CompletedCity Council Work Session Feb. 4, 2025

City Council Work Session Feb. 4, 2025

Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 6:51 PMActual: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM

1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Meeting Topics 3.1. Budget Work Session 4. Adjournment   Where to Watch: Meetings of the Edina City Council are typically held 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays of the month in Edina City Hall, 4801 W. 50th St. The Council holds other special meetings from time to time. Meetings of the Edina City Council are shown live on Edina TV and the City’s website. They are rebroadcast on Edina TV at 3 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sundays and Wednesdays, and 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Saturdays until the Council’s next meeting. Edina TV is available to Comcast subscribers (https://www.xfinity.com/) on Channel 813 (high definition) and Channel 16 (standard definition).   Listen Online: Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Xz19PKI4KRbV1CBjOKDHz?si=f8c977f118ad426f) Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edina-city-council-meetings/id1760404514) YouTube  (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlz4oOYMFxF-E7lwoGL2RHd38IO2fLVM2) Amazon Music (https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/36681e98-f083-4c32-9ba4-085727009b8f/edina-city-council) Pandora (https://www.pandora.com/podcast/edina-city-council/PC:1001090290) To learn more about the Edina City Council, visit EdinaMN.gov/citycouncil.  

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Published Wednesday, February 5, 2025

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[0:00] so I'll call the meeting to order this is the city council work session meeting for Tuesday February 4th 2025 it is 5:30 [0:07] p.m. and as I call the meeting order with the next thing to do is to have our clerk call roll council member Adney [0:15] here council member Jackson is absent council member Pierce here council member Risser here mayor huin here we've [0:22] got just one topic tonight that's the beginning of our budget work we've all been uh thinking about and concerned [0:29] about and we're going to have an emphasis tonight on police and fire and I'll turn it over to Scott Neil to introduce the [0:36] topic with more specificity than I just did and we'll go from there thank you your honor uh it is kind of hard to [0:43] think about uh it's February of 2025 and when we're into January when we're into [0:49] July of 2027 this would be the night that we started the budget that we'll probably be working with at that time [0:55] period so two two-year budgets have a lot some advantage to them but the oute [1:01] is challenging to us and I think we found that out in 2024 so what we'd like to do tonight [1:07] considering this is the start of our budget process for the city council we got a lot of feedback from council [1:13] members in 2024 that you wanted to have a better idea of of how service levels [1:18] are determined because really service levels are what Drive our spending so just to before we talk about that we [1:24] just really want to talk a little bit about mission and vision mission of the city of AD to provide effective and [1:30] valued Services maintain sound public infrastructure offer Premier public facilities and guide the development [1:36] Redevelopment of all lands in a manner that sustains and improves the high quality of life enjoyed by residents and businesses it's a long mission statement [1:43] but it conveys a lot right it conveys a lot about what we do and and really the quality uh that we seek to do it in uh [1:51] the vision for the city uh again these two were I think the last time we did a lot of work on these Jen was maybe 2014 [1:59] does that sound right about the time we did sort of the futurist [2:06] work yeah yeah yeah vision of Adina is to be the preeminent place for living [2:11] learning raising families doing business this vision is distinguished by a livable Community effective and valued [2:17] city services sound public infrastructure and a balance of land uses and Innovation so that's what we [2:23] feel our role is in the growth of the city um we have as we have developed our [2:30] budget making processes over the years we have adopted kind of the budget pillar and value model that you see on [2:36] the right hand side of the screen um talking about uh pillars and values and [2:42] making sure that our spending proposals uh our operations and uh service levels [2:48] really fit into somewhere into that grid uh that looks like a fabric right so we [2:54] want to be able to make sure t…

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