City Council - workshop

Okay, if I can get everybody's attention, we'll go ahead and bring this budget retreat meeting into session at 5.15. And I apologize for the late start, trying to make sure that everybody got settled in before we got going. So at this time, I'd like to take the time to welcome everybody in joining us, those that may be online and those that are present with us here today. I'll go ahead and turn it over to our city manager, Steve Williams.

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And that's all we have for hearing of the residents. So we'll go ahead and move on to item number one, which is fiscal year 2026, 2027 operating budget and capital improvement program workshop. This time I'll turn it over to Steve Williams, our city manager.

I would agree with that. On some of the things that I've noticed is, one, we've had high turnover in public safety dispatchers as well as public works. I feel that we need to take a look at everything as a whole.

I would like to go ahead and recess at 6.59, take a 10-minute recess. Thank you.

Okay, the time now is 7-11. We'll go ahead and resume the budget workshop.

Is there any way that we could like have a little bit more detailed of what streets are going to be repaired versus just having a kind of like a catch-all where it says annual span project street preservation and maintenance? Is there streets that we can already have outlined that we know that we're going to work on so that way our residents can kind of have an idea of what we're doing?

Yeah. And thank you for that. And that's kind of more of what I'm looking for is like, what do we do in next fiscal year and lay those streets out? I'm not really worried about 27 and 28. I'm just looking, I'm just looking at the year that we're fixing to approve the budget for sure.

So first of all, I just want to thank you and your staff for all the hard work that y'all put into creating this budget workbook that we have. I think that'll allow us to take a deeper dive into the budget and to ask a little bit more detailed questions as we look through this at our next meeting. And I would like to schedule that one for the 25th. Okay.

Yeah, let's say we can't do 5.30, kind of buy some time for people to be able to get from work and get to the council meeting.

Okay, thank you. I guess this time we'll go ahead and conclude the budget retreat meeting at 8.04. Thank you all. Thank you.