City Council - workshop

All right. Good afternoon. It is Thursday, September 3rd. We're going to kick off our study session. This will be a budget presentation by City Finance. And so in order to get going, we're going to turn over to Mr. Johnson and let you take over from here, sir.

How do schools use a different inflationary factor?

I have a question. what percentage would you guess that get to pre-app get all the way to well paying permit fees um almost all but it can be yeah for sure for sure i was just curious like you know how many actually got across the finish line that actually started at that spot

you know, these are projections and things like that. And what can we conservatively kind of depend on from a revenue perspective or safely assume from a revenue perspective?

Now, if we also compare that, real quick on the legal, because it's a 60% increase, and you touched on this before, and I'm trying to remember what you said, but that was about certifications. That's not necessarily going to compensation. It's all about...

get the job done and what it's going to cost.

Up to that $100,000, yes. Okay, thank you. So for 26, our pavement preservation was still $600,000. So what did our PCI numbers drop? Did they drop in the last year because of that?

Oh, okay, so the widening brought us back up because that was an improvement to an existing road? Correct. Through another, yes, okay. So really like looking at it at $600,000 this last year, and then increasing it by 40% next year, the loss is negligible, like that difference is negligible just because of the TIA project? Correct. Okay. With the sidewalks allocating $100,000 up from $20,000, do we feel like that's adequate? Is that going to get us to what we need to do? I mean, I would like to discuss that probably more just kind of compared to some options, but I want to make sure that that'

How are we going to budget the one time that as I went into, that'll come to you in October. Okay. Not a part of the 26 budget. or not part of the 2027 operating budget?

do we have like, is there state level like pricing that we can tap into like pool pricing?

So to clarify, does the revenue we receive from HB 2015, does that replace some of the general fund revenue we've gone to fund public safety in the past? Or is it adding on to it?

Just the increases that we would not have bought for that sales tax?

Real quick. So we're funding public safety at existing levels, and then the public safety sales tax revenue that we receive is going to fund those additional positions, the increases. Correct.

Well, I was just going to say, I'm glad you brought that up because that was a part of our conversation when we passed the public safety sales tax. We didn't want to just have, oh, sweet, we can take this money and then free a more general fund. We wanted to do it with the emphasis of increasing investment in public safety.

And have to to that. We have to use it on those positions. Yeah.

To do that sort of, I guess, conditional action where we're specifically temporarily reducing reserves in order to fund some proactive measures, is that... simply something that we could do in the budget process being that specific? Okay. Yeah, we've done that in the past.

I guess just to even refresh us, like the first line, which is city council, what stuff nests under our operating budget besides the personnel?

Okay. I was hesitant to do this, but I want to kind of poke at it a little bit right now. Can we talk a little bit more about legal? Because it's a significant increase, and I want to better understand that. I know you've mentioned it before, but can you speak to what the specific increases are and what those are going towards?

I think that's... Was it not consolidated in 2026 at all?

I guess the other thing, too, on the legal piece, I mean, If I, I would love for anybody to chime in if I'm misremembering this. But, you know, when we looked at the 185, okay, last year that was one of the only asks to add was legal. And, you know, we had the conversation about all the advantages of instead of having to contract out hourly, bringing, you know, somebody in-house, presumably Ms. Parker who, you know, has, I think, done a great job. If I remember right, part of that was also the argument that with Lee Nottanaris stepping away, she would also assume some of the HR function, the l

I'm always, yeah, more is better. Yeah, that'd be great. Okay, thanks.

We were just talking about there's the one time and then there's the ongoing.

I was just going to say, I mean, to me, I would appreciate a little bit of a deeper dive on some of this stuff and so i just put out there i'd entertain one of our future study sessions kind of looking at piff tiff credits what's hanging out there like just a deeper dive you know what maybe some of our financial exposure is like expirations and all this all the stuff i think just a focused look at that i would appreciate at least i just put that out there for

We'll try to look at that number right now. It almost feels like it's not even worth looking at that number.

So I know you touched on this earlier, and I was just hoping to go a little bit deeper on it. So last year, we asked every department to make, I think, was it a 5% cut, right? And this year, we didn't have to do that. But I remember, for example, last year, public safety, we cut out some of the optional overtime and some of the optional trainings that had to happen. So going forward this year, Are we adding some of that optional stuff back in for training and overtime, or are we leaving that out and maintaining the service level we did last year?

There was mandatory training and then optional training.

Great, okay, thank you. Okay, if there's no other questions or comments, we'll conclude this study session and council will resume on September 10th at a regular scheduled council meeting. Thank you, everybody.