1:48:02
The children and youth budget, we're going to appropriate $200,000 into their budget from their fund balance for various line items because really, when we adopted that budget, it was just salaries and a few other miscellaneous personnel.
51:19
This is a small city, but we don't get a whole lot of people coming out to city council meetings. And a couple of neighbors have mentioned, why can't we get all that information at the district level?
1:03:59
This is a cold stroll, mathematical cipher, and the math is not mapping. Chief Ellis Department is requesting $87 million next year in the fiscal budget, 47.8% of the city's entire general fund, the City Council is proposing to spend $181.9 million against only $170.5 million in actual revenue, that's an $11.4 million structural deficit covered by the draining city reserves from $58.1 million down to $46.7 million.