From a policy making standpoint what I appreciate is I think sometimes people think well franchise fee for example they're going to get a letter in the it's telling them about what's going to change while the fact that we have a newsletter we can point you and say yes you did get notified because normally we wouldn't do that for any type of policy change right so it's good that that kind of stuff is in there

I think you can never communicate too much so I think with the amount of money we're investing this I think it's a wise investment

We get 125 that we keep here and then I distribute those to all of our buildings um we put quite a few over at the Art Center because we have so many performances and so many classes over there and those pretty those go pretty fast too

I'm very concerned about these 24,000 email addresses that they have um there's no demographic data on these 24,000 addresses so I don't know how old these people are... I'm very concerned about it... I don't know what that report looks like I don't know what kind of information we'll actually get back it could be just there's that open rate

I'm torn because I think it's important that we help support local news but I don't know how anybody can justify charging more significantly less people seeing it and especially not knowing I mean I I mean not even the email paper itself

I realized that you know we put them in a world of hurt um by not having our Revenue because I'm sure we're probably one of the top G generators for them and however they're a business and they can pivot and they can figure out if their model isn't working um come back to us later when they get their subscribers back up

I'm not interested in in salvaging a company that has not really put out much news and that's why they didn't get their subscribers because people didn't feel it was worth the money

I think we should still have an ad I just I I'm more comfortable with your idea of a year just 12 issues once a month and you know see that

I think most of you are familiar with the process that we put together priorities each year it's broken into two list primary priorities which is focus on the most important issu that the city council to have a review and the second one is the additional legislative priorities which is um the list that we put together just in case one of those issues come up

I have three comments specific... one was for uh item C elections could we include quantify... we would like to work with him and ultimately as a legislative do we really need 46 it's like a pretty hefty expense and um I'd be interested in adding something here about having a conversation about the amount of days of early voting

I recently went to a session on this my you read Cod yeah just take a resolution Nationwide work group on this you're not alone on this a nationwide work group a bunch of cities that have the same issues where it's really profound is in some cities especially like California where your fire insurance is based on your zip code

I know there was a little bit of discussion about it last time but I just to me that is um a little a little strong and a little specific but I know I'm probably the minority... I just I think something about protecting our operations from it's the same thing that may you wouldn't let them expand that's the only way to well I I I that's I would concede that that I just specifically there's a there's every year there's 20 different proposals about that impact Municipal liquor in some way

I mean what I share is that you you could build fton and Rosemonts data centers and still not match City get from our and there's a strong case for that you're you know don't get any local government Aid

When we adopted the budget we thought we come in at 48.6 we should come in at 51.6 and that's even with building permit revenues a bit lower than what we' hoped we're still we're still holding up hope for that they may come in just at the budgeted amount but it's it's pretty tight where we're at to dat with those

What staff is recommending is that initially we had budgeted P for six of those 15 firefighters that's what we included in our ly and the proposed um staff is recommending and we and R with scenarios by the finance committee that we don't change the levy we hold on to that $600,000 that we had originally levied and build it into our fund balance and do the same thing for the next two years because when that clip comes in 2020 and the save Grant is gone we'll have roughly 1.8 million that we won't have a huge jump in our

I mean the 600,000 alone does designated for firefighters could be shifting it between those two I look at that I mean that would be what 00,000 six% yeah because every one% 480 yeah so I guess my question is if it is at 51.6 are we bringing that down to 50 per policy so that the tax levy is decreased by 800k

We're not but we're not recommending it's okay for us to be above our fund balance I mean we were way above it when Co and all that extra money came in and it wasn't it wasn't a large flight for Moody's because you know City we had a plan of how we're going to spend that money um we Wen going to like just sit on this big pot of money Short change our residents by not decreasing the tax levy

I think my M goes to on an already a year if there are ways to bring that ly down and we're over policy then unless there's a better use of those funds um why would we not decrease the

And again I mean I designating that if we were to designate some of the 2024 balance just so it didn't look bad I don't for lack of better word um it it still gives the US the opportunity council with any designate a fund balance Council as authority to say how we should spend that money um and again if it's if there if we get some something come up that we hadn't planned on you know that it's an easy um easy to do by having getting Council approval on paying for something like that

The meting home values changed slightly the the value that the county gave us back in um SE August um they changed a bit so our median home value actually changed it was 41,000 now it's down to 450,00 um but that's still what it means for a property tax increase for their City portion is $110 a year so under $10 a month

Do you know how much that is now like caught up to where we were preo giv saw such a stark drop is it back to similar valuation levels or it's hard to tell individually because we only see the agregate numbers

I just decided someone said it to me yeah right if he if his math is right we're in pretty good position right I can easily do that if gets a formula for that me home I I agree you look having a dollar amount is more just exp

The general fund in part of that is the 96 9.6 uh 8% for the general fund and the the park referendum is 2.4% and then the other mix of the other um Trail Improvement all that all that other stuff makes up roughly 1%

I'd like to get out of the double digit increases here pretty soon so hopefully we can get there by next year

And I think it's it's in a comfortable level it's it's not the highest it's but it is um as we're reaching our growth Peaks here that these are the this is the tough years 25 26 27 little tough years

General fund revenues are um 74% of the budget so you know for third quarter that that's rating the Mark um Personnel expenditures are at 75% of budget which is again right where we want them to be um for third quarter

Building permit revenue conservative at 252 single families 300 was a a conservative budget yeah I mean I don't know I don't know how we are in the rest of the year but from the conversations I only that I've had Builders since the first of the month they are very optimistic about they are or not they are yeah yeah we have a lot in the pipeline

Parks and rec Revenue yes do we know is that is it driven from rental at antlers driven from classes at Finance building or I think it's um antlers that we weren't plan I mean there's definitely some money that came in um there that had words not have been part of the budget um but they also had a lot of more program Revenue too

We're um it's still taking a lot of time um we thought we'd see a lot of Saving Time Savings at least in finance with the AP because how it it's dispersed and departments are entering their own information and then finances the gatekeeper we check coding and everything and then mov them through the system um we've had a lot of time put in uh we were not realizing the time savings yet um nobody in the city is um but there's a learning curve associated with the two

Lakeville is a is um we're special because we have the other two entities that we're the Fiscal Agent for so that creates a whole another Dynamic with all the different the bank accounts and how we had to do before we transferred funds and we were trying to get away from that and but by getting away from that having separate checking accounts for all three entities create some challenges that they haven't had to have with other clients

And having to Think Through what is the best way to set this up because it's not something they've encountered before actually you know one entity I to do different Financial grp trust me were in a much better place than if we had stayed with logis

It's really nice and really nice to have the purchase orders tracking a project at the project level so um because there's a lot of spreadsheets that we do all that with right now not that the spreadsheets are going to go away completely until we have full Full Faith and comfortable with how it all goes in the system

She is really really doing well okay um she knows her stuff I the thing I can tell you is this I knows uh what she's she knows the business she knows uh what they need at toota 911 she knows the language she knows the people so it's been very good uh very much on top of things uh I trust what she's doing explicitly and she's done uh very well and her performance evaluation reflected there

They are very pleased with how we're able to deliver with the new Erp um I know there's some adjustments and learning Cur I've been talked about some technology stuff uh there's an audio data so it's how you record what's going on and back in the day used to be two bigs with it's not bad anymore um so just approved the contract for that but it's going to have some really cool uh capabilities in terms of just analysis and calls I mean it sounds like they only would be able to do like voice stress tone analysis and things like that

Last week we approved a change to how uh paramedics are being scheduled because paramedics are in short supply and so instead of requiring two paramedics on every bre you know now a paramedic and potentially an ENT in place of that second paramedic which over with the pilot that happened over the summer there was no change in care or quality

There's ongoing conversations about what they're responding to and how those are being coded through dispatch um and if they need to send a rig to every single or if they're if they can Cod it in a way that a truck uh which is not staffed by two paramedics um can go to the scene because many of those calls pretty we have a a spot in Apple Valley are Falls that uh senior Falls that someone needs to just help them back up there there's not even an injury it's just can't get up

There is a plan to being pushed by some to hire a consultant to reevaluate Regional projects that should be on the priority list commissioner Holberg I think appropriately gave some push back there saying we've got everything literally everything uh in the policy in the objectives of that organization done except for Lake El go New Market you know the further south areas

And then that prompted an interesting interesting comments by people saying well maybe if we get this all done we could just dissolve this organization um so it was really kind of an interesting um Ian did bring out the diversity of that Coalition you know people from Richfield weren't quite so sure that elob market should be high on the priority list

It's really unfair that they make everybody go to Richfield I don't you know Iowa they're excited about their bike bike bridge over 494

We had our exciting Petro City's policy adoption meeting with our two votes for the first time wow who was the second vote well it's all by anyway was a moment of Pride when they announc the cities that got you V