Right now in the 2024 budget, there's a point one of an FTE basically the allocation of the city manager time to the Eda the community development director is allocated at 50% the administrative assistant is at 20% and the deputy clerk is at .1%.

A total of 135,000 is in the 2024 budget if you were to switch all of that allocation for all of the positions into the general fund... you would be looking at almost a 2% Levy increase.

I think your outgoing community development director you know strength is in planning isn't in the economic development realm... I think before you go out and hire a consultant let's see what the talent pool shows for the Community Development position that's you know that's open and there may be somebody who comes out of it that has a lot of strength in the in the economic realm and if that's the case that may be your answer instead of a a consultant.

It's of my opinion going forward I would like to hire an outside consultant and and not have the community development director be solely responsible for bringing business into the city advertising for the city being the cheerleader for the city but recognizing we still may have to fund a portion of that to make the overall budget balance.

We're thinking that more of a skin in the game idea it might be a better idea moving forward for having people invest into their own improvements as well for us to do a type of a match program.

It may be more beneficial to have the application the information and then schedule applicants to come and present their ideas right in front of the Eda itself.

The Eda currently has 7 or $479,000 in cash that's available so there there is money available in the Eda that would be a you know that that you certainly could fund some sort of a grant or or Loan program.

Construction is underway I think they're working on the third floor already it's going fast with those prefab walls yeah it's going good and the plan to be completed and open for move in by fall of this year.

Pastor mcgreen has indicated that the congregation has decided not to move forward with the study at this time the congregation prefers to keep discussions internal to their organization at this time.

We as an organization haven't done anything to promote our city in probably six months sure and I'm very concerned that the longer we sit the further behind we're going to be so can we run a parallel path.