small close knit community and it gets even smaller once you get inside places like city hall where people are working together and really look at each other's family members and rely on each other great deal both as individuals and professionals and i think anybody who had any dealings with mike knows he was a really special individual and person served this city for twelve years years in the police force silence and thinking reflect back on mike's contributions to the community fifteen seventeen subsequent the payout from october and we also have the final volunteer handbook which it sounded like there was nothing positive reflection on the stress of work through the concert i think everybody station engineering so folks can pull to start the contract is well underway survey was conducted and completed the week of november twenty seventh they will be out tomorrow and the following day doing seventh and that context seems to be moving along quite well and i did meet with a pool committee they are having conversations about fund raising at your request we had originally talked about having them come in tonight and talk to you about their your city councilor and we can get you connected with that fund raising effort for the pool main street revitalization project also continues through and being and to play engineering the announcement for this is on january tenth which is a wednesday evening we are going to have what we call the perfervid alternatives meeting with the planning commission and the joint meeting of the planning commission and public works commission to go over the engineering alternatives being  considered so that will be a big public meeting we hope to do some interesting kind of voting things and we encourage anyone who's interested in that project come out they'll be january tenth at six thirty here snotty interesting exciting for most but we've been making a lot of internal customer service approve minutes julie and our communications person paul simon created an internet for us so all internal staff people now have a website they can go to and find all human resources forms policies payrolls that system benefits system it's a huge improvement for us and as employees we're very thankful for their work we want to remind you that on january fifteenth is the martin luther king day of service so in partnership with of make greeting cards for military veterans or make a community meal in the day will end with a community meal at the senior center i'm so people are interested in that please register online so we have a sense of numbers but we'd love to see you there on martin in the community interest in becoming a volunteer paid while they're working firefighter for the city of new ski please get in touch and then following the budget presentation last night in some part last december fourth and some  conversations what i'm hearing from the council is that there is some interest with moving forward with the public works director position so we have actually have to stellar candidates and unless i hear significant protest i hope to be making an announcement about that position by the end of the calendar year so that's exciting and more to come on  so busy time for planning commission and housing commission doing the mind meld portion i was on a community visit for the day in newport but i think the meeting went well from the feedback that i got lots of good back and housing authority board so just a heads up on that so be having some conversations about potential applicants for that but that's something that folks out there are interested in now is a great time to share that interest and will be doing some outreach around that  and there may be a temporary appointment so it may be a little bit further down the road but still a good time to check in with interest folks just following up on nickles comment i think we felt pretty confident and that's why it's meaning that on the second week in j will have a recommendation for council about a work plan to move forward on the treasurer position and as we've discussed previously and then just a couple quick items on the airport folks the knesset the the civil suit that the city was at one time involved and withdrew from upon initial failure of the suit was also dismissed from the second circuit appeals court today so just to follow up on that since we were involved in the legal action to begin new with those meetings on a monthly basis for the next couple months while we work through some potential different proposals for us to consider for their governments to consider so some more news coming down the line in regards to  airport governance and how that structure looks between our communities well looks like the winter community services programming brochure is out so to everybody to go to with so that the last public safety commission meeting we had a commission received kind of a deeper dive on the leadership budget proposal that was brought to us was very warmly received by the group and i'm sure that when that component of the budget comes before us in this budget schedule that we have likely commission members will be here to discuss you know kind of the deep dive of where they're coming from as committee members and commission members on their  support for items in the proposed budget other than that right now in collaboration with some of the commission members and with the chief they're working on a policing survey to get out to community members and we're going through experiences community great thank you all ok with that we'll move on to regular items so as we noted we've adjusted to me it's a general take on item jay the governor's highway safety program first we are joined by seat belt and uy checkpoint stops over the course of the year i'm so because we participate we get this equipment these dollars to be used towards equipment so traditionally we have purchased equipment that otherwise we would not have purchased with these gr be will go with community services commission appointment commission board opportunities so really excited to have a number of folks reach out about this we do and i will say we do have one more alternate secret meeting so anybody out there is interested let us know but mary was one of the fabulous applicants that we got applied on department general i think a lot of synergy between some of the things she's really interested in the hot new resident to it you see with last year and actually just a really pleasant conversation with her where she can produce about the commission so i'm very excited about the prospect of bringing her on word on she is being recommended as an alternate as we only have one seat at the moment but i suspect we may have a second open seat coming up so i'll just put that out there now but for now but my spouse and i really love it here and both of us have wanted to get more involved in city politics in issues i've recently retired from my position as a professor at st lawrence university in upstate new york can new york where i taught a lot of environmentally themed classes including one of my areas was the lo movement but from all aspects including the economics the ethics of supply chains and students actually worked with a lot of area organizations and farmers  and that's one of my interests so i you know i know the community gardens are kind of a growing concern and and i think there are a lot of opportunities there i really like the demographics of whe you ski how varied in diverse it is and i think you know one thing ray and i talked about is where a lot of people might see challenges there i think you can turn those into opportunities and a lot of potentials for different kinds of synergies i've always been involved in boards in city politics a little bit in can new york not as much when i was working full time but i think when you ski such a vibrant and wonderful place you know i've i am familiar with the o'brien center  my partners in the community choir works for the community justice department she's the manager for the restorative justice  great thank you for being willing to step up and volunteer and be involved with the commission it's great any questions for courtney from council was eight years a long and that was just it went really well and also the relationship we have longstanding relationship which if case school and we have an america or a program that america or educator who does a lot of in class work and we have a lot of kids come over to to our facilities well so just wanted highlight this relationship with this is our annual check up just you know briefly that this is who we are you know we're  hybrid nonprofit and incorporated municipality with seven municipal members of which you guys have been one of our longest standing members and we have pretty outstanding  lands it's a very bright line around that role along with the education work that we do with very active worth of yarn can can attest that now that everyone shows up every month everyone's very  from people when you ski he'd stop right there just for a second this is a good acquisition we're working on word on the marina you get on the end of north avenue in burlington right with that the sewage treatment plant is there's a use this is a stop there first thing this is our newest or biggest capital project right now really starting from scratch on a new park with a mile and a half trail that goes around it and just masterful work  park superintendent tim learned putting the whole thing together and we're looking to open up in that in the spring time woodside pretty heavily used in essex and jericho we have one part currently  this is a park we're going to be developing this coming year if you look at that map it's it's an interesting parkas it skirts both burlington and south bronx and we were getting the smaller parcels being donated to us and it's right across the river from there is cal an island and then a right you can see the edge of caste on the other side so you have this you know ecological buffer strip on the river as it comes into an excuse that's a really it actually for about a year now but south burlington approached us on doing fee for service work which is something we hadn't done before and we've been doing it for about a year it's been very successful force especially during the shoulder seasons in  got scope of work set up for this coming year and we just extend or a contract with them so that's that's an area which we look to grow over the next years i put this out there because we newsies in a really unique physical position and if you look you know there's the bridge sorry but the orange color is harder to read but you see cast by callan island valley ridge and centennial woods you get this whole stretch of really high value conservation lands then you've got the hydro dam and then there's two canoe watches that we've been working with you guys on rehabbing and you get salmon whole across the the river further down directly with your crews on the field something like keep going this is the pedaling paddle event that we had this last summer that we'd like to do again this coming year ok moving into willesden we've got about land it goes through a pretty tough screen it has to really be ecologically important have conservation value and have it and we have to be able to afford to manage it and all of our parcels have very actively managed so that's a very big part of our  mission work you were in the middle of a five year master plan up to we got a survey on line and on our website i would highly encourage you going in there and and it only takes eight or ten minutes to complete we really got some interesting comments you know people very concerned about hunting and access and dogs that amid all the same things that you guys hear about probably a regular basis here this is just a slight we we are really focused on finding alternatives to asking our towns for money to fund us through the work that warren has done and what tim is done on the park side with the fee for service work we've been able to increase our  income and we have the same across the board minas alaska this year and we did last year so i don't know if they can pull that same rabbit out of that next year but we're going to try and this is our overall approach you know try to decrease our reliance on talents and create new income streams that are sustainable in the long term we generally have a twenty five year perspective for the decisions that we take are things that really need to  hold over time and this is how our this is the formula that is used in order to establish how much we ask for the each town and if you go the next slide i think there's yeah so we've got two point four percent increase this year but we're asking for the same amount overall from our member towns and the difference is being made up through or are leasing in program and and fee for service income and we see some growth in those areas were getting inquiries to increase in those areas and this is you have to squint to see this but this is always the most popular slide because people want to know geez what are they paying so there it is  f the bottom right is the overall three nine hundred seven twenty five it's the overall ask that we have from our towns for fiscal year nineteen and then those the fund the actual funding requests year nineteen is in the far right column this well in this current years is the next column over just so you can get a sense of comparison and it's based on a combination of population growth and list the scope of the formulas put the potential to care for some of the assets around that you know need to even would have been harder left on behalf of the communities in which they're located to provide you know original opportunity for recreation and we recognize that there's ways you know to come up with financial support to new models that's that's exciting any balancing when the manager says limit you physically in a few seasons and keeping the level up on that is enough of a challenge is also a fairness issue if we hall often do too much for want to go to town will hear from the other town that's part of why do these meetings you know the questions but we are there is a really strong community between the land trust and conservation or it's like boards that have a church interest in conservation i think there's a really it's like preaching to the choir so we since we have such a bright line around our organization as an owner manager you know we don't hold easements we don't manage ball fields you know it's a very specific role and partner projects pretty seamlessly we have a couple acquisitions that are a combination of three four different entities so it's a long way of saying you know we're very focused on managing our lands we do to try to provide as much support as possible we have to stay within a certain box financially but we are growing incremental i think we may potentially over the next few years take on four new properties so we're  because you know as i spoke when i was elected to the board you know i passionately care about the river specifically been living on it for four years and it's been a pleasure to engage with other people who also care considered regarding the creation of this union municipal district so i've talked to a couple of times over the last six months about the joint survey committee in the work that we have been doing across communities to think about the regional public safety dispatch the last time i brought i was here talking about this i brought you the agreement to form chipman county public safety authority that was under review by the attorney general so he has signed off on that her state statu e and we are bringing this agreement and a resolution around all of the committees for consideration by the elected boards in advance of town meeting so i'm happy to you know i didn't want to give you the full kind of presentation we've done our couple of times but i'm happy to answer any questions about that or about the creation of the public safety authority but really what is before you tonight for discussion only is the consideration of this resolution that we would ask you to review water district and provide this service centrally really with the goal of improving services to our residents giving back up to our dispatchers who right now in new skis sit by themselves for twenty four hour shifts don't have backup for feel pretty strongly that we have amount of time on the budgeting factors that this is related to in the front of it but certainly if there's questions concerns at this point in juncture i don't feel compelled to ask for dispatch staff as well as our fire department staff to review what's before you tonight as well as what's gotten us here and answer any of their questions so while this is a difficult conversation to be talking with existing st we may hear from them but some point i think they're really good questions about how they themselves can prepare to enter employment with a new organization potentially they have questions about what it meant for especially if the chain in county public safety of authority becomes a piece up what that means for receiving i want to one cause and dispatching at the same time that's not what our dispatchers currently do our fire is currently dispatched by a firefighter so what that would mean for our firefighters to have that improve service delivery and then we also interestingly we have a number of staff who have worked in other communities with regional dispatch models so there are opportunities for them also to share with they've seen in other larger places which was really interesting good and there's certainly i don't want to undersell there is some anxiety and concern but i think they're also willing to move forward the conversation e but sounds i yeah i mean we've we've invested in this path and are looking forward to seeing this progress pleased to see it hear appreciate the staff appreciate getting to see the potential ballot language because it's something that we should all be prepared to talk about with the public and engage with people on when we're talking about more fun and interesting things that might be in the budget right think about how to promote expansion update application largely due to the applicants and experience in the childcare field it just felt like a high risk investment and given that this is kind of a one time shot for us it felt work to make sure we had a lot of confidence going into that want to be really clear that it's like absolutely option c that's really the last spot we want to find ourselves and i think for anyone who's worked at nuffield you know there's a huge capacity issue in the early childhood world  lots of new digital counties so i do think it's an important opportunity for us to really do our best to take advantage of so so as recently as the end of last week which is why it's not more fleshed out in this document we've had some really encouraging discussions with a potential operator so i do expect that the first option be a little bit more likely based on conversations thursday or friday of last week but we are continuing to go through the exercise of looking at building up  of significant goals here one clearly is the expansion of childcare capacity and making sure our community is safe healthy and connected and having a good places for their young children to go is certainly a part of that this is also a significant economic development issue for the city we've heard repeatedly from businesses that one of their challenges it is childcare capacity in the city and having employees here that are you know driving from milton to show burning to back to a new ski in the park a get sick they're leaving and think some businesses who really see that growing child here in the city as fundamental to them being able to grow and expand and stay here having said that we've really been pushing our partners to say sadly is somebody who comes from parents who were very involved in early care education this is tim is broken across our state the business model for early care and education it's not sustainable right now and how do we balance the priority for that with with a reality that i mean this a pal of the subsidizing this kind of service delivery may not be feasible within our current municipal budget and what does that mean and how do we balance both the need and the municipality subsidizing a service delivery system that's not traditionally a municipal government service delivery system so that's the line we're walking right now of not wanting to kind of vehemently refusing to give up on this goal while at the same time really believing that it's going to be hard for us mean so i mean just to back up and we've all been supportive of this because we understand that it's a need in and i think from a value standpoint i have aligned with it from day one as a need from an investment standpoint for the city i mean just in the interest of brevity going to be really blunt i don't think them or two is anywhere close to a feasible option for us through a financial commitment stem point it doesn't feel like a business that we should be involved in just from a functional standpoint and it feels like if the private market isn't willing with the subsidy of the least fed up to support it that that's a bad side in terms of whether the business model works so that number two would really really really take i think a heavy lift of convincing as to what the compelling case because it's not it's not  here i think i understand for sure as you're driving consideration to alter the are a few that you put on a regional that's up there if there was a lot of good feedback coming out of the process about why we didn't get responses i think a lot of work gives us a sense that we're in a ballpark that could work for somebody coming in but i do think there's some question marks there that remain and that i think are one of the pieces they are the two that we were perhaps a little bit optimistic about or  have perhaps a little bit too value oriented around as the number of subsidy families that we are encouraging africans to bring and so we had asked for believe it was a forty percent threshold i wish as we got back out of the industry we're hearing more about twenty five percent  being about the max of what approaches spaces are able to carry in the primary reason being is that the base rate for reimbursement through the state system tends to fall well below the required per child cost to keep the lights on and so there's a huge gap there that either families need to pick up as a co pay which is often difficult for families who are qualifying for subsidy or the center needs to eat or find some other way to subsidize you know some examples of that i think just  be community commuting to this area yeah the conversations we've had up to date have been with with providers since the r p process it gave we didn't hear that feedback from from not applicants and i think in the conversations we've had subsequent to that to come off as a real sticking point you know i do think we're working maybe we need to kind of open our eyes a little wider to say instead of just residents we're talking about residents and employees will we're still pretty committed to when you see families  or accreditation standpoint that is a sticking point i do think the regulatory environment right now in their own childhood field is challenging and that's because there's a lot of requirements without a lot of centers that are licensed and so there is an issue where getting paying people to get that educational stuff it's tough because i feel they're not making those types of salaries unfortunately so i do think that's we've seen a lot of concern but for the staffing element but so and just to be specific about our situation general that is there anything in r f p that's narrowing the scope of potential applicants from a regular  running your thrive program you have to school portion of it are you bringing are you having the opportunity to bring in teachers and and raising that sort of thing to assist those programs or is this a whole separate staff taking on that service so i think they're kind of preface everything i mean i think look good all the challenges that you can mention in this environment making progress on increasing childcare capacity is incredibly difficult so i really appreciate you and other staff work on trying to take this incredible resource that we have often make sure that we're doing something meaningful with the i think one of in addition echoing the mayor's concern and nicole's  counselor mason's concern about option two i also think that leaves open the possibility of doing a disservice to community members because people do make really big life decisions centered child care because that is such a huge it is so many families and i think that if we are then putting families in the position to bring their children to a center that we find we can't maintain this municipality in a few years and have to close i do think that something that's a flash in the pan it would need to be a sustainable model for that very reason with many of the providers he spoke with before to any say here's my feedback yours and dollar amount like we would need to equal access and be  greene so i do think that may help but i don't know that that's necessarily the deal breaker that's going to get proper cross the line and i'm not sure if this is something that you might have information off the top of your some ways to solve it's really complicated issues he said yeah i know i wish there were some more i mean we've had some kind of technical assistance through the state and there's been some sort of cross pollination there hasn't been as for us as i think the house would have been helpful is there is opportunity for us to have the state child care resource pacifically i think to come into the space and kind of map out not be specific with on the cessna these for the space to find out what a qualified number would be rather than just throwing ninety five thousand dollars out of the wall and seeing what sticks kind of thing but actually configuring a space to see if that's even functional i mean obviously they've given us some some leeway as far as green spaces first this that the other thing that space and i'm sorry i'm speaking because i was actually part of the original however for somebody good i mean i do i've done a ton of construction myself but for somebody that doesn't do that but is primarily a daycare provider that can be a very ominous thing to look out and be like ok now what do i do with this it's a great large space but i don't know what the next step is so it might be an opportunity for us to capture some other folks that might not be put into a kind of was there questions or comments i just want to  it's a national trend to see like childcare facilities spring up out of single corporations and i think to like try to work some sort of hybrid model could potentially make some of the financials work out better with you know need from employers in the city now and more employers moving in in the future larger ones locally i think there's ways to explore that but until the numbers worked out obviously it would something that we can pull forward in its current state but i think there are potential ways to make that work you know there's we have some we have stuff as a city that just a regular childcare center doesn't have you know some of the infrastructure businesses see if that interesting exist and then hand that package to a private entity and say and by the way here's you know a great business you know support of business community support that we think could could make a difference in the numbers i still i will for i will find it challenging to be convinced that we should be operating at a child care center it's just there it again goes back to the idea that if the markets telling us it doesn't work it's  presentation with general government presentation use of reserves overview is it too late to call in sick for this clearly so well raise trying to help me get this functional again what is before you today are actually two different things one is the general government overview presentation that hopefully i will walk through in a few minutes the other is  there are some questions of the december fourth discussion when i presented the city wide budget about the use of reserves and one time one time money in this budget so john i have put together a memo for you that raised very much so that members here it's also referred to in the presentation so i'll walk through this and get to that information an your so this is her visit schedule the general government overview and just as a reminder what this is talking about is ministration planning zoning community and economic development parking and the tax increment financing work to keep the city government running also the humans that do all of the planning zoning in economic development and parking work and so when you think about those kind of special projects new initiatives as well as implementation side of all the strategic visionary and i have not talked about all of them in this presentation because we'll talk about them through the different specific areas over the rest of the budget discussions but specifically for operations and planning element things to highlight that you all know and have had lots of conversations about master planning process was kicked off this year is well under way we are on the brink of receiving the final economic development strategic plan and we final also focused on the community outreach team who proposal in partnership with public safety that's the howard center team that will be working with us under the leadership budget  plan really thinking about the tax increment financing district how to fully build that out and start planning for its exploration focus on capital improvement planning asset management etc work with the housing commission in implementing related to general government decision what is included in our proposals are maintaining the current staffing for the strategic vision areas that we've built up over the last two years of the camino community and economic development officer the cations hort leader and a full time planning and zoning manager we have included here three thousand dollars for a grand juror we've relied on volunteer support for that in the past and to our legal requirements need to file that we are including an accounting clerk had a point three f t e this is a professional to support our financial checks and balances a critical thing to know about this addition is that this is an addition of somebody who can't be on the window and servicing customers to ensure checks and balances the accounting function needs to be separate from the function of the people who receive the money  so we really are building up that financial checks and balances and freeing up angelo's time to do some of the larger picture financial strategic thinking like planning for the tip exploration potential in managing significant federal grants that have a lot of financial tracking requirements etc we have included eleven thousand dollars in our technology in line for our much talked about cloud and exchange server solution and we have included a salary budget smaller reductions we would make or we would add back in to the leadership proposal and then additional areas for you to add with in just this general government area there are more of these in the spreadsheet related to the other mind if you want through off too much i think walt's up and that's for sure his mind i think talking about the transfer of the movement of people into different budgets and you know not being able to see that right above is probably point blank one with the thinking is there so just to walk through these all quickly to achieve the level tax rate budget as you heard me say on the december fourth we had to cut out three hundred fifty thousand dollars out of the existing budget so the numbers you see in parentheses are the costing out of these ideas so to walk through this list here the first three relate to our office manager  position so the first proposal is to achieve a level tax rate to reduce that position to twenty five hour week position for a full time position the leadership proposal is to bump it back up to thirty hours a week which is or cut it ten hours a week depend on it and then there is an additional add to maintain it at full time we have cut back over time line so level funded all over timelines in the city for public works and public safety and i'll bet a limited over timelines for all of the departments feeling like we can manage staffing hours to achieve those things we didn't originally wanted to bump up our prep professional service or our professional development line or training line and had bumped it up in a little services budget and then eliminated so that the eight thousand dollars there were recommending moving twenty five percent of the planning and zoning manager time to the moved communications cornered meter twenty percent to the on street metered budget obviously the communications coordinator when it was thought of was thought of to help improve how parking was communicated in the city historically we budgeted that fifty percent so the h r a is the supplement that we give to provide for health insurance coverage we have historically funded that at fifty five percent usage fifty percent is closer to what we've actually seen in the last couple of years so it's a little risky but i really feel pretty confident with that and then we are exploring different non femurs retirements to the city currently we have a ten thousand dollars ministry cost associated with our current plan and if we move to a new plan that costs will go away altogether if we all providing arguably better service to our so that's the that elimination of ten thousand dollars  t the expense line and we've reduced the legal contract lie too close to call and actually spent in the last couple of years we've maintained what how we funded the new ski valley parks district and at the same rate we what you'll hear as a result of a branding and marketing study building up to our hundredth birthday in twenty twenty two so really using that centennial event as an appreciation in the next five years when you see him telling the story of who we are of the questions on this i mean we're going to get more opportunities for questions so we do have a spreadsheet that's how each position is spread but it's just yeah i think it goes back to looking at the endless spreadsheet where we can see that net last value where you can see the percentage change in the columns between fiscal years is really helpful   the staffing of the front office does some of the time the kind of legal tracking claims against the city does some of the and back backside of the invoice processing system etc we had better have two part time staff who are also able to swing their hours to covering that have your impact hours in the city the leadership team as we're thinking about what staff to cut because to get to three hundred fifty thousand dollars productions you have to talk about people you can't just talk about things around the edges we felt like we had some extra capacity in that staff that may not be the case as we go all those peak hours covered but had less staffing sitting there in the early mornings or late afternoons when we don't see the same demand on the front office window and then the win appropriation can you tell me what the leadership proposal is for the actual procreation three thousand four thousand and that is what we did last year so the leadership proposal line values that we've heard from the council and from our team over the last year so in that little services budget we have fully funded the new city park parks district because it's been on the atlas first several years because they are critical partner with commu services because we're the only community that is not currently fully funding the park district so needed to put in the full funding in that mobile services budget so in order to cut from local services to local tax rate we see actual dollars because there are some things i mean in your narrative you explained it but you talked about what was pretty big then like there was already some things that you guys big then to that proposal even though the level tax rate perspective there is a change in this area that is not represented up here too so i think that's back to the point of having the you know we did it was something the community services we under funded something only right there but the learning experience from that was we're going to create this extra column on the spreadsheet that notes like here's the change between previous year is that important link i think to so happy to provide that for you i do think i want to own it it's not put this on staff so there are several significant ways this process is different then you will pass i feel like i have an obligation to present to you a budget that is that i believe is logical and beats your needs and that's why we have baked in some of the things into it i think really to achieve the strategic goals that we've established together there are some things that should be on a cotton list we just need to do them which is why we try to call them out here you know we try to not make any changes either in the ad or in induction signs that line that for whatever you know full service funded from last year but because of you know whatever changes between us would still be an increase but then the way it would be presented here makes it look like it would be a cut i think could be really confusing for members of the public who are sitting in this room and having this discussion you know we understand that you thousand dollars for training for professional development was an additional so that thousand dollar cost reflects returning to the level services so i think you know it's we can parse to do losses here but i think for a lot of the public just pulling up the spreadsheet and reading through it they don't necessarily get the same picture where that ten hours for instance there might be need for some administrative support were fortune of that position could be moved into that budget that's alleviating some of the you know this impact on the general fund and then i'll do my just talking a little bit about some of the details behind the pension and ministration and kind of in europe mentioned you know obviously the cost savings for the believe we will be coming to you without a little before the end of this budget cycle we just got those documents back so for those employees who we had some of our employees are in the minors which is the provide municipal employees retirement system general funds pages associated with the general administration the size of things so little revenue coming in through to the people running the operations in the city it's about six point five million planned to fund in the first year for in two thousand and made the decision funded at three hundred thousand but not fully appropriate all of those dollars to create an additional fund balance out which we have done and believe that at the end of this year we'll have a fine balance of one hundred  that two hundred fifty thousand dollars in order to do that we are recommending the use of twenty five thousand dollars of fund balance which three hundred sixty two thousand at the end of this year to fund the operations of the c d c budget so it's included in here is part of their salary part of paul bremer salary protocols are in salary the operational expenses associated specifically in this budget that's materials for a new website for promotion etc one of the things we we will need to do is find six thousand dollars anticipating on the revenue side from a property tax a pilot charges for service etc three point one million operating costs of three point one six million so we need to use the sixty four thousand dollars in coverage ratio which is for hire under the cover also included here just to call it out in the c h p which is also in your budget book we have included funds to think about bringing power around rotary park which is concert so this is that spreadsheet i talked about the overview of the reserve funds this is what these are all of our funds the reserve balance as of the end of f y seventeen what it means to hold thirty days cash on h they go down i mean development reserves note that there is a negative number in there because we didn't have fun we did that didn't exist at the end of my seventeen so with the team budget we have built up project some of the different efforts were making hundred fifty district street project common issues going parking we are starting to see development up east allen street which is not specifically funded or supported anywhere other than for regular planning including the economic and staff that is something we're sorry to see obviously we need to continue to conversations about those c c planning and city hall the pool and then there's always this question about the impact of decisions made at the federal level and how those could affect us  reserves that are related to operations can we ask for size uses of reserves that are funding operational because i because i think that's the bigger question i don't question three thousand three hundred four thousand dollars for the wastewater you know the water treatment plant upgrade it's an issue i think the concern of waste using had you know the beginnings of this conversation but that's that's that's a piggy bank that is was set up for with the specific vision that we have adjusted the vision which is ok from operational perspective but in case i don't get to come back to the see in the future i mean i think we have to realize that we are mortgaging future tax revenue towards today and lessening the the back and impact of the benefit to the city and that's something that we've done with our eyes wide open and for good reason and for good expenditures i understand but let's not let's not dress it up as anything other than that because that's what it is you know even twenty five thousand dollars of additional expenditure towards towards that is you know depending on the future did we have we run planning zoning manager through legal from a is that an acceptable use of those funds figured it's justifiable but we looking to just buy that out right not that i don't doubt that this is going to be the year that we figure this all out because i have the utmost faith that we will but in case it's like the last ten years one thing that is tends to be unique i mean i'm assuming that this is our shot to talk about revenue and this debt we typically end up talking about the most anyway  can you talk a little bit about some of the projected increases in revenue that were made in here and i'm how confidently fillin supporting this moves numbers and you know i guess i would start with the charges for services that ninety so no projected only actual for growth that you have on the books which is food for well i mean it's all projected because what they're saying now six months out was not necessarily actual but it was based on that work sheets because i think some of those decisions are coming down the pipeline and i know that the last time we had an opportunity to do something and said indeed the last two times we've thought about taking action for very good and valid reasons we decided to let the  if there are any you know as i know this process is new and different if there are other requests for information people have more ways that would be helpful to see things slightly differently as we go through what you doing  second and the rest of them if there are other ways we are more than willing to amend our doing this to get our message across let me   committee i did receive two applicants one of whom moved themselves from the process and the other was a no show for the interview so that has been the full extent of the africans i've had the last eight staff members that sit on the committee as well as two seats for community members on the committee and two alternate seats for community members this structure allows for the commute for community participation but it also ensur maintained to the program can continue even in the absence of community interest and will accept any questions that you have and this was the really the best structure that i could come up with the staff members that i would have said on this would be the city manager planning and zoning manager and the staff accountant i would not be a voting member and be the staff liaison reason for that is to maintain my relationship with the businesses so i would be making decisions about who about that is this the sensitivity around about it like this operating under open meeting law yet most of them operate the operate in executive session for their think through like we're going on policy here you know you guys are that's your bailiwick the operational procedure standpoint we just highly recommend insulating that from up from an exposure perspective for business because that's i since coming up with this hybrid structure i received two applicants that are good applicants so should this be approved out and mediately contact us to applicants and bring them forward so we should be ready to roll this out in january  of the future so part of the so that would be representation was my only concern that she works fifty hours this week because it's a busy weekend and forty hours per thirty hours the following week there would be representation for the for the plumber  and part of the solution is actually to ensure that there is good saf in coverage so on weeks where there may be other coverage in the city to allow her to take time but then cover when others can from the public ok seeing and hearing none thank you very much for that work and then finally this evening goal update municipal infrastructure grades things nothing's operations of public works going very smoothly i think one of the things that you've had to suffer as a result of not having a couple structure in some of these bigger picture strategic items so we have called out here  center for work the first thing you find when you go into places are really struggling is a lack of narrative about the successes in the work progress taking place for people and for the public just a real lack of understanding of what's being done towards any questions comments concerns the public