You can see where if we look at the our cash, our general fund has increased 50% in that time period. HRA is over 100% EDA 56%. Asset preservation 3% the park capital 55% and street maintenance fund 94%. We have really done what the city council has asked and that is to levy to try to move us into a cash basis where we can afford to do more street work.

We moved our our fund balance policy, especially in the general fund, from 35% to 50%. At the end of last year, we were at 67%. That's significant. And what did it translate to? It translated to us getting a better bond rating, moving from a double A to a double A plus.

What you are going to see here is to be able to accomplish this, we would have to reduce the levy in the EDA by $40,000. So it would go the EDA levy would go from a almost 201,000 to 161,000. the city manager and myself believe that that's very possible and feasible because I'm going to bring you back over to here and if we look at what how the EDA has has done you've seen the fund balance since 2023 to the end of 2025 has increased almost $250,000 or 54%. Cash on the EDA has increased $234,000 or 56%.

I guess I'd like to challenge the $40,000 cut from the EDA and what the EDA has, what their goals are and what their plans are. I understand that there is a um there's capital money there, but to take money away from the EDA that's supposed to help develop our city, whether it's beautifification, um bringing new businesses in. $40,000 seems like a lot of money to um come from a budget that could be utilized.

As we're talking about the HA, I um I would like to see that those dollars stay there um and to keep those dollars and not reduce it for 2027. There's opportunities that may arise in the city that um for example, you know, purchasing of a house that we could or land that we could essentially build a new student build on. You don't know when those opportunities are going to come up. And when they do come up and we don't have the dollars or the funding there to purchase it, um we may be missing out on something that could be pretty hot for us.

I will throw it out there. I I think you are providing staff with direction to not use the 40,000 from the EDA and try to come up with some other options to get us back to that 6%. I would like to say that I would like to see not all of the money come from EDA and that we're decreasing it from other areas as well.