City Commission - Regular Meeting

Thank you for this day you have given us and this rain you have provided us. Lord, we ask for your wisdom and guidance. Lord, we pray that you watch over everyone, especially our first responders. In your name we pray, amen.

Amen. Item four is the approval of minutes of the last regular meeting, which if no corrections are offered shall stand approved. Are there any corrections?

I didn't see any.

Seeing none, they shall stand approved as is. Item five is public comment. This is time on our agenda for those members of the public to offer comments to the city commission for items not on the agenda. If you come, please state your name for the record.

Sorry, I'm a little slow. My name is Gary Condit. I own a property at 312 North Main to 209 North Main. And 211 North Main. First off, I want to congratulate the commission and the city manager. I think they're doing a fairly good job of running the city. But I do have some squawks. My biggest thing is parking in the downtown area. And I moved here in 89, and that's been a problem with the city since I moved here. Again, start with the 200 block of North Main. John Chappell's little whatever. If I don't agree with it, I don't think I ought to be subsidizing his profit, but that's up to the city. But my biggest concern is it makes one hell of a dam. When I came over here at 1230, the water backed up in front of everything north of his little eating area, was about eight inches deeper than the concrete bib on the curb line. That means it was almost 24 inches deep from the curb to the edge of the water. Sorry. Below the eating area, it was almost bone dry. That happens every time of rain. I know we don't have that much rain, But the last month or so, it's been, I live on Main Street, so I gotta walk through that every time I go through, get out to my car. Handicapped parking. There is not one handicapped spot on Main Street, not one. If I had a standalone business on Main Street, I'd be required to have a handicapped parking place. There's handicapped parking places in all the public lots. That's real handy if you're handicapped to walk all the way around the block to get to a business. The other parking thing is the angle. When we did Main Street, you change the angle. The tip of the parking place now from the old market is almost five feet steeper in angle. It's next to impossible to go back out here because you can't see. You've got to back almost half your car length out into the street. to see, especially if you've got a big truck beside you, even a reasonable sized truck or station wagon that you can't see over. I need to get better. That's pretty much my complaints. Like I said, you know, it's just drive downtown sometime during the business day and park on Main Street and you'll understand exactly what I'm saying. about the parking angle. It's just almost next to impossible. I've backed out and I've hit somebody. You can't see. You've got to back almost half the length of your car out into the street before you can really see. And I drive a pickup truck. So, like I said, I'm pretty pleased with the way the city is being run right now. which the fire department didn't turn their sirens on until they got out to the street. I live right across the street from them. I know when they go to work. So, thank you very much. I appreciate the work you're doing. Thank you. Thank you.

Are there any others for public comment? Seeing no items for six, we move on to item seven.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor, Commissioners. We'll start off the report of the City Manager. I'm going to introduce Christina Silva from the Morris Lang Law Firm. She's a new face and part of the benefit of the firm, the Deering Griselle Cunningham Firm, going into partnership with Morris Lang. Jennifer, Jake, and Jimmy, all out of town this week, and so Christina's here today. filling in. So I'll let her introduce herself and a colleague from Morris Lang who's also helping the city of Garden City this summer.

So I'm Christina Silva, Morris Lang Law Firm. Jennifer, Jimmy, and Jake got us right in time. So I'm out of the Wichita office, born and raised there, went to school in Topeka, so I've kind of been everywhere in Kansas and I'm very happy to be here now. But, yeah, I've been an attorney for a couple of years now at the office. That's one of the main firms I've known. I've worked there for four years on and off as a clerk and then as an attorney. So we're very excited to be here. I am very obsessed with your guys' food. I'm Mexican, and it's really hard to find a good Mexican restaurant that you enjoy that's not my mom's house. So I have been very, very, very pleased. I will say that. That single-handedly is getting me back into town. So I don't know who's in charge of that, but I love it. And then I brought with me Brianna Morseo. So she is one of our clerks, and I'll let her talk a little bit about herself.

If you want to come to the microphone. Okay.

Hi, my name is Brandon Morseo. I grew up in Leota and graduated from there in 21. And then I've been at Washburn ever since. I did my undergraduate there, and I just completed my first year of law school. And I decided to join Morris Lang as a summer associate working at the Garden City office. And I mean, I'm pretty familiar with Garden City, but I'm glad to be back for the summer and spending time with family. getting to know everybody a little bit, getting a feel for what all Jake and Jennifer do. So thank you.

Welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Christina. Thank you, Brianna.

The balance of the report of the city manager or staff reports, are there any questions over those? If not, moving on to meetings of note. Plenty of activities going on. If there's things you're interested in attending and they require RSVPs, feel free to let the city clerk's office know and they'll take care of the RSVPs for you. And now we're ready for 9A, the appropriation ordinance. If approved, it would be ordinance number 2612-2026A.

I move to approve appropriation ordinance number 2612-2026A.

I second. There's a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passes.

There's no ordinances and resolutions this meeting or old business. New business, if the folks from... Ms. Hooper and Dick are here. We'll turn it over to them. Kristen and Tiffany are here from the firm, and they will present the 2025 Annual Financial Report. Jared will preview that presentation.

So the City of Green City is subject to an annual audit every year through the grant guidelines, state statutes, and other financial obligations. So they're going to present their findings on the audit. Following their presentation, the alternatives for the governing body are that they may accept the annual financial report as presented or not accept the annual financial report. And staff recommends that the governing body accept the 2025 annual financial report as presented. With that, I'll turn it over to Kristin, then Danielle and Tiffany is going to run the computer.

good afternoon everybody like jared mentioned i'm kristin zekovec this is tiffany um we're going to go over some highlights of the city's 2025 audit and then as well we have some comparison graphs surrounding cities as you guys work through your 2027 budget the current year financial statements are presented on the regulatory basis of accounting which is the same as they were presented last year and this is also similar to how the city operates internally so hopefully they're A little bit easier to understand. The notes to the financial statements are on page eight, and these detail out the framework on how the financials are presented. Pages one through three are the auditor's report, and we did have an unmodified auditor's report this year, or a clean opinion on the financial statements. Statement one, or the summary statement of receipts, expenditures, and unencumbered cash, is on pages six and seven in your bond report. This statement lists all of the funds of the city. Overall, the total cash balance of the city's funds at the end of the year was 68.7 million. This is a decrease from the prior year of 5.2 million. Since the general fund is the main operating fund of the city, we do point out that that fund increased 1.3 million over the prior year. Some of it was the receipts were up three million, and that being a combination of your tax receipts were up, fees were up, and also the transfers into the general fund had increased. However, the large contributing factor to the decrease in the city's funds was the capital project funds decreasing a total of 6.6 billion over the prior year. A large part of that was 1.1 million was spent on the cemetery projects, 878,000 on water and sewer projects. And then the largest change was in this 30 cent sales tax project fund with that cash balance being down 4.5 million with the completion of the fire station. Summarized in the notes starting on page 17 is the city's debt outstanding at the end of the year. Overall, the city's debt decreased $11.3 million from the prior year. Part of that decrease was that general obligation bonds totaled $77.4 million. This was down from $84.8 million in the prior year due to the payments made. Your revenue loans are at $11.2 million, which consists of your KMEA loan and the Kansas utility loan. Temporary notes were at 5.2 million, down 375,000 from last year. And other than the general obligation bonds, the largest category is your finance leases. The finance leases in your general and special purpose funds were at 4.7 million, up one million from the prior year. Some of the larger ones are your Tyler technology, the software the city uses, the fire truck, and the new police building that was purchased. And then the business funds, the leases in that category at 49 million, down from 51.8 last year. The large ones included in that are the generator for the electric department and the Dalwood facility rights. The calculation of the city's legal debt limit is on page 118. The total debt limit for the city is 115.5 million and that applicable debt that you currently have applying to that limit is $61.7 million. So you're right at 53% of the debt limit. As I mentioned earlier, since the general fund is the main operating fund of the city, we do have some graphs specifically just on the general funds. Three main categories of receipts in the general fund are your taxes, transfers in and fees, and All three categories were up this year. Your taxes make up 60% of the total. This was compared to 62% last year, so the percentage is down. However, overall your taxes were up. The next category, transfers in, were up over a million from the prior year. The largest portion of those transfers in are from your utility funds. which was at 6.5 million this year, an increase due to an increase in administration expenses with the Third Street Fire Station. And then the fees for the general fund were also up this year. Fees going into that consist of municipal court, the rec activities, and then also the police. Since taxes make up the largest portion of the receipts in the general fund, we break the taxes down further on this slide. Your sales tax makes up the largest portion of the city's taxes in the general fund at 67% with property taxes at 29%. In the statistics section on pages 106 through 111 are detailed out the past 10 years of your tax rates along with the actual tax dollars the city's received. This next slide is the 2025 expenditures of the general fund. Overall, these categories really stay pretty consistent year to year. The two that did increase this year are the fire area, increased personnel costs and operating costs with the third fire station, and then also street was up this year with additional street projects the city had. This next slide is a comparison of your receipts and expenditures out of the general fund. So just to point out, there's three of the last ten years in which receipts in the general fund were less than the expenditures. However, a lot of this has to do with the cash need for the general fund for operations, and then you transfer out what you pay in each year to your reserve funds for those large projects. This next slide is a comparison of expenditures of federal awards. So the schedule of expenditures of federal awards for the year, or the SIFA, is on page 90 in your financial statement. To point out, too, the scale on the right, or on the left, it's increasing at multiples of 10. A lot of the grants the city has are under $100,000. However, the city did have three grants this year exceeding that amount. You had your Safe Streets for All that $342,000 was spent this year. and $1.7 million on the AIP grants for the airport. Both of those are included in the transportation category. And then there was also $1 million spent on the water reuse grant for the city that's included in the other category. So overall, the city had 15 total federal grants during the year, with five of those grants being audited as major programs. The ones we did look at for major programs were the water reuse and then the four grants included under AIP. So that was a summary of some of the numbers that Wendy These next few slides, some comparison information with the surrounding cities as you work through your 2027 budget process. So point out these comparisons are with other first class cities, populations 19,000 to 100,000. 16 cities fall into that class, the same as last year. And this information we get is from the Lincoln municipality. So it's only as good as the information that people report or the different entities report to the league. The first slide we have is on the 2025 assessed tangible valuation. Garden City is the highest out of the two local city comparisons, with a total valuation of $350 million, and this is up 7% from last year. The 10-year history for the valuation for the city is on page 108, which shows the valuation increasing for the city 67% over the 2016 amount. This next slide is the 2025 debt per capita. Both of the next two slides relate to debt. And just to point out again, this is based on what the LEAP reports. It does exclude CAPERS, OPEB, compensated absences. The LEAP reported the debt per capita for the city at 5,200, right above 5,200, which puts you above half of the cities and in the middle of Dodge and Liberal. However, if you look at your statistics section on pages 114 through 115, your debt per capita in that section is at $2,400. Puts you right above liberal if you're looking at this chart. And what we found out is some of this just has to do with the league using a lower population value than what the city actually has. This next slide on debt is just for the general obligation bonds the city has. Garden City is at the top half at $84 million with the largest portion being for the fire station and the pool. And then Lenexa is at the highest with $145 million. The next is 2025 total city levy, and this is for your 2026 budget, so for the last year's budget process. This graph tends to be the reverse order evaluation, which puts Garden City about in the middle at 38.5 mils and also seventh lowest valuation, so it's kind of hard. You don't directly see the flip-flop in the graphs because you guys are about in the middle on both of them. The 10-year history for the city is on page 111, which does point out that the city's levy has been flat for the last seven years. And if you look at the 10-year history of the city's levy, it's only increased 1.7 mil since 2016. This next slide is the total mills levied in the city by all taxing units combined. About half of the cities listed have no community college. So we did move that to the top of the graphs and then ranked these cities in order, excluding the colleges. Excluding the colleges, the Garden City falls about in the middle with a total of 169 mills spread across all taxing entities. For the college, those that do levy for the college, the levies are anywhere from 20 to 30, 35 mils was the high for the college. That's in liberal. Other than the four on the far left, all four of those levies for the college are all at 7.8, so they're all the same. So that concludes our presentation. However, we've gone over the audit in detail with staff involved with the job. If any of you have any questions as you look more in detail at the financial statements, feel free to give Tiffany or I a call. I'm happy to answer anything.

I just appreciate the graphs that especially show where we are in relation to other cities of the first class because there are often times we hear from people that may or may not understand what those tax rates mean and that they always say Garden City is the highest tax rate. Obviously, when you look at the statistics and you look at the information, you can see that we're clearly not. I mean, we're kind of in the middle there. And so thank you for pointing that out and putting that together. I'll make copies of those. Any other questions or comments?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next up is item 12B, Finance Director Coleman will review the general fund and provide information on anticipated property tax impact of the current state of the draft budget. Jared, I'll let you come trade seats with me.

THANK YOU. I'LL READ THE MEMO FROM THE AGENDA FIRST, AND THEN WE'LL START DIGGING IN EVERYTHING. SO THIS PORTION OF THE 2027 PROPOSED BUDGET PRESENTATION FOCUSES ON THE GENERAL FUND. AS IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, THE GENERAL FUND REVIEW WILL INCLUDE BOTH REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES. THE GENERAL FUND REVENUES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ASSUMPTIONS ON THESE LARGE REVENUE LINE ITEMS. NUMBER ONE, ADVALORUM PROPERTY TAX NUMBER THAT REPRESENTS THE 3% INCREASE IN VALUATION. THE TOTAL DOLLAR VALUE ASSESSED IN PROPERTY TAXES FOR THE CITY OF GUERNA CITY FOR 2026 WAS 12,274,793. BASED ON A FINAL EVALUATION OF 318,821,243. ASSUMING AN INCREASE OF 3%, THE PRELIMINARY ESTIMATION OF THE EVALUATION FOR THIS YEAR IS 328,385,880. A FLAT MILL LEVY IS PROJECTED TO PROVIDE 12,648,128 DOLLARS IN ADVALOR AND PROPERTY TAX REVENUE FOR THE CITY. AS PRESENTED, THE AIRPORT FUND WOULD REQUIRE 2,502,146 IN ADVALOR AND PROPERTY TAX AND THE DEBT SERVICE FUND WOULD REQUIRE 2,613,855, NOT CONSIDERING ADDITIONAL DEBT SERVICE BEING ADDED WITH THE 2026 GEO BOND ISSUANCE. THIS WOULD LEAVE $7,532,127 ALLOCATED TO THE GENERAL FUND FOR A FLAT MILL RATE. And that's basing off a 3% assumption. We'll have a final initial evaluation here about mid-June. And so by the next meeting, hopefully I have that for you. 2026 city sales tax, county sales tax, and consumer use tax receipts, which remain at the approved 2026 budget amounts. These represent a 0.3% and a minus 0.9% and a minus 1.6% change relative to the 2025 actual figures. 2027 city sales tax, county sales tax, and consumer use tax, which represent a 2.7, 3.8, and 4.8% increase respectively over the 2026 revised budget amounts. BY THE TIME THE GOVERNING BODY IS POSITIONED TO CONSIDER AN INDICATION OF REVENUE NEUTRAL RATE INTENT IN EARLY JULY, PUBLISH A NOTICE FOR REVENUE NEUTRAL RATE HEARING AND OR NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING IN EARLY AUGUST, OR FINALIZE AND ADOPT THE 2027 BUDGET IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, THERE WILL BE MORE CLARITY ON THESE REVENUE LINE ITEMS. THE GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES SHOWN IN THE BUDGET REFLECT THE DEPARTMENT BUDGET REQUESTS AS PRESENTED TO THE CITY MANAGER FOR PRELIMINARY REVIEW. While this usually yields a city manager's proposed budget that requires a suggested ad valorem tax amount higher than the governing body desires, it serves as a good starting point for the budget discussions that ensue over the following two months, with full transparency into the department requests, administrative recommendations, and governing body decisions. As in years past, department directors presented fair and reasonable budget requests. At this time, general fund departments have not been asked to provide recommended budget cuts. IF THE TARGET OF THE 2027 BUDGET IS TO ACHIEVE A FLAT MILL LEVY, THE GENERAL FUND AS PRESENTED TODAY WOULD NEED TO BE REDUCED BY $3,695,303. THE CITY EXPECTS TO RECEIVE THE ESTIMATED VALUATION FROM THE COUNTY BY JUNE 15, 2026. THIS VALUATION WILL REPLACE THE 3% INCREASE ASSUMPTION. DEPENDENT UPON THE ESTIMATE, THE SHORTFALL FOR THE GENERAL FUND MAY INCREASE OR DECREASE. At that time, staff will work to provide scenarios for the governing body to choose from to achieve a balanced budget, which may include adjusting projected city revenues or eliminating some expenses. So there's no specific action this time, but at the end of the discussion today, staff would request some preliminary feedback, if you have any, and direction from the commission for preparation of budget scenarios to be presented at a future meeting. So if there's anything that stands out to you as far as levers you want me to present or work through as we go, we can go ahead and do that. AND WITH THAT, WE'LL JUMP INTO THE BINDER AND START GOING THROUGH. SO THE FIRST PAGE IS THE SAME ONE YOU'VE SEEN ON THE OTHER BUDGETS WITH OUR KIND OF CASH FLOW. YOU'LL NOTICE HERE THAT THE GENERAL FUND HAS A 2026 DELINQUENT TAX AMOUNT BASED OFF THE PRELIMINARY ESTIMATIONS FROM THE COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE. THE 397,000 IS THE NUMBER THAT WE WOULD LOSE IN OUR TAXES TO UNCOLLECTIBLES, AND SO WE WOULD ACTUALLY NEED TO LEVY AN AMOUNT GREATER THAN WHAT OUR NEED IS TO RECOVER THAT KIND OF PORTION AS WELL. AND WE HAVE A $3,650,000 BUDGETED AS THE 27 CASH FORWARD, WHICH IS THE SAME NUMBER AS WE USED IN 2026. AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THE BALANCE, ENDING BALANCE WOULD BE ZERO, BUT REALLY THAT CASH FORWARD 3.65 IS YOUR NUMBER THAT WOULD BE KIND OF RETAINED FOR ROLLOVER TO FUTURE YEARS. TOTAL 27 REVENUES AS PRESENTED IS $43,392,000 AND 27 EXPENSES OF $46,236,000. WITH THAT, WE'LL JUMP INTO DEPARTMENTS AND I'LL GO THROUGH EACH ONE AND THEN SIMILAR TO THE OTHER MEETINGS, I'LL HAVE DEPARTMENT HEADS I'll have departments jump in and be able to speak to their department specifically, be able to comment on the items that are most noteworthy or they want to make sure that it stands up the commission. So the first section we have is the admin revenue. I'll point out here, if you look at line 3040, which is our ad valorem tax, the 27th column in the far right is the $10,826,000. That represents what it would take to make this budget work on paper as it stands. And so that's where your $3,695,000 higher than that $7,000,000 number that we would say would be the kind of the piece of the pie left for general fund. And so that's the number we'll be reducing down as we, or that number will reduce down as we make cuts or make other adjustments to other portions. IT'S KIND OF THE DELTA FIGURE AT THE END. AND THEN YOU'LL SEE IN THE CITY SALES TAX, COUNTY SALES TAX, AND CONSUMER USE TAX LINES, THOSE 26 FIGURES WE HAVEN'T CHANGED. SOMETIMES AT THIS POINT IN THE YEAR, WE HAVE COLLECTIONS WELL ABOVE OR WELL BEHIND WHAT WE WOULD HAVE ANTICIPATED. RIGHT NOW IT'S PRETTY WELL ON TRACK WITH WHAT WE ANTICIPATED, MAYBE SLIGHTLY ABOVE. SO THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF WIGGLE ROOM FOR US TO GO ADJUST THOSE NUMBERS UP RIGHT NOW FOR 26. BUT 27 IS ANTICIPATING AN INCREASE OVER THE ORIGINAL 26 FIGURES. IF 26 ENDS UP HIGHER THAN BUDGET 27, THEY MAY SEEM A LITTLE BIT HIGH AT 2.7, 3.8, 4.8, BUT SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO YEARS IT'S REALLY NOT AS HIGH AS THAT. BUT THOSE ARE FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE. THERE'S MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF WIGGLE ROOM THAT WILL PRESENT AS SOME OF THE ALTERNATIVES FOR THE COMMISSION TO CONSIDER THOSE 27 FIGURES GOING UP A LITTLE BIT OR MAYBE ADJUSTING 26. And hopefully with a couple more months of revenue data by the time we're really finalizing this, we have a pretty good feel for where we're at, you know, seven months into the year at that point. You'll see that we have a slight increase in our CATV franchise that's paid quarterly and is on track for about 130,000 this year. We anticipate the same next year. And our gas utility franchise, we've decreased for 2027. We saw an uptick as a gas company was recovering some of the costs that they saw from winter storm URI. Those have come back down as their rates have kind of modified for that. And so we've seen a decrease over the last couple of years of our gas utility franchise fees. The rest is pretty similar. Page two of that, you see the fines municipal court at the top. We're increasing that slightly based off pace so far this year. So 775,000 instead of 750,000, up 25 grand for 2026, but keeping 27. That tends to ebb and flow depending on kind of caseload and tickets issued and just the timing of some of the court processes. That's somewhat hard to predict and doesn't have a direct correlation. ALWAYS WITH THE AMOUNT OF CASES ISSUED, BUT THERE IS, WE'RE ON PACE FOR AN INCREASE THIS YEAR, SO WE UPTICKED IT, AND YOU CAN SEE 25 WAS ABOUT $850,000, SO WE'RE PACING CLOSE TO THAT AS WELL. THE REST OF THIS PAGE IS CONTRACTOR LICENSES, AMUSEMENT LICENSES, ELECTRICIANS, THINGS RELATED TO DEVELOPMENT. THE NEXT IS BUILDING PERMITS. WE'RE KEEPING STEADY AT $425,000. WE ENDED A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THAT LAST YEAR, BUT ON PACE RIGHT NOW, IT'S PRETTY SQUARE WITH OUR $425,000 ORIGINAL ESTIMATION. And then interest income, you'll see last year ended right under 1.8 million. Interest rates with world events, things like that, it's hard to predict. But we feel confident that 1.2 million this year is a solid number that we'll achieve, if not a little more. But we'll keep that budget a little more conservative for 2027, just because we don't know what interest rates will do for the next 12 months after this. And then I'll point out at the bottom of that third page, you've got the transfers in from the utility funds. You have your admin overhead, which covers, the goal is to cover 80% of the administrative cost of our kind of general fund admin departments that would pertain to a utility if it was its separate and own entity. And so that's the 4,036,126 and 4,198,600 next year. And then the transfer utility franchises that line 4013. And that is the 5% franchise fee based off collections on the year. So the 26 number has been revised to reflect what 25 actuals were within each utility. And 27 number is based off of the estimation for the revenues for 2026. Before we actually transfer that next year, we adjust it based on actual. So you'll see it go up or down depending on kind of where those utility revenue lines end up. And then the bottom, the transfer other is the $200,000 that we've last year and then this year is planned to come from the 0.15 sales tax to help offset some of the general fund costs. There's nothing planned initially for 2027 in that sense. You have the full $400,000 allocated to the CIP, but that's another lever the commission has been able to kind of navigate the last few years and will be presented again. AND THEN THE LAST TRANSFER LINE IS THE AMOUNT FROM THE .30 SALES TAX FOR THE OPERATIONAL COSTS OF THE THIRD FIRE STATION. THIS YEAR, 1.646250, UP SOME FROM 26. IF YOU REMEMBER, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A WHILE BACK, BUT THE SALES TAX PACING THEN IS GOING TO START DECREASING, SO WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF WEAN OFF OF THAT A LITTLE BIT. SO THIS IS THE HIGH, AND THEN 28 AND BEYOND, IT WILL GO DOWN AND CONTINUE TO GO DOWN AS WE DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF THAT SUBSIDY SO THE GENERAL FUND CAN ABSORB. kind of piece by piece rather than all at once that added burden of the operational cost. Questions on any of the revenues? ALL RIGHT. NEXT IS YOUR BUDGET, CITY COMMISSION BUDGET. PRETTY MUCH SAME AS THE PAST FEW YEARS. THE SALARY AND BENEFITS, REALLY NO CHANGE THERE. YOU WILL NOTICE AN UPTICK IN THE MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. WE HAVE THE SOFTWARE FOR WHAT WE USE NOW FOR OUR AGENDA SOFTWARE AS WELL AS OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. AND SO PEAK AND BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE COMING OUT OF THIS BUDGET HERE. But you'll notice in legal publication actually a decrease with some of the revisions we've made to our notices for code compliance and things like that. We've actually cut down on the number of things that we're publishing. And so that's been able to reduce our legal publication line by about $9,000, $10,000 there for 26 and 27. So some savings. OTHERWISE NOTHING REALLY NOTEWORTHY IN THE COMMISSION BUDGET. NEXT IS THE CITY MANAGER BUDGET. YOU'LL NOTICE A DECREASE IN THE SALARY AND BENEFIT LINES HERE WITH THE REDUCTION FROM TWO ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS TO ONE DEPUTY CITY MANAGER. WE'RE DOWN A POSITION THERE AND SO THERE'S A DECREASE IN THIS BUDGET HERE FOR SALARY BENEFITS. You'll notice association dues is down some, kind of same line. We have one less person to have association dues for. And then our communications survey, we have decreased. We had 9,950 budgeted, but the anticipated cost of what we were going to do for surveys is not occurring, and so we've cut that down. And it's somewhat subsidized the cost of rolling out additional software for tracking our capital improvement projects that we're implementing at this point. Then you have your contracted contractors line. That is for our consultant for property and casualty insurance, as well as some legal through Pinniger and Smith. And then you've got your maintenance contracts. This has also gone up some. We have a lot of different items in the building that kind of encompass under city manager. So the elevator maintenance, fire alarm systems, our copier, their HVAC systems, the postage machine, kind of all the equipment on the building gets lumped into their budget. And so that's what most of the maintenance contract line is for that. And then the additional software I mentioned on the capital improvement tracking. Subscriptions, you'll see an uptick. This is where we are budgeting for the placer AI software that we use to count and track kind of movement of people for events and different items and things like that, which economic development uses as well. And so that cost is there. And then second page, you'll see our meetings and meals expenses. This covers the meetings and meals for CIP meetings for any commission meeting that has a meal or any other general kind of administrative type meetings related to the city manager's office or the commission. And then supplies postage, we're seeing an uptick. We continue to see postage go up. And then our number of mailings, we try to reduce and do what we can electronically, but there's still quite a bit that requires notices and notification through paper format. And so our cost of postage goes up every year. And then new equipment software. There's an intended, see Lynn and her staff are looking at implementing potentially a licenses and special events software to help keep everything tracked there. We're somewhat old school in the way we do it in spreadsheets and communication. So something to streamline that and make it a little more user friendly for the citizens would be something we're looking at for that as well. NEXT, WE HAVE THE SERVICE AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT. NOT A LOT OF CHANGE HERE AS FAR AS STAFFING-WISE. WE DID HAVE A DECREASE OVERALL. WE HAD HELD SOME MONEY IN THIS LINE TO KIND OF ABSORB SOME OF THE EXPECTED HIT OF A POTENTIAL PAY STUDY LAST YEAR, AND SO THAT'S BEING REVISED BACK DOWN TO THE 26, 27 BEING MORE ACTUAL WITH WHAT THE ACTUAL STAFFING COSTS ARE. THE AUDIT EXPENSE, YOU'LL SEE A DECREASE. WE HAD SIMILAR DECREASES IN ELECTRIC AND WATER DUE TO THE AUDIT EXPENSE BEING REDUCED THROUGH KMAG INSTEAD OF BEING A GAP IN GASB AUDIT. Then our maintenance contracts line, you'll see 26 was reduced down, but then 27 goes up. We anticipated potentially having to start paying the Tyler Tech software in 26, but the funds set aside a few years back are enough to cover this year, so that cost starts hitting in 2027, and that's the main uptick there. We also have copier maintenance, a couple other small things, but the main mover of that needle is the Tyler Tech software, which we're splitting between Solid Waste Electric, Water, and the Service and Finance Department. AND THEN TRAINING AND EDUCATION, WE'VE UPTICKED THE LAST FEW YEARS. WE'RE SENDING MORE STAFF TO TYLER CHECK TRAINING, CORE AND MAIN TRAINING FOR OUR UTILITY BILLING SYSTEMS, AND THEN OTHER FINANCE TRAINING ACROSS THE STATE. AND THEN OUR SUPPLIES AND OFFICE, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO REDUCE SOME OF THE COSTS WE HAVE FOR PAPER GOODS AND THINGS AND TRY TO CUT DOWN SOME OF WHAT WE PRODUCE AND SEND OUT, AND SO THAT'S BEEN ABLE TO CUT OUR SUPPLY LINE DOWN FOR THE DEPARTMENT. Next is legal services. This is where we have our contract services through Morris Lang. And then any bond counsel, any activity you have with a bond specifically that's not tied to an issuance, but CIPs or TIFs or HIDs, that comes out of this general contract services, legal services line. Or if we ever use special counsel like Polsonelli or anyone for anything in particular that's not tied to a specific project paying for it, then it comes out of this line as well. And so we've seen an uptick of that the last few years. There's a lot of projects, a lot of things going on, and so there's just more and more legal work. We've had a few negotiations going on that wrapped up at the end of 25 and early part of 26, so I'm hoping some of this goes down this year compared to the 371 last year, but it's probably going to be pretty close. Next, we have municipal court. Pretty similar on staffing here, not a lot of change there. Their contract services line is their judge contract, and so they contract out that position. It's not a city-employed position. That's been a few years now we've been doing that process. In their maintenance contracts line, their main cost there is the TylerTech software that they specifically use for the court system, which integrates in with the police software and the ticketing software. AND SO THAT'S THEIR COST FOR TYLER TECH PROGRAM. AND THEN THEY HAVE SOME TRAINING AND TRAVEL INCREASES THAT THEY'RE PLANNING TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THAT CYNTHIA WILL SPEAK TO. AND THEN THEY HAVE ON THEIR SECOND PAGE THE UTILITIES GAS. THIS IS BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THEIR OWN STAND-ALONE BUILDING WITH THE OLD TELEGRAM BUILDING. AND THEIR LEGAL COURT APPOINTED IS GOING DOWN SOME THAT CYNTHIA WILL SPEAK TO AS WELL. AND THEN THEY HAVE SOME NEW EQUIPMENT NEEDS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ADDING TO THEIR STUFF. AND SO WITH THAT, I CAN TURN IT OVER TO CYNTHIA.

As Jared stated, there's just a little bit of an increase in the training and travel due to attending a pilot conference this coming year. We usually just try to attend about every three years or so just to stay up with the updates for the core software and to learn any new reporting features that are available. Also with, as you mentioned, the court appointed attorney fees, we just reduced it just because we haven't paid out as much as we anticipated in the last couple of years. And then for our new equipment line item, we are needing a couple of cameras installed and a couple of blind spots that we have in our office. So that's the reason for that as well.

Do you have any questions?

Thank you, Cynthia.

Thank you.

Next is the human resources budget. You'll see salary and benefits are pretty on par with the past couple years. You'll notice an uptake in line 5269, the consultant pay plan. In 26, there's the $51,250. This is the cost for the McGrath study that's ongoing. And so we had anticipated that last year and then rolled it into this year's budget. And so that's the cost that's going to occur. We have a separate figure that I'll point to later on in the budget for the implementation cost. This is just the actual payment to the consultant for the work to be done to review. And then their maintenance contracts really covers their NeoGov program, which is what the city uses for all of our staff reviews, our hiring and onboarding, and then training programs. So we've kind of different facets of that program that we use, but they're different modules through that company that HR has contracted with. And then their meeting meals expense line, you'll notice, was zero, and now we have amounts budgeted for 26 and 27. We've allocated the budget, what used to be in city manager's department, for employee appreciation events. We have the city wind game, or the wind game we usually go to with city employees. and have a barbecue with that. We have United Way kickoff and end of drive events with a meal for staff. They've been on a bowling night and then we've implemented the new quarterly onboarding program where we take the cohort that started that quarter and we're sending them through a year-long process where they get to be more familiarized with the city as a whole and there's a meal with that as well. So that's where the cost for that meeting meals expense is coming from for HR. AND THEN THE REST OF THEIR BUDGET IS PRETTY SIMILAR TO STATUS QUO THE LAST FEW YEARS. SUPPLIES AND OFFICE AND NEW EQUIPMENT ARE PRETTY SMALL. AND ELLIE WILL PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE PAY STUDY AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT THEY'VE DONE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

Good afternoon. Over the last several years, HR has focused on building a stronger foundation for the organization. Key accomplishments have included creating a new employee handbook, developing an administrative handbook, implementing a new HR payroll software, building a new onboarding program, and we are currently in the beginning stages of conducting a pay study, which we will kick off with department meetings the first week of July. These projects have modernized our processes, improved consistency across departments, and provided better tools for employees and supervisors. For 2027, our focus will be on managing and refining these systems rather than launching major new initiatives. We will continue training, improving efficiencies, and ensuring these systems are fully integrated into our daily operations. But as these systems mature, we will come back in future budget years to discuss updates or enhancements as needed. Any questions? Thank you. Thanks.

Next we move into information technology. Here you'll see the line 5267, the consultant fee. There's an amount budgeted for 26 that wasn't originally budgeted and nothing for 27. We've utilized the resources of Adams Brown and some other consultants to help do penetration tests and help analyze weak points of the system. And so that's something we've continued to this year and then we'll analyze as we go forward. Every so often it's good to have those type of things done to make sure that we don't have any weak points that we're failing to recognize. You'll notice a decrease in their maintenance contracts and increase of subscriptions. This is mostly just categorization of what is each of those things. And Michael's been working to sort through the details as he's taken on the charge of leading the IT department. And then they've got some project lines in the new equipment office. And on the second page, this covers the general fund computers. So all the computers refreshed each year for general fund departments are all for and processed out of the IT budget rather than the individual budgets themselves. And then those for the enterprise funds, the airport, the utilities all comes out of their own budget. And then they've also got some funds set aside to continue the access control project. And Mike will speak to that a little bit as far as the updates to the access control project that's ongoing and what we anticipate will maybe be some in kind of final process and figures there.

So one point I want to highlight is definitely the subscription line. That's up $112,000 from actual last year. Our Office 365 licenses alone went up $26,928 from last year. Antivirus went up $12,500. Our threat locker system, which is a security system, was new for this year. That was $18,000. And then our Know Before subscription is a three-year renewal. And so that one hits this year for another $25,000. So that somewhat explains the jump there in that subscription line. And then as Jared mentioned, as far as the new equipment, we started a door access control project last year. We've rolled through about half of the facilities. We want to continue that, get everybody else updated and on the same batching system. And so that's part of our budget for new equipment next year.

Next is city prosecution. This is just a one-time payment, or one line at this point, because we have the contract with Morris Lang to provide our prosecution services. And the current contract has an ending date of 12-31-27, so this will be something brought before the governing body to continue going forward. But the same amount has been budgeted for the last few years and will continue in 26 and 27. NEXT WE HAVE COMMUNICATIONS. THIS WE BROKE OUT A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN WE SWITCHED TO THE TYLER SOFTWARE. THIS WAS ALWAYS INCORPORATED INTO THE I.T. DEPARTMENT, AND WE BROKE IT OUT TO IDENTIFY SEPARATELY. SO THERE'S NOT A LOT TO THEIR DEPARTMENT BUDGET. STAFFING IS PRETTY MUCH ON PAR WITH WHAT IT WAS FOR 2025 AND 2026 ORIGINAL BUDGET. They do have some maintenance contracts that they come out of here. So the city's website, city bought HootSuite, some of their communication tools that they have. And then Aaron will speak to a little bit. There's some requirements coming in the future as far as ADA compliance for website. And that was something we anticipated needing to be done by next year, but we were able to kick it back because the requirement got pushed back. AND SO THAT BUDGET, THAT COST WILL GO UP IN THE 2028 BUDGET, YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE. AND THEN SOME EQUIPMENT NEEDS THEY HAVE ARE SMALL THIS YEAR, BUT POTENTIALLY LOOKING TO REPLACE OR UPDATE SOME OF THE TRICAST SYSTEM THAT WE USE HERE FOR THESE TYPE OF MEETINGS. SO WITH THAT, I'LL PICK IT OVER TO AARON.

Thanks, Jared. Hello, Mayor and Commissioner. So as Jared alluded to, that our big project request for this year was the ADA website compliance project. Well, since our budget discussions began, the US Department of Justice has extended those deadlines for us to be in compliance. So for us, for jurisdictions of 50,000 residents or less, our new deadline is April 2028, specifically April 26 of 2028. So that gives us some time. And our request for the 2028 budget will be pushed back for consideration and approval at that point. In the meantime, we'll make sure we ensure that our website will be up to date. We're doing a back end audit to make sure, especially on the PDF side, how many documents we have out there that maybe we can consolidate or just clean up and making sure again. that our website is up to date and fluid and has some great information out there. A potential project that Jared did mention that we have kind of on the front of our mind maybe for next year or even by 2028, we'll see, is the TriCaster. Either repairs, extensive repairs or potential replacement for that. It is starting to show its age and we've ran into some technical issues that we are currently addressing. Any questions? Thank you.

All right, the final department under administration is neighborhood development services. You'll see that things are fairly similar. The banking credit card charges are up as they have more transactions. That's kind of dependent upon volume of through their office that you see that go up. But with expecting permits and some other fees that were adjusted this year going up, we anticipated the cost for the credit card processing would go up as well. Engineering fees, they've raised up some this year. They'll speak to that a little bit, and Trent will speak to that a little bit. That's a hard number to budget for, because a lot of the time the engineering costs are tied to a project and something specific, and so then they're captured in that cost. This is more for the general engineering services, but there's a lot of different things that can be then captured into that general services for the engineering department. So that cost has been upticked. Like I said, Trent will speak to that a little bit. You also have some maintenance contracts that they have for their software and the things they use in their office, which is pretty on par with the past. And then the line 5493, repair dilapidated structures. You'll see that we didn't have an original budget. We did have an original budget for 26. This is something new that we've started the last couple years. Just setting aside some funds for if the city has to go mitigate and actually demolish or take down structures. And any funds not spent in the current year, this will be held over to the Capital and Premier Reserve each year. It will be the plan to build up what could be a pretty hefty capital cost. AND THEN THEY HAVE UPTICKS IN THEIR TRAVEL AND TRAINING COSTS AS THEY SEND STAFF TO DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAVEL AND TRAINING. AND THEN THEIR NEW EQUIPMENT VEHICLE FOR 26 IS TO REPLACE AN INSPECTOR TRUCK. AND THEN THEY'LL SPEAK TO A LITTLE BIT AS FAR AS THEIR KIND OF PLAN FOR VEHICLES MOVING FORWARD AS WELL. WITH THAT, I'LL KICK IT OVER TO TRENT.

THANK YOU, JARED. MAYOR, COMMISSIONER, WELCOME, OR THANK YOU FOR WELCOMING ME. So today a couple of the highlights or notable differences within our department, Jared's mentioned a couple of them. So the engineering department was housed under us It kind of varies. Some of the special projects, whether it's pedestrian connections, trails, the traffic impact study as we felt was necessary for the northeastern section of town for growth was needed. Some of those things aren't in our regular budgeted line items, so we did push that back up to try to cover, get closer to what their rates or amounts have come in at. A couple other things. We have the reserve account for dilapidated structures. brought that in last year. Last year was the first year. After the Dusty Trail demolition and that process, we learned we wanted to get some kind of a fund created to help be a little bit responsive to some of these complaints that we've received over the years. So we will be putting together a list of structures that probably have been around town that you've noticed that we'll bring back to you at a later date to maybe seek some enforcement on. One little small thing, every five to six years, we go through code cycles. When we go through those code cycles, there's significant charges for new books, and we have an online subscription for our codes that are online. So we'll always have, every five to six years, an uptake for books and a subscription. The vehicle replacement, our vehicles are in a pretty good shape right now. We replaced one this year, which should be in any day. We have another four or maybe five years before we'll have any other vehicle replacements, so that should stay steady for the next several years. And Jared mentioned a little bit on our travel and training. Our department is very heavily protected, if you will, with certifications to help us improve our abilities and our performance. So with that, we're always going to have some travel and training, and as those expenses go up, we'll probably have a little uptake each time they do for you guys. I think that's probably the biggest high points here. If they have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. All right. Thank you. Thanks.

WITH THAT, WE'LL TRANSITION TO STARTING ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WITH THEIR REVENUES, YOU'LL NOTICE WE DECREASED THE SALES FOR THE INDOOR GUN RANGE AS WELL AS THE FEES FOR INDOOR GUN RANGE WITH THE TIME THAT IT'S BEEN CLOSED FOR THIS YEAR. WE REDUCED THOSE NUMBERS FOR 26, BUT BACK UP FOR 2027. You'll also see that if you look at 2402, which is false alarms, we have the same budget we originally had for 26 at 2,000 and 3,000 for next year. But a year to date actual is 7,000. That's one of the items we changed with the fee schedule is having a little bit more consequence to the repeat offenders for false alarm fees. And so that's something we're seeing come to fruition already. So that number will come in above budget, but you just never know what to expect there. So we don't really anticipate that when we budget that figure. And then you also have $300,000 you'll see for the repayment for the police department. This comes from the school district contract for the SROs. And so that will come in in 2026 and 2027. And we don't expect that number to change at this point. NEXT YOU HAVE POLICE ADMINISTRATION. THE SALARY BENEFITS COVER THE POLICE CHIEF AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT HERE IN THIS DEPARTMENT. THE REST OF THE POLICE IS ALL UNDER OPERATIONS, WHICH IS THE NEXT SECTION. BUT A LOT OF THE GENERAL COSTS COME OUT OF HERE, SO THEIR INSURANCE COSTS, THE PRF LIABILITY. WE SAW A DOWN TICK THIS YEAR, BUT THEY WEREN'T BUDGETING JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, AN UP TICK BACK IN 2027. Their maintenance contracts, they have a page in the supplemental documentation that covers all of their maintenance contracts. But a large one is they renewed their contract with Motorola for another five years. And so that's to the tune of about a little over $100,000 a year for the radios and the body cams and everything else related through Motorola. And then we have the LEC contract you'll see on here. This is an ongoing budgeted expense as we still negotiate things with the county as we're out of the building, but there's still operational costs for that building to kind of help split that pain between the city and the county as we resolve things going forward and get that building back into shape. YOU'LL NOTICE THE 300,000 IN LINE 5463, DISPERSED FOR COMMUNITY TRUST. THIS IS THE REPAYMENT OF THE REMODELS AND EVERYTHING DONE FOR THE TELEGRAM BUILDING, FOR THE EVIDENCE AND THE MUNICIPAL COURT. AND SO THAT'S GOING TO GO THROUGH 2029, WILL BE THE FINAL REPAYMENT OF THAT, AND THEN THAT LINE WILL GO AWAY AND YOU'LL SEE THAT COME OFF OF THE GENERAL FUND COST FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND WE HAVE A SIMILAR COST UNDER STREET AS WELL THAT I'LL POINT OUT LATER ON. REPAIR BUILDINGS, THESE LINES, REPAIR VEHICLE, MOST OF THEM ARE IN LINE WITH WHAT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY AND WITH LAST YEAR JUST AS, YOU KNOW, THEY EXPERIENCED BUILDING INCREASE COSTS AT THE LAC AND OTHER BUILDINGS THAT THEY HAVE, THE RANGE AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT. THEY EXPERIENCED THOSE COSTS. THEY BUDGET FOR THEM HERE. TRAINING, EDUCATION, AND TRAVEL. YOU'LL SEE AN UPTICK IN 26 AND 27. IF YOU REMEMBER, WE TALKED ABOUT E901. THERE WAS SOME REDUCTION OF THE TRAVEL AND TRAINING OUT OF E901 FOR DISPATCH SPECIFICALLY AS THAT FUND IS BUILT BACK UP AFTER SOME CAPITAL EXPENDITURES. AND SO THE GENERAL FUND THEN IS HAVING TO ADD SOME OF THAT COST FOR THE DISPATCH TRAINING THAT THEY WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE PROCESSED THROUGH E901 IN THE PAST. AND SO YOU SEE ABOUT $10,000 A YEAR UP IN BOTH THOSE LINES IN 26 AND 27. You also have the utilities LAC, you'll see that staying status quo for now. I'm just kind of pointing out as things change that may be adjusted, but for now we're budgeting as if the contract and the agreement is gonna continue as it stands. And then their new equipment computer, 6512, they have a downtick as they have replaced a lot of their MDTs and a lot of their equipment in the last few years. They've been able to kind of get ahead of the game a little bit on some of that, and so they've been able to reduce what they anticipate in this year and next year. Their new equipment vehicle, they anticipate replacing four patrol vehicles this year and five vehicles next year. We continue to analyze and work with Enterprise. We've looked at which vehicles, and we kind of have a test group with Enterprise Fleet Management as far as which vehicles we've leased. The hard part with police vehicles is there's so much equipment that goes on that then has to come off that we're still trying to kind of figure out does it make most sense to continue to buy those outright or do a leasing program and then strip the equipment and transition it over. So that's something that as the police comes through with vehicles you may see us pinball back and forth a little bit or have different opinions on whether we go with leasing or purchasing. But in 26, they've purchased outright the vehicles that they bought for this year. And some of the new equipment, other cost is to outfit those vehicles with all the equipment they need. There's also 254,000 of that is for the lease payment on the software for their CAD and RMS software. That will continue for, it was seven years, so it's going to go for a few more years now. AND THEN THEY ALSO HAVE RADIOS AND THEN A FEW OTHER COSTS THERE. I'LL POINT OUT HERE IN LINE 66-74, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE PAYING THE COSTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS OF THE TEMPORARY LEC FACILITY. AND SO YOU'LL SEE THE 26 ACTUAL AT 2.6 MILLION, BUT WE'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE COUNTY TO IDENTIFY HOW THOSE COSTS ARE GOING TO BE COVERED THROUGH THE SALES TAX OR THE BOND ISSUES THAT THEY DID. AND SO WE ANTICIPATE BY THE END OF THIS YEAR THOSE COSTS BEING RECOUPED TO THE CITY AND SO THAT BUDGET WILL THEN NOT REALLY BE A BUDGET, IT WILL BE ZEROED OUT AS WE REIMBURSE THOSE FUNDS, BUT IT DOES LOOK FAIRLY ALARMING WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS BUDGET AND SEE 2.6 MILLION THAT'S NOT, GOT A BUDGETED ZERO NEXT TO IT. Next, you'll see a couple pages of PD where investigations and the one after operations, there's some actuals that have come through that need to be corrected, so they're printing off on these reports, but they should have come out under police operations. And so if you go to the police operations page... THIS IS EVERYTHING NOT ADMINISTRATION, AND SO WHAT USED TO BE INVESTIGATIONS AND SUPPORT AND ANIMAL CONTROL HAS NOW ALL BEEN LUMPED INTO ONE BUDGET FOR POLICE OPERATIONS FOR KIND OF THE SIMPLICITY OF THINGS. SO YOU'LL SEE SALARY AND BENEFITS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACTUALS FOR 25, THEY'RE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER BECAUSE IT WAS JUST POLICE PATROL, BUT AFTER A COUPLE YEARS OF THIS, YOU'LL SEE A LITTLE MORE CONFORMITY TO KIND OF THE ACTUALS FROM THE PAST YEAR MATCHING 26 AND 27. Here you have the, I'll identify the contracted Humane Society 5294 line. We currently have an agreement with the county just how to split the cost of the Humane Society and the city pays that over to the Humane Society to keep their operation going. And I believe Danielle's been talking with the Humane Society. So one item that may come before the governing body is a discussion or a presentation from the Humane Society as far as their costs and what they're experiencing to kind of negotiate what that amount is going forward. but it's been approximately 300 to 320,000 for the last number of years, but there is an expressed concern of the cost going up for that facility and so that may be something we have to uptake here in future budgets as well. And so I anticipate here by the end of the year that'll be a talking point for the commission to be presented on as well. The rest of this is fairly operational. They have the kind of the gas, oil, diesel uniform expenses and just kind of the ongoing upkeep of keeping everybody outfitted to be able to do their job. And I'll point out the last line here, transfer high to grant, 93,000 in 2026, but then reducing that down in 27, that grant fund has a pretty healthy balance right now, so we can diminish the amount that we're subsidizing from the general fund in 27 and then hopefully beyond. IF YOU SKIP THE NEXT PAGE FOR SUPPORT SERVICES AND ANIMAL CONTROL, LIKE I SAID, THOSE ARE NO LONGER BUDGETED. THEY JUST HAVE SOME ACTUALS FROM LINES THAT NEED CORRECTED. YOU'LL GET TO PAGE 27 IS THE INDOOR RANGE. WE DID KEEP THIS BROKEN OUT BECAUSE IT REALLY IS KIND OF A SEPARATE FUNCTION ALMOST THAN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND WE WANT TO IDENTIFY THESE COSTS SEPARATELY THAN THE NORMAL OPERATION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. SO HERE YOU HAVE THE SALARIES IS WHAT COVERS THE RANGE SAFETY OFFICERS, THE SEASONAL STAFF THAT ARE OUT THERE. and their benefits as well. And then really just repair and upkeep of that building. So repair buildings, repair equipment. There are filters for that facility that they need to be changed so often they're fairly expensive. And then the equipment to keep things up to par as far as the gym equipment out there and just the building equipment. Had to make sure that facility stays functional and well used. And it's used heavily by the police department for trainings and other things as well, and the city as a whole. And then with that, I'll kick it over to Chief Pruitt to talk a little bit about the radio project that's upcoming and what they anticipate that's going to look like over the next couple years.

Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, Commissioners. Like Jared said, I'd like to... In our budget, there wasn't a whole lot of... So I want to take a little bit of time and talk about the radio project that we've been working on. And just kind of as a recap, a couple of years ago, the FBI, who manages our criminal justice information services, CEGIS is what... The acronym that we use for it in our radio system issued a mandate that requires all law enforcement radio communications that transmits sensitive data to be fully encrypted. And while our radio system and the SO's, I'm sorry, the Sheriff's Office radios are encrypted, it's not to the level that the FBI is requiring on this. And so many of our current radios are past end of life and cannot fully support the encryption that they're mandating through this mandate. This includes some of our dispatch consoles. What this creates is a compliance and operational risk force. The concept of the project that we have going on is to upgrade the police department, the fire department, the sheriff's office and EMS radios, all public service radios, and then cascade our old radios to public works, public utilities, and public education. I say public education. Because we right now are currently testing some of our radios at the school and seeing if they work on the KDOT system. Recently, both Public Works, Public Utilities, and the school district applied for and received approval to get on KDOT's 800 radio system, just like Public Safety is. And so they're working through building what their template, all their channels and top groups look like, and we're testing some of our old radios to see if it helps out some of the radio problems and static that they have currently. Currently we have a CDS request in at Washington, which is a joint request with the county. And while we wait for that request and update on that request, we've made some moves like I talked about with the template both at the school district and with public works, public utilities. that will help us, when funding becomes available for this, it'll make the transition easier for all of those radios to be able to work on the same system. And if we have big events like snowstorms, tornadoes, active shooter events, bomb threats, anything that we've experienced in the past couple of years where all of the different entities come together, we'll be able to talk on one radio system and not have to issue out radios or rely on cell phones and that type of thing. It'll also help us with the common operating picture, making sure we keep track of people that are on scene and on all of those events. I'll answer any questions about the radio system and the radio project if you have any, but I also have a couple other updates just for about the range and about mobile command if you don't have any questions. Okay, update on the range. We've been waiting for a couple pieces that will get the range system back up and running. We've received one of those pieces recently. They did not send a couple other pieces, so we're waiting on those. So hopefully within the next couple of weeks we get an update and we can get it fully operational and back up and running. And then our mobile command, we expect to do a final update a final inspection down in Florida with the company that's producing it. Then it will be transferred to Kansas City where we'll do a final, final inspection. It will go to Mobile Radio for the radios, which is a different company, an inspection and testing on the radios that are installed. Then we'll hopefully be able to deploy it August, September timeframe. Any questions?

Thank you. Thank you.

Next we'll transition to the fire department budget, starting with their revenues. They've got two revenue lines here. The first is the rural fire contract. So this is the contracts we have with the townships agreements. And so you see that's up a little bit. And then their second revenue line is for miscellaneous items, but this really is for deployment reimbursements that we've been participating in. So as our fire department is solicited by the state to go and assist with other jurisdictions, we have an agreement with the state and then are reimbursed for the cost of our staff to go out there. OUR EQUIPMENT THAT'S USED AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A COST. THERE'S FULL COST RECOVERY PLUS A LITTLE BIT OF REVENUE FOR THE CITY TO DO SUCH, WHICH IS A BENEFIT ABOVE AND BEYOND THE FACT THAT WE'RE SUPPORTING OTHER JURISDICTIONS AND MAKING SURE WHEN WE HAVE GRASS FIRES AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN MEAD THAT WE'RE HELPING OUT AND MAKING SURE THINGS DON'T GET WORSE. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT REVENUE LINE IS. WITH THIS BEING MORE REGULARLY OCCURRING, WE'LL PROBABLY TRANSITION THAT TO A DIFFERENT CODE BESIDES MISCELLANEOUS AND HAVE SOMETHING TAGGED AS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF REIMBURSEMENT And then Chief Fursick as well right now is working on some options for the commission to consider as far as a fee schedule specific for fire. He's presented in the past, and you may remember he talked about kind of insurance recovery and things like that when they respond to an accident and clean up. Not necessarily billing citizens for services provided, but finding the revenue streams that can be through insurance companies and other kind of non-emergency services they provide that would otherwise be going through a third party and would be billed accordingly. So that's something that will become before the governing body in the near future. and should offer some options to consider as far as incorporating other revenues for the fire department. Next we have the fire administrative department. This is the chief and the admin as well and the training chief. Pretty similar on staffing in the past years. A lot of their kind of overarching things come out of here. So their maintenance contracts, there's a breakdown in the supplemental sheet that goes through all the different maintenance contracts they have. Their insurance went down just like the rest of the city, but then it's expected to go back up. And then this is where they pay for their training and education for the general kind of administrative staff. SUPPLIES IN THE OFFICE AND THEN NEW EQUIPMENT. THEY DON'T ANTICIPATE ANY REGULAR KIND OF OFFICE EQUIPMENT THINGS GOING FORWARD. Next is operations. This is the bulk of their cost. This is where the different crews are for all the different stations. And so you'll see the cost here is pretty on par with what it was last year in the original 2026 budget. We were adding fire staff for many years to build up the third fire station, but we're fully staffed at this point. We're not adding positions or increasing the number of heads in the fire department at this point going forward. We are fully where we want to be. You will notice there's an uptick in 2027 on line 5658 for material firefighting foam. Right now we've got a good supply but we anticipate that as we drain that down we'll have to purchase some next year. They do have the new truck at the airport is able to recycle some of what they used to have to do to recharge and they'd go spray a bunch of foam out there for their test every year and it was wasted and squandered and it's fairly expensive. Now they have a chance to test that without actually spraying the foam. AND SO THAT SHOULD REDUCE THIS COST GOING FORWARD, BUT THERE IS TIMES WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BUY THAT BULK CONTAINERS FOR THE AFFF THAT THEY HAVE OUT THERE. AND THEN THEIR NEW EQUIPMENT VEHICLE LINE, YOU'LL SEE THE BREAKOUT IN THEIR SUPPLEMENTAL SHEET AS WELL. REMINDER, WE DID PURCHASE AN ENGINE THIS YEAR, AND SO THAT WAS ABOUT $10,000 MORE PER YEAR THAN WE EXPECTED. WE URGENTLY BUDGETED, SO YOU'LL SEE THAT REFLECTED IN THAT $302,009 up from the 291. But then Chief Ercik has his schedule of anticipated future vehicles coming out of that line as well going forward. And shocker, fire trucks cost a lot of money. So when we buy them, they do typically take a hit. And we've financed those historically. And I think the tradition would be to continue to do that rather than have a million dollar hit in one year to spread that across different years. New equipment other for 2027, they're looking to add a couple additional SCBA sets. Then in 2026 and 2027, they're prepping and buying tools to outfit that engine when it comes in. And so they're kind of getting ahead of the game a little bit on there when they recognize tools they can buy for good price. But otherwise, that's what the equipment line is for next year is to outfit that. And with that, I will turn it over to Training Chief Wilson, who's covering today, talk a little about some of the gear that they're going to be getting in the next couple of years and then some of their CIP projects. Thank you.

Hello, Mayor and Commissioners. In 2027, the department's primary focus will be continued maintenance and upkeep on the department's facilities. Several projects have been identified and prioritized through the capital improvement process and funded. And if funding is approved, the department will report with those improvements in the event that some of the projects are not funded. We've identified several smaller scale maintenance improvement projects that can be addressed to the 2087 operating budget request. These efforts ensure that our facilities remain safe, functional, capable, supporting daily operations and emergency response needs. There are no major large scale project requests, including this year's budget, but this budget cycle We would like to take a temporary break from our replacement schedule for some bunker gear and reallocate those funds towards the replacement of our SCBA compressor at Station 2, which has become, I guess... Pretty big cost to us maintenance-wise. It's just it fails quite a bit. And we're always having to call people to come in and work on it. So replacing that is critical to maintaining reliable respiratory protection systems for our firefighters. That's the big change we made for budget next year. Questions?

Thank you. Thanks. Chief Ersig was hoping you'd have lots of questions for him since he's filming today. Next, we move on to parks. For parks revenue, you'll see that the cemetery spaces is higher than last year's actuals. This is something hard to guess, depending on how people are pre-buying lots and things like that. But you'll look at 2026 actuals, you'll see we're at 50,000 on the year, so we're back on trajectory for normal, and so that budget line hasn't changed. And then you have fees, grave, opening, monument setting, and then some miscellaneous costs here. So revenues really haven't changed from what we originally budget, but we believe that this year's a little more on target with what we would expect to see there. NEXT, WE HAVE PARKS. STAFFING IS PRETTY SIMILAR TO THE PAST YEARS. YOU HAVE YOUR DEPOT MAINTENANCE. I'LL POINT OUT A DECREASE IN 2027. THAT'S LINE 5444. WE'RE PAYING FOR SOME PHONE SYSTEMS AT THE DEPOT, WHICH WERE PRETTY MUCH OUT OF COMMISSION, AND SO WE'VE REMOVED THOSE, BUT THERE'S THE FINAL YEAR COST HIT IN 2026, AND THE NEXT YEAR THAT COST WILL BE REMOVED AND WE WON'T HAVE IT ANYMORE, SO YOU'LL SEE A DECREASE THERE. THE REST OF THAT LINE IS FOR REALLY JUST KEEPING UP KEEP ON THAT BUILDING, SNOW REMOVAL AND SOME OTHER SMALL MAINTENANCE ITEMS JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S STILL FUNCTIONAL FOR THE DEPOT TO BE USED FOR THE TRAIN STATION. FOR REPAIR BUILDINGS, YOU'LL SEE A BIT OF AN UPTICK IN 2026 FROM THE ORIGINAL BUDGET. THERE'S A REPLACEMENT OF SOME BATHROOM DOORS AT STEPHENS PARK THAT WERE NECESSARY, AND SO THAT WAS COMPLETED. THEN THE REST IS KIND OF GENERAL UPKEEP AND REPAIRING BUILDINGS. AND THEN THE REPAIR EQUIPMENT AND THE REPAIR GROUNDS, I'LL LET CASEY SPEAK TO REPAIR GROUNDS. THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF ITEMS ON THE LIST OF NEED FOR PARKS AS FAR AS REPAIRING GROUNDS. SO THEY ARE PRIORITIZING AND GOING THROUGH THAT LIST TO TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FUNDS THAT THEY DO HAVE. BUT WE DID UPTICK THAT FOR 26 AND 2027 TO TRY TO ACCOMPLISH A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE SCHEDULE AND GET AHEAD THERE. BUT THOSE UPTICKS ARE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT AND SO THAT'S ONE ITEM THAT WE'LL REVIEW AS KIND OF A LEVER AS WE GET TO THE FINAL THROWS OF THE BUDGET. THE REST OF THE REPAIR LINES, SUBSCRIPTIONS, TRAINING, AND EDUCATION ARE ALL PRETTY ON PAR WITH PAST YEARS. THE NEXT PAGE YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S A DECREASE IN THE UTILITY'S ELECTRIC LINE, WHICH IS 5585. THAT WAS THE ELECTRIC UTILITY FOR THE MARY SHOP STORAGE THAT THEY HAD, WHICH THEY NO LONGER HAVE, SO THAT'S BEEN REMOVED. THE UTILITY'S GAS IS DECREASED FOR THE SAME REASON. THAT MARY SHOP THAT'S NO LONGER IN USE BY THE CITY IS DECREASED THERE. YOU'LL SEE AN UPTICK IN FERTILIZER AS COSTS CONTINUE TO GO UP, AND THEY TRY TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THE GROUND THAT THEY HAVE. We've seen an uptick there. And then in supplies operations, you'll see an uptick in 26 and 27. They're implementing GPS units on the trucks and having to maintain those and have a cycle for replacement on those. And so that's been an uptick cost in their operational line. Then landscaping, as they've seen a decrease in the amount of allocation from some of the other things we used to do for mulch and some of these supplies. Mulch is up and they're taking care of City Hall, kind of renovating the planting and the landscaping here at this building. in 2026. And so that's an uptick over the past years. And then you'll see in the new equipment parks line, which is 6515, there's 50,000 budgeted. That's for kind of small playground equipment as things break or as they replace small mechanisms at different parks, playgrounds, they'll use some of those funds for that. And then replacing their small equipment like handheld weed eaters and blowers, things like that. And then a new equipment other for 2026, they're looking to replace a 144-inch Toro mower and then the shed at Peebles. And with that, I'll kick it over to Casey to talk a little bit about her repair grounds projects and kind of how her plan of attack goes for that.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Commissioner. So for 2026, the big increase for repair grounds is to crack seal and mastic seal the rest of the tally trail that's not included with our grant proposal. And then moving into 2027, shelter number five, the roof on that is in dire need of repair. We're also looking at doing some sidewalk repairs around Stevens Park. Both of those address our safety concerns. And then also at People's Complex, we currently have mulch around these areas, around the dugouts and press boxes, but eventually we'd like to fill all those in with some concrete. Any questions on that? Thank you.

Thank you.

And Casey won't get to go far because she's going to be back up for cemetery, which is our next budget. Really not a lot changing here for staffing or a lot of the operational lines. You'll notice license renewal, line 5435 is zeroed out. But maintenance contract 5441 has a budget. We've just shifted that to their software for their plot box program, reallocating what it's labeled under maintenance contracts instead of a license. And then they've got an uptake in their repair grounds as well for some irrigation repairs and some other projects there at the cemetery just to keep things upkeep. A lot of what they have been focused on the last few years is the expansion project, which Casey will speak to, but their operational budget is taking care of kind of the rest of the cemetery that isn't getting renovated or isn't getting improved upon right now with those funds. AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SECTION, YOU'LL SEE ON NEW EQUIPMENT OTHER 6520. THEY'RE LOOKING TO ADD SOME SECURITY CAMERAS AROUND THE CEMETERY BUILDING UP THERE. AND THEN HUSTLER REPLACEMENT, A 54-INCH HUSTLER IN 2026. AND THEN NO PLANNED REPLACEMENT OF EQUIPMENT OR KIND OF HEAVY DUTY EQUIPMENT IN 2027. And Parks and Cemetery do have some funds held over from past years in the Capital and Premier Reserve, so some of the equipment replacement that they would need to be accomplishing is being accomplished through those funds. And so that's helping to keep their operational budget low in this year. And with that, I'll kick it to Casey to talk about the cemetery expansion.

Yeah, so the extension project at Valley View is completed. We do have a couple miscellaneous invoices that we're waiting to pay. But once those are all submitted, the leftover, the remaining... project fund is approximately $460,500. And the way that the bond language is wrote All those funds have to be used for the expansion or develop for the city-owned Valley View Cemetery and all things necessary and related thereto. So regarding that, we do need to purchase four additional base railings for the new columbariums that were installed. Their main office building needs a new roof, some gutters, and some concrete placed around the building. And then I would actually like to get a structural engineer hired to take a look at the singing and see what kind of renovations and what all that would look like moving forward. Any questions?

No, thank you.

Thank you.

With that, we move on to the zoo. The only revenue line really for the zoo is the revenue received at the gate. You'll notice that for one of the items for our fee schedule adjustments for the zoo for 2026 was the doubling of the cost to get into the drive-through gate. And so we are kind of watching to see what the actuals end up being for 2026. Zoo staff is tracking the numbers like they usually do, and there's a reduction in the number of vehicles that are paid coming through. But with those vehicles each paying double, we expect to kind of end up pretty on pace with last year through the first quarter we were watching. But the summertime is where you see a lot more visitors, and so we'll see what that looks like after the next quarter as well. NEXT WE HAVE ZOO ADMINISTRATION. THIS IS THE ONLY DEPARTMENT WITH A REQUEST TO ADD STAFF FOR THE 26 AND 27 BUDGETS. AND SO THERE'S IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL SHEET YOU HAVE THE MEMO FROM CHRISTIE FOR ADDING BACK THE EDUCATION POSITION FOR THE ZOO, WHICH WAS TRANSITIONED TO A MAINTENANCE POSITION A COUPLE YEARS AGO. AND SO THAT'S NOT REFLECTED IN THE BUDGET FIGURES. THIS IS A BREAK FROM WHAT WE'VE TRADITIONALLY PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSION IS WHERE WE EMBED AND SHOW THE BUDGET WITH THOSE POSITIONS INCLUDED. AND TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF KEEP IT AS A LEVER THAT THE COMMISSION, RATHER THAN TAKE OUT, YOU PUT INTO THE BUDGET, ALL BUDGET REQUESTS FOR POSITIONS TO BE ADDED WILL BE THOSE LEVERS FOR YOU TO SAY, YEP, THIS IS AN INTENTIONAL KIND OF PUT BACK IN THERE AND THEN FIGURE OUT HOW TO FUND THAT. AND SO THAT POSITION IS NOT REFLECTED IN THE SALARY LINES HERE, BUT IF THAT WAS SOMETHING ADOPTED AND DESIRED BY THE COMMISSION WHEN YOU GET TO THE FINAL THROWS OF THE BUDGET, IT WOULD UPTICK THE 27 COST AS WELL. So if you have questions specific on that, I'm sure Christy would be happy to answer them as well. Throughout the rest of the administration budget here for zoo, there's really not a lot of change, very similar on operational costs, utilities, repair, things like that. And then their new equipment, they're looking to replace and get a six-seater golf cart for kind of their accessibility around the zoo. That's what that $17,900 in 2026 is for. Next, you have zoo maintenance. You'll notice an uptick in the repair buildings. This is for a new roof for the maintenance shop, which Christy can speak to a little bit. And then you've got most other things, the training and education, travel, gas, are all fairly similar to last year. Supplies operations are similar. And their new equipment, they're in 2026 looking to get a Polaris UTV and then a storage building, and then soften some of the fencing around some of the exhibits. And for 2027, they're really looking to... get a boom lift truck to be able to have better access for the staff to do some of the high kind of elevated repairs on buildings and such. They borrow sometimes from the electric department or other departments right now, so having a specific vehicle for the zoo to be able to utilize would make them more efficient. And then looking to replace the gatehouse and then a project to renovate and improve the staff bathroom and break room for kind of their staff area as well, which Chris you'll speak to. You'll also see an uptick in landscaping. They've decreased the amount they get from Finnegan as they've allocated to other things. And so they're absorbing some of that cost here in their maintenance budget. Next is zoo animal care. This is for the keepers and all things related to the actual exhibits and animals as they kind of operate. Here you have the repair equipment line as an uptick. They're looking to replace a handful of roofs in the Asia area and then some of the wood in the kangaroo pens and then some tube heaters as well. And so that's kind of the uptick that in 2026 that you're seeing and then back down a little bit in 2027. And then in 2027, the zoo building and grounds line at the very bottom, they anticipate having the SARS crane renovation done as well. And then light above that, you'll notice in 6582 animal transport, this is another line where previously we had some other funding come to support this that's been removed. So we're including it in their general fund operating budget for when we have to transport animals to other facilities. And then the last two department is animal health and nutrition. This is specifically the veterinarian and the assistance there and then the equipment for such. Pretty similar to the past year, vet and medical expenses. This covers kind of all the supplies and operations needed for the procedures and everything else done. But when it comes to animal feed, they have an uptick. They've seen some cost increases in 2026 and just with kind of the GLOBAL DISRUPTANCE TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY TYPICALLY SEE AS SUPPLY CHAIN, THEY'VE UP TO INCREASE THEIR COST THERE. AND IN 2027, THEY HAVE AN INCREASE DUE TO A SECOND MEAT ORDER THAT WILL HIT IN THAT YEAR, JUST DEPENDING ON THE TIMING OF WHEN THOSE COME THROUGH. EVERY FEW YEARS, THEY HAVE A SECOND MEAT ORDER HIT. AND THEN FOR NEW EQUIPMENT, IN 2026, THEY'RE LOOKING TO GET A BLOOD ANALYSER, WHICH WILL HELP TO MAINTAIN KIND OF CONSTANT VIEWS ON THE the blood levels of particularly the cats as they do surgeries and different things. That's something that can go bad pretty quickly. So having that on site where they can have a really good feel for that is pretty helpful to make sure that they stay healthy and safe throughout the process. And with that, I'll turn it over to Christy to talk about some of their projects, particularly some of the building improvements and things they're doing to enhance the facility out there.

Hello Mayor, Commissioners. The zoo highlights for this budget review focus on our future while recognizing our past. Next year we celebrate our centennial and we also go for our ninth AZA accreditation in a row. Currently we've been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums for the last 40 years. What started with two skunks has become a zoo that meets the highest standards in the profession, one that has as diverse an animal community as our own community itself. This has only been possible with your support and that of the community. Keeping a 50-acre facility that is turning 100 years old and has over 45 buildings and related infrastructure up to modern standards takes effort, planning, and dedication. We have various recurring maintenance issues such as rust, flaking paint, deteriorating wood, HVAC and electrical issues to address in order to maintain standards. We have some specific needs that fall in the building repair or improvement categories such as a new roof for the maintenance shop, replacing the gatehouse, and remodeling the staff break room and restrooms that will support continued smooth operations. The maintenance shop and restrooms were built in 1978. The roof has been patched, but never replaced. The break room was added in 2002 and has little updating since that time. The gatehouse was set up in 1982 and has been maintained over years with numerous repairs, but like the maintenance shop roof, has reached a point where that's no longer the answer. This coming year offers us an opportunity to prepare for our next century of providing a safe, engaging, and enjoyable experience for our community and those who visit from outside our community. With your support, we'll continue to set Garden City apart from other communities in the region and help guests make connections with wildlife and become good stewards of our natural world for years to come. Any questions?

No.

No, thank you.

Thanks.

Thank you, Christy. With that, we'll move on to recreation. The first page is their revenue. You'll see pretty comparable to past years, a few lines that are adjusted. A decrease in 2026 for sales. Sponsorship fitness is down a little bit in 2026 and 2027 as well. And then our fees fitness, we've upticked for 2026 and 2027 just based off trend. Garden Rapids, this is every year is kind of a question mark as to what things are going to do. We did increase some of the costs for the pool and some of the other functions of the pool. And so we did increase some of the revenues there. Concessions were up a little bit. Events were up a little bit. And then lessons as well with the rentals going back down. We continue to try to kind of revamp how we handle the rentals to see if we can maximize the use of the facility there. But our continued overshooting of the revenue there is causing us to decrease that. We have not hit the threshold that we've expected in the years past. With that, we'll move to rec operations. Uptick here in the bank and credit card charges along with the other departments where we increased the cost for some of these functions of the recreation. We then expect that the credit card charges to go up with that as well. So we've upticked that some from the original 2026 budget. The license renewal, you'll see an uptick in 2027 for the new software. 2026, that's covered with the implementation of the new software. And so that wasn't a cost until next year. So you see that uptick. And then in the repair buildings, they've got a few projects that they're looking to do at the recreation building that Jared can speak to when he comes up a little bit, but remodels the Tisha's office area, a new AC unit, and then some windows in the front desk area as well. AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT DEPARTMENT BUDGET, YOU'LL SEE THE NEW EQUIPMENT OFFICE. THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SOME FURNITURE ALONG WITH THAT RENOVATION, THAT NEW EQUIPMENT OTHER IN 2026 AND 2027. THERE'S SOME CONCESSIONS EQUIPMENT THAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO PURCHASE AT THE VARIOUS LOCATIONS THEY HAVE AROUND TOWN TO BE ABLE TO OFFER A FEW DIFFERENT ITEMS OR REPLACE EQUIPMENT THAT IS AGING. THEN ONE LINE, THE LAST ONE IS 70-20. THIS IS THE TRANSFER OF THE RECREATION RESERVE. IN 2026 BUDGET, IT WAS DECIDED TO REMOVE THAT. BUT THE 2027 BUDGET, WE'VE INITIALLY INCLUDED THAT $50,000 TRANSFER TO CONTINUE TO BUILD UP THE RECREATION RESERVE. BUT AS I POSED WHEN WE PRESENTED THAT, THERE'S A QUESTION OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE TARGET NUMBER? IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE FEEL COMFORTABLE, THE CITY COMMISSION FEELS COMFORTABLE WITH THE BALANCE IN THAT FUND. WE COULD REMOVE THAT TRANSFER, AND THEN ONLY IF THE BALANCE WERE TO DECREASE FOR SOME COST OR PURCHASE WOULD WE THEN LOOK TO RECOUP THE COST BACK UP TO A TARGET FIGURE. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE LEVERS YOU'LL BE PRESENTED AS WELL. RECREATION AQUATICS, PRETTY ON PAR WITH LAST YEAR FOR THE STAFFING NUMBERS. WE ANTICIPATE PRETTY SIMILAR NUMBERS OF staff throughout the year. We do have days like this week where we anticipate kicking off and then it rains and we close. And so depending on weather, we see an uptick or a downtick on the staffing costs just to kind of cover the days where the pool ends up not being open throughout the season. But this is budgeted based off the anticipation of it open every day. So with already a few days of closure, we'll probably be below the budget numbers as you see presented here this year. Some increase in the contract services at the beginning of the season, the ending of the season to get the pool up and running. We have a few different contractors we work with to go through the plumbing and things to make sure things are up to par and to open and close it. So that cost is up. And then repair buildings, we continue to have different issues and things pop up. Now that we're running the facility for a few years, it's going to get older. You're going to continue to have those issues. So we're increasing the cost budget in the repair buildings line as well. And then we also have the aquatic facility line, $40,000. Anything not spent out of this for capital projects will be held over in the capital reserve for the one-time costs. They are utilizing some of that fund that has been held over in past years to help cover the cost of the painting project this year, which is a significant cost, just to make sure that we keep the pool in good working order for the citizens that come. Next is recreation for the arts. This is a fairly small budget. There's some contract labor here. I believe they're working to condition to have a few seasonal staff in this as well, which will pull from the same cost lines. But really just the supplies for the art programming is the only real thing that comes out of this budget. Next is athletics, pretty on par with the past years. There's been some allocation of staffing where some of the staff that were under athletics before have been moved under the operations department. So you'll see an uptick there and a decrease here and a decrease in fitness. But it's really just more shuffling than an uptick or downtick in total heads. And then in the rental agreement here, you'll see that the gymnastics parking lot amount comes out for that about 10,500. And so we've upticked that for 31.5 and 26 and 27. But with that really being the only line being the gymnastics parking lot, that can actually probably be reduced. So that'll be a proposal that comes to you in the next meetings as well. AND THEN THE REST IS REALLY FOR THE SUPPLIES FOR THE ATHLETIC PROGRAMMING AND ALL THE T-SHIRTS AND THE SUPPLIES THAT THE YOUTH GET IN THOSE PROGRAMS AS WELL. AND THEN FOR NEW EQUIPMENT, THEY'RE LOOKING TO REPLACE SOME GYMNASTIC MATTRESSES IN 26 AND 2027. AND THEN THE LEASE AGREEMENT AT THE BOTTOM IS FOR THE RENOVATIONS THAT TOOK PLACE FOR THE OBEREIGHT GYMNASTIC CENTER, AND THOSE COSTS END IN 2028. SO NOT NEXT YEAR, BUT NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET PROCESS. YOU'LL SEE THE FINAL YEAR WHERE WE BUDGET THAT $164,000 FOR THOSE RENOVATIONS. and that will come off and not be something that the city is paying for anymore in the future. And then fitness, um, pretty similar to the past years as well here. Like I said, the salaries and benefits is down just to the shuffle of staff. Um, you'll see the rent office space is for the core fitness location that we pay for. Um, but that anticipation is the same cost throughout the next couple of years. And then utilities is for that building as well out there at core fitness. And then the last line is the lease agreements that we currently have. Uh, the last few years we've utilized the program of, um, kind of a batch of equipment that we lease each year, and then we rotate through that equipment. We're getting the culmination of the first five-year lease of that equipment, so the decision now will be kind of looking back at the experiment. Do we continue to do this? Will we lease this? And is the benefit worth what we put into it, or do we want to go back to purchasing equipment and taking care of it ourselves? And so Tisha and Jared and their staff are kind of doing the analysis at this point to decide what path we go going forward. But that cost will either be a higher uptick each year for the one-time cost or keeping that trend where it's a little bit lower for the leasing, but then we don't own the equipment and it returns back and kind of pros and cons both ways. And with that, I'll kick it to Jared to talk about some of their projects they have, particularly in their remodels and kind of renovations.

So one of them is new windows at the recreation building. We need to get some more energy efficient windows in at the rec. We're looking at getting a new vault table for the gymnastics gym to help our athletes. The one we have is quite old and getting a little dangerous. And then new concession equipment for people at the pool, like Jared said, just to be able to offer some different options to the citizens for concession stands.

WITH THAT, WE MOVE ON TO STREET DEPARTMENT. THEY HAVE MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE. THEY HAVE VERY FEW THINGS THAT COME THROUGH, SO THAT LINE IS THERE, BUT THERE'S NO ANTICIPATED KIND OF RECURRING REVENUE FOR STREET DEPARTMENT. THE FIRST BUDGET YOU LOOK AT IS THE STREET DEPARTMENT THEMSELVES, AND SO SALARY BENEFITS IS THE STREET CREW THAT GOES AND DOES THE MAINTENANCE. THEY HAVE TRAINING AND TRAVEL A LITTLE BIT FOR THEIR STAFF, THE UNIFORM EXPENSE, AND THEN THE MAIN LINE COST HERE, THE TWO MAIN, THREE MAIN LINE COSTS ARE MATERIAL STREET REPAIR, WHICH IS $1,056,450 IN EACH YEAR. WE'VE CONTINUED TO TALK ABOUT THIS. TYLER WILL TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT, BUT WHAT WE INITIATED AS KIND OF AN UPTICK OF ABOUT $600,000 A FEW YEARS BACK EACH YEAR TO THIS BUDGET HAS BEEN KIND OF DWINDLED AND DWINDLED IN THE IMPACT THAT IT ACTUALLY MAKES, ESPECIALLY WITH THE CHIP SEAL AND CRACK SEAL COSTS GOING UP. And so some of the renovations and the improvements that we talked about as far as kind of mill and overlay projects from the PEC presentation a few years back really have not been able to get off the ground and going like we anticipated with that $600,000 piece. Additionally, with the cost of that going up, the funding that comes into the Special Traffic Way Fund, that's a pretty set amount of revenue each year, therefore doesn't go as far either for the same line. And so the general fund will either be absorbing the cost of THE UPTICK IF THERE IS ONE ON MATERIAL TRAFFIC OR MATERIAL FOR STREET REPAIR OR POTENTIALLY SOME OF THE STREET EQUIPMENT THAT THEY ARE NO LONGER REALLY ABLE TO AFFORD JUST INDEPENDENTLY OUT OF THAT SPECIAL TRAFFIC WAY FUND. AND SO THIS IS A BUDGET YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE AN UPTICK OR CHANGES IN THE FUTURE YEARS AS WE HAVE TO ADD OTHER ELEMENTS TO THIS THAT HISTORICALLY WERE ABLE TO BE COVERED BY ANOTHER FUNCTION. THE BUILDING PURCHASE REMODEL LINE 6247 IS THE $75,000 REPAYMENT FOR THE HARVEST STREET BUILDING THAT TRAFFIC USES. and so that also goes through 2029 so a couple more years here and then you'll see that drop off from this cost and the last line here is the public transportation cost this is the city's committed piece to transit for the city link We expected a little bit of a downtick in 2027 in the financials we got from transit was an uptick. They'd replaced a couple buses a couple years back and seen some selling costs increases. Their indication had been that we'd probably see a decrease then once we did two buses, but their costs continue to go up. And so that request from them went up as well. And so that is also in your supplemental documentation. With that, I'll let Tyler speak to some of that material street repair projects and the transit costs as well.

Thank you, Jared. Good afternoon, Mayor and Commissioners. Just got a few things that I want to hit on that Jared mentioned a little bit. The one is line item 5656, materials street repair. So for 2026, we already had the crack ceiling done around different areas in the city streets. Next week, I believe, we actually have the chip ceiling that will take place. And then, if you remember, two, three months ago, we had the bid rejection for the mill and overlay street. That bid came in much higher. That's something that we've been seeing over the past few years. Costs with the oils and different preventatives with the street material just continue to increase. So with that, we... We plan to review the streets that were identified for next year's maintenance in the PEC street recommendations with a significant increase. We do plan on scaling back, like Jared mentioned a little bit, about the just chip ceiling and mill and overlay. We plan to put those bids out by about February all together, all at once, not together, but at the same time, so the staff can go back and look at, you know, what's the best approach within the proposed available budget, so... One other thing I wanted to hit on that has a direct impact on this material street repair account is each year the street department is called upon to patch areas along the city streets, asphalt streets in particular, where they've been cut up or dug into due to utilities being installed. gas, fiber, electric, water, sewer, those types of different utilities. And we've seen an uptick in this upwards of about $95,000 in 2025. That comes straight out of our material street repair. And that's just material only on that cost. So we're currently looking and finalizing the details with our legal counsel on a street cut ordinance. This is something that's not out of the norm. We've looked and done our research on what other cities are doing and what they have in place and kind of tailored it to what we feel is right in our area. So plan to have that in the coming weeks to come before you for an approval on that ordinance just to help with, you know, every little bit helps in this account and we hope to see that move forward. Next item here, 6581, the public transportation. This is the portion that the city pays for the city link equipment and the annual operating expenses for the Finney County Transit. And so in 2026, we had an increase of 5.85% with a total... payout of $308,173. The proposed 2027 budget includes a 12.2% increase for the Finney County Transit, totaling $345,748. And after talking with Finney County Transit Director Hopkins, he indicated that higher payroll costs, insurance, utilities, uniforms, and dispatch software expenses were the primary drive for the increase. And they also had in 2027 the request to – it also includes capital improvements such as two buses being replaced and two getting repaired along with new security cameras at their facilities. So – Last one I have here is 5446, the maintenance for traffic. So staff continues to see increases with different signs and signal equipment. We continue to upgrade different traffic signal head back plates. You've seen some of those around town where the head is, the different back plate that we're installing on those. And we'll continue our annual cycle that we replace city street signs in town. That's on a six-year cycle. We'll continue that. Anything that fails are reflectivity tests. Funds from this account will also be used if decided to proceed with the wayfinding signage that we recently had a pre-meeting over. And lastly, the governing body approved the hiring of an additional traffic technician in 2026. This position was filled earlier this year and has been a huge help with the required duties and responsibilities. So I just wanted to say thanks for that. With that, happy to answer your questions. Thank you.

Looking at page 55, the street traffic department, you'll see the uptake, that 25 actual for salary and benefits is lower than the 26 projection and 27, that is due to that additional traffic technician that Tyler just mentioned. But that went from a three-man crew to a four-man crew, so pretty significant increase in abilities when you increase it 33% with just one more body. So they're able to go knock off more things and be more productive. They're very grateful for the help there. Otherwise, yeah, the uptake a little bit in the main is traffic signals, but really the same figures across the board here for the traffic department. And the last page here is your capital improvement section of the general fund, which is a little bit all-encompassing of kind of the other things that didn't fit to a specific department. So here I have your fireworks line. We've kept this in par with past years. We have seen a reduction of kind of how far that money goes. I think it was last year Chief Rissick talked about just the crazy increases they've seen in firework costs. I haven't heard as much from him this year as far as upswing, so hopefully the shows are going to be pretty comparable to the past. BUT WE PRETTY MUCH TELL THE PROVIDER, HERE'S THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE CAN SPEND, AND THEN WE BUILD A SHOW AROUND THAT DOLLAR VALUE. SO THIS IS SPLIT BETWEEN THE VETERANS DAY FIREWORKS AND THE FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS FOR THE $30,000 BUDGET IN 2027. THE MAIN STREET PROGRAM IS FOR DOWNTOWN VISION. YOU'LL SEE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME COST. THEY ACTUALLY REDUCED BY $500 THEIR 2027 REQUEST FROM WHAT THEIR 26 REQUEST WAS. AND THEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 305,026 and their request for 2027 is 320,000. We had a conversation recently with the county about how we used to allocate a mill and then anything above and beyond what we allocated for Finney County Economic Development went towards that joint economic fund with the county. There was some feedback from the group about potentially allocating a certain number or a portion of the mill. With our valuation increase, we were expecting the mill to probably exceed the 305,000 that Finney County Economic Development asked for, but then they're asking for an increase of 15 grand, which will probably eat up most of that additional mill. So if there is an intentionality by the city commission to designate a specific amount you want to put towards that joint fund, it would be beyond what a mill is able to cover. And we would probably put that in a separate line here in this section of the department budget to be able to kind of identify the difference between what goes to Economic Development Corporation and what's going towards the joint economic fund. YOU HAVE THE COST HERE THAT GETS TRANSFERRED OUT TO THE GOLF COURSE FOR THE SUBSIDY FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF $425,000. WE'VE INCREASED THE AMOUNT. WE'RE BUDGETED FOR FACILITIES MAINTENANCE FOR THIS BUILDING. THIS IS KIND OF OUTSIDE THE NORMAL REPAIRS. THIS IS WHEN BIG EQUIPMENT FAILS OR SOMETHING MAJOR NEEDS DONE, SO AN HVAC REPLACEMENT REPAIR. THE LAST COUPLE YEARS WE'VE HAD A LOT OF ISSUES WITH OUR ELEVATOR, AND SO WE ANTICIPATE THE DAY IS COMING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REPLACE THE ELEVATOR, AND THAT COST WILL LIKELY BE FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT. AND SO ANY MONEY NOT SPENT AND HOLDING THE CAPITAL RESERVE TO TRY TO BUILD UP AN AMOUNT TO BE ABLE TO COVER THAT ELEVATOR REPAIR WHEN IT COMES OR OTHER KIND OF MAJOR BUILDING REPAIRS. THE ROOF WOULD BE A REPLACEMENT WE'D PULL OUT OF THOSE FUNDS, THINGS LIKE THAT. WE'VE ALSO DONE A FEW REMODEL PROJECTS AROUND THIS BUILDING KIND OF PIECE BY PIECE HAVE COME OUT OF THOSE FUNDS AS WELL THAT WE HOLD OVER. YOU'LL NOTICE HERE KIND OF AN ODD LINE, BUT LAND PURCHASE, $62.91, HAS A MILLION DOLLARS FOR 2027. YOU'RE NOT PLANNING TO PURCHASE LAND IN THAT AMOUNT. THAT IS THE HOLDING PLACE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION COSTS OF THE PAY STUDY. SINCE WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY LAND PURCHASED, THAT SEEMED LIKE THE LINE THAT WOULD BE EASY ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS. AND SO THAT NUMBER COULD GO UP OR DOWN DEPENDING ON THE DETERMINATION WE GET FROM MCGRATH. AND REALLY IT'S GOING TO BE INCORPORATING THAT INTO YOUR BUDGET NOW. ALLOWS YOU THE FLEXIBILITY TO THEN MAKE A DECISION ON WHEN YOU WANT TO IMPLEMENT. IF THAT MILLION DOLLARS IN THE BUDGET SAYS YOU CAN THEN IMPLEMENT A CHANGE JULY OF NEXT YEAR, YOU CAN KIND OF HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL TO DECIDE DO YOU JUST STICK WITHOUT OR DO YOU INCREASE THAT AMOUNT, ABSORPT KIND OF THE PAIN AND IMPLEMENT SOONER. THE LAST TIME WE DID THIS, WE BUDGETED A SPECIFIC AMOUNT FOR 2023, AND THEN THE COMMISSION DECIDED TO INCREASE THE THRESHOLD TO IMPLEMENT SOONER RATHER THAN LATER, AND SO YOU'LL HAVE kind of tools at your discretion, but that million dollars is our kind of best guess estimate of what an implementation could cost based off of what we experienced the last time. We do hope to have a little bit clearer of a picture on that by the end of the budget cycle so that we can up tick or down tick as you desire that number even though the implementation won't be rolling out yet and the final throws of that PACE study won't be completed. WE SHOULD HAVE A BALLPARK FIGURE TO KIND OF ALIGN WITH HOW CLOSE IS CLOSE ON THE MILLION DOLLARS HERE. AND THEN THE MISCELLANEOUS LINE KIND OF BREAKS OUT A FEW DIFFERENT THINGS. YOU HAVE YOUR SOUTHWEST KANSAS COALITION CONTRIBUTION THAT THE CITY PARTICIPATES IN, TEN PENNY LAW CONSULTANT THERE, AND THEN THE MUNICIPAL BAND COMES OUT OF THAT MISCELLANEOUS LINE. AND THAT SOCIAL FUNDING, 21,400 IN 26 AND 27, COVERS THE ART GRANT AT $6,900 AND THE COMMUNITY GRANT AT $14,500. SO IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THE COMMISSION DESIRED TO SEE AN UPTICK TO, IT WOULD BE AN INTENTIONAL DISCUSSION TO THE STAFF SAYING, HEY, INCREASE THOSE. THOSE WERE REDUCED A FEW YEARS BACK AND HAVE JUST STAYED STATUS QUO SINCE THAT REDUCTION. is it, an hour and 20 minutes later, I think. I'm happy to answer any questions. There's a lot of material. I know it's a tough question to say. Any feedback that you have for us today would be helpful when there's so much volume of data. But the process is, by the next commission meeting, we won't have the results from the county until about the day before, the day the packet goes out. WOULD BE THE 15TH OR THE DAY BEFORE, MAYBE. SO WE MAY HAVE, HERE'S THE VALUATION WE JUST GOT, AND I CAN PRESENT AT THE MEETING, AND I CAN START PRESENTING KIND OF THE LEVERS TO CONSIDER. BUT WITH US BEING OVER $3 MILLION AWAY, THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME SIGNIFICANT, BEYOND THE LEVERS WE TYPICALLY PRESENT, THERE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE SOME OTHER INSIGHT FROM THE COMMISSION ON KIND OF WHAT TACTIC DO YOU WANT THE STAFF TO TAKE IN APPROACHING THIS? IS THAT A REDUCTION IN SERVICES? IS THAT A REDUCTION IN STAFFING? IS THAT A REDUCTION IN EQUIPMENT? AND IDENTIFYING WHAT KIND OF ONE-TIME PURCHASES WE CAN PUSH OFF. IS THAT A LAST YEAR, THE LAST PIECE OF THE PIE WAS KIND OF A UNIVERSAL 1% CRUD ACROSS THE BUDGETS. IF THERE'S ANY DIRECTION THAT YOU HAVE AT THIS TIME TO KIND OF HELP US TO BRING YOU THE INFORMATION YOU BEST WOULD REQUIRE TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS, I'M ALL YOURS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE I GET YOU BACK WHAT'S HELPFUL.

I think for myself today it was very helpful to get the director's insights from each department. Is there a way to get like quick bullet points of that on the single document, unless it's already in here that I missed?

I don't have single bullet points. I could put, as far as kind of what their talking points were, is that what you're saying?

Yeah, that'd be lovely for me.

I can put together the talking points that each department talked about. The direction I gave them was to kind of tell the story of their department, the things that are one-timers or upticks or if there's a change. So if the question was, what's their priority in the budget, today's presentation might not necessarily reflect what they would say is their top priority, more so kind of the change or the unique thing. But I can get you the bullet points for what was presented today. That would be lovely. Thank you.

Thank you. It was very helpful. My hand hurts from all the notes, so I appreciate it. I don't appreciate that, but you know.

Yeah. Anything else for Jared? Thank you, Jared. All right. Thank you very much. I would actually like to return to 12A and take up the action item for that. It's a pretty short memo, so if you could repeat that memo for us so we can take an action item on that.

Yes, I would be happy to. Item 12A is the 2025 annual financial report. City of Garden City subject to that annual report every year due to grant guidelines, state statutes, and other financial obligations. You already received the presentation for that. BUT WE DID NOT CONSIDER THE TWO ALTERNATIVES BEFORE YOU. SO THE FIRST ONE IS TO ACCEPT THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT AS PRESENTED. THE OTHER ONE IS TO NOT ACCEPT THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION WAS TO ACCEPT THAT REPORT. SO WITH THAT, IF YOU'VE GOT ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, WE'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE.

IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THIS ITEM.

I MOVE TO ACCEPT THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT 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 aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passes. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. I don't have this item in front of me, sorry. Turn it off. Mayor and commissioners, item 12C. This is the governing body's ask to consider and approve the first amendment to the employment agreement between the city of Garden City and Matthew Allen. The City Commission has conducted its performance evaluation of the City Manager. The City Manager initially did not request and the City Commission did not offer any changes to the terms of the employment agreement which would have utilized the evergreen nature of the agreement, keeping the terms the same with the exception of the salary which would progress through the City's pay plan in line with how all employees progress through the pay plan. However, the City Manager, I was at step 13 and there's no step following step 13. There is a performance range. employees progress through the performance range at a slower rate, 1.75%, than what is between steps, which is approximately 2%. The employment agreement that the city and I have has specific language that says 2% as the adjustment made at the annual evaluation if the parties wish to continue under the same agreement. So I requested the attached addendum, and worked that with city attorney Jennifer Cunningham and her role as your council, the board's council, also keeping Mayor Nguyen informed of the discussion back and forth. And so it was in Jennifer's best judgment to treat this as an addendum to the agreement. rather than an all new agreement. And so the addendum is in there. It doesn't give specific language to the salary, however, so that's in the memo here. If approved, the hourly rate of effective pay on June 1st, 2026 would change to 10606 instead of 10632. So your alternatives are to approve the first addendum or to approve it with changes or to not approve the first addendum. The city attorney recommends the governing body approve the first addendum and I concur.

Any questions for staff? If they're not, I will entertain a motion for this item.

I move to approve the first addendum to employment agreement between the City of Garden City and Matthew C. Allen.

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 aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passes.

That concludes the business items. If the commission would like to pull any of the consent agenda items under 13, you may do so. If not, the appropriate motion would be to approve 13A through D. Is there anyone here to speak on the abatement issues?

Seeing none, I'll attend a motion for this consent agenda.

I move to approve consent agenda items 13A through 13D.

I second. There's been a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Motion passes.

Did I say 13D?

Yeah, I thought so.

Next up are the commissioner reports. We will start off with Commissioner Landgraf.

I just want to start by saying it's good being able to have a tour of the temporary law enforcement center, being able to see in its current state with all these different walls going up now, almost kind of get lost in the building now, being able to go all these different places. And also just wanted to remind folks that Beef Empire Days is still going on this week, and I highly encourage people to go out and attend the different events.

Thank you. Vice Mayor Euler.

Yeah, I enjoyed the tour of the LEC. I think it's always nice when you can get a group of people together, representatives from the city and the county, to look at this project that we're working on together and to just see the power of what that looks like. And I agree, at one point I had to find an entrance just to reorient myself as to where I was. in relation to north and south. But it's impressive to see, and I am encouraged, and I really hope that as it progresses, we get to see more and more of that, and just to be able to have that ability. So thank you for whoever arranged the tour. I HAD A CHANCE TO ATTEND WESTERN KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION'S 30TH ANNIVERSARY. I'M HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR 30 YEARS AND IT WAS IMPRESSIVE AND IT WAS INTERESTING TO LOOK AT THEIR SLIDE SHOW OF JUST ALL OF THE THINGS THAT THEY'VE DONE IN THE LAST 30 YEARS AND THE IMPACT THAT THEY'VE MADE WITHIN NOT JUST GARDEN CITY, BUT SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND THE COUNTIES THAT THEY SERVE. AND SO IT WAS REALLY A TESTAMENT, I THINK, TO OUR COMMUNITY SPIRIT, AND SO I ENJOYED ATTENDING THAT. I'VE BEEN ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE PROGRESS ON FLUMMING, DRIVE IT MULTIPLE TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY, AND I WAS GLAD. I WAS GONE ALL OF LAST WEEK, AND SO IT WAS KIND OF FUN TO COME BACK AND SEE THE POLLS WERE UP AND TO SEE THE PROGRESS THERE. SO JUST A REMINDER TO PEOPLE THAT IT'S A FOUR-WAY STOP. And remember what that looks like when you stop and who gets to go first. And I also, the audit, congratulations to Jared and his department and to Matt and everyone who had something to do with the annual financial report. I enjoyed the process, but I also enjoyed just the transparency of being able to you know, as a commissioner to meet one-on-one with the auditors and be able to ask questions, be able to make sure that we understand it before we come here into this meeting. And it's a really nice report, and I think it's just a good testament to just the transparency that we have within the city and that the commissioners have and the level that even people in the community have to ask those questions. So congratulations to everybody on this report. That's all I have.

Thank you. Commissioner Canales-Sazano.

I just want to say that it's been a great start to the pool season. It's wonderful to see so many kids having fun. And I'm always amazed to see how the entire community comes together for the Beef Empires Day Parade. That was great. I think they had over 50 floats, maybe. And then just as we leave today, let's continue to work together to build a stronger community. Every effort, big or small, contributes to the success of Gurdon City. Thank you.

Thank you. Yeah, it was just really great pre-meeting today to be able to walk through the temporary LAC building and see the progress that's being done. And it's hard to believe that is a remodel worth over $5 million as you're walking through it, but obviously as you're making the progress and the finished products will resemble that. Good and always great to have our auditors come and share this information with us because that is able to give us a talking point as we go through this budget season and the background of the budget season. Beef Empire Days, so I hope everyone gets out because that is very exciting for our community, one of the highlights of our community. And this, for Memorial Day, I had a chance to ride through Amtrak for Friends Engagement. I think that we kind of forget... hidden gem for us and that it should be much more popularized for us because a $50 ticket to Topeka is very worth it or a $50 ticket to Albuquerque from here is very, very worth it and not having to drive. But that is all for our commission reports. With that, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good meeting. Thank you.