And they are working there, but where did the payment for the water come from? Because the water comes from Highland Hills in the corner of Oak Grove. I mean, uh, Conroy. So I just want to know, does that add to our tax or what? They pay for all the water. It looks like he won't answer.

They take it from the hydrant to the fire. There is a meter there. So that meter, they pay for it. To remove the water from the hydrant to the fire, the meter is installed on the hydrant to the fire. They get a key to activate it. So that's their way. They get taxes like every month, as done by foreign countries.

Two last special income funds, Golf Kota. So this is the Golf Kota field, and once again, it is not public funds or tax payers that are funded by people who play golf. Their budget slightly increased because they added food and drink staff, as well as nursing staff, because the golf field continues to attract golf enthusiasts. Then we have small funds for planting community trees. The budget seems to be going down because I think this year they bought a vehicle and now it's good. So that's the smallest. So overall, there are many different levels of growth there, but around 2.5% in particular. We see an increase in costs every year as part of the budget. The department does this when they develop operational and modern budgets. This is not just the cost that is applied to This is like all types of taxes that can be burdened by all departments for very specific purposes. So, think of it like you are paying a license if you are a developer, or maybe you have to pay taxes in any form. Whatever it is that you bring to the room or participate in the city program that requires fees, all sorts of things. Well, there is a very long budget response process, or like when we receive questions from the council that include all the fees. Well, I think we summarized it on yesterday's website, so I will show you how to find it if you really want to learn about it. So I will remind you here that the recommended interest rate is 3.2 cents, because it appears in the upper part of this small example about the average impact of interest payments. So many people are usually interested in how all this happens cumulatively. So at the top you see the average house tax rate and the average house will have a homestead exception. So when you see that value, you know that there is a homestead exception. So the top row of this year's budget is the average tax rate of Rp. 246,541. There, there. And then next year, remember the value drops from TAD to Rp. 29,000. And that means that even with an increase of 3.2 cents, you know, the average tax rate goes down a little, 16.69 cents per year or 100 cents per month.

We don't pay it every month, but we just show it because you know it's easy to listen.

And I will stop here and really discuss it for a moment. So this is like a graphic from what I just explained, because it's a bit funny to think, a bit contrary to intuition to think, such as an increase in tax rates causes higher taxes. Yes, not in the case where the value drops. So, you see on the left, this year's value multiplied by this year's tax rate and the part of the city from the tax rate, then the property value decreases, the tax rate increases, and the tax rate for next year drops by 16.16%. So, that's a funny small scale that happens when the value drops. Then we have the cost that we talk about through corporate funds, then the environmental cost is also calculated there with the number of years from this year in the first column, then allocated for next year. So on the far right, you will see the monthly variance. So the average use of the population, we will see an increase of 79 on the day of the month. Okay, I will complete my presentation here. So, when the department makes an operational budget, they also renew the capital plan if they are a department that has a capital budget. So, for fiscal year 2027, the capital plan is 1.03 billion billion. So when you hear the total budget of Fort Worth, when the number is 4, it's because it includes operational and capital. The majority of capital for next year is in the Water Department. You see it at the bottom, about 800 million out of 1 billion. And we continue to implement a 5-year capital plan. Then we talk about the payment according to the use that is funded by one part of the tax rate of 7.25 cents. And this is the conclusion. So this year's budget for payment is 8.84 million. Next year it will drop by 2.8 million because we maintain the same rate. However, you can see that transportation and public works take up the largest part of the payment and still grow a little even with fixed rates. Management property has some

4.3 to 1 million Rupiah for environmental services is a program to increase the level of the environment.

Then the park that you will see is almost flat with a very small decline there. So that's the maintenance of the park and the improvement of the park. So that's how PIGO works. And that brings us to the total budget. So fiscal year 2027, operational and capital costs are 4.35 billion Rupiah. This is a community-related meeting that you seem to have heard since you were here and I'm glad you're here. If you want to come back or watch it again, you can find the rest of the meeting. I will hold a meeting again.

And the meeting will always be on Fort Worth TV and YouTube.

You can watch this meeting again or guide people. And I think I look better in some of the next meetings. So maybe you can go back to yesterday or the next day if you want to see me doing it differently. We have a budget public opinion hearing scheduled on September 1, which is a public opinion hearing. So the budget is not finished yet, but it's just another opportunity for them to hear public comment as part of the budget process. Then they are scheduled to adopt the tax rate and budget on September 15, according to the state budget to do it. So we continue to work with members of the NETELS committee and their colleagues to make changes that they want to see in the budget. You can find the previous budget session and the address written through this if you are a person who uses the QR code or the address is below or the address is below. The left side is Connect Forward, which covers everything about city involvement. So right now, the budget is like the Connect Forward star, because it's like one of our big efforts right now. Then on the right is the page of Fort Worth Labs, the page of my department.

It's like everything about finance.

So since April, when we started meeting with the council and explaining many of these details, you can see it there and the stock does a very good job in renewing. So everything we did yesterday is already there and categorized based on topic and date. And I think that's the end of our presentation. So I know the staff is waiting to answer your questions. I just want to say thank you once again for your attention on Sunday night about the budget. I know this is not everyone's favorite topic, but you are amazing.

And I look forward to it.

Thank you very much. And we will ask you to use the microphone again because we will share the content so that people can listen.

I have a question about the housing tax basis of commercial interest. If the current housing property is worth around 60% of the city's property tax base, what is the city's strategy to move to a more balanced tax base with a business that is worth close to 50%?

Good question. I just want to go to

So, I mean, for several years, this city has had an active economic development program, right? We work together with the Ministry of Economic Development to try to bring more companies and more commercial to the city, as well as work in a comprehensive plan, a comprehensive plan that can be updated. Now, to try to bring more robust development and not have too many residential homes. This is a slow process. At one point, this city may be more like 1965-1935, we have made some progress and we have achieved 64 times in quite a long time. I think it's been 65 or 15 years since we closed. This is a slow process, unless we get a lot of high commercial value that comes in at one time.

So this is just a slow process.

Because if you think about it, Fort Worth added 2 billion constructions just last year. But that is not translated into the value of our income because of the house. to eliminate all value increases. So that's the problem. And as with everyone, we are experiencing inflation, not the cost of coal to rise. Contracts that rise, these contracts grow every year. So our ability to really eliminate the cost is still not strong. That's why we have to go through the process of cutting. So we have an active program to try to recruit more commercial workers, bring in more workers with higher salaries, things like that. Any questions? You guys are great.

Regarding the executive compensation and compensation when the city considers the steps of compensation and reduction in all departments, how does the city manager's office participate in the reduction? If the capital salary of the city manager is around Rp. 450,000, the reduction in the level of executive compensation, administration, or administrative costs is also considered.

So, in the city manager's office, we lost one executive position plus two other managerial positions. And overall, the general workforce today only sees an increase in wages of 1.5% for the next 10 years. So it will happen throughout the city.

And for the budget priority, trees versus golf, what are the reasons for the policy to reduce funding for the planting of 26% community trees while increasing investment in 13% golf clubs, and how are these priorities determined?

So both of them are spending themselves, so golf does not experience an increase because more and more people play golf and more and more dollars come in. So there is no tax money, there is no one else. That's to balance growth, the demand of golfers, isn't it? So it is not paid by anyone but dollars, only golfers pay for it. In tree planting, it is said that this year they have to buy a few vehicles. Next year we don't need vehicles, so we don't pay for vehicles. So their budget is down. That's the downside. That's the downside. It's just that they don't accept it. They don't accept it.

It's like a big decline.

Okay, thank you all. Members of the committee, do you want to close it or are you just fine? I like to talk. Thank you, Jay.

Yes, I know. Once again, thank you for being here. Once again, as you can see in the above budget schedule, you can attend any budget meeting that you want. We are only trying to ensure that our budget meeting is close to your citizens. If you have any questions or problems about the budget the day after tomorrow, call my office, Chelsea, and me, and we can submit the question to the City Council and submit it to Jay. But this is the end of our presentation. Thank you for being here tonight and thank you to the staff who are also here.

Just one comment, this Saturday's meeting we will move to 1 o'clock so that the selected staff and officers can attend the trial. So it's time to show at 10 o'clock, but actually it's 1 o'clock.

We have one question. My other question is, can you talk to us about the type of business that FWDP is interested in? We have a lot of interest in the farm.

I don't think they are interested in which warehouse So some large companies that are interested in Fort Worth EDP are companies that used to be a central office and or manufacturing facilities So Wistrom, I don't know the name of the couple, moved to the city center which used to be a central office facility that moved to the office building So the warehouse is not, I mean, the warehouse appeared because of I35 I-20, Alliance Facility, Transmodal Facility, BNSF. So we are in the middle of the country, we have a lot of very good road systems, so the warehouse will appear. This city does not try to pull the warehouse, it's just something that happens, that's all. In addition, we have 88.5 million people in the metropolitan area. That is, everyone uses Amazon, everyone uses target delivery, all of those things must be in one place. So that's the warehouse, but there is no active initiative to attract the warehouse.