Remarks by Scott Meggers
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$25,000. I mean, $25,000 on that. Okay. Throw another $25,000 on there. Yeah, so it sounds like you're about right there.
All right, council, any other questions?
Sorry, what was our trend before 24? I'm sorry, I'm putting you in the spot probably.
So based off that information, Angela, is that something that you, because I know we had talked about this before, is that something, if we went to that two to two and a half, is that something you're comfortable with with our budget, with that number, or do we need to look at that a little bit deeper? Sure.
Yeah, and I'm not trying to discredit the staff because they are the backbone of our city, and so we want to make sure they're taken care of. However, I just want to make sure as a budgetary item that we're doing our due diligence to make sure Yes, we can sustain doing what we're going to do. So that's why I'm asking that question.
Yeah, I think that sounds like a really good idea on the way to approach that too. So you have any more comments on that part, this part? Council, any more questions on this part of it?
Yeah, we probably need to keep some of that so we can hire out contractual type stuff. I do know that for sure. Um,
Because we've got – I was trying to find that. We've got about, what, $7.5 million in the current stormwater fund?
And so we do – it's not like we don't have some money there to use for that. So then basically you'd be – okay.
How did you, so on those allocations of Golf Street, General Parks, how did you come up with that determination of why those amounts for those specific line items?
And you can't use any of that money to build back up the reserve fund, though, can you?
Well, I know Stacey brought up in the last meeting talking about the length that we could operate off of what our reserve was. And so that's why I was looking at going, that would be a way to build that back up. But I just didn't know if that was something we could do or not.
And so this money is all going towards operations then, correct?
Yeah, I think it was like $660,000 or something like that.
So is that something you were okay leaving that?
Yeah, that's kind of what I think, too, because it's more of an operational thing, not a...
Thanks, Justin. Council, do you have any other questions for Angela on this item, if this is the direction we wanted to go?
Yeah, I think it's something we need to look at too because I know the brick streets are kind of cool, but it's just so costly to actually do the brick versus the asphalt.
If that's the case, I would rather kick it a year and take that $100,000, if that's what it is, and put it into fixing it correctly instead of wasting that money.
I like that idea better of pushing that money onto the next year if we can do that. It sounds like a good idea.
So is that something you could pull $50,000 out of each and transfer out? I know this is catching you off guard, but just asking.
Yeah, if that's how the allocation would work. If he came back and said, yeah, no, I really would rather you pull 60 out of this one or 40 out of this one just to kind of – or maybe that's not – I don't know. That's what I was thinking, too. So I'm just throwing out a number, just kind of like you're not sure either.
Because basically it's us asking, is that something you could pull, say, $50,000 out of each? If not, we'd have to go back to what we're shifting to the general fund to go, no, it needs to come from there. It's just an ask, I think, more of a question.
Yeah, I think I was going the wrong direction with that. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah, that was kind of my biggest goal, too, was just to get that fund balance back up because of the comments Stacey made. And our other meeting is like going, okay, so what do we have to do to make that happen? Because overall, to me, that's kind of an important goal. I think that's your direction, I guess. Sorry, I took you down the wrong path.