20:10
They're actually funding about 56% of the cost of this project, so it's a $9.2 million project and it's currently under design and we'll be working to acquire the easements that we need over the next year.
1:07:39
First, the city manager proposed a budget assuming the 89 cent rate would be there, thus resulting in an average $300 increase in real estate taxes for the average homeowner, and couching any reductions in the overall increase as a budget cut.
23:07
You know, a called special meeting is something that is done kind of very quickly. normally maybe because we have to do something expeditiously, because we have a grant that needs to be acted upon, or we have a lawsuit that we need to stop the city attorney from fighting…
18:58
The tunnel estimate is about $70 million, and then the combined, there's three other projects that we have to do to complete the program they range from $47 million.
1:53:52
We still have items on our budget agenda, such as a new police building, public safety needs. So, I would like to add to that what are our competing needs that even though there is a surplus, we have some serious public safety and other issues that citizens are concerned about.