I was it was unbelievable uh I'll just say it was like 61% since the in like three years three or four years

I was just just like Council memb s her business is HR mine is technology so I look at some of these numbers and compare what we do and different things like that and sometimes takes my breath away with the amount that uh the increases increases in what it's at and having you know this many users and having a full person you know that's here quite a bit and that type of thing well most stuff is you you know can be done remotely so I think that's something we need to look at and discuss and try to understand a little bit more how this is broken out

the money for the mcnight field the 650,000 had that come before the council or is that I I I wasn't sure where that was coming from it will be coming is part of the capital Improvement plan but it's incorporated into the budgets right now which nothing has been approved obviously and won't be approved until December so that's why um the next meeting will will'll look at the capital Improvement plan um and that's where your input your questions get finally if there's adjustments to that and I'll just use it since you brought up the mcnight field if the decision were not to support that and pull that out then the budget would be adjusted to reflect that

My question I guess is like with all the assets that we have as a city like when there's a need do we make decisions not to U not to fix things often times like that's pretty common practice you would say cuz like I feel like this is a a Community Asset this the residents are still paying for it um but they're not really benefiting from it at all and it's just sitting there not benefiting our community even though it's it's highly desired there are people who would use the gym whatever so I guess my my question is if it's already an asset within the community within the city why why not care for it if it's a need right now why keep taking the can down the road and not fixing something so it continues to be broken and get broke more and more so then we just kick the library out at some point and say sorry we can't have you anymore can't the roof can't do this I mean at what point you shut the whole building down

I look at it too we leave $97,000 on the table by not having the building up to speed to be able to utilize the space so if it cost us 100 to get 97 we broke even and then we've got a building and and Equipment that's up up to speed where it should be — to talk about the expense and to not talk about the loss of Revenue is a disconnect

I believe that we can once again host events that create connections Foster Community Pride and that are anticipated year after year to support support this trajectory we need to have three things in place first the right funding second thorough pre pre pre-planning and third City staff commission and support this event budget is my plan to re-engage the city in a way that will build connections get people excited to come back and make res residents feel proud to live here

I think you've done a fantastic job with your communic the communications you have through the city and what you've done with the city coming to the events representing everything taking the time away to do that uh I'm looking at some of these newer events that you're looking at and um I think these are fantastic you're going to get some push back they're going to say well we've tried that we've thought about that and as I'm speaking about it but I also see you and I've seen your energy since you've been brought on to the team I truly do believe that you will be able to have success with these with the type of communication that you continue to drive with the city thank you keep up good work