City Council - public_hearing

You said one of those assistant police chief positions was cut in 2024. I due to retirement? 2021. 2021, okay. Okay, that's where I was like, wait a second, I wanted to backtrack a little bit, because I don't remember that happening, okay.

We even offered money for retirement, too. That was also part of working with Captain Hendrickson at the time.

Well, Chief, before we move on, I do have a question with that. So in 2025 and 2026 adopted budget, it said West Street 1 at $1,200 and fixed LPR-1 at $3,600. Now it's only changed to West State Street 1 for $5,680. Is that line still going to be used to fix the LPRs? And if not, then why did the electricity jump up to basically quadrupling?

Before you go on, Chief, I kind of got a follow-up to that. So I've tried to get through the budget the best I could recently. Where is the 2027 FLOC ALPR cost budgeted? The subscription, cameras, connectivity, installation, maintenance, related software, like what page is that on where I could have missed that?

Is it just listed though? Hardware and software would like no way for us to, as we were flipping through the budget to know that's where the flock and the ALPR was. Is it just as ambiguous as software and hardware in the budget?

our department and my administration and uh and quality training okay on street parking yes page 65. wait wait one second before we skip page 64. uh line item reward fund i see that has 5 000 in the proposed budget what is that chief so

Okay. Yeah, that's what I was curious, if it was a reward like that, or maybe something you guys did some kind of raffle or reward for an outstanding service member by the community recognized, or what does it mean, reward?

So, Chief, you said you have six active, but looking at the budget, the winter coats, raincoats, safety vests, pants, and the shirts are all budgeted for just four. Does that mean two already have all the gear and you only need to buy for four?

I wasn't sure. I mean, if you were just updating everybody to start fresh or.

Oh, yeah. I just know like with the high-vis safety vests, you only get 25 washes, and then they're no longer retroreflective. Right. So that's why when I see you're only buying four safety vests, I'm wondering how long the other two possibly had theirs because I've wore safety vests for 20 years of my life, so I know all about the retroreflective.

Hang on a second, Ben. I see temporary services is zeroed out all the way across. Does that mean the special projects administrator position is ending at December 31st, Megan?

So, Ben, that being a city-run event, why did that get moved from economic development to the mayor's office?

Yeah, I mean I specifically asked for everything to be on one page and previous budgets and I'm happy that they're all there even if they're But if you put it the way you just said that specifically everything on one page then that would be every event on one page How do they determine what events stay with economic development and what events go through the mayor's office is my question. I

Then why not make an itemized budget line instead of just putting it under celebrations if we were going to sponsor them every year?

I'm just curious, because it seems like different events have kind of slid back and forth the last couple years.

megan or ben are these amounts for the community events just earmarked depending or are they guaranteed depending on budget approval like is it guaranteed if we approve it that luma is going to get the 75 grand it's not just earmarked

Ben, can you get me a copy of the breakdown of the community events that we gave money to last year and how much money we gave to each event so I can just cross-reference?