City Commission - Regular Meeting

She thinks that she behind Jake and Mike, but they're kind of what they do, but we're not all over the place. Cool. We have I think we have 10 or 11 in total. There's some in here. So, we have like they're taking the baseball games and getting them all together doing the Garden City Commission meeting is called to order. Today is Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. The time is 1 p.m. Madame Clerk, do we have a quorum? Yes, Mayor. And it is Commissioner Karen Canal Lozano's turn to lead the allegiance and invocation.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Let us pray. Father God, we are grateful for the opportunity to gather here today to serve our community. We ask for your guidance as we navigate the responsibilities before us. Help us to listen openly, speak thoughtfully, and lead with purpose. Let us remember the people behind every decision we make and approach our work with compassion, respect, and unity. We give thanks for those who serve and protect our city each day and for the community that continues to support and believe in this work. May we more may we move forward with wisdom and a shared commitment to doing what is right. Amen. Amen.

Item four on our agenda is the approval of the minutes of the last regular meeting which if no corrections are offered shall stand approved. Are there any questions? Seeing none, they shall stand approved. Item five is public comment. This is an opportunity for our public to come offer comments that for items that are not on the agenda. And if you come, please state your name for the record. My name is Horton. Um here to discuss your guys' uh utilities billing software. uh you guys shut off the power to my house for about a day. Uh was because there was an issue with your uh errors that were occurring in your billing software. About three to four errors over the course of about 2 to 3 months occurred. Uh some of it had to do with uh a payments that you guys weren't issuing to the bank at all for it. Uh this was recovered and fixed by your accounting system and the people down there for it. Uh but this should not have taken place at all. This is something to do with when you guys approve the new system. You guys didn't ask stupid questions about a do we start the guard rails to implement off the old system. Let people know a there might be an issue with the billing system or finding out what's going wrong for so updated I think back in February that pissed off a lot of people for it. uh even with the new system and you're trying to implement what the old system had for guardrails, you don't have that option for it. So, you need to start asking those type of questions, going through stuff like failure analysis, due diligence, risk assessment for that type of stuff. Uh general product management essentially. Uh you just need to do that especially for any additional programs you're going to be implementing down.

and be asking those stupid questions about hey do we still have these type of programs that we can access compared to our old system to our new system for anything that so that's about it so thank you thank you M are there any others for public comment seeing none we'll move to item six item six say the governing body has asked to consider and approve a request from Esther Pena to allow the mayor to proclaim May 8th, 2026 as provider appreciation day in Garden City, Kansas. I'll entertain a motion for this item.

Move to approve the proclamation as presented. There's been motions. Is there a second? Second. Second is Commissioner Cessna. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I.

I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Is there anyone who would like to talk on this item? Great. And I will read the proclamation here. Whereas childcare of America and organizations nationwide are recognizing childcare providers on this day. And whereas the child care system supports children's growth, development, and educational advancement while creating positive economic impacts for families and communities. And whereas childcare providers are essential to the health of our communities by fostering safe and welcoming spaces, supporting working families, and creating enriching environments where children develop lifelong skills. And whereas the city of Garden City, Kansas, recognizes that child care has been and continues to be a lifeline for families, communities, and the economy. Whereas support for affordable, accessible, highquality child care represents a worthy commitment to helping families work, supporting children's healthy development and learning, and keeps our economy growing. Now therefore, I Tom win, mayor of the city of Garden City, Kansas, do hereby proclaim May 8th, 2026 as provider appreciation day in Garden City, Kansas, and urge all citizens to recognize childcare providers for their important work and how valuable they are to our communities. Sign and sealed this 5th day of May, 2026. Tom win mayor. Do we need a photo for this item or we Okay, great. Thank you. Item 6P. The governing body is asked to consider and approve a request from Oh, I'm sorry.

Please note that Commissioner Canal Solano will step down for this item. Uh 6B. The governing body has asked to consider and approve a request from Christine Patio, life enrichment and activities director at Garden Valley Retirement Village to allow the mayor to proclaim May 10th through 16th at 2026 as National Nursing Home Week in Garden City. I'll entertain a motion for this item. I move to approve the proclamation as presented. There's been a motion. Is there a second? Second.

There's motion in second. Any further discussion on this item? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. And if Garden Valley Retirement Village would like to speak on this item. Yeah.

Thank you guys. I just want to talk about it. Uh this week is an opportunity to honor a group of individuals who are often overlooked yet have played a vital role in shaping the community we know today. Our nursing home residents. These are men and women who built families, businesses, schools, and the foundation of our ever growing town. Their stories are woven into the history of Garden City, and their contributions continue to live on through the lives they've touched. Nursing Home Week is also a time to recognize the dedicated staff who care for these residents each and every day. Their work goes far beyond meeting physical needs. It is rooted in compassion, patience, and dignity. They celebrate small victories, provide a comfort in difficult moments, and create a sense of home for those in their care. In a world that moves quickly, nursing homes remind us to slow down, to listen to their honor, wisdom, and to value human connection. The care provided within these walls reflect the very heart of our community. By proclaiming matent through the May 16th as nursing home week, we acknowledge both the legacy of these residents and the unwavering commitment of those who serve them. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you. Thank you.

And I'll read the proclamation. Whereas nursing homes and long-term care facilities play a vital role in providing compassionate care, dignity, and support for older adults and individuals who require specialized care. And whereas residents of nursing homes are valued members of our community whose life experiences, wisdom, and stories enrich our city. And whereas the dedicated nurses, certified nursing assistants, therapists, activity professionals, and support staff who serve in nursing homes provide essential care with compassion, patients, and professionalism every day. Whereas families, volunteers, and community partners contribute greatly to the quality of life and well-being of residents in long-term care facilities. And whereas National Nursing Home Week celebrated May 10th through 16, 2026 provides an opportunity to recognize the residents, families, and staff who make nursing home places of care, connection, and community. And whereas this week encourages communities to honor the contributions of long-term care professionals and celebrate the meaningful relationships that enrich the lives of residents. Now therefore, I, Tomwin, mayor of the city of Garden City, Kansas, do hereby proclaim the week of May 10-16, 2026, as National Nursing Home Week in Garden City, Kansas, and encourage all residents to recognize and celebrate the individuals who live and work in our nursing homes and long-term care communities. Sign and sealed this 5th day of May, 2026. Tom Winer, if you guys would like to join us for a photo. Would you like this?

Thanks guys. Thank you. Item 6 C, the governing body is asked to consider and approve allowing the mayor to proclaim May 10th through 16th, 2026 as National Police Week in Garden City, Kansas. Lieutenant Roush.

Good afternoon, mayor and commissioners. The governing body has asked to consider and approve allowing the mayor to proclaim May 10th through the 16th, 2026 as National Police Week in Garden City, Kansas. Since 1962, the United States has recognized May 15th as Police Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as National Police Week. This is a time for police officers to honor their fallen colleagues as well as remember their commitment to keeping their community safe. The Guard City Police Department annually honors the fallen law enforcement officers throughout the nation as well as those who continue to serve during National Police Week. You have the alternatives in front of you. The first being the governing body may approve the proclamation as presented and number two may reject the proclamation.

I'll entertain a motion for this item. Move to approve the proclamation as presented. There's been a motion. Is there a second? I second.

There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. And I will read the proclamation. Whereas there are approximately 800,000 law enforcement officers serving in communities across the United States, including the dedicated members of the Garden City Police Department. Whereas law enforcement officers daily place themselves in harm's way and service their communities, resulting in over 60,000 assaults and approximately 19,000 injuries against law enforcement officers. And whereas since the first recorded death in 1791, over 25,000 law enforcement officers in the United States have made the ultimate sacrifice and been killed in the line of duty. And whereas and there are 24,775 names are currently engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC. And whereas May 15th is designated as peace officers Memorials Day in honor of all fallen officers and their families and US flag should be flown at half staff in their memory. Whereas, it is fitting that the city of Garnity join communities across the nation in recognizing the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers in paying tribute to those who have laid down their lives in protection of others. Now, therefore, I, Tom, mayor of the city of Garden City, Kansas, do hereby proclaim May 10th through 16, 2026 as National Police Week and publicly salute the service of law enforcement officers in our community and in communities across the nation. We further support law enforcement communities while honoring officers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to keeping the public safe. Sign and seal this 5th day of May, 2026. Tom Win, Mayor Get out of here. Let's

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ready. Perfect. Thank you. Item 6D, the governing body is asked to consider and approve allowing the mayor to proclaim the week of May 17 through 23rd, 2026 as National Public Works Week in Garden City, Kansas. Tyler

making his way. Good afternoon, mayor and commissioners. Uh so yeah, this year's theme uh rooted in service powered by community acknowledges that the roots of the service that runs deep in public works. It's what has propelled public works innovations that have helped communities involved into places where people can lead lead lives and per purpose with possibility. Some work like building roads and bridges is highly visible while other public works contributions such as maintaining storm drainage and sewer systems are sometimes hidden from view. Such uh together these efforts form the foundation of thriving communities reminding us that every project seen or unseen powers the connection between service and the people it supports. This year to celebrate the National Public Works Week, the public works department will hold its annual touch and truck event on May 23rd, 2026 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. uh in front of the Clarion Inn at 1911 East Kansas Avenue. And during that time, we will have many pieces of equipment and staff available for public to check out and ask any questions they might have.

Great. I motion for this item. I move to approve the proclamation as presented. There's been a motion. Is there a second? I second. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Are we taking a picture for this?

Do you want me to read the proclamation quick? Um whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure facilities and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and the public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of Garden City. And whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are engineers, managers and employees at all levels of government and the private sector who are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our nation's transportation, water supply, water treatment and solid waste systems, public buildings and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens. And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders, and children in Garden City to gain knowledge of and m maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their respective communities. And whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association/Canadian Public Works Association. Now it be it now. Therefore, I, Tom Wyn, mayor of the city of Garden City, do hereby proclaim May 17th through 23rd, 2026 as National Public Works Week in the city of Garden City and urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and Canadian Public Works Association and government agencies and activities, events, and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protect act our national health, safety and quality of life. Signed and sealed this fifth day of May, 2026. Tom win. Mayor

Elizabeth. He's part of the green thing. All right, here we go. Uh, can you scroll just a little? Just ready. One, two, three. Good. You didn't show up for work.

Maybe next time. Next time. Item 6E, the governing body has asked to consider and approve allowing the mayor to proclaim May 2026 as building safety month in Garden City, Kansas. Trent,

yes. Uh good afternoon, Mayor Brucer. So before you today, we have the international uh building code council. It's the actual uh part of America chapter and the Southwest Kansas Builder Association have partnered together uh which we've done previous years in a joint effort to promote building safety. So before you today, we have a couple options to declare the month of May as a building safety month. Alternative number one, the governing body may approve the pro proclamation as presented. And alternative number two, the governing body may not approve the proclamation as presented. Any questions at all? Answer it for Sounds good. I'll entertain a motion for this item. I go ahead.

I move that we um entertain a motion for this item and approve it as presented. Second. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes.

All right. And I'll go ahead and read this one as well as well. Whereas the city of Garden City is committed to recognizing that our growth and strength depend on the safety and essential role of our homes, buildings, and infrastructure play both in everyday life and when disasters strike. And whereas our confidence in the resilience of these buildings make up our community is achieved through the devotion of building safety and firerevention officials, architects, engineers, builders, trades people, design professionals, laborers, plumbers, and others in the construction industry who work year round to ensure the safety the safe construction of buildings. And whereas these guardians are dedicated members of the International Code Council, a nonprofit that brings together local, state, and federal officials who create and implement the highest quality codes and standards to protect us in the buildings where we live, learn, work, and play. And whereas these modern building codes and standards include safeguards to protect the public from hazards such as snowstorms, tornadoes, and floods. And whereas building safety month is sponsored by the international code council to remind the public about our code officials who assure us of safe, sustainable and afford and affordable buildings that are essential to our prosperity. And whereas build to last, the theme for building safety month 2026 encourages us all to get involved and raise awareness about building safety on a personal, local, and global scale. And whereas each year in observance of building safety month, people all over the world are asked to consider the commitment to improve building safety, resilience, and economic investment at home and in the community, and to acknowledge the essential service provided to all of us by local, state, and federal building safety and fire prevention departments in protecting lives and property. Now for now therefore I Tom win mayor of the city of Garden City do hereby proclaim May 26th as building safety month in the city of Garden City and encourage all citizens

to join us as we participate in building safety month activities signed and sealed this fifth day of May 2026. Tom win mayor Yes. Good. Thanks. Item 6F. The governing body has asked to consider a request from Eric Senateo on behalf of the appliance and furniture mart for a waiver to the parking requirements and temporary structure requirements to allow for a tent from May 27th June through June 14th of this year at 1 at 1117 Fleming Street to hold a tent and sidewalk Good afternoon, Mayor, mayor and commissioners. Um, this is a similar event that has been approved in the past. If you recall, I believe it was in the fall of last year. We had some timing issues. Um, this year, Appliance and Furniture Mart got their application in for the special event back in probably February, I believe. So, they were very much on the ball this year. um contacted me on Friday to make sure that we were on the agenda for today. So um your alternatives are the governing body may approve the waiver to parking

requirements and temporary structure to allow for a tent from May 27th to 14th, 2026 at 1117 Fleming Street for their annual or semianual tent and sidewalk sale. Or second alternatives, you may deny the waiver to the parking requirements and temporary structure. Are they having it the whole time of that or did was that just done as a time frame? I believe that was just done as a time frame. Okay, we do have the I think on their application form the next page it says specifically. Yeah, they put the whole time May 27th to

the 16th. Yes. does. Okay. So, ah, gotcha. Any questions for staff? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion for this item. I move to approve the waiver to parking requirements and temporary structure. There's been a motion. Is there a second? A second. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Thank you.

Item 7A. Congratulations to Deputy City Clerk Cory Longoria on fulfilling all of the requirements for the uh certified municipal clerk program of the International Institute of Municipal Clerks and earning her CMC designation. To tell you a little bit more about this will be Selen Herado, city clerk.

Mayor, commissioners. Um, the certified municipal clerk designation is a professional certification awarded by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks established to provoke to promote educational opportunities, professional development, and establishing best practices within the municipal clerk profession. As local government operations become more complex, IMC developed the CMC program to ensure clerks are equipped with essential knowledge in areas such as records management, public administration, and open meetings such as this. The CMC designation is earned through a combination of approved education and professional experience, reflecting a clerk's commitment to continued learning and excellence in public service. Over time, it has become a recognized benchmark of professionalism in the field and serves as the foundation of advanced certification through the master municipal clerk MMC certification. So, Corey's next step would be the MMC, which I'm sure she's going to work for and attain in a short amount of time. Uh attached in the packet, you'll have a letter from the IIMC current president and um letting us know that Corey received that designation and then also from the vice president of the CCMO CCMFOA of Kansas uh association as well. So, we just want to congratulate her and thank her.

Congratulations. Of course, definitely. So cool. This is her day, not mine.

This is her day. That evidently comes with the next the full speech.

The rest of the items under report of the city manager staff reports. Do you have any questions over those? The auction results we're in raised just a little over $40,000. Meetings of note. Uh growing list of summer activities. If any of those require RSVPs, please do those through the city clerk's office. Matt, um I would like to add um one meeting to that just because I think there could be a potential that maybe more than one commissioner might attend. That is the Southwest Kansas Builders Association lunch. That is next Thursday, May 14th at noon. May 13th or May May 14th

14th, sorry. Thursday and the Turning Point Church of the Nazarene. Yeah. Thank you. Mhm. All right. Um, I think we're ready for the appropriation ordinance. Uh, if approved, it would be ordinance number 2610-2026A. I move to approve the consideration of appropriation ordinance number 2610 through 2026A. There's been a motion. Is there a second?

Second. There's been a motion and second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Thank you. Item uh 12A. The governing body is asked to consider and approve the bid for the airport parking lot and airport improvement project 3-20-0024-052-2026 taxiway a reconstruction in the amount of 5,985,31080. Michelle,

good afternoon. Um so as you're aware uh there's two projects that were bid out. The parking lot is um public funding and taxway alpha is federal funding with the city percent 5% match that we re uh refund that revenue through passenger facility charges. Um taxiway alpha reconstruction is um taxiway alpha from the midpoint of the apron over to the intersection of runway 1230. Um it's a full reconstruction with all new um base, pavement, marking, signs, lighting, all that fun stuff. Um and the parking lot is going to be approximately 153 spots and it'll be located north of our current parking lot. And with those um that was publicly advertised. We had a pre-bid meeting as well as a bid opening a couple weeks ago. Um the bid tab is con um included in the agenda item and the breakout of the funds and what uh project they're allocated to. Um the governing body may approve the bid, may not approve the bid. may provide guidance to staff. Um staff recommends approving the bid. And then on the fiscal note, there is a breakdown of the um bid price with the difference between the parking lot being um funded through the remaining balance of the airport terminal project funds and then the AIP portion of taxway alpha being funded um through our AIP budget line item with 95% being federal funds, 5% city funds, and those city funds are um regained through the passenger facility charges. With that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Any questions for Michelle? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion for this item. I move to approve the uh construction bid approval for the airport parking lot and airport improvement project um taxiway reconstruction in the amount of 5,985,310.80.

There's been a motion. Is there a second? Second. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Thank you. Item 12B. The governing body has asked to consider and approve the application for federal assistance for taxiway a construction for the Garden City Regional Airport Improvement Project AIP3-20-0024-052-2026 in the amount of $4,55,928. Michelle,

thank you. back. As I mentioned before in the bid process, this is for the AIP portion of the project which includes a tax way. Um the $4.5 million is the federal funds. Again, that's 95% and then the city that includes construction cost as well as um construction observation um which is included in our task order that you'll find in the consent agenda. All the um financial is included in this with the 4.5 and the 95% um required federal match. The city does have the 5% in the amount of 239,786, but again we re um gain those profits through the passenger facility charges. With that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for Roelle? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion for this item. I move to approve the application for the federal assistance for taxiway alpha construction for the Garden City Regional Airport uh the AIP3-20-0024-5 052-2026 in the amount of 4,555,928. There's been a motion. Is there a second? Second. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Michelle. Item 12 C. The governing body is asked to consider and approve a waiver to the code of ordinance section 62-12 to allow for the discharge of consumer fireworks within the city limits of Garden City, July 1 through July 5, 2026 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Chief Ersk.

Good afternoon, Mayor Commissioner. In 2025, the Kansas legislature changed the laws in relation to the sale of fireworks. As part of the new law, the state has expanded the authorization authorized fireworks season to be now begin June 20th and end July 7th. While this change has while this has changed the state allowance, cities and counties are still able to dictate the specific dates of sale and discharge locally within the respective time frame. The discharge of consumer fireworks within the city limits of Garden City has been a long-standing tradition. for citizens during the 4th of July holiday. Historic Historically, the sale of fireworks in Penny County has been permitted from June 27th through the July 5th, and the city commission has approved a waiver of the city of code of ordinance 62-12 allowing for discharge of fireworks within the city limits from July 1st through July 5th from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. The Garden City Fire Department and the Garden City Police Department each spend a significant amount of time canvasing fireworks stands, tents, and/or buildings to get the information in the hands of consumers regarding what is to be allowed to be discharged and authorized dates and time. Additionally, GCFD and GCPD staff utilize social media campaigns heavily as well as canvasing neighborhoods throughout the city and ensuring proper ensuring proper rules and regulations of discharging fireworks are understood and followed. The collaboration between GCFD and GCPD is in conducting proactive patrolling and allowing for communication with the public has resulted in positive feedback from the community. The alternatives before you. The governing body may approve the waiver of ordinance 62-12 to allow the discharge of consumer fireworks within city limits of Garden City, Kansas during the date range of July 1st through July 5th, 2026 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Alternative, the governing body may approve a waiver ordinance 62-12 allowing the discharge of consumer fireworks within the city lons of Garden City from beginning dates of June 20th

through July 7th, 2026 from the hours 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Alternative three, the governing body may approve the w may not approve the waiver of ordinance 62-12 to allow discharge of fireworks within the city limits of garden city. Staff recommends alternative one. Be happy to answer any questions. Any questions for chief? Chief, where does the county stand on firework discharge right now? Have they had an update on that? Yeah. uh in 2024 the resolution was rewrote uh that banned the discharge until lifted but authorized the sales on the uh from 27th to the end of July. So

I will pay attention to the drought index and make a recommendation either the first of June first meeting of June or the last meeting in June to lift that resolution that advance the discharge. That's what I was going to ask is kind of where you at on because it's we haven't had any rain hardly at all. So, okay. As of today, yeah, no fireworks. Hope a couple months we can we can get some running and live that resolution. So,

great. Any further questions? I will entertain a motion for this item. I move to approve um the waiver of ordinance 62-12 to allow for the discharge of consumer fireworks within the city limits of Garden City, Kansas during the date range of July 1st through July 5th, 2026 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. which is alternative one. There's been a motion. Is there a second? I second. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Motion passes. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. Thanks.

Change some seats out here. Uh item 12D. This is uh our budget discussion for this meeting. This will focus on the review of debt service, special revenue funds, and internal service funds. Turn it over to Jared. Good afternoon. make sure I'm on here. All right. Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

I will uh I'll I'll hit this first sheet first and kind of talk through it. Um so this is in in the past a few years back we would individually have on each um budget. We'd build spreadsheets for each of them and it showed that starting cash balance all the revenues and expenditures for the current year next year and the ending cash balance. But the new system produces reports automatically for the budget amounts but it doesn't show the cash flow. So this front page is the cash flow. you'll see your 2025 um ending balance or your 2026 starting balance. So that's where we start the year in each of these funds. Then you'll see your 26 revenues and 26 expenses based off of the revised figures that we're presenting today and your ending 2026 balance. And then the same for 27 revenues and expenditures. And so this shows you a a highle overview of where we anticipate the ending cash would be at the end of 2027 um based on the figures. This will change slightly throughout the process. So you'll see this one is the funds we're looking at today. Um next meeting will be enterprise funds then general fund. I'll continue to print this full breakdown of all the funds and you'll be able to track if there's anything that changes in these cash balances, the target cash balance or what we anticipate will change. I'll try to remember to highlight those for you and say, "Hey, this is what changed or things we made adjustments to." I don't foresee these uh the bond and interest will have maybe some slight changes, but the rest of these funds um probably won't have a lot of change as we go through the rest of the budget process. So the first fund we'll look at is fund 2011 which is our bond and interest. This is the fund that covers our debt service for our general obligation bonds. Uh your revenues are primarily property tax. So we allocate um whatever is necessary from the budget kind of the property tax pie that the city will levy to make sure that debt service is covered. And then in the current in the next year we budget a 5% coverage amount just for kind of unforeseen anything that comes up or uh adds a little bit of variability for collections of property tax. Um, and so you'll see that amount in the 5% coverage line is just for 27.

Um, but the only expenses out of this budget, this fund are our principal payments and our interest payments. And we pay half the interest in May and the other half of the interest and the principal in the fall. And so those those will come out. Um, you'll you'll see the costs from 25 actual, the far left column. Your original 26 budget is the second column. 26 revised is if we've already made a revision of the budget in the system, it would show there. But for most of the funds, they'll be the same as your original budget. Then you can see your 26 actual, the 26 projection, the second to the right is what we are uh putting in as our revised budget or what we're uh projecting and um changing to. And then the 27 original number. Um and then in bonded interest, just a note here, you've seen this debt service total payment go down the last few years. We haven't issued debt for general purposes, and so that debt service is decreasing. So, our costs in 27 are somewhat less than our 2026 costs, assuming we don't issue a a new bond for general purposes. And I'll just go unless you stop me. So, if you have questions, feel free to jump in, but otherwise I'll just roll.

Just a refresher, the negative sign doesn't mean what it usually means, right?

Correct. Negative is revenues. So, all the credits show up as a negative number. So, the the 3,000 and 4,000 codes on the far left are all revenue codes. And then 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 are all expenses. So anything negative means money in and then the positive mean money out. And so if you look at the the bottom line uh like in 26 projection on the bond interest fund you have 154,100 um that is the delta between how much revenue we're bringing in how much expenses. So this fund will draw down 154,000 in cash because you've got um an excess of expenses over revenues in that amount. And so really the the target for bond interest is to end up with a $0 balance at the end of 2027 based on that 5% holdover amount.

Great. Thank you. SC. Okay. Yeah, I can, but I need to turn this on the right.

All right. One more up. So, next is 202 is the TIFF fund. Um, this we track our all of our uh development incentive programs. So, our TIFFs, our RHIDs, and our CIS. Uh, this is really a pass through fund. the money comes in and then we disperse it on to the development that it applies to. And so you'll see a revenue code in the 30,000 numbers. Um, and then an associated 6,000 code is the expense, but the same amount will be in and out minus the experience where we have uh one of the developments that ends or or completes all their revenue reimbursement. Um, Chapel Heights was the first one. Last year we had Chapel Heights one. We anticipate Chapel Heights 2 likely will finish being paid out this year. And then kind of on the radar for the next couple years, um we have the Maggis, the Maggie edition, um Pioneer and this East Cambridge 2. So some of these top 3904, 3905, 3907, those are likely to hit the next year or two. So those are kind of the next ones on the radar to likely finish being paid out and be turned off. And so you'll notice that the revenue anticipated in Chapel goes down. it was a million was our original expectation, but since part of that development is now finished being reimbursed, the revenue is actually going to drop down. So, um, normally you see these uptake just as valuations go up. We kind of project what we think the valuation increase is going to bring in. Um, but really the same revenue is budgeted as the expense line. The only aster uh outlier to that is the the top line is tax distribution. This is the city's uh this distributions for the city's tiff district which is Shman Crossing. And so this pays the debt service. Um, which if you go to the second page, you'll see in line 6682 and 6683 on the far left. That's the interest and the principal on the bond specifically for that tiff district. We're paying them as scheduled, but any excess brought in um in property tax allocation is being held over and we'll pay those debts that debt service off early. So probably four, five, six years early is what we're looking at as far as pays for that right

now. Um the rest is really just money in and and money out. Next is fund 301. This is our community trust reserve. We've used this for different projects over the past few years um with the intent of kind of a reimbursement mindset of the it may front the cost of a project, but then we're going to budget to replenish this uh fund back up to around $2 million. Um, right now we've allocated amounts budgeted here for the commitment that the city commissioner has made to Western State Bank for the Shat loans as well as stream First Bank for GC partners to to back those uh development projects for housing. And so those are budgeted here and they're going to be taking away what could otherwise be allocated for projects. Um, but we don't have any any anticipated projects we'd be using this for at this time. Anyway, we have a little bit of uh reimbursements coming back in because this was used for um past projects that money is coming back in to be reimbursed. Next, fund 302 is the capital improvement reserve. Uh this is where funds are held over from the general fund for something that wasn't able to be accomplished in the current year. Uh you'll remember at the end of each year we do have a request where we ask to transfer those dollars over and then they're held for for different things. Um, I'll point to a few lines here. The the top one, 3179, uh, Starbond collections. Um, there's a 2025 actual amount of about 550,000. This was when the phase one of the Starbond paid out and phase two didn't start collecting yet. The amounts that were going to be allocated to that development, the the the Star Bond piece was dispersed to the city, the city's piece of that. And so we held it over and rather than incorporate it into our normal sales tax collections and and make it look like 20 five was in a spike year, um, we held them in this fund and we could use them for one-time purposes. Um, so that's something that could be used to balance a budget down the road or for one-time projects, maybe CIP, something like that. So that'll be kind of as we get to the endgame of a budget,

we'll come back and talk about that amount. Um, but we held that independently so that it wouldn't make the number so year-to-year things looked comparable in the general fund budget. Um, you also have, so in the expense lines, kind of pointing to some of them that you see recurring, you have your repair buildings line, which is 5471. Uh, we hold over amounts for the general fund for this building. So if there's anything that goes down, like the elevator or an HVAC or things like that, uh, see Lynn's ear marking that for elevator hypothetically. Um, we've been build up this fund. Um, we've also done a few remodels of offices and spaces and things like that

out of the accumulated amounts here. So you'll see that amount that 166 289 it's what's been kind of held over past years. We also have a new line here. The repaired dilapidated structures is 5493. Um in the NDS budget we're budgeting for this in case instances come up where the city's going to have to go remediate some of that. And we're going to hold those funds over as well to build up if the instance arises that that happens. Uh $39,000 probably isn't going to get you super far. And so we'll build that up in the anticipation of being able to remediate those down the road. Was the elevator also qualified? Yeah, probably should. Yeah.

Um you'll see um Project Public Art uh 6060. This is the amounts we get from Commerce Bank for our purchase card program. We get a rebate back from Commerce Bank. It's to the tune of $1,000, $1,200 a month. And we've earmarked that year's past for uh park or not parks, for art. Um so if there someone wants to put an art installation, we'll put in the base or we'll help to the mural at the municipal court. We use the funds for that. Um, so we look for things to kind of beautify Garden City with those funds. Uh, cemetery improvement at the bottom of that page six is, uh, held over for it was the bell tower in the past. With the ongoing project, we were going to probably identify what we can do with some of the remaining geo bond dollars as well, uh, to kind of edify and beautify the the cemetery. Um, apart from that, um, a lot of the lines kind of repeat. You'll see the new equipment 6515 down to 6541. These are what are held over for those departments. And so it's something that was budgeted in 25 or 24 and is held over. PDS is very large. We've held and you're marked quite a bit there for the temporarily see and the remodel that's currently paying the the lease payments and some of the um acquisition of equipment they'll need. Um whereas the actual re the remodel costs are coming out of a different line. This is kind of paying the uh being used for the the monthly operation of the that space at this time. Um and then you have some of the programs like zoo for the conservation uh phup center usage. The revenues collected for those purposes come back to fund the programs themselves. And so you see those here. The next budget is fund 303. It's a special traffic revenue. Um this is one where we get dollars from the state highway funds and we also get a funds from the federal exchange for like Kot projects for road projects. Um, our revenues are about a million dollars a year for this fund and have been historically. Um, but the expenses we've typically covered out of this has been some material street repair lines for road projects, some of the chip seal and crack seal and then all the equipment

for streets and traffic have generally come out of the special traffic way. Um, one dilemma we're running into is where those expenses are going up at a pretty rapid pace and the revenue is staying steady at a million dollars. We're probably going to have to start looking at strategy changes to what we use this fund for. And um when we get to general fund, you'll see in this year it really cover the general fund street and traffic primarily cover salary and benefits and not a lot else. We're probably going to have to shift some of those demands to the general fund budget um because special traffic weight is just not having the the revenue is no longer adequate to cover uh equipment and and those capital projects. And so whether that be a shift to where the the road project cost goes to general fund and we pay equipment and the other miscellaneous things out of here or vice versa, uh there will probably just have to be some kind of delta shift in in strategy here. Um as we go through the next page, you'll see this is the traffic operations budget. Um the third line down is insurance. We continue to see increases in insurance. We got a decrease this year with the change of our insurance provider uh that we did at the end of last year. And so you'll see our original budget was 131,000. We we went down to 100,550, but we anticipate that trend to still go go up in the future. And so that's one line that's pulled away from this what this fund has been able to accomplish. And then you'll see our material street repair line is actually decreased for 2026 and then a little bit of an uppick in 27, but not as much as normal. Um that 600,000 has been kind of the standard in this fund for a long time. Um but equipment costs are what are allocating a little bit more of the demand here. And even in this budget, we've pushed back some of the equipment that we otherwise would have wanted to get this year due to just funding constraints. And so those demands are going to come. The equipment's going to break. It's going to end up getting old and we're going to have to replace it. So, um, likely we'll see, like I said, one of one or the other will go will go across. Um, but this this is where all of our dump trucks, um, the spreaders, the plow blades, all those things for kind of winter operations comes out of,

as well as the general street equipment that they use on a daily basis. The next section is special trafficway signs and markings. Uh this is specifically for the roadway traffic signs. Um this maintenance traffic signals is the top line and this is where we've been attacking getting those um conflict monitors done a couple a year. Um for next year we've reduced that down to 100,000. So it'll pretty much knock out one intersection whereas we've been trying to uh hit a couple intersections a year over the last few years. And then for special traffic snow removal is the last section there. Um, and this is where their brine comes out of, their salt and sand comes out of. And then they have um some smaller equipment they replace specifically for snow operations. And that comes out of that um that supplies that line as well. Next is fund 304. Uh this is for our special improvements. This is really our weed cutting and remediation of nuisances. When we build someone to say, "Hey, we had to go take care of this for you." They pay it back. It comes and replenishes this fund, but the cost initially comes out of the city here. Um, we adjusted our administrative fee last year with the fee schedule change. So, there will be uh we were kind of depleting the fund over the years. Our our our administrative cost wasn't enough to really cover the the full cost of uncollectibles. And so, I think with the adjustment, we'll we'll see this fund build up a little bit more healthily over the years um to be able to balance that.

What is the revenue stream to this when we finally do realize reimburse uh reimbursement? Does it go into the a negative expense or does it it goes into a revenue? It goes into a revenue. Um is there a predictable relationship between the revenue we get back in the year we incurred the expense versus the ones that get levied against the property and we don't see it for who knows how long. Who knows how long.

Um it's not super trendw worthy of a trajectory. um we've used pretty kind of rudimentary balanced numbers, but we've seen pretty like the the timeline of an individual instance isn't really predictable, but overall the the revenue has been pretty steady with expenses. Um minus we've been slowly depreciating the administrative piece of that. Um we were charging $100 um and administrative cost covered less and less as the cost for the actual mowing went up. And so we've changed structure where now we assess the the cost of the remediation and then the administrative fee is separate to make sure that it's carrying what it should as far as covering the administrative cost of that. Um and so I do think revenues will uptick and expenses will likely stay similar. And so I project it'll be better. But

is the code is it currently written allow for recovery of that through a citation and fine versus a uh a lean against the property? And if so, uh, can that get adjudicated through municipal court? I guess. Period. Yeah.

We've never done it that way, but we could do it that way. We would just have to set it up so that when they got the citation, it would it would work similar to what we would do in a restitution aspect. It would become an aspect of restitution. We would have a separate fine and court cost because we wouldn't want the fine to be the assessment because the assessment would change. So, we would set a fine. The fine could be something simple like $100 or $200, whatever you wanted it to be. It could even be $50. And then we would set the assessment as the restitution, the restitution going to the city. And then that would be adjusted based on the actual cost. There'd be a court cost piece on that too. Then if it goes into There would be Yeah, there'd be a court cost as well. Any other questions on that?

Would that take place of the administrative fee or would that be in addition to there's a court cost to it? It would probably cost more for the

those in non-compliance to have court costs and a fee associated even if the fee was minimal. Um I think if we're targeting around $100 of administrative collection um I think we've reduced that down because that was supposed to be the the weed cutting plus ad admin fee. I don't remember what exactly it is um off the top of my head but I think it's a reduced amount to what um what would be court costs and a fee of some kind. Next we have cemetery endowment. Um this there's a portion of the revenue collected for cemetery spaces that gets set aside for this but it very slowly accumulates. So there's not a lot here. Um we budgeted um in the current year 26. We diminish it down since we don't anticipate spending the dollars and we put it to 27. That way there's a a budget authority allowed for next year. Um, but we don't have a plan necessarily to spend these dollars on on anything at the cemetery, but they're available for for improvements or beautifification, which is kind of the intent of the the endowment fund. Next is fund 306, which is special recreation and parks. Uh, similar to special trafficway, there's a very fixed revenue that comes in. A third of the liquor tax that we get goes to the special recreation and parks fund. And so, it's been to the tune of around $150,000 a year. So, that is available for us to use for parks and recreation purposes. The last few years we allocate a portion. The bottom line here you'll see 7014 is the transfer to the golf course. So this helps to subsidize the golf uh the golf fund and that's been increased the last few years. So it's at $80,000 a year which takes about half of the revenue. And then we've also had a line where the transfer lease um lease agreement golf 6573 has been paying back for the fleet of um golf carts that were purchased in 2021 I believe uh or 2022. So that was this is the last year. 26 is the last year of that repayment. Um but 27 we look to possibly be 27 to 28 we anticipate we're going to have to replace that fleet again. Um and so there will then have to be a financial way to accomplish that. Golf probably can't afford to spend two or $250,000 on

golf carts in one year. And so something where the special parks and wreck allocates towards that or the um recreation reserve we'll look at different ways. Um but that 25,000 drops off but don't quote me on that it not coming back next year. some allocation piece. Um the rest of the balance goes towards parks projects, things like that. Um this year there's uh an equipment that they're looking to buy for golf um for that $40,000 in 26. And then there's no other additional expenses planned for 27 this time as they build up some funds to then use for a larger project in the future. Uh fund 307, similar to that, you also get a third of the alcohol tax here um for APAC. Um so you'll see that we've increased the allocation amount uh to 150 for 27 u with the goal being we open up the the amounts available in the initial distribution of the grant rather than have the secondary and tertiary distributions that you guys have had the last few years where people come in after the fact and ask for those a funds and so we can try to align those with the revenue coming in and if we give out $150,000 a year and bringing in about $150,000 that would be the ideal is that we're not growing this fund for a very specific thing we can't really uh use down the road.

Mhm. Fund 308 is for the Finup Trust. Um this specifically is funds received from FinUp. We got a check today. I think on the next agenda uh you'll have the letter and the um the thank you to the FinUp Foundation for that. Um but right now zoo projects, we have kind of a variety of zoo projects that are being paid for through the FinUp Foundation. Um and then the park uh project is carrying a balance of about 420,000. Um that has for Lightener U. We're allocating that towards Lightner, Cleaver, and Fansler improvements. um concessions and bathroom buildings for each and so that will likely get started here this year or early next year as we have adequate we believe we have adequate funds especially with what we received today to get th the those rolling. So that'll be expensed down and then we'll continue to build project uh balances for future Fin improvements as well. Um and for Karen's sake being new this is this can be used for the Finnup scout parkup park or the finup center at the zoo. So they're very much tied to the finup uh pieces. Um fun 309 is risk management. This is where we pay some of our small claims or settled claims not going through insurance. Um, we've seen these claims likely going up in the next few years with our insurance continue to increase the deductible amounts. It's going to be likely that the city settles more things out of pocket rather than going through insurance. Um, and so we've uh continue to see the $30,000 in revenue from transfer city departments. If we get reimbursements back from insurance payouts, um, and it's not tied to a specific cost of a material or an equipment that was purchased. um it's for labor and rental of equipment or things like that. Um we generally put those in here to build this fund back up to help cover um when they come back. Next is fund 310, which is drug enforcement. This is through the PD. Um we get some state tax distribution on this. It's not a lot um but they use it for K9 specifically K9 training, K9 supplies. Um and we've done that for the last few years and equipment that goes towards the canines as well. We anticipate continue to do so when we get those dollars. um and they're to the tune of about 10 grand a year um depending, but that's kind of the

ballpark. And so it helps to just offset our cost of our K9 um officer. Line or fund 311 is drug DEA forfeite. This is for drug forfeite money that we would get. We've seen a significant decrease of this. There is some balance here where interest income comes in every year. Um but a lot of the time this this forfeitures just aren't occurring like they used to. Um so very minimal budget here, minimal activity, and and very minimal cash balance that's carried over. 312 is community development loan. This is for loan programs through um for like window loans and storm doors. Um I think the last usage of this I look back was in 2021. So it's not a program that's utilized very much, but the citizens can receive the city will help fund and then they pay back the city for that. Um it's just not been taken advantage of much the last few years. I think a lot of institutions offer financing and things themselves and so it's probably not as much of a demand on on this but that funds set aside for that program. 314 is economic development loan. Uh this was our CDBG grants which was closed out by the state. Um so all that's left we have a few loans remaining that have balances that have been unpaid. the rest of the funds that we were holding have already been returned to the state, but as we collect on these outstanding balance fund loans um or the state determines to close them out, then we'll close out this fund. We won't we won't have it anymore. Um and I'll work with great I'm working with Great Plains Development. There wasn't a lot of direction from the state at the time. They closed out the program. They just said, "Hey, give us our money back." And then we said, "What about all these outstanding things?" And they've been working through the process of getting those done. And so this is one fund I anticipate will go away um here in the next little bit, but um there is still a little bit of kind of work to do to close it out. 315 is enhanced wireless 911. Um we get a part of a telephone franchise is specifically for 911 services which we use generally for um training and education for dispatch staff as well as equipment maintenance contracts, software that goes particularly towards dispatch. Um and so we had some equipment purchases. contributed this

fund contributed towards the mobile command unit a couple years ago. The cost there as well as some um redundant equipment for dispatch to be able to if you know our dispatch center went down, they'd have redundancy elsewhere or have the ability to be mobile. Um so we bought some equipment that has depleted some of the balance of this fund. So this year we've diminished the training and education and travel expenses for dispatch as well as some of the equipment they would otherwise be buying um with the intent to build the fund back up a little bit. um those costs will instead come out of the general fund PD budget this year and next year. And then once we've recovered a little bit of that kind of buffer in uh cash balance in this fund, um you'll see those costs returned back probably in 2028 with the training and travel as well. 317 is Haida. This is high inensity drug trafficking uh grant that we received money from um to help specifically target drug issues and and drug remediation. And so we get um that you'll see in 2025 we had 103,000 in revenue. The timing of these grants is a little bit finicky where depending on like we usually have two years of grant open at a time. Sometimes those costs come in u two two in one year and then we'll have a lower year because of timing. And so that 103,000 is more than we anticipate. We usually expect around 50 or 60,000 in in the grant revenue. And then city allocates money as well from the PD fun uh budget to cover basically the costs of the employee their salary and benefits um that is focused on the high high drug trafficking. And so this at the end of the year we'll transfer the costs out of the PD budget for that employees salary and benefit cost to this fund and you'll see expense down. You'll notice that the city's grant share 3090 is decreasing in 2027. We have a fund balance. We've been building this one up for a few years. It's in a healthy spot. So, we're going to diminish the amount of the transfer from the PD budget um and to just kind of cover exactly what we expect yearbyear since we have a healthy cash balance to kind of cover any outliers or

or decreases based on timing. 318 is housing. Um this is the payment in le of taxes um for the housing commission. Um the revenue comes from them in their tax distribution and we just have been putting it aside to build up for capital uh projects that may come for the housing uh housing corporation down the road. They did a parking lot a couple years back and this covered the cost of that or helped to cover the cost of the parking lot. Um and so we'll continue to see that fund just build up um for kind of the rainy day, the the what if when it happens. Um but I haven't heard anything from them as far as projects on the horizon. Next is uh project development. This is where our uh we have a loan that comes in from the loan payments we received from those who've received through the KCC. Um we also have held downtown project downtown development funds in here, but those were taken back out of last year's budget. Um and so you also see the the 6652 line is for city capital projects. There's a balance that's been in this fund for a handful of years. Um that was from a past capital project that had some remaining funds held over. So, this would be available if we did have something specifically to tie to a a capital project or development project. Um, but the balance of this fund is around that $170,000. So, not a not a whole lot there to to use and once it's gone, there's no other revenue source to build that back up. Uh, project safe neighborhood. This is one program similar to Haido where the timing kind of plays a factor. So, you'll see 76,000 almost 77,000 in 2025 as far as our federal grant revenue. um they haven't released, talking to the PD, they haven't released 2025's cycle or 26. And so there's some projections that the program is going away. And so uh this project safe neighborhood is one fund we may not utilize anymore. Um it's been to the tune of 30 or $40,000 a year to help offset um new equipment costs primarily for the PD. Um and so that may be something that we end up transferring back to the general fund if this uh this funding goes away. And then 321 is the opioid settlements.

This was for there was a handful of opioid settlements nationwide. Uh the city participated by letting the Kansas attorney general pursue these settlements for us and for a lot of other jurisdictions. Um and we should see money coming in from this for the next 10 years or so. Um we saw quite a bit up front and now it's going to trickle to a tune of about $20,000 a year for the next 10 years. Um and this can be used for a handful of things. The PD's been working with LiveWell to identify what to be what's best to use it for. Um, but we've uh anything kind of drug remediation or drug uh kind of attack the the issue on drugs is what the the goal of the program the funds are supposed to be used for. And we work with our attorney's office to make sure before we spend anything that it checks the boxes cuz this one's a little fluid. Um so that's our special revenue funds. We'll jump now to our internal service funds. And so fund 601 is health insurance. uh the city um to fund our health insurance program. Um we the city allocates a budgeted amount per employee. Um the city employees contribute out of their paychecks a certain amount depending on their plan and what they choose. Um and then we also have retirees on the program. And so that is the the three revenue lines you'll see at the top. Retirey health insurance. They pay the full cost um of the kind of the staying on the program. They pay the cities what the city would otherwise be paying and their own piece. Uh the transfer city departments is the amount transferred from the budgets that have staff in them and then the employee contributions line 3372 is the amount coming from our staff. Um our formula the last few years has been shifting more and more to the staff employee contribution piece as costs go up and the city has uh has been increasing their per per employee per month contribution by $20 a year. But our costs have increased beyond that. And so the the piece of the pie that is city and the piece of the pie that is employee has been shifting larger and larger employee which is pretty universal I think across the board out there with insurance rates going up at the rate that they are. So our our main costs out of this line out of this fund are the health insurance cost the premiums to Bluec Cross which is 5205.

Um there's also the clinic the our contract with the clinic cost. So 5312 is the clinic operation. Those are the two main lines. Uh we also have the 5715 miscellaneous covers like the consulting um and those that help us to uh get all of our insurance re renegotiated every year. And we have a few programs our spousal incentive and our gym membership incentive and the Bob Howerin scholarship. Um those come out of this fund but revenue comes in as well um from the employees. So uh this anticipated increases we're using are 8% for 2026 and 7 and a half for 2027. Um the city has received pretty good renewals the last few years. Um but there's always the the the fear that there we could see a 15% renewal or 12% renewal and it's just hard for us to predict. Our claims make a big difference on that. The grow clinic helps keep those down. Uh there's not we've talked about it quite a bit in the past years. It's really hard to draw a line of exactly the cost savings or the benefit we've seen at the clinic because the only way you could really quantify that is knowing what claims didn't go elsewhere. And there it's just really hard to quantify that. But um where other institutions have seen significant increases in their renewals with BlueC Cross, we historically have had pretty good renewals and we think a big part of that is keeping those claims lower by utilizing the clinic for a lot of those primary services. Um our main cost the last few years and probably in the future is pharmaceutical. So the city continues to look at ways we can and works with our consultant to try to identify ways we can keep our pharmaceutical costs lower um because we'll see better renewals as we can accomplish that as well. the last few years as well, we've also been transferring a balance from an amount from the health insurance reserve. You'll see that for 27, I don't have that included. Um the the reserve has been depleting with uh the kind of plan of attack we've used. And so my hope is that the allocation we've done the last few years with good renewals uh could keep the health insurance fund self-fulfilling for a little while. And

so there's no transfer for 2027 planned. that could pivot depending on what happens because it's an unknown at this point. Um but for right now we we did transferred for 2026 and our anticipation is hopefully no transfer for 27 to let that reserve stay as it is for workers compensation. Um this we've seen a decrease. We had a spike a couple years a few years back and so we'd increased our allocation of the amount budgeted per employee for work comp. Um we brought that back down for 2027. Um this is very much depending dependent upon our history with our work comp insurance of you know what claims we've had. Do we have a couple incidences where we have um high loss or high cost uh for for an employee who gets hurt or things like that. Um so we've had a few years of those and so as we see that come back down um we're we're appreciating that um savings by diminishing the amount we budget per employee. Um, we also do they base our initial piece off of a census of how much staff we have and then they compare it to our actual costs and uh if we overpay on that they give a rebate back. And so you'll see in in the work comp reserve which is the next fund uh there's a revenue uh that could come back into this last year there was 76,829 was what the we got back after we had paid our work comp insurance premiums when they did their final calculations and they said hey you didn't cost as much as you thought we were you were going to cost us. So, I'm hopeful that as we have good years and less incidences and we do a good job with our health safety program, we can see that rebate continue to come back and build the the work comp reserve up as well, which is at a pretty healthy healthy balance. Um, it used to be used for settling large claims. Um, I don't think Ellie could jump in and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we have any claims outstanding from before we went through Cayment. Um, and so most of those aren't going to come out of the work comp reserve like we had done in the past. Um, and so that work comp reserve balance of around 750,000 really is kind of rainy day funds available for just if if the sky starts falling and for some reason in in work comp. That's all the funds I have to cover today. I

know I talk really fast regularly when I start talking budgets. I talk extra fast. Um the I'll go more in detail when we get to enterprise funds. We'll be talking about more about projects and strategy. Same thing with the general fund. So this one's kind of high level more talked about the function of each fund because it repeats year to year and the numbers don't change a whole lot. Um, but if if you have any questions today or if you think of any after the fact, I'm always happy to to answer those. Thank you so much, Jared. All right. Thank you. Thank you for walking us through that. Yep. Thank you.

Good job. Item 12E is an executive session and we don't anticipate any action following that executive session. So, if we'd like to skip to the consent agenda, uh, and then to commissioner reports, we can do that. The appropriate motion on the consent agenda, unless you want to pull something off and talk about it separately, would be to approve items 13A through D. I make a motion that we um approve the consent agenda from 13A through 13D.

There's been a motion there second. Second. There's been a motion and second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed? Nay. Motion passes. And first up for city commissioner reports is Commissioner Council Lozano.

I um want to talk about a couple of events that I attended last week. I attended the chamber banquet. Um it was wonderful to see how many local businesses and organizations came together. It's um it's a reminder of how strong and connected our community is. I also attended the real men real leaders she leads. Um they hosted their annual banquet. It was amazing to hear and see and learn about all the amazing things that these young boys are doing. Um, events like this remind me of how much good stuff is happening across Garden City and that Garden City is a good place to live. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Cessna. Um, just want to congratulate Corey on her success on the CMC program. Uh, it is teacher appreciation week this week. So, uh, please congratulate uh, teacher for what they've done. Uh we have one uh teachers around that probably have uh inspired us. So uh you might uh kind of reach out and say thank you to a teacher this week. Tomorrow is National School Nurse Day uh recognizing school nurses and everything that they do. So a lot of things happening this week. Uh just a couple of more weeks of school uh left and then we're into uh summer. Wanted to also mention that a lot of um kind of mentioned today as we were out and about uh in the going around the district, but a lot of construction projects going on not only in the community, but around uh Garden City. So, just be mindful of the construction workers as they're trying to help uh improve and expand our community. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Lengraph. So, I was able to attend the Garden City area chamber banquet and just want to say congrats to all the award winners for that. also was able to attend the Cinco de Mayo multicultural event at Stevens Park. And as always, it was great to see such a huge turnout at the event. Park was completely full of people celebrating, lines going all the way across the park. So, it's just great being able to see that. Then also just want to say congrats to Corey on earning her CNC designation and also say thank you because by furthering your training, you will be making Garden City a better place as well.

Thank you, Commissioner Oiler. Vice Mayor Oiler, excuse me. Um the premeating was very nice. It's always good to go through those development plans and just what the process looks like. I know um when I was on the planning commission, it was always nice to know that if we had questions, they were well thought out and a lot of times when an item came before the planning commission, um we knew that a lot of thought and work had gone into it and there were times where if we had questions we could ask them and sometimes they were answered and sometimes we had to table a project to get more information, but it always went very well. And so I just really um appreciate all of the work that they do and preparing us and and keeping everybody informed along the process because there's a lot of moving parts in those projects and so um to be able to manage that they they really do a good job. Um, I also attended the chamber banquet and it was always exciting to see uh, you know, the nonprofit of the year with it being Finny County Public Library and um, Kelzanetti Group who was the um, small business and Security State Bank who was a large business and then um, Andy Farmy who received the award of merit. So, congratulations to all of them. Um, also attended the Real Mineral Leaders Banquet. It's it is it's just a it's a great opportunity especially because they've expanded to do the she leads program with girls and to be able to see um just their progress that they've made over the last you know few years has just been amazing and to see that impact and every time we see you know the the um real men leaders whether they're part of the fifth grade group or if they're the alumni you know to see them out and continuing uh to do good in the community and and it's, you know, they've been um around long enough so that you can see what happens after they graduate. And so to be able to follow their lives and I'm so excited to

see what the She Leads program does as well. So um and congratulations to Corey. I know that that was a long process and um we just appreciate the fact that she wants to continue on and be the best that she can be as a municipal clerk. That's all I have.

Great. Thank you. Yeah. Happy Cinco deio. Um it's it's always fun when it lands on a city commission meeting. First congratulations to Corey and also just really impressive numbers from our social media, our communications crew. Um wow, the increase there was impressive. And I also attended the chamber banquet. So thank you the chamber for hosting and celebrating the businesses in town. Not just those that won awards, but those that have worked tremendously hard to make our community a better place to work and live. And also what so much fun we had. Um, thank you to parks and rec director Tesha Herd for uh humoring some some fun for us and um at our table, Matt and I, we pushed around some toy tractors and put some sugar sugar sand onto our cheesecake. So, that was a joy. And then I was also at the Roman Readers banquet. Um, it has always been fun to see the progression and also to see how excited these students are at coming to know them also and being a part of the program and um, leading their dress for success, but also just simply seeing that they do form young boys and also now young girls to care a lot about the community that they live in. And I think that's really impressive. And at the end of this week is Mother's Day. So, happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, especially my mom. Um just thank you for the love and also for all the teachers that have supported and loved me so well. And we will move on to item 12E. Who should be included and how long?

Uh 20 minutes. Uh and myself and Ellie Vap, human resources director.

I'll entertain a motion for this item. Move to go into executive session pursuant to KSA75-4319B1 pertaining to personnel matters of non-elected personnel and their contractual obligations. Because if this matter were discussed in open session, it would invade the privacy of those discussed for 20 minutes, including city manager Matt Allen and um HR director Ellie Vap. There's been motions there. Second. Well, starting at um 2:25. Great. Second. There's been a motion and a second to start at 225 for this item. Any further discussion?

Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Oppos? Nay. Motion passes.

We have concluded our executive session and no binding action was taken. This concludes all of our items on our agenda. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you all. Thank you.