I think you're going to see once again that we have very good financial results and you're going to there's some graphs that um um our uh auditor will go through that'll really show you how much we have changed in the five years. Um it's pretty staggering. Um we've really put ourselves in a really good financial position and it's really due to the leadership that we get from city council, our city manager and all of our department heads.

For the audit results over that financial statement, we issued an unmodified opinion which is a clean opinion. That is the opinion you're looking for as part of your audit.

Part of it was, uh, the emphasis that we have a 50% fund balance policy and that we're above that. Um and Brian and and I um filled out all the questions that they had and one of the components that that uh they were concerned about is can we maintain that 50%. Um as you can see the results of this is at 67%. Um my comfort level is I wouldn't ever drop it below 60%. Um but yes, I think what uh at the end of the day, what the results of 2025 shows is that we definitely will maintain that double A+ um unless something um drastically goes wrong during this year.

And really what it is is discussion. We want to have a discussion as staff with council about public alleys and the concept of private improvements made in public alleys. And what brought this to our attention recently is we were approached as staff by property owners that abuted alley that is under improved with gravel and they said well we want to put some black top down. What do we do? Staff looked at each other and said we don't know. we don't have a process in place documented any place what they should do what the standard should be should the city even allow it.

I think this is a bigger bigger conversation and I I'll use my place as an example. Um behind my house there's this alleyway, but the alleyway isn't really an alley. It's a driveway to an individual's home. However, should something there's electrical can come over, there's power lines right there. It's there's city access. But if something happens to piping, water, water breaks, whatever that is, where on that line is it my responsibility or is it the homeowners? So, I look at it. If some of we have some of these gravel um alleyways and they're through alleyways, we should be treating them as if they are our part of our roads.

So, um, we've been talking a lot about and there there are a ton of complications here, right? And so, calling out things like drainage and survey and making sure that things are done correctly um is certainly a thing. I do um want to point out that there are potential agreement mechanisms that are available that allow private property owners to make improvements within public lands.