In 2021, the city portion, the tax for the city was $861. your total bottom line was about 3,424 in 2025. And this is including probably another 6% increase that we're going to see in 2026. But in 2025, the city portion was $1,425. A $564 increase. Over that time period, that results into a 66% increase in your city's property taxes from 2021 to 2025.

I'll go first. I'll do it. Rising costs, infrastructure, I think, is big. Public safety, of course, just higher bills for our residents overall. And part of it too, I think the biggest that most people are getting hit for right now that adds to is our homeowners insurance that everybody's getting hit with. So that brings a lot less money for everybody else. So everything's expensive and it's all really stretchy.

So, I put uh control, you know, controlling expenses. So, how do we control the expenses? um kind of along the mine was a little bit more broad than his was very focused um infrastructure maintenance. So maintaining the buildings that we have and making you know catching up on a lot of the maintenance that we've foregone over the several years and then one thing um responding to the median age of our north St. population.

So, on my part, 8 to 10 is minimal. I think we can get, you know, that's bare bones because we have start out with six, right? So then it becomes like we said, as things go on, it's going to be what don't you want? So it's going to have to turn into what don't you want. We kind of did, we kind of went through that cycle with the community center. We knew how much this was. Can we afford it or what are we going to give up for it? And I think that's just the way it's going to be on everything because we don't have unlimited resources. Our taxpayers can't pay it and we, you know, that type of thing.

But here's a piece that was missing for you to make that decision. Do you know what that financial impact will be? because it will have an impact on that rate for the water because it's higher than what we have in the financial plan. And that's where the piece to it is if we can give you that information up ahead of time. And that's where this dialogue tonight was very important because what it can also be is that working with the city manager, I can say, 'Hey, based upon some of the prioritization, we need to move money from A to B and delay this other thing.'