normally we don't take action in study sessions but what's unique with this one is we had two things uh we had two email correspondents that came in uh between the agenda being posted last Thursday and today so there are two emails for your consideration so that is the one item in the agenda and then the second is is um adding an agenda item we'll call it 3C which will and then we'll move 3C will become the new 3D and so that agenda item is in front of you uh later in the meeting to have a discussion on 2025 meeting Logistics.

these calls are are more complex than ever before and we're on scene um longer than we used to so that was for 2025 for police was the request for one additional detective.

overall they had 21 key findings with five recommendations uh the costs mainly associated with personnel and fire stations uh they were recommending a total Personnel of 24 additional full-time employees and then uh other recommendations included policy decisions made by the the city council specifically as it relates to uh response objectives.

our design is somewhat kind of like a hybrid so Kelly our social worker would design a program train fire staff we always have to have police trained because there is so much overlap However if if if the social worker is working and they can respond in real time absolutely they should go but as I See Fire bring on more staff and those folks are trained and some of his folks are EMTs and have quite high level of training at in medical so why wouldn't we partner with somebody who we already have on staff that's being paid paid for by the City versus me Contracting and having a paramedic and so that's kind of a it's kind of a hybrid.

on the desired outcome on the middle of the page here you know ensure Public Safety ready Readiness for the Opus Area Redevelopment when I read that I thought well that sounds kind of tactical it's only one part of the city but but it's clear that is the most dynamic and Chang in part of our city where where the revisions for service are really going to be most significant so I I kind of came to terms with that but I thought it was worth mentioning that it initially to me it felt a little tactical but then I realized no that that is the most dynamic part of the city that and and of course Ridgedale um in terms of its activity but but I I I settled my concern with that thought.

the main the three main budget drivers are is they often we use buckets I'll talk about three different buckets the first bucket is in our general fund operations... the second component is the public safety master plan... and then the existing Debt Service that's tied to the general fund.

this impacted a 99.3% levy increase would have a annual tax impact of about $185 on an average median valued home and so that's you know $15 a month or so somewhere in that ballpark.

and it surprised me when I when I got the graph I was expecting it to be going the other way like there would be less support for a potential tax increase um and obviously 2010 was a different time that was you know coming through some of the Great Recession stuff on that end of it um but you can see that over time it's been pretty strong support for for that piece of it.

one consideration is to delay Community facility improvements uh as we talked U that would be a $37 million debt issuance there's nothing really pushing that timeline other than we we were encouraged to do the facility study when you get a good handle of where we were with our facilities.

why don't we bet on the come a little bit and say let's put less money into the CIP next year and say you know what we're going to we're going to do we're not going to change the plan but we're going to change the levy increase from 2.25% to 2% or you know take a take a little bit of it out because our experience has been that we never hire faster than we expect to we always hire slower than we expect to so why don't we just anticipate that a little bit and reduce the levy because chances are we're not going to need all of that money for because we're not going to get as much hiring done as quickly as we intent.

I would recommend and they always try to promote as many of the tax the state tax programs that are out there the tax saving programs that are out there property tax relief programs.