Uh, thank you, Council President, Council members, Mayor Norton, members of the public, many of our teammates are also here today. Um, this really is a followup to the discussion that you had...on August 24th.

the recommended supplemental tax levy and budget is a levy of 124,91,338 down to the penny there. Um, and that is a decrease from what we were showing in the trend line uh primarily related to some changes in health insurance and some other positive development.

I would say there's pockets of uh opportunity and encouragement here as well as uh some challenge and some areas where we're not making the kind of progress um that we might want to see.

my suggestion is not I don't think a bad one is to take our contingency fund and drop it to $500,000... I think that shows a good example of of good budgeting.

I know the argument has been made from the DIS previously uh that this is a county issue and not a city issue, but hundreds of US cities actually support initiatives to fight homelessness.

I would agree with Mr. Frederick's that uh for uh an idea not fully baked to use uh one-time money is probably a good idea rather than adding it to the budget. So, I would support the state aid funding.

Our recommendation at this point is to move forward um with Mailchimp as the tool as shared in the last meeting. That expense would be approximately $9,300.

I'm disappointed in the recommendation. I've used Mailchimp for years with other organizations. It does require people to sign up, and that's been our problem... Indiegv was offering... many different options with input and output and all sorts of stuff. Um, Mailchimp is not that way.

I feel like we need a robust integrated approach and I appreciate the opportunity to talk about it at the policy level. I'll say what I find appealing about Indigov is that it feels like a thoughtful product already developed, not a fragmented Mailchimp and text messaging...

I would say there are two maybe three of the uh the items in that are separated uh in uh currently that I'm interested and and wonder if there is a mayor council budget it would be easier and more flexible and one of them is training and travel...

When I took the job as mayor, there was about 17 $18,000 that was given to the former mayor for and it went into his personal funds... And I talked to Dale and we put a stop to that immediately.

You're elected as a elected official for who you are and what you do. And I don't like to see us kind of all become one. I like to see the individuality within the laws and the rules and all that, of course.

the fireworks are funded in the budget. They've always been funded in the budget. We we did not reduce the $20,000 of public music, but again, fireworks and like entertainment activities isn't really public music per se.

I would love to see the additional 20,000 for a limited program remain in the budget for the Fourth of July celebration.

I I agree that um um Experienced Rochester did a phenomenally good job on the 4th of July, especially at short period of time. What I'm disappointed in though is is the failure of the fireworks.

Ultimately they they should have made the call earlier in the day. They continued to tell us that they would be able to put the fireworks off and they weren't able to put the fireworks off. Now should we have made that call for them? This was a very different experience than what we've had with this vendor in the past...

I think the city's unique in that we do offer a lot of services and we touch a lot of things. Everything between golf, parks and wreck, transit heavily in the parking in several areas and stuff, too.

...of that there's 254 different fees that we get charged depending on the credit card, debit card type of card um that customers use and so we don't have any control over the fees.

if you implement a policy that um is a 3% search charge, we'll call it. Um that would reduce that by 148,000 leaving you the city paying 99,000.

I would be very much in favor of charging people for the convenience of using the card if that's what they choose. uh especially since some of them are earning something back and uh it it looks like even Minneapolis going with that 2.35 or whatever they're only recovering about half their fees...

It doesn't seem like that's an option for us, but I can...