City Council Meeting Date: June 11, 2019
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Ben Martig, City Administrator
Brenda Angelstad, Finance Director
Title
Pre-budget Planning and Discussion of Initial Goals or Research of the Council for 2020-2021 Budget.
Body
Action Requested:
Discuss and provide any particular feedback at the meeting.
Summary Report:
The 2020-2021 budget calendar was distributed to Council on May 21st. It is attached again as reference.
During June and July, we are seeking input related to the budget. Internal departments and funds are developing detail line item budgets and preparing to submit their requests for administrative review, we will be seeking input from boards and commissions regarding requests that may impact budget, as well as creating some initial awareness and engagement of the public through a POLCO survey (3-6 questions).
We are requesting at this worksession to hear from Council to see if there are specific items you'd like considered or discussed at the upcoming July and August worksessions. Ideally, provide a short description (2-4 sentences) related to the issue. Please email them to City Administrator Martig's email by the Council meeting. Otherwise, you may bring them up as discussion verbally at the meeting as well. We will then have time to research and/or estimate cost impacts in advance of those work sessions. The following are a couple of examples of all you need to do to give some thoughts, input or suggestions.
Examples:
Example A.
Emerald Ash Borer Program
I'd like to see the study again to review that addressed this issue and made recommendation. I would appreciate if staff could also bring forward some ideas on how we may fund it through various options including maybe using debt, reserves or other approaches. Any new updates on maps or information on how the emerald ash borer may have further migrated would also be appreciated.
Example B
Street Conditions
I have had a number o...
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