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involved the entire time

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Hello. Good evening, everybody.

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Thank you so much for coming

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out to our 2027 budget meeting.

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>> I appreciate you being here.

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It's more important this year

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than any year that I've been on

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city council to have public

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engagement in our budget

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process because it is such a

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tough budget year and councils

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really wrestling with what we

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cut and what we keep too to bad

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thread that needle of providing

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you the level of service you

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deserve while also minimizing

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any potential ad rate increases

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to their tax bill. So know that

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we are still wrestling with

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this budget. So if there's

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something in it, you see the

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night that you have concerns

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about our questions now is your

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opportunity to voice that to us

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because we are still in the

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process of mold in this budget.

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Again, thank you all so much

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for coming out. We really are

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depending on the feedback we

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get this year more so than ever

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to make sure we're providing

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that adequate budget for the

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city. And we give you what you

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want in this tough year.

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And so with that, the man who's

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made it all happen, MR. Jay

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Chapa, thank you.

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Thank you. Council woman.

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>> Good evening. Thank you all

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for being here. Really

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appreciate you all taking the

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time out of your day.

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To come to this meeting.

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And we've had years in the past

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where we have these meetings,

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we have like 25 staffers and

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like 2 people show up. So it's

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really good to a good crowd

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I'm gonna turn it over here in

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a minute to Kristin Simmons.

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Our street chief's trip

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strategy. Officer she's over

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are what we call a forward lab.

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It's a lot of data and numbers

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the cut. They had no budget and

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data analytics. All those type

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of things and children through

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a presentation. But I want to

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start off by just a little

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protection as was mentioned.

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This is a tough this year.

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for the city and and probably

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about. 13 or 14 years. I was

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here when we had to deal with

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the downturn of the economy

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did too 2008 and the whole

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mortgage issues and those kind

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of things and those are pretty

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pretty tough budget years as

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well.

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This year's not as drastic.

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And I think we've come up with

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a hopefully you'll see with a

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happy medium. What's being

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proposed, what you're going to

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see tonight is the proposed

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budget to the city council from

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the city manager. And of

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course, my staff that's

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involved.

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It is. We have to balance the

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budget in Texas. We can't do

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the deficit budgets that they

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do at the federal level rights

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and local government. We have

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to come up with a balanced

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budget. So you'll see that all

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of the budget to balance the

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city is basically a

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conglomerate. A whole lot of

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different businesses.

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happens, people especially

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talking about the general fund.

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People. Look at the issue with

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the general Fund and

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they see that and they say will

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like like you to take some of

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that other money. And move it

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and pay for police or pay for

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fire pay for.

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Community centers. And it's

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because you can't it's it's

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legal issues. So the aviation,

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for instance, their revenues

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have to stay with aviation

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golf, their revenue. Stay with

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golf. The water Department

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utility water stays that

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revenue stays with the the

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utilities. We don't have any

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issues really in those areas.

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the issues and it's really tied

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to a property tax values, our

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property values overall.

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turn it over to Christine and

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she does a great job of of kind

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of breaking it down going

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through the whole process.

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The majority, the discussions

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on the general fund because

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that's usually what folks want

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to talk about. But as you go

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along, if you have a question

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that she's going to slide to

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raise your hand, we'll bring

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you a bike. So you can ask your

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question. This is being live

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streamed and it's also being

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recorded so that anybody can

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go back and look at it. This

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is the 4th. 4th of our 10

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public meetings. We're having

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one in each district. And so

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if you if you

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MISS It and come back, you can

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tell folks that, you know, that

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could make when they can look

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online and looking at any of

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those as well. So I'm gonna

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turn over to Kristen and thank

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you again for being a.

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>> I don't need that. I used to

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going her own because I'm so

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short and that's why I can

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stand behind the podium either.

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I can be back there. You can

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even see me. I'll be like this

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talking to you.

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I know. Yeah, like hello.

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I'm from

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the government. Okay. So I but

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I do have to like sort of refer

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to my my thing here.

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All right. So I'm like I said,

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my name is Christine Simmons

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and the director of the Fort

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Worth Lab Data, Budget

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performance for the city.

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And it's my pleasure to present

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the budget to yutan. I'll try

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to keep it interesting week

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night budget. Thank you so much

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for coming.

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>> Like the council member and

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Jay both mentioned your

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engagement in this process is

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really valued and important in

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the budget is not totally

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fully, you know, done. We've

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proposed it. And now it's in

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kind of council deliberations

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stage. So your feedback is very

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welcome. And if any of you

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participated in our earlier a

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budget priority survey or any

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of the bond stuff. We always

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appreciate your engagement

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through the city's engagement

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processes. So thank you for

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being here in week night and

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for listening to our

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presentation.

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So we've kind of start with

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like high-level themes and

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every budget years, a little

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different. This year's kind of

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theme that emerges really about

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the fact that the city's growth

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in population and all the

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businesses that are coming

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here, people moving here is not

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necessarily translating to

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growth in property values in

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property tax revenue. And

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that's primarily because of

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the tear an appraisal district

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in the activities that that are

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under way there. So the city

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sits in 4 different appraisal

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districts. But by and large,

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you know, most of our revenue

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comes from Tehran about 92%.

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And some of you MAY know that

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they adopted a reappraisal plan

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a couple of years ago where

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they're only appraising

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residential property every

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other year. And we knew that

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and we're kind of planning for

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that in our expenses. Don't

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follow like in every other year

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cycle that way. But, you know,

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we can sort of project how that

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will go. But the situation was

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worse than we anticipated this

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year. We're in our second year

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of frozen values. And we're

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just seeing historic levels

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of mid-year value. Lawson

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protests being granted at that

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had level. And so we've

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projected for a 49 million

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dollar gap. And then when we

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got our certified values from

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Tad, which happened at the end

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of JULY, we're up to like a

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78 million dollar Israeli were

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sent or worse case scenario.

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Historic value lost between

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APRIL and JULY and really all

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the taxing entities in Tarrant

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similar patterns. And so we

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kind of had to we had the

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budget pretty well balanced and

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had to go back to the drawing

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board a bit. So really looking

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at reductions that we feel are

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equitable and prioritize the

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things that are important to us

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residents and to city council.

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And you'll see a lot of focus

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on public safety in this budget

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because, you know, every time

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we do a priority Surveyor

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community survey, public

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safety, police and fire is

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always at the top. And so this

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budget does prioritize those

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services and other key city

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services. So we'll walk through

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a little bit of what we're

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adding and what we had to

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reduce to balance the revenue

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and expenditures.

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One graph that we added that

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MAY help you see kind of what

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Terrence doing compared to

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Dallas and Collin County.

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value over the last few years.

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bottom and then you'll see

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Dallas and Collin. Let's see.

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Dallas is the light blue line

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the yellow. So he'll see that

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we're just kind of in a

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different situation here in

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Tarrant County. Has the value

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falls from this clear? 26 to

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27. And so that's what you'll

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see later in the presentation

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that even with the proposed tax

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rate increase, actually the tax

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bill for the average home goes

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down because as the value

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falls, even when you apply a

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tax rate increase, you're still

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coming out slightly on top.

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So just a unique situation.

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But you can see Dallas and

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Collin County, they're growing

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just like parent, but their

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values are reflecting the hours

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are not necessarily reflecting

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that on the residential side.

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All right. We'll get into some

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numbers. So the total operating

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budget for the city of Fort

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Worth is 3.3, 2 billion dollars

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for fiscal year. 27. That

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includes all operating not just

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the general fund. We will focus

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a bit on the general fund here

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in a moment.

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But here's kind of a car like a

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nerdy finance table of the

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budget. So current year fiscal

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year, 26, you'll see 3.1

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billion dollars growing by

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about 7.5% to fiscal year.

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20 Seven's 3.3, 2 billion

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dollars. And you see the kind

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of different, you know,

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grossing a little bit of

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reductions here and there.

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But general Fund is the biggest

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of the operating funds, a

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growing its are taking up about

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a 3rd of the operating budget.

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The next category. That's the

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biggest operating as is

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enterprise funds. And we'll

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talk about in a little bit.

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But enterprise funds are fun to

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operate more like a business.

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So they're not funded by

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property taxes. They're funded

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by rates and fees of those who

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use the Think of like water,

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solid waste, those kinds of

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things. And then the 3rd

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biggest operating category, a

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special revenue funds so that

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when you might be most familiar

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with is ccpd so special revenue

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funds are funds that have like

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a dedicated revenue sources

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restricted for a specific

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purpose. So ccpd funded by a

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half-cent sales tax restricted

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to crime control and prevention

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activities. And we'll get some

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more examples later. But those

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are kind of the big 3 of the

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operating funds.

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So when we walked through

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counsel, well, that the

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recommended budget with council

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on the 11th and you're more

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than welcome to go and watch

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that. If you'd like, we talked

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about sort of the whole budget

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process and we looked like

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thing by thing by thing.

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So this is a summary of that

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story. But I wanted to share it

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just because I think it can be

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helpful knowing what the city

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did to get to what you're

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seeing today. So we knew like

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I mentioned because of a

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property tax issues that we

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were facing a gap between our

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revenues and expenditures.

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And so from the beginning, when

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we start the budget process in

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MARCH and APRIL, we asked

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departments to reduce their

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budgets by one percent.

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So we actually deliver them a

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target budget. That was already

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one percent reduced from the

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current year. That got us about

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7.8 million dollars in savings.

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So just some initial belt

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tightening there. And then that

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continued because we asked them

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also to submit an additional

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3% reduction for their

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department. That came in a

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number of packages and ideas.

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Unlike program reductions in

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all kinds of things,

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departments do a lot of

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different things to get there.

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And so we did take a lot of

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those 3% reductions in that

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garnered us about 14 and a half

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million more dollars in

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savings. So those things

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happened early in the APRIL MAY

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and JUNE and then we're getting

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pretty close to balancing the

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budget with some other

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strategies along the way.

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But then, like I mentioned at

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the end of JULY, we got those

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tad values and we had to go

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back to the drawing board for

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some even deeper cuts. So some

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of the 3% reductions that we

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didn't, you know, feel like

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we're the best idea. We then

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did take those ideas and and

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continue to look at other

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strategies like reducing

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employee pay for performance

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and looking at revenue

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increases that we had maybe

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looked at yet. And then at the

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end of the day, we were still

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facing nearly a 40 million

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dollar gap. 36.9 million.

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And that's when the city

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manager made the decision to

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propose a tax rate increase

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to sort of better reflect the

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need with all these kind of

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tad issues that we're having.

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The tax rate increases. 3.2

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cents, not percent to keep

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saying percent a sense. So

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current year, 67 dot us nc per

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$100 valuation. And then next

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year, be 70.0, $0.02 And we'll

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show you in a bit kind of how

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that stacks up on the the bill.

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And for those of you who MAY

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have been at budget

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presentations before you might

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be familiar with kind of how

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the property tax rate breaks

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down deluxe plane. So this

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70.0, $0.02 kind of splits into

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2. The first is operating on

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the top. There. And then in

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Fort Worth, we further split

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that amount into just

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operations on the top. $0.48

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That is what funds the general

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fund so think about like the

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city's main operating fund for

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police and fire parks and

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libraries. Transportation.

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And then that part that says

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Capital is 7 and a quarter cent

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for capital maintenance.

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We use cash or pay go pay as

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you go capital to fund some

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of that capital maintenance

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rather than doing in debt.

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And in the bottom portion of

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the tax rate to 14, 75 is the

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actual debt, a portion of the

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tax rate. And so like if you

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came to any of the bond

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meetings, that was the right

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guy. We said we're not going to

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increase that. That rate with

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the 2026 bonds. You can see

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it remains the same. But we do

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have to keep it because we have

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to support her. Our current

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debt to that includes the end

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of the 2018 2022 bond programs.

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And then the 2026 bond payment

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go program going forward.

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So City Council has 5 strategic

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priority. So we kind of like to

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talk about the budget in terms

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of those. So first being

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community safety. Again, this

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is where a lot of the budget

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focuses because this is the

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number one priority of most

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residents when we when we

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survey and certainly councils

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a priority as well. And so

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police and fire get the lion's

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share of the growth in this

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budget. You'll see that in a

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moment as well. The one kind

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of out calling an elimination.

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But it's really like a pivot

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of services. There's a 4 person

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team right now in the fire

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department that does homeless

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outreach and prevention and

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education. Those our those are

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dual role, firefighters.

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So they're actually

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firefighters who are trained in

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fire suppression, but they're

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not doing those duties. They're

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doing the hope duties full

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time. So this budget proposes

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moving those people back to

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fire suppression and then

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continuing the hope activities

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through a mobile integrated

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health team that the city

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acquired when we started and

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working with MedStar when we

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acquired ems. And so it doesn't

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stop the services. But it

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returns the firefighters to

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firefighting and therefore

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saves the overtime. That's cars

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when they're not doing that and

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still have to like staff a fire

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truck. So that's one thing

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that's a little different in

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the fire budget. We also added

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funding for fire overtime in

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fleet to better reflect their

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actual spending in their

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contractual obligations.

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On the police side, we added

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76 patrol officers. So we

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continually look at police

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staffing to make sure that

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they're keeping up with a

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growing, you know, growing need

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growing city. And so when we

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revamped their staffing study

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this year, we determined that

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in order to continue the

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meeting response, time goals

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and pro activity goals that

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they did need some additional

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support in patrol. This budget

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also changes 30 patrol officers

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to corporals, which is like the

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next rank up out in the

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community. That's because in

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the city of Fort Worth right

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now, if you're a patrol officer

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and you want to be promoted,

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you actually have to leave

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patrol and go be a detective

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or like a corporal in a

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specialized unit. And so a lot

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of times people don't like

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really go back to patroller

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takes a long time for them to

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go back and do this. Allows for

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a good promotional path in

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patrol and allows us corporate

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also to train new officers in a

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more consistent way. So we're

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excited about that opportunity

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and police.

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And then emergency management

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and communications. This budget

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fully funds the Axon 9-1-1,

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program which we piloted this

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year. That is assistive called

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taking technology for

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non-emergency calls. So if you

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call with a non-emergency, your

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call gets triage short of with

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the help of technology. And

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so it saves some workload on

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the like human called takers to

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deal with some of the more

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complex 9-1-1, emergency calls.

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So they've been really happy

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with that program. And so this

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budget, fully funds that one.

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All right. Moving right along

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here on the infrastructure

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side. I mentioned that pago

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portion of the tax rate being

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7 in a quarter cents. So we

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did maintain that investment.

572
00:22:30,992 --> 00:22:33,527
We certainly don't want to

573
00:22:33,527 --> 00:22:34,528
decrease our investment in

574
00:22:34,528 --> 00:22:36,528
capital and maintenance.

575
00:22:36,565 --> 00:22:37,598
However, remember that as our

576
00:22:37,598 --> 00:22:39,333
values full 7 and a quarter

577
00:22:39,333 --> 00:22:41,402
since doesn't produce the same

578
00:22:41,402 --> 00:22:42,537
revenue that it produced this

579
00:22:42,537 --> 00:22:46,137
year. So we see a corresponding

580
00:22:46,541 --> 00:22:47,142
reduction in the pay go budget.

581
00:22:47,142 --> 00:22:48,750
2.8 million dollars is what we

582
00:22:48,750 --> 00:22:51,412
see. And so that's a little

583
00:22:51,412 --> 00:22:53,248
bit of a decrease. But keeping

584
00:22:53,248 --> 00:22:53,982
the tax rate static.

585
00:22:53,982 --> 00:22:56,982
Reduction spread across a lot

586
00:22:56,985 --> 00:22:57,985
of the different peco bucket.

587
00:22:57,985 --> 00:22:58,987
So it's not necessarily in in

588
00:22:58,987 --> 00:23:01,220
one spot, but there is there is

589
00:23:01,220 --> 00:23:01,990
one program that it's sort of

590
00:23:01,990 --> 00:23:03,425
like you can you'll be able

591
00:23:03,425 --> 00:23:03,959
to see it. It's a neighborhood

592
00:23:03,959 --> 00:23:06,628
services, but I'm going to

593
00:23:06,628 --> 00:23:08,330
explain kind of why that's not

594
00:23:08,330 --> 00:23:09,232
a reduction in service, but it

595
00:23:09,232 --> 00:23:09,831
it really maintains the

596
00:23:09,831 --> 00:23:11,766
investment in transportation

597
00:23:11,766 --> 00:23:12,333
and public works there pretty

598
00:23:12,333 --> 00:23:13,680
much flat actually growing a

599
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,171
tad and same with parks are

600
00:23:16,171 --> 00:23:16,805
kind of pretty much flat.

601
00:23:16,805 --> 00:23:17,405
So when you think about capital

602
00:23:17,405 --> 00:23:18,600
maintenance for transportation

603
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,542
and parks, those aren't really

604
00:23:20,542 --> 00:23:22,942
affected by that reduction.

605
00:23:23,178 --> 00:23:23,745
This budget also authorizes

606
00:23:23,745 --> 00:23:25,180
the pavement management fee.

607
00:23:25,180 --> 00:23:26,448
You might have heard this

608
00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:27,182
called the street maintenance

609
00:23:27,182 --> 00:23:29,150
fee. We're sort of updating

610
00:23:29,150 --> 00:23:31,520
that nomenclature as we go

611
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:31,753
forward to better reflect that.

612
00:23:31,753 --> 00:23:34,890
The point of the program, is it

613
00:23:34,890 --> 00:23:35,230
really just to maintain streets

614
00:23:35,230 --> 00:23:36,892
and go fix things? Reactive

615
00:23:36,892 --> 00:23:38,492
Lee, but who managed the full

616
00:23:38,492 --> 00:23:40,595
life cycle of pavement like

617
00:23:40,595 --> 00:23:42,430
from start to finish and sold

618
00:23:42,430 --> 00:23:44,500
more proactive naming there.

619
00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:45,100
You won't start to see that

620
00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:45,835
fee in fiscal year 27, but it

621
00:23:45,835 --> 00:23:48,970
just enables us to continue to

622
00:23:48,970 --> 00:23:50,970
work toward that

623
00:23:51,107 --> 00:23:51,640
implementation.

624
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,430
And then this budget also

625
00:23:54,430 --> 00:23:54,644
continues water significant

626
00:23:54,644 --> 00:23:55,243
capital program. So with water

627
00:23:55,243 --> 00:23:58,113
being a regional utility, they

628
00:23:58,113 --> 00:24:00,150
have tons of capital investment

629
00:24:00,150 --> 00:24:00,649
going on a cast iron

630
00:24:00,649 --> 00:24:03,649
replacement in the Marias Creek

631
00:24:03,818 --> 00:24:06,818
facility. And so this budget

632
00:24:07,422 --> 00:24:08,560
also continues that work.

633
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,580
Community investment. So here's

634
00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:12,600
where some of our addictions

635
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:12,695
come in that have been

636
00:24:12,695 --> 00:24:15,130
particularly sort of painful to

637
00:24:15,130 --> 00:24:15,698
talk about. And the council has

638
00:24:15,698 --> 00:24:16,898
certainly have questions on.

639
00:24:16,898 --> 00:24:17,699
Remember that a lot of our

640
00:24:17,699 --> 00:24:19,568
general fund budget is tied to

641
00:24:19,568 --> 00:24:21,337
public safety. And so when you

642
00:24:21,337 --> 00:24:22,370
talk about community

643
00:24:22,370 --> 00:24:23,905
investment, you still see

644
00:24:23,905 --> 00:24:25,641
public-facing activities like

645
00:24:25,641 --> 00:24:26,341
code and libraries and parks.

646
00:24:26,341 --> 00:24:29,344
But those are also the areas

647
00:24:29,344 --> 00:24:30,413
that have sustained some

648
00:24:30,413 --> 00:24:31,781
reductions in this budget

649
00:24:31,781 --> 00:24:32,481
because of that prioritization

650
00:24:32,481 --> 00:24:34,183
of public safety. And so our

651
00:24:34,183 --> 00:24:36,583
attempts here really to

652
00:24:37,353 --> 00:24:39,753
minimize service level impacts

653
00:24:40,223 --> 00:24:40,723
but still have to balance the

654
00:24:40,723 --> 00:24:41,324
budget. So our original

655
00:24:41,324 --> 00:24:43,192
recommended budget recommended

656
00:24:43,192 --> 00:24:45,161
closing the Alliance PetSmart

657
00:24:45,161 --> 00:24:47,163
Adoption Center, which son the

658
00:24:47,163 --> 00:24:49,970
northern part of Fort Worth.

659
00:24:49,970 --> 00:24:50,833
It's a off-site adoption center

660
00:24:50,833 --> 00:24:51,434
and council. I'll tell you on

661
00:24:51,434 --> 00:24:52,767
Tuesday if you didn't tune in,

662
00:24:52,767 --> 00:24:53,870
they they most of them said

663
00:24:53,870 --> 00:24:55,904
like We don't we don't love

664
00:24:55,904 --> 00:24:57,507
that. And so we're looking at

665
00:24:57,507 --> 00:24:58,390
some other options so that we

666
00:24:58,390 --> 00:24:58,574
don't lose associate grant

667
00:24:58,574 --> 00:25:01,477
funding or affect our live

668
00:25:01,477 --> 00:25:02,111
release rate, which was really

669
00:25:02,111 --> 00:25:05,181
high this year. And so that one

670
00:25:05,181 --> 00:25:08,184
is being kind a reworked now.

671
00:25:08,184 --> 00:25:09,252
Neighborhood services has a

672
00:25:09,252 --> 00:25:10,190
priority repair program.

673
00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:10,653
It's a 2 and a half million

674
00:25:10,653 --> 00:25:12,622
dollar program. And then as

675
00:25:12,622 --> 00:25:15,220
another 2 million dollars in

676
00:25:15,526 --> 00:25:17,260
grant funding. So this is a

677
00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:18,928
75,000 read Dollar Reduction,

678
00:25:18,928 --> 00:25:20,997
which is a 3% reduction in the

679
00:25:20,997 --> 00:25:22,466
in the peco portion of that

680
00:25:22,466 --> 00:25:23,166
program. It's not great to

681
00:25:23,166 --> 00:25:23,666
reduce that program. It's

682
00:25:23,666 --> 00:25:25,536
highly used for repairs.

683
00:25:25,536 --> 00:25:27,436
People kind of apply and then

684
00:25:27,436 --> 00:25:29,272
they can have home repairs done

685
00:25:29,272 --> 00:25:32,574
to keep them in their home.

686
00:25:32,574 --> 00:25:33,744
But it's not an elimination by

687
00:25:33,744 --> 00:25:35,744
any means either.

688
00:25:36,412 --> 00:25:36,978
The mobile tool shed program

689
00:25:36,978 --> 00:25:37,547
comes out of code compliance

690
00:25:37,547 --> 00:25:40,547
in. We actually piloted that

691
00:25:40,850 --> 00:25:41,417
last year and invested more in

692
00:25:41,417 --> 00:25:43,854
it this year. So therefore,

693
00:25:43,854 --> 00:25:44,955
people working that program

694
00:25:44,955 --> 00:25:46,956
right now they deliver tools

695
00:25:46,956 --> 00:25:47,890
like lawn mowers and weed

696
00:25:47,890 --> 00:25:48,992
eaters and those kinds of

697
00:25:48,992 --> 00:25:51,992
things out to neighborhoods in

698
00:25:53,620 --> 00:25:53,629
order to help people comply

699
00:25:53,629 --> 00:25:54,131
with the code issues. And so

700
00:25:54,131 --> 00:25:55,565
again, we don't want to

701
00:25:55,565 --> 00:25:56,165
eliminate that program, but we

702
00:25:56,165 --> 00:25:59,236
are reducing it by one person

703
00:25:59,236 --> 00:26:02,836
in order to balance the budget.

704
00:26:03,106 --> 00:26:03,841
Let's see the neighborhood

705
00:26:03,841 --> 00:26:04,607
improvement program. This is a

706
00:26:04,607 --> 00:26:05,107
program. I mention that it's

707
00:26:05,107 --> 00:26:08,770
going to look like we're

708
00:26:08,770 --> 00:26:10,460
reducing, but it's a little

709
00:26:10,460 --> 00:26:11,848
tricky. So in a neighborhood

710
00:26:11,848 --> 00:26:12,448
improvement program costs about

711
00:26:12,448 --> 00:26:13,160
4 million dollars to do one

712
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,416
neighborhood. And it takes 3

713
00:26:16,319 --> 00:26:17,540
years to sort of implement the

714
00:26:17,540 --> 00:26:17,654
whole program. So the first

715
00:26:17,654 --> 00:26:20,624
year is usually planning with

716
00:26:20,624 --> 00:26:22,910
the neighborhood, all the

717
00:26:22,910 --> 00:26:23,994
activities

718
00:26:23,994 --> 00:26:25,270
that will be underway over the

719
00:26:25,270 --> 00:26:25,662
delivery of the program.

720
00:26:25,662 --> 00:26:26,195
So the neighborhood comes

721
00:26:26,195 --> 00:26:28,331
together and with the city

722
00:26:28,331 --> 00:26:30,300
staff and they say, you know,

723
00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:31,340
we need sidewalks here. We need

724
00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:34,838
cameras here and a light MAY be

725
00:26:34,838 --> 00:26:36,806
a signal or like a street light

726
00:26:36,806 --> 00:26:38,775
or something. And and then

727
00:26:38,775 --> 00:26:40,944
here's 2, 3 are like doing the

728
00:26:40,944 --> 00:26:41,545
plan. And so what we've done

729
00:26:41,545 --> 00:26:42,112
in in help helping to balance

730
00:26:42,112 --> 00:26:45,448
the budget and also to kind

731
00:26:45,448 --> 00:26:46,617
of phase the delivery of those

732
00:26:46,617 --> 00:26:47,851
programs. Better and is instead

733
00:26:47,851 --> 00:26:48,484
of funding the whole 4 million

734
00:26:48,484 --> 00:26:50,621
right up front. We're funding

735
00:26:50,621 --> 00:26:52,589
that 1 million dollars of

736
00:26:52,589 --> 00:26:53,190
planning activities in year.

737
00:26:53,190 --> 00:26:55,225
One knowing that in years, 2,

738
00:26:55,225 --> 00:26:58,328
3 will then match the budget to

739
00:26:58,328 --> 00:26:59,163
the activities for those years.

740
00:26:59,163 --> 00:26:59,695
And so it's more right-sizing.

741
00:26:59,695 --> 00:27:02,695
What's really It also help

742
00:27:05,369 --> 00:27:08,369
happens to help balance peco

743
00:27:08,705 --> 00:27:09,440
this year, too. What c?

744
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,542
Economic development is the

745
00:27:11,542 --> 00:27:13,577
other read a second to last

746
00:27:13,577 --> 00:27:14,745
year to chick priority. So

747
00:27:14,745 --> 00:27:17,548
right now, the general fund

748
00:27:17,548 --> 00:27:19,948
trance for years about

749
00:27:20,317 --> 00:27:21,585
5 million dollars a year to an

750
00:27:21,585 --> 00:27:22,585
economic development

751
00:27:22,585 --> 00:27:24,320
initiatives fund. And so that

752
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:25,489
fund does have a balance in it.

753
00:27:25,489 --> 00:27:26,423
The strategy behind that fund

754
00:27:26,423 --> 00:27:28,126
is to be able to it, you know,

755
00:27:28,126 --> 00:27:28,724
attract business and we don't

756
00:27:28,724 --> 00:27:30,694
have a 4 year for be sales tax

757
00:27:30,694 --> 00:27:32,463
and Fort Worth like some of our

758
00:27:32,463 --> 00:27:34,463
competitor cities, our

759
00:27:34,631 --> 00:27:35,465
dedicated sales tax goes to

760
00:27:35,465 --> 00:27:37,467
ccpd. So this is sort of the

761
00:27:37,467 --> 00:27:39,867
cities like hybrid solution

762
00:27:40,337 --> 00:27:43,240
for having cash on hand and

763
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:43,975
that way. But that fund does

764
00:27:43,975 --> 00:27:44,475
have a balance in it. So we

765
00:27:44,475 --> 00:27:46,875
thought will reduce that

766
00:27:47,811 --> 00:27:48,880
transfer from the General fund

767
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:49,479
this year. It helps to balance

768
00:27:49,479 --> 00:27:50,215
the budget. Keep a little bit

769
00:27:50,215 --> 00:27:54,152
of a transfer going out to its

770
00:27:54,152 --> 00:27:55,253
going from 5 million to just

771
00:27:55,253 --> 00:27:55,786
500,000. We didn't want to

772
00:27:55,786 --> 00:27:58,786
reduce it all together. So

773
00:27:58,822 --> 00:27:59,823
hopefully that can grow again

774
00:27:59,823 --> 00:28:01,823
in the future.

775
00:28:02,260 --> 00:28:02,827
But in economic development, we

776
00:28:02,827 --> 00:28:04,428
do continue our partnership

777
00:28:04,428 --> 00:28:05,429
with the local chambers and

778
00:28:05,429 --> 00:28:07,197
continued to implement the

779
00:28:07,197 --> 00:28:09,333
small business program that's

780
00:28:09,333 --> 00:28:10,802
really under way this year.

781
00:28:10,802 --> 00:28:11,436
It also transitions management

782
00:28:11,436 --> 00:28:13,471
of the Will Rogers Memorial

783
00:28:13,471 --> 00:28:17,710
complex system of you MAY know

784
00:28:17,341 --> 00:28:17,942
that's moving to a 3rd party

785
00:28:17,942 --> 00:28:19,777
management agreement and then

786
00:28:19,777 --> 00:28:20,278
an economic development we do

787
00:28:20,278 --> 00:28:21,113
at a position to support

788
00:28:21,113 --> 00:28:23,113
neighborhood revitalization in

789
00:28:24,414 --> 00:28:26,618
our targeted areas for those

790
00:28:26,618 --> 00:28:27,185
those efforts.

791
00:28:27,185 --> 00:28:28,686
And then responsible growth.

792
00:28:28,686 --> 00:28:29,454
This is one of those categories

793
00:28:29,454 --> 00:28:32,223
like a lot of things can fall

794
00:28:32,223 --> 00:28:33,425
under responsible Grosso tried

795
00:28:33,425 --> 00:28:36,194
to highlight a couple of things

796
00:28:36,194 --> 00:28:36,694
here. And so we will continue

797
00:28:36,694 --> 00:28:37,328
to replace vehicles and

798
00:28:37,328 --> 00:28:38,290
equipment that will just using

799
00:28:38,290 --> 00:28:40,132
a bit of a different funding

800
00:28:40,132 --> 00:28:41,990
strategy for those rather than

801
00:28:41,990 --> 00:28:44,402
doing them in the general fund.

802
00:28:44,402 --> 00:28:45,435
We'll do them in available debt

803
00:28:45,435 --> 00:28:47,835
capacity through tax notes.

804
00:28:47,972 --> 00:28:48,573
Also, we've experienced as a

805
00:28:48,573 --> 00:28:49,108
city rising cost of health

806
00:28:49,108 --> 00:28:52,100
claims. As I mean, I think

807
00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:54,780
that's happening all over the

808
00:28:54,780 --> 00:28:55,145
place. And so we did not want

809
00:28:55,145 --> 00:28:57,282
to pass that cost on to our

810
00:28:57,282 --> 00:28:59,251
employees. So the employer

811
00:28:59,251 --> 00:29:00,385
contributions to the group

812
00:29:00,385 --> 00:29:01,860
Health Fund for the city have

813
00:29:01,860 --> 00:29:01,687
grown. So when you see

814
00:29:01,687 --> 00:29:03,655
departments budgets growing a

815
00:29:03,655 --> 00:29:05,623
bit, it's because we're having

816
00:29:05,623 --> 00:29:08,623
to right-size some of that

817
00:29:08,726 --> 00:29:09,327
fund. We continue to provide

818
00:29:09,327 --> 00:29:10,270
support for public information

819
00:29:10,270 --> 00:29:12,864
process is that are state

820
00:29:12,864 --> 00:29:13,464
required. We see our open

821
00:29:13,464 --> 00:29:16,267
records request growing and so

822
00:29:16,267 --> 00:29:17,502
this budget continues to

823
00:29:17,502 --> 00:29:19,902
provide support for that

824
00:29:21,472 --> 00:29:22,700
function. We talked a little

825
00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:22,607
bit about the inflationary

826
00:29:22,607 --> 00:29:23,142
increases, including vehicles

827
00:29:23,142 --> 00:29:25,542
and maintenance and fuel.

828
00:29:26,978 --> 00:29:29,470
So the city experiences that

829
00:29:29,470 --> 00:29:29,681
just like Holmes do. And so I

830
00:29:29,681 --> 00:29:30,281
think I mentioned we added some

831
00:29:30,281 --> 00:29:30,816
funds to fire fleet for those,

832
00:29:30,816 --> 00:29:33,219
but that's kind of a theme

833
00:29:33,219 --> 00:29:36,219
across a lot of departments.

834
00:29:36,254 --> 00:29:38,122
We'll talk a bit more about

835
00:29:38,122 --> 00:29:39,290
fee structures and then for

836
00:29:39,290 --> 00:29:40,910
this building in the attached

837
00:29:40,910 --> 00:29:43,910
parking lot and garage, we

838
00:29:43,394 --> 00:29:45,794
reduced our maintenance budgets

839
00:29:45,930 --> 00:29:47,866
for for that.

840
00:29:47,866 --> 00:29:48,433
All right. So those are the

841
00:29:48,433 --> 00:29:49,468
highlights. And the general

842
00:29:49,468 --> 00:29:53,680
fund is where will focus for

843
00:29:53,405 --> 00:29:53,938
just a few more sides. 1.1,

844
00:29:53,938 --> 00:29:55,907
5 billion dollars here is

845
00:29:55,907 --> 00:29:56,442
revenue and expenditures you

846
00:29:56,442 --> 00:29:59,411
can see on the bottom were

847
00:29:59,411 --> 00:30:00,346
presenting a balanced budget

848
00:30:00,346 --> 00:30:01,513
and the general fund as

849
00:30:01,513 --> 00:30:02,882
required revenue. We've talked

850
00:30:02,882 --> 00:30:05,584
a little bit about the property

851
00:30:05,584 --> 00:30:06,386
tax issues that we're having.

852
00:30:06,386 --> 00:30:07,352
Sales tax is the other big

853
00:30:07,352 --> 00:30:09,787
revenue source. So property and

854
00:30:09,787 --> 00:30:10,722
sales tax together about 80%

855
00:30:10,722 --> 00:30:14,593
of the general fund. So we are

856
00:30:14,593 --> 00:30:15,194
seeing good growth in sales

857
00:30:15,194 --> 00:30:15,760
tax. About 5% growth projected

858
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,729
for next year, which helps a

859
00:30:17,729 --> 00:30:18,631
little bit with the property

860
00:30:18,631 --> 00:30:21,367
tax issues. And so we'll

861
00:30:21,367 --> 00:30:23,202
continue to watch in forecast

862
00:30:23,202 --> 00:30:23,968
that carefully. And then on

863
00:30:23,968 --> 00:30:26,368
the expenditure side about 70%

864
00:30:26,939 --> 00:30:27,473
of the general fund to salary

865
00:30:27,473 --> 00:30:30,442
and benefits. And a lot of

866
00:30:30,442 --> 00:30:33,712
that, of course, is police and

867
00:30:33,712 --> 00:30:35,214
fire. But about 4.6% growth

868
00:30:35,214 --> 00:30:35,713
there in the general fund.

869
00:30:35,713 --> 00:30:37,490
And here's a view of the

870
00:30:37,490 --> 00:30:39,180
departments that are in the

871
00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:42,618
general fund. And so these are

872
00:30:42,922 --> 00:30:43,489
in alphabetical order and you

873
00:30:43,489 --> 00:30:44,230
can see the growth like not

874
00:30:44,230 --> 00:30:46,423
growth. The increases and

875
00:30:46,525 --> 00:30:47,793
decreases are kind of all over

876
00:30:47,793 --> 00:30:48,394
the place across the general

877
00:30:48,394 --> 00:30:52,594
fund. And so I'm going to show

878
00:30:52,731 --> 00:30:54,566
you a different graphic here in

879
00:30:54,566 --> 00:30:55,670
a moment. But again, we're

880
00:30:55,670 --> 00:30:56,702
growing about 4.6%, very

881
00:30:56,702 --> 00:30:57,636
similar growth to last year.

882
00:30:57,636 --> 00:30:58,604
Actually, I was surprised when

883
00:30:58,604 --> 00:31:00,573
I saw that because it feels

884
00:31:00,573 --> 00:31:01,207
like such a different budget

885
00:31:01,207 --> 00:31:01,774
year. It's just that the growth

886
00:31:01,774 --> 00:31:04,377
in revenue you're like very,

887
00:31:04,377 --> 00:31:06,278
very differently spread than

888
00:31:06,278 --> 00:31:06,879
last year. I think so. We have

889
00:31:06,879 --> 00:31:09,879
some modest growth in many

890
00:31:10,217 --> 00:31:12,617
departments and some pretty

891
00:31:13,687 --> 00:31:14,887
big reductions and others.

892
00:31:14,887 --> 00:31:15,354
This is a I think, a helpful

893
00:31:15,354 --> 00:31:17,754
graphic for some that

894
00:31:18,290 --> 00:31:18,924
communications created. And

895
00:31:18,924 --> 00:31:19,492
this just sort of re emphasizes

896
00:31:19,492 --> 00:31:22,492
what Jay was talking about.

897
00:31:22,995 --> 00:31:23,563
And what I mentioned a couple

898
00:31:23,563 --> 00:31:24,163
times about our total budget

899
00:31:24,163 --> 00:31:27,935
and then how we kind of narrow

900
00:31:27,935 --> 00:31:28,501
it to where the reductions can

901
00:31:28,501 --> 00:31:30,703
really come from. So on the

902
00:31:30,703 --> 00:31:31,403
left-hand side is the total

903
00:31:31,403 --> 00:31:33,403
operating budget. 3.3 billion

904
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,508
dollars. The general fund being

905
00:31:35,508 --> 00:31:36,375
about a 3rd of that and most of

906
00:31:36,375 --> 00:31:38,277
those other funds on the left

907
00:31:38,277 --> 00:31:40,247
are restricted to certain

908
00:31:40,247 --> 00:31:42,114
purposes. So like Jay

909
00:31:42,114 --> 00:31:43,216
mentioned, you know, water, you

910
00:31:43,216 --> 00:31:44,284
can use water for like a police

911
00:31:44,284 --> 00:31:44,919
short fall in the general fund.

912
00:31:44,919 --> 00:31:46,652
And you can't, you know, use

913
00:31:46,652 --> 00:31:48,555
aviation for anything that's on

914
00:31:48,555 --> 00:31:50,690
aviation or faa. You know,

915
00:31:50,690 --> 00:31:52,691
approved in that kind of thing.

916
00:31:52,691 --> 00:31:56,129
So in the middle, you have the

917
00:31:56,129 --> 00:31:58,932
actual general fund and that's

918
00:31:58,932 --> 00:31:59,866
57% public safety. So police

919
00:31:59,866 --> 00:32:00,433
fire emergency management and

920
00:32:00,433 --> 00:32:02,833
communications. So when you

921
00:32:04,337 --> 00:32:06,173
talk about budget reductions

922
00:32:06,173 --> 00:32:06,739
and you are prioritizing public

923
00:32:06,739 --> 00:32:07,439
safety and you can't reduce

924
00:32:07,439 --> 00:32:09,242
their budgets because of their

925
00:32:09,242 --> 00:32:09,943
contractual, you know, labor

926
00:32:09,943 --> 00:32:11,811
agreements and obligations.

927
00:32:11,811 --> 00:32:14,747
Then where can your reductions

928
00:32:14,747 --> 00:32:16,449
come from? And that's what's on

929
00:32:16,449 --> 00:32:17,490
the right hand side. So every

930
00:32:17,490 --> 00:32:19,449
other general fund department.

931
00:32:20,220 --> 00:32:20,687
And so that's why you see some

932
00:32:20,687 --> 00:32:23,870
of those reductions in

933
00:32:23,790 --> 00:32:25,790
community investment, right

934
00:32:27,128 --> 00:32:28,895
when we saw that priority.

935
00:32:28,895 --> 00:32:29,397
Here's another view of

936
00:32:29,397 --> 00:32:31,397
department increases and

937
00:32:32,532 --> 00:32:33,166
decreases in next year's

938
00:32:33,166 --> 00:32:33,900
budget.

939
00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,837
Cc Fire, a gun fire police kind

940
00:32:36,837 --> 00:32:38,672
of taking the lion's share of

941
00:32:38,672 --> 00:32:39,607
where where we are growing and

942
00:32:39,607 --> 00:32:41,775
most of these are contractual

943
00:32:41,775 --> 00:32:43,877
obligations again, with fire in

944
00:32:43,877 --> 00:32:45,877
police's labor agreements.

945
00:32:45,879 --> 00:32:48,140
And they're scheduled pay

946
00:32:48,140 --> 00:32:48,582
raises on the fireside. This

947
00:32:48,582 --> 00:32:50,283
also includes the subsidy to

948
00:32:50,283 --> 00:32:53,883
ems. So some of you remember,

949
00:32:54,860 --> 00:32:54,888
we took over ems services,

950
00:32:54,888 --> 00:32:56,858
JULY, first of 2025, that fund

951
00:32:56,858 --> 00:32:58,825
and and function is not fully

952
00:32:58,825 --> 00:32:59,392
self supporting at this time.

953
00:32:59,392 --> 00:32:59,993
We would love for it to be.

954
00:32:59,993 --> 00:33:03,960
I think we have staff working

955
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:04,764
on that and trying to close the

956
00:33:04,764 --> 00:33:05,432
gap. But right now General Fund

957
00:33:05,432 --> 00:33:08,432
is still supporting the ems

958
00:33:08,468 --> 00:33:09,236
function by about 30 million

959
00:33:09,236 --> 00:33:12,236
dollars. So that growth was,

960
00:33:12,472 --> 00:33:13,708
but in a fire department's

961
00:33:13,708 --> 00:33:14,509
budget this year.

962
00:33:14,509 --> 00:33:17,544
And we have a place holder for

963
00:33:17,544 --> 00:33:18,780
their new labor agreement which

964
00:33:18,780 --> 00:33:18,678
is under negotiation. And

965
00:33:18,678 --> 00:33:21,678
again, we added some funding

966
00:33:21,950 --> 00:33:24,451
to for fleet and over time.

967
00:33:24,451 --> 00:33:26,753
Police is almost all growth

968
00:33:26,753 --> 00:33:28,922
from just their scheduled pay

969
00:33:28,922 --> 00:33:29,557
raises. They they have a big

970
00:33:29,557 --> 00:33:30,158
budget. And so those pay raises

971
00:33:30,158 --> 00:33:33,940
out up year over year, they're

972
00:33:33,940 --> 00:33:34,861
in active labor contract right

973
00:33:34,861 --> 00:33:36,970
now.

974
00:33:36,970 --> 00:33:36,730
And then the 3rd kind of

975
00:33:36,730 --> 00:33:38,999
growing department is the other

976
00:33:38,999 --> 00:33:40,801
public safety department, which

977
00:33:40,801 --> 00:33:41,334
is emergency management and

978
00:33:41,334 --> 00:33:41,903
communications and part of

979
00:33:41,903 --> 00:33:44,972
their growth is that acts on

980
00:33:44,972 --> 00:33:45,839
pilot that I mentioned. That's

981
00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:47,839
assistive called taking.

982
00:33:49,410 --> 00:33:50,344
Go through the bottom 3, 2, So

983
00:33:50,344 --> 00:33:52,380
very bottom is property

984
00:33:52,380 --> 00:33:54,315
management and that reduction

985
00:33:54,315 --> 00:33:55,216
is really just the movement of

986
00:33:55,216 --> 00:33:57,216
vehicles and equipment

987
00:33:57,317 --> 00:33:58,520
replacement out of the general

988
00:33:58,520 --> 00:33:58,686
fund into tax notes. So it

989
00:33:58,686 --> 00:34:01,656
looks like a big reduction, but

990
00:34:01,656 --> 00:34:03,824
it's just a different funding

991
00:34:03,824 --> 00:34:04,358
strategy. There.

992
00:34:04,358 --> 00:34:05,927
Economic development, that

993
00:34:05,927 --> 00:34:07,928
reduction is pretty much all

994
00:34:07,928 --> 00:34:08,763
tied to the reduction in that

995
00:34:08,763 --> 00:34:09,330
transfer out to the

996
00:34:09,330 --> 00:34:11,399
initiatives. Fund kind were

997
00:34:11,399 --> 00:34:12,266
mentioned. We're taking a pause

998
00:34:12,266 --> 00:34:14,936
on that transfer this year.

999
00:34:14,936 --> 00:34:17,972
And and then the other one is

1000
00:34:17,972 --> 00:34:18,973
neighborhood services and

1001
00:34:18,973 --> 00:34:19,540
that's tied to that phased

1002
00:34:19,540 --> 00:34:20,641
delivery of the neighborhood

1003
00:34:20,641 --> 00:34:21,175
improvement program where we're

1004
00:34:21,175 --> 00:34:24,175
doing, you know, just the

1005
00:34:24,579 --> 00:34:25,513
million dollars in year one for

1006
00:34:25,513 --> 00:34:26,113
all the planning and then bump

1007
00:34:26,113 --> 00:34:29,116
up in your 2. So this reflects

1008
00:34:29,116 --> 00:34:32,153
that sort of phasing of that

1009
00:34:32,153 --> 00:34:34,153
program.

1010
00:34:34,688 --> 00:34:36,858
So almost kind of done. We're

1011
00:34:36,858 --> 00:34:40,194
going to go to enterprise funds

1012
00:34:40,194 --> 00:34:42,997
that we have a question.

1013
00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:43,499
Yes, no, yes. You know,

1014
00:34:43,499 --> 00:34:43,731
grandfathers are pretty

1015
00:34:43,731 --> 00:34:44,866
special.

1016
00:34:44,866 --> 00:34:48,466
>> Well, I have a friend who's

1017
00:34:48,603 --> 00:34:51,105
passed away. Retired Fort Worth

1018
00:34:51,105 --> 00:34:51,806
police officer. He told his

1019
00:34:51,806 --> 00:34:52,707
grandson who want to be a Fort

1020
00:34:52,707 --> 00:34:55,707
Worth go away because they

1021
00:34:57,846 --> 00:34:58,646
don't pay us anything. Okay.

1022
00:34:58,646 --> 00:34:59,781
Right here in this. Well,

1023
00:34:59,781 --> 00:35:02,183
there's people that read to

1024
00:35:02,183 --> 00:35:04,583
kindergarteners. We used to,

1025
00:35:05,453 --> 00:35:08,453
but who's responsible for the

1026
00:35:08,723 --> 00:35:11,123
lousy school system? Tuchman.

1027
00:35:17,499 --> 00:35:18,567
>> That's not the city.

1028
00:35:18,567 --> 00:35:19,670
Defense. What school system we

1029
00:35:19,670 --> 00:35:21,670
have 14 different school

1030
00:35:22,103 --> 00:35:23,471
systems within the city of Fort

1031
00:35:23,471 --> 00:35:25,471
Worth.

1032
00:35:27,341 --> 00:35:27,843
Its schools. The school system

1033
00:35:27,843 --> 00:35:28,643
has its own board right?

1034
00:35:28,643 --> 00:35:31,643
The state provides the funding

1035
00:35:31,913 --> 00:35:34,913
most of the funding schools.

1036
00:35:42,491 --> 00:35:44,891
>> Good questions and e-mails

1037
00:35:45,727 --> 00:35:48,127
for now. Thank you.

1038
00:35:48,864 --> 00:35:50,864
Should be too.

1039
00:36:00,909 --> 00:36:03,445
Where most of our money goes

1040
00:36:03,445 --> 00:36:04,579
to it. We need that. We need

1041
00:36:04,579 --> 00:36:06,579
the police and

1042
00:36:07,851 --> 00:36:10,851
>> fire and our safety. But

1043
00:36:12,210 --> 00:36:15,357
I just don't understand why we

1044
00:36:15,357 --> 00:36:18,393
have a reduction and the parks

1045
00:36:18,393 --> 00:36:20,393
budget.

1046
00:36:26,301 --> 00:36:28,701
>> We talked about the

1047
00:36:29,939 --> 00:36:32,800
appraisal, the values going

1048
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:32,841
down. Balance the budget and

1049
00:36:32,841 --> 00:36:33,442
one of the press and the

1050
00:36:33,442 --> 00:36:35,842
priorities been public safety

1051
00:36:36,411 --> 00:36:37,380
and not impacting public

1052
00:36:37,380 --> 00:36:38,948
safety. Also to make sure that

1053
00:36:38,948 --> 00:36:41,170
we're keeping up with our

1054
00:36:41,170 --> 00:36:42,417
growth and public safety.

1055
00:36:42,417 --> 00:36:43,219
Needs to keep up with that.

1056
00:36:43,219 --> 00:36:45,421
So it's the rest of those.

1057
00:36:45,421 --> 00:36:49,621
He put it back on that slide.

1058
00:36:49,658 --> 00:36:52,658
It's all the other departments.

1059
00:36:52,930 --> 00:36:55,465
The only place you can go to

1060
00:36:55,465 --> 00:36:56,310
reduce costs and

1061
00:36:56,310 --> 00:36:56,598
you know, basically all the

1062
00:36:56,598 --> 00:36:58,998
costs associated with those

1063
00:36:59,268 --> 00:36:59,801
departments, our personnel.

1064
00:36:59,801 --> 00:37:02,805
And so if you're going to

1065
00:37:02,805 --> 00:37:04,600
reduce costs, that's really.

1066
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,600
Whenever we do. Our surveys

1067
00:37:07,430 --> 00:37:08,243
parks is always high, but it's

1068
00:37:08,243 --> 00:37:10,643
always. Public safety. First

1069
00:37:11,548 --> 00:37:13,948
responders, police fire MS.

1070
00:37:14,516 --> 00:37:15,117
And then transportation streets

1071
00:37:15,117 --> 00:37:17,386
is always next. And then you

1072
00:37:17,386 --> 00:37:17,921
have the rest of the usually at

1073
00:37:17,921 --> 00:37:20,321
parks and libraries next.

1074
00:37:20,456 --> 00:37:21,891
And so the reductions really

1075
00:37:21,891 --> 00:37:25,128
come out. Where we had the area

1076
00:37:25,128 --> 00:37:25,762
where you could cut really come

1077
00:37:25,762 --> 00:37:28,731
out of there. When you go, that

1078
00:37:28,731 --> 00:37:29,320
next slide that shows the

1079
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,320
reductions.

1080
00:37:32,168 --> 00:37:32,569
You see, it's mostly the

1081
00:37:32,569 --> 00:37:33,870
administrative.

1082
00:37:33,870 --> 00:37:36,870
Departments there at the bottom

1083
00:37:37,140 --> 00:37:40,430
that took the biggest cuts.

1084
00:37:40,430 --> 00:37:41,377
They're going negative.

1085
00:37:41,377 --> 00:37:42,450
That are the go up every to

1086
00:37:42,450 --> 00:37:46,245
put. We also had a big bump

1087
00:37:47,150 --> 00:37:48,518
and health care costs. We just

1088
00:37:48,518 --> 00:37:49,520
had a lot of. Large claims our

1089
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:49,652
health care some of those

1090
00:37:49,652 --> 00:37:52,520
departments that are actually

1091
00:37:52,522 --> 00:37:54,522
positive like Environmental

1092
00:37:54,824 --> 00:37:55,458
Services, human.

1093
00:37:55,458 --> 00:37:56,250
Resources. I really pushed over

1094
00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:59,625
that line by the health care

1095
00:37:59,662 --> 00:38:01,432
costs that we had to include

1096
00:38:01,432 --> 00:38:02,165
for employees. But that's

1097
00:38:02,165 --> 00:38:04,300
you know, we have 2 choices.

1098
00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:06,169
We only have one lever to pull

1099
00:38:06,169 --> 00:38:07,203
and that's increased the tax

1100
00:38:07,203 --> 00:38:07,771
rate. And so we're trying to

1101
00:38:07,771 --> 00:38:10,771
balance how much we increase

1102
00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:12,750
the tax rate to not impact

1103
00:38:12,750 --> 00:38:12,642
taxpayers as much.

1104
00:38:12,642 --> 00:38:15,642
That's one of the questions

1105
00:38:15,646 --> 00:38:16,680
that came from the city Council

1106
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:17,548
is.

1107
00:38:17,548 --> 00:38:19,150
You know, the reductions and

1108
00:38:19,150 --> 00:38:21,184
library reductions in the end

1109
00:38:21,184 --> 00:38:23,988
of the Alliance, Animal Control

1110
00:38:23,988 --> 00:38:25,488
Peas Productions in code

1111
00:38:25,488 --> 00:38:26,230
compliance and reductions in

1112
00:38:26,230 --> 00:38:26,623
parks. And so tomorrow we

1113
00:38:26,623 --> 00:38:29,192
actually have a workshop where

1114
00:38:29,192 --> 00:38:31,262
we're coming back to the city

1115
00:38:31,262 --> 00:38:31,861
Council with. With options on

1116
00:38:31,861 --> 00:38:32,429
on what they'd like to see if

1117
00:38:32,429 --> 00:38:36,629
you want to put back into it

1118
00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:40,300
and what we can or can't do.

1119
00:38:40,300 --> 00:38:42,403
Thanks for the feedback.

1120
00:38:43,907 --> 00:38:46,307
Hello, everybody. My question

1121
00:38:46,811 --> 00:38:47,878
is about senior living.

1122
00:38:47,878 --> 00:38:49,245
>> There's no cap for all the

1123
00:38:49,245 --> 00:38:49,846
people that are coming into

1124
00:38:49,846 --> 00:38:51,470
Fort Worth building apartment

1125
00:38:51,470 --> 00:38:52,782
is no cap on the rent. We had

1126
00:38:52,782 --> 00:38:55,452
to seniors. There's a cap on

1127
00:38:55,452 --> 00:38:58,956
our income. So how can we keep

1128
00:38:58,956 --> 00:38:59,590
up with living in different

1129
00:38:59,590 --> 00:39:02,458
diss in neighborhoods when they

1130
00:39:02,458 --> 00:39:04,494
can get there's no cap on the

1131
00:39:04,494 --> 00:39:05,896
rent for up with the city.

1132
00:39:05,896 --> 00:39:06,462
Unfortunately in Texas, we

1133
00:39:06,462 --> 00:39:08,532
can't. And New York City and

1134
00:39:08,532 --> 00:39:09,165
other places where they put

1135
00:39:09,165 --> 00:39:11,368
caps on rents. It's not allowed

1136
00:39:11,368 --> 00:39:12,802
in Texas. So it's just that.

1137
00:39:12,802 --> 00:39:15,606
Something that the city can

1138
00:39:15,606 --> 00:39:17,608
do at the local level. To do

1139
00:39:17,608 --> 00:39:19,510
rent caps. There are the city

1140
00:39:19,510 --> 00:39:19,977
does participate through our

1141
00:39:19,977 --> 00:39:21,977
neighborhood Services

1142
00:39:24,281 --> 00:39:25,282
department with developers to.

1143
00:39:25,282 --> 00:39:27,682
To develop senior affordable

1144
00:39:28,586 --> 00:39:30,221
housing apartments. Those kind

1145
00:39:30,221 --> 00:39:32,210
of things.

1146
00:39:32,210 --> 00:39:33,591
You know, most of the rents are

1147
00:39:33,591 --> 00:39:35,326
set by market. And so the

1148
00:39:35,326 --> 00:39:38,326
developers or Senate. To the

1149
00:39:40,966 --> 00:39:41,565
market. To make their returns

1150
00:39:41,565 --> 00:39:42,968
like most places and Texas and

1151
00:39:42,968 --> 00:39:45,368
North Texas, especially with

1152
00:39:46,270 --> 00:39:47,839
all the growth. We do need more

1153
00:39:47,839 --> 00:39:49,608
affordable.

1154
00:39:49,608 --> 00:39:52,608
Units and not necessarily real

1155
00:39:52,877 --> 00:39:54,378
deep units. It's more on that

1156
00:39:54,378 --> 00:39:55,746
80 to 120%.

1157
00:39:55,746 --> 00:39:57,480
Income levels that were trying

1158
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,418
to target. And so the city that

1159
00:40:00,418 --> 00:40:01,520
the voters did pass for for the

1160
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,221
first time.

1161
00:40:03,221 --> 00:40:05,623
A bond with some affordable

1162
00:40:05,623 --> 00:40:06,992
housing dollars. And and what

1163
00:40:06,992 --> 00:40:09,392
we're targeting is that 8220%

1164
00:40:09,928 --> 00:40:10,494
with those dollars to try to

1165
00:40:10,494 --> 00:40:11,129
develop more of that type of

1166
00:40:11,129 --> 00:40:12,663
housing because it's at missing

1167
00:40:12,663 --> 00:40:14,990
what they call the missing

1168
00:40:14,990 --> 00:40:17,990
middle. And the market. There's

1169
00:40:17,402 --> 00:40:18,470
a lot of higher-end and then

1170
00:40:18,470 --> 00:40:18,970
there's a

1171
00:40:18,970 --> 00:40:19,571
probably not enough. But

1172
00:40:19,571 --> 00:40:22,407
there's more of the lower end

1173
00:40:22,407 --> 00:40:22,941
and not necessarily in the

1174
00:40:22,941 --> 00:40:24,941
middle there.

1175
00:40:33,919 --> 00:40:35,787
>> I noticed you said no

1176
00:40:35,787 --> 00:40:36,755
widespread cuts and libraries.

1177
00:40:36,755 --> 00:40:37,255
And to the gentleman's point,

1178
00:40:37,255 --> 00:40:39,655
I'm concerned about the

1179
00:40:40,158 --> 00:40:43,158
literacy of our children in

1180
00:40:44,290 --> 00:40:45,597
Fort Worth. Also our library

1181
00:40:45,597 --> 00:40:46,430
system provides wonderful

1182
00:40:46,430 --> 00:40:48,767
programs for toddlers to

1183
00:40:48,767 --> 00:40:50,602
prepare kids to start

1184
00:40:50,602 --> 00:40:52,403
kindergarten, full speed.

1185
00:40:52,403 --> 00:40:56,508
And so I urge you not to cut

1186
00:40:56,508 --> 00:40:57,576
their budget, their staffing

1187
00:40:57,576 --> 00:40:58,844
or their hours because kids

1188
00:40:58,844 --> 00:41:02,800
need those places to go study.

1189
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:02,614
They need the Internet, the new

1190
00:41:02,614 --> 00:41:05,140
computers to do homework.

1191
00:41:05,250 --> 00:41:05,784
I take my granddaughter down to

1192
00:41:05,784 --> 00:41:08,184
Vivian Lincoln for toddler

1193
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,122
reading our were participating

1194
00:41:11,122 --> 00:41:12,691
in 1000 books before

1195
00:41:12,691 --> 00:41:13,291
kindergarten. And I think so,

1196
00:41:13,291 --> 00:41:13,824
please. I urge you not to cut

1197
00:41:13,824 --> 00:41:16,224
libraries and you're when

1198
00:41:16,528 --> 00:41:18,528
you're considering things.

1199
00:41:20,660 --> 00:41:22,660
You know.

1200
00:41:24,769 --> 00:41:26,571
That program out and fired the

1201
00:41:26,571 --> 00:41:29,400
lady. We had some respect.

1202
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:29,608
They fired lady that was

1203
00:41:29,608 --> 00:41:32,800
responsible for an imminent,

1204
00:41:32,645 --> 00:41:36,245
I think part of the school

1205
00:41:38,650 --> 00:41:40,353
system.

1206
00:41:40,353 --> 00:41:40,853
>> When will the Terra

1207
00:41:40,853 --> 00:41:42,853
Appraisal District price

1208
00:41:44,356 --> 00:41:44,757
property values? And will that

1209
00:41:44,757 --> 00:41:45,358
make a difference?

1210
00:41:45,358 --> 00:41:47,758
>> This coming JANUARY, there

1211
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:50,429
is the year they're supposed

1212
00:41:50,429 --> 00:41:50,997
to reappraisal JANUARY. Yes,

1213
00:41:50,997 --> 00:41:53,566
next year. If you own a home

1214
00:41:53,566 --> 00:41:54,500
and you have a homestead

1215
00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:55,234
exemption or if you don't.

1216
00:41:55,234 --> 00:41:55,902
They're going to re appraise.

1217
00:41:55,902 --> 00:41:56,401
And so it's going to go way up.

1218
00:41:56,401 --> 00:41:59,401
So everybody is going to

1219
00:41:59,605 --> 00:42:00,206
protest to think again, it just

1220
00:42:00,206 --> 00:42:03,209
thought. A big issue is is how

1221
00:42:03,209 --> 00:42:03,776
much do they what what ends up

1222
00:42:03,776 --> 00:42:05,711
happening is once we have a

1223
00:42:05,711 --> 00:42:08,711
10% capsule can't go more than

1224
00:42:09,382 --> 00:42:10,183
10%. On the year for the tax

1225
00:42:10,183 --> 00:42:11,883
rules. But the question is, how

1226
00:42:11,883 --> 00:42:13,886
much will they accept the

1227
00:42:13,886 --> 00:42:15,954
protests? Because that's what

1228
00:42:15,954 --> 00:42:17,957
actually surprised this this

1229
00:42:17,957 --> 00:42:20,957
year. That didn't happen last

1230
00:42:21,961 --> 00:42:22,595
year as they received a lot

1231
00:42:22,595 --> 00:42:23,129
protests and you would think if

1232
00:42:23,129 --> 00:42:24,330
they hadn't appraised in 2

1233
00:42:24,330 --> 00:42:26,732
years and most of the market's

1234
00:42:26,732 --> 00:42:27,233
going up that they would left

1235
00:42:27,233 --> 00:42:28,835
alone. But people people

1236
00:42:28,835 --> 00:42:29,368
protested and they dropped the

1237
00:42:29,368 --> 00:42:32,368
values. And so that's what

1238
00:42:35,508 --> 00:42:39,780
caught us off guard this year.

1239
00:42:39,780 --> 00:42:43,278
I saw the Exxon assist of fund

1240
00:42:43,850 --> 00:42:44,350
that's being directed for the

1241
00:42:44,350 --> 00:42:47,190
ems services. Yes, is it

1242
00:42:47,190 --> 00:42:47,920
projected to possibly save on

1243
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,920
labor? That would be yes.

1244
00:42:50,957 --> 00:42:53,590
So basically what it does, a

1245
00:42:53,590 --> 00:42:53,993
triage is non 9-1-1, calls to

1246
00:42:53,993 --> 00:42:54,559
the non-emergency side before

1247
00:42:54,559 --> 00:42:57,697
it even gets. So we're we're

1248
00:42:57,697 --> 00:42:58,431
projecting that we're not going

1249
00:42:58,431 --> 00:43:00,866
to have to continue that call

1250
00:43:00,866 --> 00:43:04,202
takers as the city continues to

1251
00:43:04,202 --> 00:43:06,706
grow and get more phone calls.

1252
00:43:06,706 --> 00:43:09,706
So it's initially like a

1253
00:43:09,842 --> 00:43:10,443
something will have to take on

1254
00:43:10,443 --> 00:43:10,977
initially. And then eventually

1255
00:43:10,977 --> 00:43:12,678
it'll kind of pay for it.

1256
00:43:12,678 --> 00:43:14,647
It's an it's an investment so

1257
00:43:14,647 --> 00:43:16,349
that we save dollars going

1258
00:43:16,349 --> 00:43:16,948
forward every every call taker

1259
00:43:16,948 --> 00:43:19,252
with benefits and everything.

1260
00:43:19,252 --> 00:43:21,252
Probably 80, 90,000 a year.

1261
00:43:22,722 --> 00:43:24,423
I mean, a person. So once you

1262
00:43:24,423 --> 00:43:25,570
you continue that folks.

1263
00:43:25,570 --> 00:43:27,460
And that's a really tough job

1264
00:43:27,460 --> 00:43:28,600
to. We always have vacancies in

1265
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,429
that area because people get

1266
00:43:30,429 --> 00:43:31,640
burned out so quickly. And so

1267
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,330
that's allowed us to and a deal

1268
00:43:34,330 --> 00:43:37,330
with some of that turnover.

1269
00:43:39,540 --> 00:43:42,540
You mentioned that the average

1270
00:43:43,610 --> 00:43:45,211
home price was about $250,000.

1271
00:43:45,211 --> 00:43:45,945
Is that correct to 50?

1272
00:43:45,945 --> 00:43:48,749
>> And the average the praise

1273
00:43:48,749 --> 00:43:49,815
value with the Homestead and

1274
00:43:49,815 --> 00:43:52,815
all the exemptions on okay.

1275
00:43:53,519 --> 00:43:54,521
>> So the proposed increases

1276
00:43:54,521 --> 00:43:55,154
$0.70 per 100.

1277
00:43:55,154 --> 00:43:57,554
>> It's the proposed increases.

1278
00:43:58,492 --> 00:44:01,610
3.2 cents on top of the

1279
00:44:01,610 --> 00:44:03,297
current. Rate, which is $0.67

1280
00:44:03,297 --> 00:44:05,980
So the new rate is 70 point.

1281
00:44:05,980 --> 00:44:07,868
>> So for a $250,000 a tree

1282
00:44:07,868 --> 00:44:08,134
priced home. What does that

1283
00:44:08,134 --> 00:44:10,134
look like?

1284
00:44:10,904 --> 00:44:11,505
>> She's going to show that we

1285
00:44:11,505 --> 00:44:13,273
actually it's a reduction when

1286
00:44:13,273 --> 00:44:13,907
you when he sits in at about

1287
00:44:13,907 --> 00:44:16,543
$21 too much. Yeah, we're going

1288
00:44:16,543 --> 00:44:16,810
to she's going to get that in

1289
00:44:16,810 --> 00:44:17,410
a minute.

1290
00:44:17,410 --> 00:44:21,100
>> There it is right. There it

1291
00:44:21,248 --> 00:44:23,283
is. If you want a sneak peek.

1292
00:44:23,283 --> 00:44:26,119
Yeah, we'll go over it. But

1293
00:44:26,119 --> 00:44:26,653
on the top section there you'll

1294
00:44:26,653 --> 00:44:27,221
see because the value that

1295
00:44:27,221 --> 00:44:29,621
average home taxable values

1296
00:44:31,258 --> 00:44:34,258
dropping from current year to

1297
00:44:34,528 --> 00:44:37,528
next year, the annual variances

1298
00:44:37,764 --> 00:44:38,398
a savings of 16. 69.

1299
00:44:38,398 --> 00:44:41,368
Okay. I'll get through the rest

1300
00:44:41,368 --> 00:44:42,703
of these and then we can keep

1301
00:44:42,703 --> 00:44:44,570
going. Is that sound good?

1302
00:44:44,570 --> 00:44:46,473
So enterprise funds are the

1303
00:44:46,473 --> 00:44:46,974
group of funds that I mentioned

1304
00:44:46,974 --> 00:44:49,877
that operate more like a

1305
00:44:49,877 --> 00:44:52,877
business. So again, not tax

1306
00:44:52,912 --> 00:44:54,140
funded, but funded by rates and

1307
00:44:54,140 --> 00:44:55,283
fees that the users pay.

1308
00:44:55,283 --> 00:44:58,118
And so the biggest of these

1309
00:44:58,118 --> 00:45:00,187
is water and wastewater coc

1310
00:45:00,187 --> 00:45:01,221
their growth there. And just

1311
00:45:01,221 --> 00:45:02,289
as a general note, when you

1312
00:45:02,289 --> 00:45:03,457
see percentage growth in in

1313
00:45:03,457 --> 00:45:04,570
these funds, that doesn't mean

1314
00:45:04,570 --> 00:45:07,570
that's what translates to like

1315
00:45:07,528 --> 00:45:08,428
a radar fee increase. That's

1316
00:45:08,428 --> 00:45:10,828
just there. Overall budget

1317
00:45:10,864 --> 00:45:13,864
growth. So water and wastewater

1318
00:45:14,534 --> 00:45:17,534
continuing to invest in capital

1319
00:45:17,571 --> 00:45:18,172
as well contractual costs,

1320
00:45:18,172 --> 00:45:20,207
solid waste. Same thing.

1321
00:45:20,207 --> 00:45:21,608
14.8 5%, not necessarily

1322
00:45:21,608 --> 00:45:22,242
translating directly to a rate

1323
00:45:22,242 --> 00:45:22,843
increase, but they do show some

1324
00:45:22,843 --> 00:45:25,843
fee increases which I'll show

1325
00:45:26,313 --> 00:45:29,349
you in a minute, kind of how

1326
00:45:29,349 --> 00:45:29,850
those stock up, but solid waste

1327
00:45:29,850 --> 00:45:31,285
continues to fund their

1328
00:45:31,285 --> 00:45:32,419
relationship with waste

1329
00:45:32,419 --> 00:45:33,530
management, which is our

1330
00:45:33,530 --> 00:45:33,555
collection vendor as well as

1331
00:45:33,555 --> 00:45:35,555
more long-term planning.

1332
00:45:36,990 --> 00:45:37,591
So think about like replacement

1333
00:45:37,591 --> 00:45:40,610
of the landfill eventually in

1334
00:45:40,610 --> 00:45:41,930
some other capital needs that

1335
00:45:41,930 --> 00:45:43,530
are more short term than that.

1336
00:45:43,530 --> 00:45:44,650
The storm water utility is also

1337
00:45:44,650 --> 00:45:47,650
an enterprise fund. And so

1338
00:45:47,601 --> 00:45:49,503
they're continuing on with

1339
00:45:49,503 --> 00:45:51,638
their capital plan for flood

1340
00:45:51,638 --> 00:45:53,340
mitigation projects, midsize

1341
00:45:53,340 --> 00:45:54,750
flood mitigation projects also

1342
00:45:54,750 --> 00:45:54,576
participating in some

1343
00:45:54,576 --> 00:45:55,943
partnership projects and

1344
00:45:55,943 --> 00:45:57,512
increasing the amount of

1345
00:45:57,512 --> 00:45:58,112
channel inspections they're

1346
00:45:58,112 --> 00:46:00,949
doing. That's all life safety

1347
00:46:00,949 --> 00:46:02,749
work. When it comes the risk

1348
00:46:02,749 --> 00:46:04,785
for flooding. And then we have

1349
00:46:04,785 --> 00:46:06,785
2 others municipal airport.

1350
00:46:07,621 --> 00:46:08,389
So that's the 3 city airports

1351
00:46:08,389 --> 00:46:09,230
that are self-sustaining and

1352
00:46:09,230 --> 00:46:12,392
their budget kind of looks like

1353
00:46:12,392 --> 00:46:14,329
it's growing a lot. And that's

1354
00:46:14,329 --> 00:46:14,895
actually because they're

1355
00:46:14,895 --> 00:46:17,300
helping the general fund by

1356
00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:17,765
reimbursing us in the General

1357
00:46:17,765 --> 00:46:20,765
Fund Fire Department for the

1358
00:46:20,802 --> 00:46:22,871
2 different fire stations and

1359
00:46:22,871 --> 00:46:24,905
actually like coincide with

1360
00:46:24,905 --> 00:46:25,507
the airport, which is allowable

1361
00:46:25,507 --> 00:46:26,407
and that was a great balancing

1362
00:46:26,407 --> 00:46:29,544
strategy that we use there at

1363
00:46:29,544 --> 00:46:31,246
the end because aviation was

1364
00:46:31,246 --> 00:46:31,780
able to pick up that cost and

1365
00:46:31,780 --> 00:46:34,780
then parking at city owned

1366
00:46:35,283 --> 00:46:37,185
parking garages, parking lots

1367
00:46:37,185 --> 00:46:37,986
and meters and they are also

1368
00:46:37,986 --> 00:46:38,620
a self-sustaining sort of

1369
00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:39,187
enterprise and they're just

1370
00:46:39,187 --> 00:46:41,587
investing in some additional

1371
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:43,992
parking technology and

1372
00:46:43,992 --> 00:46:45,393
maintenance.

1373
00:46:45,393 --> 00:46:46,126
The other kind of of the of the

1374
00:46:46,126 --> 00:46:48,620
big 3 that we talked about, a

1375
00:46:48,620 --> 00:46:50,465
special revenue funds. And so

1376
00:46:50,465 --> 00:46:53,233
these are funds again with a

1377
00:46:53,233 --> 00:46:55,690
restricted purpose and a

1378
00:46:55,690 --> 00:46:57,690
dedicated revenue source.

1379
00:46:57,171 --> 00:46:58,206
So ccpd, it's primarily police

1380
00:46:58,206 --> 00:46:59,541
in ccpd and they're funded by

1381
00:46:59,541 --> 00:47:02,541
the half-cent sales tax that

1382
00:47:03,411 --> 00:47:04,112
voters authorized last in 2020

1383
00:47:04,112 --> 00:47:06,748
for a 10 year period. And so

1384
00:47:06,748 --> 00:47:07,282
the the main source of their

1385
00:47:07,282 --> 00:47:09,500
revenue is that sales tax.

1386
00:47:09,500 --> 00:47:09,584
So they're growing by about

1387
00:47:09,584 --> 00:47:11,986
that much 5%, which is it?

1388
00:47:11,986 --> 00:47:13,540
What are sales tax is projected

1389
00:47:13,540 --> 00:47:14,989
to grow? They have some other

1390
00:47:14,989 --> 00:47:15,722
revenue in there to like they

1391
00:47:15,722 --> 00:47:16,356
get reimbursed from the school

1392
00:47:16,356 --> 00:47:18,493
districts for school resource

1393
00:47:18,493 --> 00:47:20,428
officers. They are adding 2 of

1394
00:47:20,428 --> 00:47:21,262
those in this year's budget

1395
00:47:21,262 --> 00:47:22,764
and they're also taking on a

1396
00:47:22,764 --> 00:47:23,331
couple of officers that used to

1397
00:47:23,331 --> 00:47:27,368
be in the general fund in a

1398
00:47:27,368 --> 00:47:27,936
relief to in a relief to the

1399
00:47:27,936 --> 00:47:28,770
general Fund for eligible

1400
00:47:28,770 --> 00:47:31,770
costin ccpd. There's some bike

1401
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:33,308
officers that I think are

1402
00:47:33,308 --> 00:47:35,277
moving over.

1403
00:47:35,277 --> 00:47:36,344
Public events is kind of a

1404
00:47:36,344 --> 00:47:37,460
grouping of funds or the

1405
00:47:37,460 --> 00:47:38,947
culture and tourism fund.

1406
00:47:38,947 --> 00:47:41,490
So they're dedicated revenue

1407
00:47:41,490 --> 00:47:42,650
source is the hotel occupancy

1408
00:47:42,650 --> 00:47:43,251
tax and the likes of those are

1409
00:47:43,251 --> 00:47:45,651
restricted to tourism related

1410
00:47:46,588 --> 00:47:48,690
activities. So think about the

1411
00:47:48,690 --> 00:47:49,158
convention center and the Will

1412
00:47:49,158 --> 00:47:49,991
Rogers Centre, which I

1413
00:47:49,991 --> 00:47:50,559
mentioned is kind of moving

1414
00:47:50,559 --> 00:47:53,559
out of the city's management

1415
00:47:55,530 --> 00:47:56,297
this year. The budget reflects

1416
00:47:56,297 --> 00:47:57,333
that. Ems is our newest, I

1417
00:47:57,333 --> 00:47:57,932
think, of the Special Revenue

1418
00:47:57,932 --> 00:48:01,369
Fund. So this is like going to

1419
00:48:01,369 --> 00:48:03,506
be their second full year of

1420
00:48:03,506 --> 00:48:04,340
being budgeted and they are

1421
00:48:04,340 --> 00:48:04,839
also growing by projected

1422
00:48:04,839 --> 00:48:06,839
contractual increases in

1423
00:48:07,408 --> 00:48:08,177
overtime and fleet. This does

1424
00:48:08,177 --> 00:48:08,744
include that 30 million dollars

1425
00:48:08,744 --> 00:48:11,744
subsidy that comes from the

1426
00:48:11,746 --> 00:48:12,747
General Fund Fire Department's

1427
00:48:12,747 --> 00:48:13,682
budget.

1428
00:48:13,682 --> 00:48:14,984
Environmental protection.

1429
00:48:14,984 --> 00:48:18,186
This is a fee that you see on

1430
00:48:18,186 --> 00:48:21,223
your water bill. I believe it's

1431
00:48:21,223 --> 00:48:21,856
raising from 2.25 To 2.50, this

1432
00:48:21,856 --> 00:48:22,491
fun citywide litter abatement

1433
00:48:22,491 --> 00:48:25,428
to think about street sweepers.

1434
00:48:25,428 --> 00:48:26,328
If you ever see this street

1435
00:48:26,328 --> 00:48:28,728
sweepers around illegal camp,

1436
00:48:30,632 --> 00:48:31,567
cleanup nuisance abatement,

1437
00:48:31,567 --> 00:48:32,101
some of those

1438
00:48:32,101 --> 00:48:34,703
services and see what am I

1439
00:48:34,703 --> 00:48:35,705
missing? Gulf municipal golf.

1440
00:48:35,705 --> 00:48:37,173
So again, this came up more

1441
00:48:37,173 --> 00:48:37,773
last year than this year, but

1442
00:48:37,773 --> 00:48:40,142
municipal golf, not funded by

1443
00:48:40,142 --> 00:48:43,142
taxes. It's not subsidized by

1444
00:48:43,412 --> 00:48:44,947
the general fund funded by the

1445
00:48:44,947 --> 00:48:45,481
people who play golf

1446
00:48:45,481 --> 00:48:48,784
and so we continue to see

1447
00:48:48,784 --> 00:48:49,285
growth in the number of

1448
00:48:49,285 --> 00:48:50,753
golfers, which is great.

1449
00:48:50,753 --> 00:48:51,820
So they're adding a couple of

1450
00:48:51,820 --> 00:48:52,321
food and beverage positions and

1451
00:48:52,321 --> 00:48:54,321
maintenance position to

1452
00:48:54,323 --> 00:48:57,760
continue to keep up with demand

1453
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:58,360
at the city's golf courses.

1454
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,360
And finally, a community tree

1455
00:49:01,664 --> 00:49:03,299
planting is a small but mighty

1456
00:49:03,299 --> 00:49:03,933
Special

1457
00:49:03,933 --> 00:49:04,500
Revenue fund and their somebody

1458
00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:05,100
asked last night, why are we

1459
00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:08,470
why do we have a street in the

1460
00:49:08,470 --> 00:49:09,405
budget that's out. It is.

1461
00:49:09,405 --> 00:49:10,907
It's just that in this year

1462
00:49:10,907 --> 00:49:11,473
they bought some equipment next

1463
00:49:11,473 --> 00:49:12,740
year. They won't need to buy

1464
00:49:12,740 --> 00:49:13,375
that equipment until it looks

1465
00:49:13,375 --> 00:49:15,775
like a budget reduction.

1466
00:49:16,679 --> 00:49:19,983
But it's actually was just like

1467
00:49:19,983 --> 00:49:22,518
a a onetime bump there.

1468
00:49:22,518 --> 00:49:24,420
Fee increases as part of the

1469
00:49:24,420 --> 00:49:26,420
budget development process

1470
00:49:26,488 --> 00:49:26,989
departments always look at

1471
00:49:26,989 --> 00:49:27,523
fees. And so there are 9

1472
00:49:27,523 --> 00:49:29,523
departments that are

1473
00:49:30,693 --> 00:49:31,694
recommending fee changes for

1474
00:49:31,694 --> 00:49:33,462
fiscal year. 27. I keep telling

1475
00:49:33,462 --> 00:49:34,763
people if you really want to

1476
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:36,599
read all about these, we did a

1477
00:49:36,599 --> 00:49:38,601
long budget response for

1478
00:49:38,601 --> 00:49:40,402
council earlier this week.

1479
00:49:40,402 --> 00:49:41,400
That's online. It's quite long

1480
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,400
I think 170 pages or something

1481
00:49:44,241 --> 00:49:45,175
because it's just a big, long

1482
00:49:45,175 --> 00:49:46,208
table full of fees. But that's

1483
00:49:46,208 --> 00:49:47,677
not to say that all those fees

1484
00:49:47,677 --> 00:49:49,546
affect every resident. In fact,

1485
00:49:49,546 --> 00:49:50,413
very few of them will affect

1486
00:49:50,413 --> 00:49:53,416
you will look at the ones that

1487
00:49:53,416 --> 00:49:54,184
do. But just think about, like,

1488
00:49:54,184 --> 00:49:56,860
if you, you know, I don't know

1489
00:49:56,860 --> 00:49:58,187
like used to pay for a city

1490
00:49:58,187 --> 00:50:01,570
program or your participate in

1491
00:50:01,570 --> 00:50:01,624
maybe an athletic league or you

1492
00:50:01,624 --> 00:50:02,927
pay a fine or you can pull a

1493
00:50:02,927 --> 00:50:03,560
permit like just all those

1494
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:04,794
different kinds of scenarios in

1495
00:50:04,794 --> 00:50:06,897
which a person or a business

1496
00:50:06,897 --> 00:50:08,632
might interact with the city.

1497
00:50:08,632 --> 00:50:10,534
It kind of details all of that

1498
00:50:10,534 --> 00:50:11,935
but will go over kind of the

1499
00:50:11,935 --> 00:50:14,137
ones that your most used to

1500
00:50:14,137 --> 00:50:16,473
seeing. I'll remind you about

1501
00:50:16,473 --> 00:50:17,374
the 3.2 cents here for the

1502
00:50:17,374 --> 00:50:19,409
property tax rate and then

1503
00:50:19,409 --> 00:50:21,344
we'll get back to this, which

1504
00:50:21,344 --> 00:50:24,344
we spoiler alert it earlier.

1505
00:50:24,581 --> 00:50:25,215
But this is kind of the impact

1506
00:50:25,215 --> 00:50:27,184
on the average taxpayer of the

1507
00:50:27,184 --> 00:50:29,253
different fee increases and the

1508
00:50:29,253 --> 00:50:31,355
property tax rate increase.

1509
00:50:31,355 --> 00:50:31,956
So at the top, you'll because

1510
00:50:31,956 --> 00:50:34,956
the average home taxable value

1511
00:50:35,292 --> 00:50:36,126
is falling from this year to

1512
00:50:36,126 --> 00:50:39,126
next year. The property tax

1513
00:50:40,230 --> 00:50:40,764
bill, even with the 3.2 cent

1514
00:50:40,764 --> 00:50:41,364
increase also falls by 16.

1515
00:50:41,364 --> 00:50:44,964
69 a year again for this like

1516
00:50:45,835 --> 00:50:46,770
average hypothetical resident.

1517
00:50:46,770 --> 00:50:47,370
And then you'll see the

1518
00:50:47,370 --> 00:50:49,770
different charges that appear

1519
00:50:49,841 --> 00:50:50,907
on the water bill sort of

1520
00:50:50,907 --> 00:50:53,907
stacked up beneath those with

1521
00:50:53,977 --> 00:50:55,146
this year's and next year's

1522
00:50:55,146 --> 00:50:55,645
rate. So total of those for

1523
00:50:55,645 --> 00:50:58,450
this average person with

1524
00:50:59,749 --> 00:51:00,951
typical usage is about $7 and

1525
00:51:00,951 --> 00:51:02,619
$0.09 a month in different.

1526
00:51:02,619 --> 00:51:03,220
And so, you know, I know that

1527
00:51:03,220 --> 00:51:03,788
you pay your tax bill

1528
00:51:03,788 --> 00:51:05,188
differently than your water

1529
00:51:05,188 --> 00:51:07,290
bill. But if it was sort of

1530
00:51:07,290 --> 00:51:09,126
offsetting against each other,

1531
00:51:09,126 --> 00:51:10,360
then you'd be paying about $5

1532
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:11,161
more a month next year. Then

1533
00:51:11,161 --> 00:51:11,695
you're paying this year for

1534
00:51:11,695 --> 00:51:14,665
the summary of all of the

1535
00:51:14,665 --> 00:51:17,650
things we've talked about

1536
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,102
today.

1537
00:51:19,102 --> 00:51:20,938
This is a graph to kind of show

1538
00:51:20,938 --> 00:51:22,873
that we're counter intuitive

1539
00:51:22,873 --> 00:51:23,708
thing about how values are

1540
00:51:23,708 --> 00:51:24,775
dropping in the tax rates,

1541
00:51:24,775 --> 00:51:26,476
increasing. And so you see on

1542
00:51:26,476 --> 00:51:27,278
the left side of the scale,

1543
00:51:27,278 --> 00:51:27,845
this year's values times, this

1544
00:51:27,845 --> 00:51:30,381
year's tax rate in the bill.

1545
00:51:30,381 --> 00:51:31,349
That's the city's portion of

1546
00:51:31,349 --> 00:51:32,160
the tax bill. Because remember

1547
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:33,951
on your tax bill, you pay it up

1548
00:51:33,951 --> 00:51:35,752
a bunch of different taxing

1549
00:51:35,752 --> 00:51:36,454
entities, the school district

1550
00:51:36,454 --> 00:51:39,454
and maybe a hospital district

1551
00:51:39,725 --> 00:51:40,224
in the county. And so this is

1552
00:51:40,224 --> 00:51:42,526
just the city's portion.

1553
00:51:42,526 --> 00:51:44,561
And then next year with your

1554
00:51:44,561 --> 00:51:46,463
taxable value decreasing and

1555
00:51:46,463 --> 00:51:47,865
then the rate increase, you'll

1556
00:51:47,865 --> 00:51:48,432
see you're you're coming out

1557
00:51:48,432 --> 00:51:51,435
a little ahead there as a as

1558
00:51:51,435 --> 00:51:54,435
the average person here does.

1559
00:51:56,908 --> 00:52:00,211
C okay, I'm I'm landing the

1560
00:52:00,211 --> 00:52:04,411
plane here. So in the eu summit

1561
00:52:04,917 --> 00:52:06,500
in with him in the front.

1562
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,320
I know. So we update the ci

1563
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:10,121
peer the capital plan every

1564
00:52:10,121 --> 00:52:10,888
year when

1565
00:52:10,888 --> 00:52:12,958
we did the budgets, a rolling

1566
00:52:12,958 --> 00:52:13,891
five-year plan. So everybody,

1567
00:52:13,891 --> 00:52:14,458
every department that has

1568
00:52:14,458 --> 00:52:15,994
capital needs to some, it's

1569
00:52:15,994 --> 00:52:17,729
those 2. So that's kind of

1570
00:52:17,729 --> 00:52:20,729
going into the overall budget

1571
00:52:20,831 --> 00:52:21,399
picture. So for fiscal year

1572
00:52:21,399 --> 00:52:23,435
27, the total plan is 1.0, 0

1573
00:52:23,435 --> 00:52:25,537
3 billion dollars. The large

1574
00:52:25,537 --> 00:52:27,438
majority of that Waters capital

1575
00:52:27,438 --> 00:52:28,638
plan. And you can kind of see

1576
00:52:28,638 --> 00:52:30,576
like the protected capital that

1577
00:52:30,576 --> 00:52:31,175
will happen over the next 5

1578
00:52:31,175 --> 00:52:34,145
years. A big growing city, 3.8

1579
00:52:34,145 --> 00:52:35,470
billion dollars over the next 5

1580
00:52:35,470 --> 00:52:36,814
years.

1581
00:52:36,814 --> 00:52:39,160
And then a little against a

1582
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,953
small but mighty portion of the

1583
00:52:40,953 --> 00:52:43,522
the capital is pay go, which I

1584
00:52:43,522 --> 00:52:45,590
think for the 3rd or 4th time

1585
00:52:45,590 --> 00:52:46,624
is that 7.2 $0.05 of the tax

1586
00:52:46,624 --> 00:52:48,560
rate. Remember, there's a

1587
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:49,126
little bit of a decrease

1588
00:52:49,126 --> 00:52:51,129
because we've left that rate

1589
00:52:51,129 --> 00:52:54,131
flat. And since Soyuz fall, the

1590
00:52:54,131 --> 00:52:55,167
rates flat not creating as much

1591
00:52:55,167 --> 00:52:57,301
revenue the revenue we are

1592
00:52:57,301 --> 00:52:59,304
creating, which is 85.7 million

1593
00:52:59,304 --> 00:53:00,872
dollars. This is how it breaks

1594
00:53:00,872 --> 00:53:01,706
out. So you see about 82% of

1595
00:53:01,706 --> 00:53:04,706
that goes to transportation and

1596
00:53:05,777 --> 00:53:06,311
public works for things like

1597
00:53:06,311 --> 00:53:06,911
streets and sidewalks and

1598
00:53:06,911 --> 00:53:10,281
bridges in all of those kinds

1599
00:53:10,281 --> 00:53:10,915
of things. And then parks has

1600
00:53:10,915 --> 00:53:12,383
a portion neighborhood services

1601
00:53:12,383 --> 00:53:13,384
has a portion. It looks like

1602
00:53:13,384 --> 00:53:14,253
it's getting reduced. But

1603
00:53:14,253 --> 00:53:15,753
again, that's because of that

1604
00:53:15,753 --> 00:53:16,254
kind of phase delivery of the

1605
00:53:16,254 --> 00:53:18,254
neighborhood improvement

1606
00:53:19,690 --> 00:53:20,725
program where the year one

1607
00:53:20,725 --> 00:53:21,727
spends a little less see

1608
00:53:21,727 --> 00:53:23,727
property management which

1609
00:53:23,794 --> 00:53:24,396
manages the city's facilities

1610
00:53:24,396 --> 00:53:24,930
has a small bucket there for

1611
00:53:24,930 --> 00:53:26,598
managing all the different

1612
00:53:26,598 --> 00:53:29,400
facilities across the city and

1613
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,303
maintaining those. And I guess

1614
00:53:31,303 --> 00:53:33,372
those are the the Maine people.

1615
00:53:33,372 --> 00:53:36,308
So tp w still growing a bit

1616
00:53:36,308 --> 00:53:36,975
parks very flat and some others

1617
00:53:36,975 --> 00:53:39,375
are sustaining some flatness

1618
00:53:40,245 --> 00:53:41,880
in small reductions as we

1619
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,782
decrease.

1620
00:53:43,782 --> 00:53:45,817
So total budget year-over-year

1621
00:53:45,817 --> 00:53:48,217
operating plus capital front.

1622
00:53:49,855 --> 00:53:51,855
Share 4.3, 5 billion dollars

1623
00:53:51,857 --> 00:53:53,857
for fiscal year. 27.

1624
00:53:55,894 --> 00:53:56,662
This is the budget engagement

1625
00:53:56,662 --> 00:53:58,629
schedule, which you

1626
00:53:58,629 --> 00:54:00,599
clearly saw somewhere because

1627
00:54:00,599 --> 00:54:03,569
you're here and we're glad.

1628
00:54:03,569 --> 00:54:04,690
So I'm glad that you're here.

1629
00:54:04,690 --> 00:54:04,903
I hope that you have the

1630
00:54:04,903 --> 00:54:07,972
ability that you do have the

1631
00:54:07,972 --> 00:54:08,842
ability to go in and watch it

1632
00:54:08,842 --> 00:54:09,440
back. If you just really want

1633
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,910
to alright, joked last night,

1634
00:54:11,910 --> 00:54:12,478
like I think I've done a better

1635
00:54:12,478 --> 00:54:14,880
job in some of these others.

1636
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:15,514
You can like go and see me

1637
00:54:15,514 --> 00:54:16,148
doing it in a different way and

1638
00:54:16,148 --> 00:54:18,649
maybe learn something new since

1639
00:54:18,649 --> 00:54:19,251
I just like don't say the same

1640
00:54:19,251 --> 00:54:21,386
thing. Every dime. But all of

1641
00:54:21,386 --> 00:54:22,654
them are livestreamed. They're

1642
00:54:22,654 --> 00:54:25,258
all on the city's YouTube page.

1643
00:54:25,258 --> 00:54:26,459
We have a budget public hearing

1644
00:54:26,459 --> 00:54:29,459
on SEPTEMBER first. So that's

1645
00:54:29,460 --> 00:54:30,529
here at City Hall in front of

1646
00:54:30,529 --> 00:54:31,431
council. Just another way to

1647
00:54:31,431 --> 00:54:32,497
sign up and speak and let the

1648
00:54:32,497 --> 00:54:33,980
whole council here. You have

1649
00:54:33,980 --> 00:54:36,980
a council member here tonight,

1650
00:54:36,602 --> 00:54:38,470
of course. But then the whole

1651
00:54:38,470 --> 00:54:39,710
council can hear your comments.

1652
00:54:39,710 --> 00:54:40,973
And then council is projected

1653
00:54:40,973 --> 00:54:41,707
to adopt a budget and the tax

1654
00:54:41,707 --> 00:54:44,707
rate on SEPTEMBER. 15th, sort

1655
00:54:45,711 --> 00:54:46,613
of like the legal state

1656
00:54:46,613 --> 00:54:47,746
required timeline. There.

1657
00:54:47,746 --> 00:54:48,313
And and then our next budget

1658
00:54:48,313 --> 00:54:50,713
public hearing just getting

1659
00:54:51,484 --> 00:54:52,850
community engagement meeting

1660
00:54:52,850 --> 00:54:52,752
is Saturday. If you looked at

1661
00:54:52,752 --> 00:54:54,186
an earlier version of the

1662
00:54:54,186 --> 00:54:54,786
schedule, just want to point

1663
00:54:54,786 --> 00:54:57,786
out that the Saturday meeting,

1664
00:54:58,910 --> 00:54:59,324
which is districts Eleven's was

1665
00:54:59,324 --> 00:54:59,958
at 10, it's been moved to the

1666
00:54:59,958 --> 00:55:03,558
afternoon. So it at 01:00pm now

1667
00:55:05,310 --> 00:55:05,631
which I think this does

1668
00:55:05,631 --> 00:55:06,232
accurately say that. And this

1669
00:55:06,232 --> 00:55:08,801
is my last slide and I'll just

1670
00:55:08,801 --> 00:55:09,301
leave it here unless we need to

1671
00:55:09,301 --> 00:55:10,803
pull up any of our other

1672
00:55:10,803 --> 00:55:13,740
detail. But on the left-hand

1673
00:55:13,740 --> 00:55:16,509
side is. Connect Fort Worth,

1674
00:55:16,509 --> 00:55:19,509
which is all things city

1675
00:55:19,778 --> 00:55:21,880
engagement and Ty. Yeah, I just

1676
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:22,582
wanted to advocate for our

1677
00:55:22,582 --> 00:55:22,781
libraries. So I'm concerned

1678
00:55:22,781 --> 00:55:24,781
that.

1679
00:55:26,180 --> 00:55:29,180
>> That they might be reduced

1680
00:55:29,988 --> 00:55:30,256
in some way.

1681
00:55:30,256 --> 00:55:30,890
Ice travel

1682
00:55:30,890 --> 00:55:33,890
7 miles, too. The video Lincoln

1683
00:55:35,260 --> 00:55:37,300
Library with my granddaughter.

1684
00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:37,563
And on a

1685
00:55:37,563 --> 00:55:40,563
weekly basis. And now it's

1686
00:55:42,802 --> 00:55:43,303
becoming cost prohibitive

1687
00:55:43,303 --> 00:55:45,572
because of the cost. The

1688
00:55:45,572 --> 00:55:46,172
Fortunately it sometime in the

1689
00:55:46,172 --> 00:55:48,106
future, hopefully in the near

1690
00:55:48,106 --> 00:55:49,408
future are some of the South

1691
00:55:49,408 --> 00:55:51,808
Branch Library will be

1692
00:55:52,213 --> 00:55:53,680
reopening and that'll cut my

1693
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:55,949
travel time and my travel

1694
00:55:55,949 --> 00:55:58,484
distance to less than 2 miles.

1695
00:55:58,484 --> 00:56:00,553
So I'm really excited about

1696
00:56:00,553 --> 00:56:01,655
that. But I just want to and

1697
00:56:01,655 --> 00:56:04,390
the size how important it is

1698
00:56:04,390 --> 00:56:07,390
that the library system is

1699
00:56:07,861 --> 00:56:09,128
still one of the last places

1700
00:56:09,128 --> 00:56:09,629
that a family can go to for

1701
00:56:09,629 --> 00:56:11,866
free and take your whole

1702
00:56:11,866 --> 00:56:13,300
family. And and every every

1703
00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:14,330
age group, you can find

1704
00:56:14,330 --> 00:56:16,433
something at our libraries.

1705
00:56:18,471 --> 00:56:19,372
And so I really think that in

1706
00:56:19,372 --> 00:56:22,372
the east difficult times budget

1707
00:56:22,509 --> 00:56:25,179
times because all families are

1708
00:56:25,179 --> 00:56:25,812
strained right now that the

1709
00:56:25,812 --> 00:56:28,147
libraries are not are not cut

1710
00:56:28,147 --> 00:56:30,650
in any way. And in fact, they

1711
00:56:30,650 --> 00:56:33,219
need to be enhanced. I have

1712
00:56:33,219 --> 00:56:35,256
visited most of the inner city

1713
00:56:35,256 --> 00:56:38,250
libraries and they were their

1714
00:56:38,250 --> 00:56:38,591
aging and they all need some

1715
00:56:38,591 --> 00:56:41,295
kind of improvement in their

1716
00:56:41,295 --> 00:56:41,896
facilities. So I hope in your

1717
00:56:41,896 --> 00:56:43,896
preventive maintenance budget

1718
00:56:45,165 --> 00:56:46,650
that you consider that as well.

1719
00:56:46,650 --> 00:56:47,433
Thank you. Thank you so much.

1720
00:56:47,433 --> 00:56:50,433
Thank you for your calm.

1721
00:56:50,771 --> 00:56:51,272
I see library staff nodding

1722
00:56:51,272 --> 00:56:53,272
your your comment.

1723
00:56:54,541 --> 00:56:57,541
>> We're getting a new downtown

1724
00:56:57,711 --> 00:56:58,312
library.

1725
00:56:58,312 --> 00:56:59,781
>> Yes, we can talk about that

1726
00:56:59,781 --> 00:57:00,981
downtown library timing.

1727
00:57:00,981 --> 00:57:01,514
You won't see it as part of

1728
00:57:01,514 --> 00:57:04,514
you won't see the impacts

1729
00:57:04,517 --> 00:57:05,618
really in this budget. But go

1730
00:57:05,618 --> 00:57:06,187
ahead.

1731
00:57:06,187 --> 00:57:07,821
>> We should be we should be

1732
00:57:07,821 --> 00:57:10,891
closing on the land for the

1733
00:57:10,891 --> 00:57:13,291
downtown library. Fairly soon.

1734
00:57:14,194 --> 00:57:17,194
We'd be moving forward with.

1735
00:57:17,797 --> 00:57:18,320
To put out for design in the

1736
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:20,320
spring.

1737
00:57:23,271 --> 00:57:23,837
>> Okay. She's gonna bring in

1738
00:57:23,837 --> 00:57:25,206
Mike, but I interrupted my I

1739
00:57:25,206 --> 00:57:26,974
interrupted myself on this last

1740
00:57:26,974 --> 00:57:29,374
night. Time literally. Just

1741
00:57:29,911 --> 00:57:32,790
going to tell you the last part

1742
00:57:32,790 --> 00:57:33,681
on the right hand side is the

1743
00:57:33,681 --> 00:57:34,249
4 budget page and it has every

1744
00:57:34,249 --> 00:57:36,617
video that we've like every

1745
00:57:36,617 --> 00:57:37,785
council meeting where we talked

1746
00:57:37,785 --> 00:57:38,419
about budget since APRIL and

1747
00:57:38,419 --> 00:57:40,388
below that every written

1748
00:57:40,388 --> 00:57:40,954
response that we've given to

1749
00:57:40,954 --> 00:57:43,257
counsel about their various

1750
00:57:43,257 --> 00:57:43,991
questions. So don't hesitate

1751
00:57:43,991 --> 00:57:47,160
to use that as a resource to

1752
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,263
and actually in my

1753
00:57:49,263 --> 00:57:51,263
presentation. Okay.

1754
00:57:51,266 --> 00:57:54,266
>> We still have a few

1755
00:57:55,402 --> 00:57:57,802
questions. Hello, friends on

1756
00:58:00,808 --> 00:58:01,675
>> Up could you tell me that

1757
00:58:01,675 --> 00:58:02,743
the it's a street fee, but it's

1758
00:58:02,743 --> 00:58:05,743
not street beat the pavement

1759
00:58:05,814 --> 00:58:06,448
management fee. Got it. How

1760
00:58:06,448 --> 00:58:07,140
much money with that generate

1761
00:58:07,140 --> 00:58:10,170
and how what impact will it

1762
00:58:10,170 --> 00:58:13,187
have on the backlog of streets

1763
00:58:13,187 --> 00:58:15,187
to be read?

1764
00:58:16,323 --> 00:58:18,192
>> Last year lands here is lane

1765
00:58:18,192 --> 00:58:20,327
here. Yeah. So I'll mention as

1766
00:58:20,327 --> 00:58:23,198
she comes up that I think the

1767
00:58:23,198 --> 00:58:24,265
maintenance gap, that funding

1768
00:58:24,265 --> 00:58:25,100
gap that we were facing with

1769
00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:25,699
6 66 million dollars a year

1770
00:58:25,699 --> 00:58:28,699
between what we have budgeted

1771
00:58:29,104 --> 00:58:29,703
for streets and what we needed

1772
00:58:29,703 --> 00:58:33,642
for streets and by the fee is

1773
00:58:33,642 --> 00:58:35,410
not intended to close that hole

1774
00:58:35,410 --> 00:58:36,110
gap and you won't see that fee

1775
00:58:36,110 --> 00:58:39,110
in the fiscal year, 27 budget

1776
00:58:40,414 --> 00:58:43,352
just as a reminder about that.

1777
00:58:43,352 --> 00:58:45,586
Okay. Can. Has a good question.

1778
00:58:45,586 --> 00:58:48,586
So our gap to 66 Million.

1779
00:58:48,589 --> 00:58:49,557
Fee is we're proposing it which

1780
00:58:49,557 --> 00:58:50,124
would start in 2028. Would

1781
00:58:50,124 --> 00:58:52,124
generate about 27.4 million.

1782
00:58:53,128 --> 00:58:56,128
That's our estimate right now.

1783
00:58:57,980 --> 00:59:00,980
>> The impact of that, the

1784
00:59:00,368 --> 00:59:01,435
benefits of that will be

1785
00:59:01,435 --> 00:59:03,435
widespread.

1786
00:59:04,338 --> 00:59:04,939
It continues to be a very high

1787
00:59:04,939 --> 00:59:07,709
priority for all of our

1788
00:59:07,709 --> 00:59:09,878
residents. And we've grown a

1789
00:59:09,878 --> 00:59:10,879
lot in our sophistication.

1790
00:59:10,879 --> 00:59:15,790
So how we are planning now to

1791
00:59:15,650 --> 00:59:16,984
use that 27.0 4 million dollars

1792
00:59:16,984 --> 00:59:17,986
is too

1793
00:59:17,986 --> 00:59:19,986
proactive 5 year preservation

1794
00:59:20,254 --> 00:59:22,230
cycle on all of our good

1795
00:59:22,230 --> 00:59:25,293
streets. Okay. You have to keep

1796
00:59:25,293 --> 00:59:26,294
those good streets. Good while

1797
00:59:26,294 --> 00:59:27,729
you repair the bat.

1798
00:59:27,729 --> 00:59:30,665
The other thing we're going to

1799
00:59:30,665 --> 00:59:33,665
do is increase our contracted

1800
00:59:34,836 --> 00:59:35,437
heavy maintenance by 50%.

1801
00:59:35,437 --> 00:59:38,439
And so. These are the projects

1802
00:59:38,439 --> 00:59:42,390
that we really want to keep.

1803
00:59:44,578 --> 00:59:45,113
Maintain a bull before they go

1804
00:59:45,113 --> 00:59:48,117
to the bonds and they get.

1805
00:59:48,117 --> 00:59:50,117
Exceedingly more expensive.

1806
00:59:52,454 --> 00:59:54,290
And the last thing that we

1807
00:59:54,290 --> 00:59:55,189
really want to do is

1808
00:59:55,189 --> 00:59:57,589
increase our in-house at

1809
00:59:58,326 --> 01:00:00,726
Milling and overlaying. All

1810
01:00:01,796 --> 01:00:05,433
right. So will be able to like

1811
01:00:05,433 --> 01:00:06,167
triple that. So through all

1812
01:00:06,167 --> 01:00:07,970
of these things, the

1813
01:00:07,970 --> 01:00:11,570
impact us that we will slow

1814
01:00:13,542 --> 01:00:14,110
the deterioration of our

1815
01:00:14,110 --> 01:00:14,809
network. And we will also so

1816
01:00:14,809 --> 01:00:16,344
it'll it'll be for all the good

1817
01:00:16,344 --> 01:00:19,810
streets, all the fair streets

1818
01:00:19,810 --> 01:00:21,983
and all the poor streets

1819
01:00:21,983 --> 01:00:22,618
because as we maintain the good

1820
01:00:22,618 --> 01:00:25,180
and fair streets. What's

1821
01:00:25,254 --> 01:00:27,622
happening is that the backlog

1822
01:00:27,622 --> 01:00:30,622
for the bonds? There's less

1823
01:00:30,793 --> 01:00:31,893
demand for the bot, right.

1824
01:00:31,893 --> 01:00:35,398
And so the un amount of time

1825
01:00:35,398 --> 01:00:38,466
that the streets have to wait

1826
01:00:38,466 --> 01:00:39,100
for their bond project to be

1827
01:00:39,100 --> 01:00:41,401
delivered, gets reduced by

1828
01:00:41,904 --> 01:00:44,304
about 34% is what we

1829
01:00:45,107 --> 01:00:47,107
calculated.

1830
01:00:50,780 --> 01:00:54,183
If you want to do at the

1831
01:00:54,183 --> 01:00:55,618
follow-up.

1832
01:00:55,618 --> 01:00:58,921
>> Is there a way to me

1833
01:00:58,921 --> 01:00:59,455
generate more revenue for

1834
01:00:59,455 --> 01:00:59,723
preserving or are building

1835
01:00:59,723 --> 01:01:00,890
new roads.

1836
01:01:00,890 --> 01:01:02,890
>> Through transportation

1837
01:01:04,193 --> 01:01:05,561
impact, fee increases so that.

1838
01:01:05,561 --> 01:01:07,961
Developers of people, the

1839
01:01:09,233 --> 01:01:12,233
benefit from the new Roads.

1840
01:01:13,402 --> 01:01:17,200
I contribute more. So that we

1841
01:01:18,261 --> 01:01:18,433
do it have to do this. You're

1842
01:01:18,433 --> 01:01:18,841
probably more of an expert on

1843
01:01:18,841 --> 01:01:19,877
transportation.

1844
01:01:19,877 --> 01:01:20,943
>> Currently the city does

1845
01:01:20,943 --> 01:01:22,744
collect transportation impact

1846
01:01:22,744 --> 01:01:25,748
fees that can only be that can

1847
01:01:25,748 --> 01:01:27,183
only be collected on you.

1848
01:01:27,183 --> 01:01:27,751
New developments in use streets

1849
01:01:27,751 --> 01:01:31,951
and I think we can occur and

1850
01:01:33,689 --> 01:01:34,323
collect 68% of the potential.

1851
01:01:34,323 --> 01:01:37,193
Fyi. So they're very few street

1852
01:01:37,193 --> 01:01:38,261
cities or do 100% because it

1853
01:01:38,261 --> 01:01:41,531
end up costing so much that

1854
01:01:41,531 --> 01:01:42,265
project to move forward.

1855
01:01:42,265 --> 01:01:42,832
But we do collect.

1856
01:01:42,832 --> 01:01:45,200
But yet the one thing about

1857
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:48,602
the impact, these it's you have

1858
01:01:49,139 --> 01:01:49,640
to use them. In the area where

1859
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:50,240
the impact is happening.

1860
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:50,873
So around the new development

1861
01:01:50,873 --> 01:01:53,309
and it's for Arterials only for

1862
01:01:53,309 --> 01:01:54,644
major streets, Arterials and

1863
01:01:54,644 --> 01:01:57,644
collectors now for the streets

1864
01:01:59,549 --> 01:02:00,490
within the neighborhoods.

1865
01:02:00,490 --> 01:02:00,816
So we do collect on the

1866
01:02:00,816 --> 01:02:03,216
transportation, impact the side

1867
01:02:04,860 --> 01:02:05,389
and then also on the water

1868
01:02:05,389 --> 01:02:06,230
wastewater to try to get.

1869
01:02:06,230 --> 01:02:08,859
To have new development pay for

1870
01:02:08,859 --> 01:02:11,270
the cost of that

1871
01:02:11,270 --> 01:02:13,270
infrastructure.

1872
01:02:15,699 --> 01:02:19,299
>> All right. I would like to

1873
01:02:19,502 --> 01:02:20,636
advocate. You increase the tax

1874
01:02:20,636 --> 01:02:21,304
rate. Not just the 3.2 cents.

1875
01:02:21,304 --> 01:02:22,400
You have the ability to go up

1876
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:26,760
to what is known as the voter

1877
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,145
approved tax rate. Plus, the

1878
01:02:28,145 --> 01:02:29,278
unused increment. The

1879
01:02:29,278 --> 01:02:30,179
legislature makes us calculate

1880
01:02:30,179 --> 01:02:31,647
and no new tax rate, which

1881
01:02:31,647 --> 01:02:34,917
means that you collect the same

1882
01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:36,186
amount of tax on the same

1883
01:02:36,186 --> 01:02:36,786
properties year-over-year.

1884
01:02:36,786 --> 01:02:40,386
So we're looking at it, which

1885
01:02:40,724 --> 01:02:41,325
currently we're below the no

1886
01:02:41,325 --> 01:02:44,293
new tax rate. You've asked for

1887
01:02:44,293 --> 01:02:45,620
an increase above the no new

1888
01:02:45,620 --> 01:02:47,290
tax rate.

1889
01:02:47,290 --> 01:02:47,597
The no new tax rate basically

1890
01:02:47,597 --> 01:02:50,366
says you can keep the same

1891
01:02:50,366 --> 01:02:51,935
services if those services

1892
01:02:51,935 --> 01:02:54,504
don't cost any more. We know

1893
01:02:54,504 --> 01:02:55,806
costs for everything are going

1894
01:02:55,806 --> 01:02:58,140
up. If you want to give raises,

1895
01:02:58,140 --> 01:02:58,876
that has to be from you.

1896
01:02:58,876 --> 01:03:01,211
Increasing your tax rate during

1897
01:03:01,211 --> 01:03:03,514
a time when property values are

1898
01:03:03,514 --> 01:03:06,514
going down. The voter approved

1899
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:08,952
tax rate is put in place by

1900
01:03:08,952 --> 01:03:09,587
the Legislature to say.

1901
01:03:09,587 --> 01:03:12,589
You can take the no new tax

1902
01:03:12,589 --> 01:03:13,524
rate, increase it by 3 and a

1903
01:03:13,524 --> 01:03:15,759
half percent. You're looking

1904
01:03:15,759 --> 01:03:19,959
at raises for fire at 8 and a

1905
01:03:20,300 --> 01:03:20,564
half percent. You're looking

1906
01:03:20,564 --> 01:03:21,198
at raises for police a 6%.

1907
01:03:21,198 --> 01:03:24,134
You're looking at your staff at

1908
01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:25,802
only one and a half percent

1909
01:03:25,802 --> 01:03:26,538
this year. And it's and it's

1910
01:03:26,538 --> 01:03:27,137
because you're asking for

1911
01:03:27,137 --> 01:03:30,740
you've done a tremendous job,

1912
01:03:30,740 --> 01:03:31,675
putting this budget together.

1913
01:03:31,675 --> 01:03:33,810
But as I've gone to both the

1914
01:03:33,810 --> 01:03:36,130
first meeting and listen to

1915
01:03:36,130 --> 01:03:38,413
the other meetings. Everybody

1916
01:03:39,284 --> 01:03:42,190
here has said, please don't

1917
01:03:42,190 --> 01:03:42,854
cut this service.

1918
01:03:42,854 --> 01:03:44,189
The vast majority of phone

1919
01:03:44,189 --> 01:03:46,589
calls that you're councilmen

1920
01:03:46,925 --> 01:03:49,426
the received and your staff

1921
01:03:49,426 --> 01:03:50,327
receives is never you know what

1922
01:03:50,327 --> 01:03:53,327
could you cut the library

1923
01:03:54,598 --> 01:03:56,533
hours? No one is ever asking

1924
01:03:56,533 --> 01:03:58,570
for services to decline.

1925
01:03:58,570 --> 01:03:59,436
We all want to live in a city

1926
01:03:59,436 --> 01:04:00,400
that is doing well for itself

1927
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,400
doing well for its employees

1928
01:04:04,542 --> 01:04:06,678
doing well for its citizens.

1929
01:04:06,678 --> 01:04:09,713
We have that ability to go up.

1930
01:04:09,713 --> 01:04:10,348
The fact that you're going up

1931
01:04:10,348 --> 01:04:11,810
at all is all the pressure that

1932
01:04:11,810 --> 01:04:13,383
anyone on council in anyone

1933
01:04:13,383 --> 01:04:16,654
on staff is going to see

1934
01:04:16,654 --> 01:04:17,554
whether you go up. You know,

1935
01:04:17,554 --> 01:04:18,289
the tiniest bit.

1936
01:04:18,289 --> 01:04:21,526
Or whether you go up the entire

1937
01:04:21,526 --> 01:04:23,926
amount, you're legally allowed

1938
01:04:24,162 --> 01:04:25,864
to go up. They're gonna say the

1939
01:04:25,864 --> 01:04:28,864
same thing. So you'll always

1940
01:04:29,132 --> 01:04:32,369
have your people that say you

1941
01:04:32,369 --> 01:04:34,271
need to cut my tax rate.

1942
01:04:34,271 --> 01:04:36,574
Cutting tax rates is not just

1943
01:04:36,574 --> 01:04:38,974
about financial cutting tax

1944
01:04:41,513 --> 01:04:42,514
rates means cutting services.

1945
01:04:42,514 --> 01:04:43,147
I'm advocating that we in this

1946
01:04:43,147 --> 01:04:47,850
city one to our services and we

1947
01:04:47,850 --> 01:04:50,850
want to expand our services.

1948
01:04:51,900 --> 01:04:51,689
We protect our seniors already.

1949
01:04:51,689 --> 01:04:55,889
Our seniors have had a cap on

1950
01:04:57,629 --> 01:04:58,663
their property tax since 2004.

1951
01:04:58,663 --> 01:05:01,900
They pay no matter what maximum

1952
01:05:01,900 --> 01:05:03,835
amount of their taxes that does

1953
01:05:03,835 --> 01:05:04,469
not go up. It can go down if

1954
01:05:04,469 --> 01:05:07,469
their property value goes down.

1955
01:05:10,541 --> 01:05:11,109
But their value was capped.

1956
01:05:11,109 --> 01:05:14,279
The rest of us are here and

1957
01:05:14,279 --> 01:05:16,781
want to see the improvements

1958
01:05:16,781 --> 01:05:19,181
made in this city.

1959
01:05:26,324 --> 01:05:27,258
Yes, I want to also thank

1960
01:05:27,258 --> 01:05:27,892
everybody about the nuisance

1961
01:05:27,892 --> 01:05:30,292
abatement programs that we've

1962
01:05:30,962 --> 01:05:31,863
been having. We need to keep

1963
01:05:31,863 --> 01:05:34,766
that up to keep that funded.

1964
01:05:34,766 --> 01:05:37,166
>> Because in district 9, it's

1965
01:05:38,370 --> 01:05:38,603
helped out in Carter Park and

1966
01:05:38,603 --> 01:05:40,672
over there, Rockies. Those

1967
01:05:40,672 --> 01:05:43,720
businesses that were affecting

1968
01:05:44,175 --> 01:05:44,876
the neighborhood. Those will

1969
01:05:44,876 --> 01:05:48,213
also help. But I want to tie or

1970
01:05:48,213 --> 01:05:48,813
buy. So I actually had to hike

1971
01:05:48,813 --> 01:05:52,218
Mount Area. And then I notice

1972
01:05:52,218 --> 01:05:52,818
differences. And I said the

1973
01:05:52,818 --> 01:05:53,419
reason is education. So on the

1974
01:05:53,419 --> 01:05:56,419
thing with the libraries, with

1975
01:05:56,789 --> 01:05:57,355
education going on, probably we

1976
01:05:57,355 --> 01:05:58,424
had 4 dies d we need to help

1977
01:05:58,424 --> 01:06:01,960
out with the library's we stem.

1978
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:02,560
We need a stem lab there.

1979
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,998
We also need to do we actually

1980
01:06:05,998 --> 01:06:06,532
increase the funding because we

1981
01:06:06,532 --> 01:06:07,733
also have problem with the

1982
01:06:07,733 --> 01:06:08,333
after school programs that the

1983
01:06:08,333 --> 01:06:11,269
kids are not being able to go

1984
01:06:11,269 --> 01:06:11,669
somewhere where they can be

1985
01:06:11,669 --> 01:06:13,669
safe.

1986
01:06:16,574 --> 01:06:17,375
And also have a 2 two's being

1987
01:06:17,375 --> 01:06:17,976
there. Also to meet their needs

1988
01:06:17,976 --> 01:06:18,677
because the difference in the

1989
01:06:18,677 --> 01:06:20,746
West side and other

1990
01:06:20,746 --> 01:06:23,146
neighborhoods that any side

1991
01:06:23,848 --> 01:06:25,950
is education. So we need to

1992
01:06:25,950 --> 01:06:27,653
focus on education as and when

1993
01:06:27,653 --> 01:06:30,653
you put those are dollars

1994
01:06:31,891 --> 01:06:32,491
toward that. So I don't want

1995
01:06:32,491 --> 01:06:33,559
I want we're going to look for

1996
01:06:33,559 --> 01:06:36,861
other ways, despite not just a

1997
01:06:36,861 --> 01:06:38,531
raise in taxes and it's going

1998
01:06:38,531 --> 01:06:39,640
to be the

1999
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:40,165
tough things such as data

2000
01:06:40,165 --> 01:06:43,165
centers and other things there

2001
01:06:43,202 --> 01:06:43,836
that and bring it.

2002
01:06:43,836 --> 01:06:45,603
>> Taxes to it because outing I

2003
01:06:45,603 --> 01:06:48,603
think we still have a

2004
01:06:48,875 --> 01:06:51,875
shortfall. Even if we raise

2005
01:06:52,177 --> 01:06:54,213
taxes. That's thank you.

2006
01:06:54,213 --> 01:06:57,160
>> All right. I just wanted

2007
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:59,186
to compliment City staff and

2008
01:06:59,186 --> 01:07:00,840
your judicious effort to reduce

2009
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:01,120
the budget without trimmings,

2010
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:01,887
significant city services.

2011
01:07:01,887 --> 01:07:03,455
It's clear that you've looked

2012
01:07:03,455 --> 01:07:04,355
for every opportunity. I do

2013
01:07:04,355 --> 01:07:07,355
want to echo your sentiments.

2014
01:07:08,260 --> 01:07:08,761
Many of the property owners I

2015
01:07:08,761 --> 01:07:09,461
talked to expect a high

2016
01:07:09,461 --> 01:07:12,264
standard. We talk a lot about a

2017
01:07:12,264 --> 01:07:13,365
world class city and a high

2018
01:07:13,365 --> 01:07:14,267
standard of service and all

2019
01:07:14,267 --> 01:07:16,368
of the services that are listed

2020
01:07:16,368 --> 01:07:18,370
are ones that are regularly.

2021
01:07:18,370 --> 01:07:19,371
There's a hopeful wait list of

2022
01:07:19,371 --> 01:07:20,440
>> projects and efforts that

2023
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,474
they expect services from the

2024
01:07:22,474 --> 01:07:25,344
city related to those. So I do

2025
01:07:25,344 --> 01:07:26,460
think that there is support.

2026
01:07:26,460 --> 01:07:30,160
I would ask just so that we

2027
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:30,950
understand as a community what

2028
01:07:30,950 --> 01:07:31,618
action can be taken if we're

2029
01:07:31,618 --> 01:07:34,180
concerned about reductions to

2030
01:07:34,588 --> 01:07:36,622
libraries, parks and kind of

2031
01:07:36,622 --> 01:07:38,424
the core public spaces, what

2032
01:07:38,424 --> 01:07:39,240
actions could the business

2033
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,427
community lead or get involved

2034
01:07:41,427 --> 01:07:42,280
with to help reduce some of

2035
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,966
the burden. If there are going

2036
01:07:44,966 --> 01:07:45,699
to be impacts is are there

2037
01:07:45,699 --> 01:07:46,232
adopt a park programs or

2038
01:07:46,232 --> 01:07:48,632
anything that would maybe

2039
01:07:49,769 --> 01:07:51,604
preserve those services through

2040
01:07:51,604 --> 01:07:52,539
partnership from citizens

2041
01:07:52,539 --> 01:07:53,390
adopting Parks or business

2042
01:07:53,390 --> 01:07:55,390
community advocating or

2043
01:07:55,576 --> 01:07:56,609
supporting some of the core

2044
01:07:56,609 --> 01:07:57,243
services you're concerned

2045
01:07:57,243 --> 01:07:57,776
about.

2046
01:07:57,776 --> 01:07:58,678
>> So, yes, there's those

2047
01:07:58,678 --> 01:08:01,780
programs exist. Dave Lewis

2048
01:08:01,581 --> 01:08:04,317
Reserve, and really there is

2049
01:08:04,317 --> 01:08:06,319
parks directors here. We have

2050
01:08:06,319 --> 01:08:07,152
adopted part programs. We have

2051
01:08:07,152 --> 01:08:09,552
opportunities to partner, you

2052
01:08:10,690 --> 01:08:11,224
know, but business wants to

2053
01:08:11,224 --> 01:08:13,159
take over in the median in

2054
01:08:13,159 --> 01:08:15,328
front of their, you know,

2055
01:08:15,328 --> 01:08:17,300
reducing the causes city mo

2056
01:08:17,300 --> 01:08:19,320
in median system of the parks

2057
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:20,199
Department. The library side of

2058
01:08:20,199 --> 01:08:22,235
the library foundation that

2059
01:08:22,235 --> 01:08:22,835
provides raises dollars and

2060
01:08:22,835 --> 01:08:25,804
so businesses can partner with

2061
01:08:25,804 --> 01:08:28,975
them. So there's a lot of those

2062
01:08:28,975 --> 01:08:30,975
opportunities.

2063
01:08:36,650 --> 01:08:37,717
I agree with you.

2064
01:08:37,717 --> 01:08:38,318
>> He said this is the best,

2065
01:08:38,318 --> 01:08:42,518
the best city in the work you

2066
01:08:43,222 --> 01:08:46,493
lived here, you'd live to the

2067
01:08:46,493 --> 01:08:49,493
heaven. And I mean, that.

2068
01:08:54,334 --> 01:08:57,204
>> Side a quick like what kind

2069
01:08:57,204 --> 01:08:57,771
of maybe macro level question.

2070
01:08:57,771 --> 01:08:59,739
But I know that some people

2071
01:08:59,739 --> 01:09:01,575
have mentioned that police and

2072
01:09:01,575 --> 01:09:03,376
fire. We're seeing a huge

2073
01:09:03,376 --> 01:09:04,711
increase relative in the

2074
01:09:04,711 --> 01:09:05,278
general fund, maybe like

2075
01:09:05,278 --> 01:09:07,678
79 million dollars. I think

2076
01:09:08,248 --> 01:09:11,248
roughly is what's on the

2077
01:09:12,252 --> 01:09:12,853
screen.

2078
01:09:12,853 --> 01:09:13,487
So can you expand a little bit

2079
01:09:13,487 --> 01:09:16,256
on the relationship between the

2080
01:09:16,256 --> 01:09:17,458
contractual obligation that we

2081
01:09:17,458 --> 01:09:19,192
have with police and fire?

2082
01:09:19,192 --> 01:09:22,792
To raise to give them salary

2083
01:09:22,897 --> 01:09:25,297
increases. Things like that

2084
01:09:25,432 --> 01:09:25,932
and how that relates to the

2085
01:09:25,932 --> 01:09:26,499
survey that we take with

2086
01:09:26,499 --> 01:09:28,899
citizens. The indicator that

2087
01:09:29,170 --> 01:09:32,170
public safety is a big

2088
01:09:32,239 --> 01:09:33,140
priority. And what kind of like

2089
01:09:33,140 --> 01:09:36,740
the way there actually is in

2090
01:09:38,378 --> 01:09:38,812
like is that I think a 6 in

2091
01:09:38,812 --> 01:09:40,147
8.5% are those fully

2092
01:09:40,147 --> 01:09:42,147
contractually obligated?

2093
01:09:45,185 --> 01:09:45,652
Are those above something

2094
01:09:45,652 --> 01:09:46,320
that's been previously

2095
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:47,287
negotiated its its contractual

2096
01:09:47,287 --> 01:09:47,755
>> Both of them, both police

2097
01:09:47,755 --> 01:09:49,657
and fire. Have it have

2098
01:09:49,657 --> 01:09:52,570
associations basic like a

2099
01:09:52,893 --> 01:09:53,594
union? And so we do for your

2100
01:09:53,594 --> 01:09:54,929
contracts.

2101
01:09:54,929 --> 01:09:57,929
And so the four-year contract

2102
01:09:57,999 --> 01:09:58,532
spells out each year. What

2103
01:09:58,532 --> 01:10:01,532
there are across the board

2104
01:10:01,535 --> 01:10:03,938
increase will be and you have a

2105
01:10:03,938 --> 01:10:04,605
negotiation to go on.

2106
01:10:04,605 --> 01:10:05,907
Within that parameter just

2107
01:10:05,907 --> 01:10:08,907
based on their tenure. They

2108
01:10:09,175 --> 01:10:11,211
also have step increases.

2109
01:10:11,211 --> 01:10:11,913
So like.

2110
01:10:11,913 --> 01:10:13,948
The percent. That's a

2111
01:10:13,948 --> 01:10:15,117
combination of the across the

2112
01:10:15,117 --> 01:10:15,716
board. Plus, the step increases

2113
01:10:15,716 --> 01:10:16,951
that certain firefighters will

2114
01:10:16,951 --> 01:10:19,253
get based on what the year that

2115
01:10:19,253 --> 01:10:22,253
they're hitting. So that's the

2116
01:10:22,523 --> 01:10:24,192
average across. But those are

2117
01:10:24,192 --> 01:10:24,825
our contractual.

2118
01:10:24,825 --> 01:10:27,862
And, you know, the the fire and

2119
01:10:27,862 --> 01:10:28,396
the fire contract we're

2120
01:10:28,396 --> 01:10:28,963
negotiating right now. But

2121
01:10:28,963 --> 01:10:30,898
police was done 2 years ago.

2122
01:10:30,898 --> 01:10:33,601
And so those are contractual

2123
01:10:33,601 --> 01:10:35,403
straight across. A big increase

2124
01:10:35,403 --> 01:10:37,380
in what you saw there are not

2125
01:10:37,380 --> 01:10:37,605
just tied to the wages. They're

2126
01:10:37,605 --> 01:10:40,675
also, you know, we the city

2127
01:10:40,675 --> 01:10:41,776
council made the decision the

2128
01:10:41,776 --> 01:10:42,677
city made the decision based on

2129
01:10:42,677 --> 01:10:43,177
feedback from the citizens of

2130
01:10:43,177 --> 01:10:46,177
that. We didn't have our

2131
01:10:46,614 --> 01:10:47,348
ambulance service wasn't

2132
01:10:47,348 --> 01:10:49,717
meeting. What we need to

2133
01:10:49,717 --> 01:10:50,218
happen. Right? Response times

2134
01:10:50,218 --> 01:10:52,218
were 12, 13, 14 minutes.

2135
01:10:54,323 --> 01:10:55,156
And so the city brought that

2136
01:10:55,156 --> 01:10:55,690
system n and basically in order

2137
01:10:55,690 --> 01:10:57,860
to improve that the system

2138
01:10:57,860 --> 01:10:59,594
wasn't working is because that

2139
01:10:59,594 --> 01:11:00,161
a lot of deferred maintenance,

2140
01:11:00,161 --> 01:11:01,630
that a lot of turnover, they

2141
01:11:01,630 --> 01:11:02,597
were paying their folks enough,

2142
01:11:02,597 --> 01:11:05,597
their lives in the market.

2143
01:11:05,934 --> 01:11:06,834
So in order to get that up and

2144
01:11:06,834 --> 01:11:07,436
going and get it down.

2145
01:11:07,436 --> 01:11:10,239
And the weave, the city's had

2146
01:11:10,239 --> 01:11:10,838
it for about a year. So as of

2147
01:11:10,838 --> 01:11:12,708
this past JUNE, those response

2148
01:11:12,708 --> 01:11:13,341
times are down to like 8 and

2149
01:11:13,341 --> 01:11:16,341
half minutes. And it's because

2150
01:11:16,611 --> 01:11:18,447
but the city had invest a lot

2151
01:11:18,447 --> 01:11:20,214
of money in.

2152
01:11:20,214 --> 01:11:22,214
Ambulances in personnel

2153
01:11:22,251 --> 01:11:24,853
increases those kind of things.

2154
01:11:24,853 --> 01:11:25,553
The new fire contract, by the

2155
01:11:25,553 --> 01:11:27,355
way, part of that is that the

2156
01:11:27,355 --> 01:11:27,955
ambulance service folks, the

2157
01:11:27,955 --> 01:11:31,493
ems folks became part of the

2158
01:11:31,493 --> 01:11:32,995
fired department and became

2159
01:11:32,995 --> 01:11:33,628
firefighters. So she mentioned

2160
01:11:33,628 --> 01:11:35,731
dual role. Firefighters are the

2161
01:11:35,731 --> 01:11:36,465
ones that are trained to fight

2162
01:11:36,465 --> 01:11:37,365
fires and everything else.

2163
01:11:37,365 --> 01:11:40,365
Then we have single role

2164
01:11:41,336 --> 01:11:43,238
firefighters, which is the ems

2165
01:11:43,238 --> 01:11:44,171
side. So part of that contract,

2166
01:11:44,171 --> 01:11:44,839
the reason it goes up is

2167
01:11:44,839 --> 01:11:45,339
because we have added about

2168
01:11:45,339 --> 01:11:47,739
500 people to that area.

2169
01:11:50,679 --> 01:11:51,280
So that's one of the big costs

2170
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:54,880
that's tied to that. And then

2171
01:11:55,249 --> 01:11:57,553
really one of the things when

2172
01:11:57,553 --> 01:11:58,252
I came as city manager is.

2173
01:11:58,252 --> 01:11:58,820
You know, says we need as a

2174
01:11:58,820 --> 01:11:59,421
city manager, his assistant

2175
01:11:59,421 --> 01:12:01,821
city manager over department.

2176
01:12:01,858 --> 01:12:04,858
You need to hold the

2177
01:12:05,127 --> 01:12:05,594
department. Accountable for

2178
01:12:05,594 --> 01:12:07,950
meeting their budget.

2179
01:12:07,950 --> 01:12:10,198
That means you need to make

2180
01:12:10,198 --> 01:12:11,800
sure that their budget is is

2181
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:12,434
right. You write it if you

2182
01:12:12,434 --> 01:12:14,360
don't provide enough dollars to

2183
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:15,938
actually provide the service

2184
01:12:15,938 --> 01:12:18,730
that's expected and they go

2185
01:12:18,730 --> 01:12:19,800
over budget. It's kind of hard

2186
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:19,574
called somebody accountable

2187
01:12:19,574 --> 01:12:20,143
because you never given the

2188
01:12:20,143 --> 01:12:21,443
amount of money. And so one

2189
01:12:21,443 --> 01:12:25,430
of the things that we're doing

2190
01:12:25,180 --> 01:12:27,316
with the fire budget this year

2191
01:12:27,316 --> 01:12:28,150
and and Kristan mentioned is

2192
01:12:28,150 --> 01:12:29,252
right-sizing the overtime

2193
01:12:29,252 --> 01:12:32,852
because in the last few years

2194
01:12:33,455 --> 01:12:34,890
have gone over budget. But it's

2195
01:12:34,890 --> 01:12:34,958
really because they needed over

2196
01:12:34,958 --> 01:12:35,557
time is needed in order to have

2197
01:12:35,557 --> 01:12:36,592
the firefighters are available

2198
01:12:36,592 --> 01:12:39,592
to fight, fire, invite, you

2199
01:12:39,761 --> 01:12:40,363
know, get the response times

2200
01:12:40,363 --> 01:12:40,828
and then on the fleet services

2201
01:12:40,828 --> 01:12:43,498
side, just the cost of

2202
01:12:43,498 --> 01:12:47,980
everything has gone up big time

2203
01:12:47,270 --> 01:12:48,171
and their vehicles are more

2204
01:12:48,171 --> 01:12:50,571
expensive than the most.

2205
01:12:51,440 --> 01:12:52,475
And so, you know, they their

2206
01:12:52,475 --> 01:12:54,377
vehicles get and what?

2207
01:12:54,377 --> 01:12:55,578
Chief Orton of a mile a gallon

2208
01:12:55,578 --> 01:12:58,578
or something like 2 miles a

2209
01:12:58,814 --> 01:12:59,748
gallon. So fuel costs are way

2210
01:12:59,748 --> 01:13:01,850
up. Yeah, you know, just since

2211
01:13:01,850 --> 01:13:03,180
covid in order to get parts

2212
01:13:03,180 --> 01:13:03,586
and all those things along

2213
01:13:03,586 --> 01:13:06,210
order times. So a lot of the

2214
01:13:06,210 --> 01:13:06,588
costs are just up over on.

2215
01:13:06,588 --> 01:13:08,224
So one of the things that we

2216
01:13:08,224 --> 01:13:11,560
needed to do and I wanted to do

2217
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:12,128
as city manager is right-sized

2218
01:13:12,128 --> 01:13:13,530
the budget so we can. Have a

2219
01:13:13,530 --> 01:13:15,131
real conversation during the

2220
01:13:15,131 --> 01:13:15,697
year with the fire department

2221
01:13:15,697 --> 01:13:17,900
is why are you going over on

2222
01:13:17,900 --> 01:13:18,868
this line item? What's you

2223
01:13:18,868 --> 01:13:19,368
know, causing those things that

2224
01:13:19,368 --> 01:13:21,470
happen as we go forward.

2225
01:13:21,470 --> 01:13:23,773
So those some of the cost of

2226
01:13:23,773 --> 01:13:27,430
kind of drove that. Above just

2227
01:13:27,430 --> 01:13:30,430
the contractual. Wage side of

2228
01:13:30,112 --> 01:13:32,112
things.

2229
01:13:34,183 --> 01:13:34,751
>> My name is Liz Padilla with

2230
01:13:34,751 --> 01:13:35,317
the Town Forest Neighborhood

2231
01:13:35,317 --> 01:13:38,317
Association. So I'm here to

2232
01:13:39,455 --> 01:13:40,456
advocate for Uptown Rock

2233
01:13:40,456 --> 01:13:41,391
Island, Samuels Avenue. These

2234
01:13:41,391 --> 01:13:42,159
are more specific questions

2235
01:13:42,159 --> 01:13:42,692
tonight. Jay, I spoke to you a

2236
01:13:42,692 --> 01:13:43,693
little bit off microphone.

2237
01:13:43,693 --> 01:13:47,293
Sure, but I'm gonna ask again

2238
01:13:47,363 --> 01:13:47,931
to make sure that I'm clear.

2239
01:13:47,931 --> 01:13:48,665
So one of the things that's

2240
01:13:48,665 --> 01:13:51,665
costly brought up at the

2241
01:13:51,935 --> 01:13:52,936
monthly meetings is our street

2242
01:13:52,936 --> 01:13:54,936
lighting.

2243
01:13:56,572 --> 01:13:57,140
And there are multiple streets

2244
01:13:57,140 --> 01:14:00,140
that have been approved for

2245
01:14:00,543 --> 01:14:01,211
lighting because it does not

2246
01:14:01,211 --> 01:14:01,811
meet city coat.

2247
01:14:01,811 --> 01:14:04,811
In addition, also a pedestrian

2248
01:14:05,249 --> 01:14:06,482
walkway, et cetera, which has

2249
01:14:06,482 --> 01:14:07,830
been approved. So how do we

2250
01:14:07,830 --> 01:14:09,483
advocate as a neighborhood

2251
01:14:10,353 --> 01:14:11,621
association for those items?

2252
01:14:11,621 --> 01:14:12,488
Well,

2253
01:14:12,488 --> 01:14:14,191
>> I'm gonna ask you to raise

2254
01:14:14,191 --> 01:14:14,724
your hand so you can see that's

2255
01:14:14,724 --> 01:14:15,359
Lauren Prayer right there.

2256
01:14:15,359 --> 01:14:17,359
Director Transportation public

2257
01:14:18,661 --> 01:14:19,262
works. They probably have a

2258
01:14:19,262 --> 01:14:21,899
list that has your streets and

2259
01:14:21,899 --> 01:14:22,666
sidewalks and they maybe have a

2260
01:14:22,666 --> 01:14:23,667
schedule when that potentially

2261
01:14:23,667 --> 01:14:26,667
happens and it's not funded.

2262
01:14:27,337 --> 01:14:27,905
Then how can we get it on the

2263
01:14:27,905 --> 01:14:28,639
schedule? So I think the the

2264
01:14:28,639 --> 01:14:31,306
that's the first step, right.

2265
01:14:31,306 --> 01:14:33,176
And then ultimately when staff

2266
01:14:33,176 --> 01:14:35,679
tells you. Where we or you're

2267
01:14:35,679 --> 01:14:37,114
on the list and how we can.

2268
01:14:37,114 --> 01:14:37,748
Then that advocate advocacy

2269
01:14:37,748 --> 01:14:38,449
becomes talking to your elected

2270
01:14:38,449 --> 01:14:40,284
officials about how we can move

2271
01:14:40,284 --> 01:14:41,151
up the list potentially.

2272
01:14:41,151 --> 01:14:44,321
But but first, I and have you

2273
01:14:44,321 --> 01:14:44,989
work with staff to see where

2274
01:14:44,989 --> 01:14:46,989
that he's okay?

2275
01:14:49,158 --> 01:14:52,758
>> What what Laura also be a

2276
01:14:53,290 --> 01:14:56,290
person of 4. There is about

2277
01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:56,634
2 acres north of Part that is

2278
01:14:56,634 --> 01:14:57,101
not part of the park and it's

2279
01:14:57,101 --> 01:14:57,901
not particularly meat

2280
01:14:57,901 --> 01:15:00,301
maintained because the park

2281
01:15:01,605 --> 01:15:02,600
doesn't have what, because it's

2282
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:04,406
not part of park.

2283
01:15:05,376 --> 01:15:08,546
>> So what more would be coach

2284
01:15:08,546 --> 01:15:10,546
Brian? Brian?

2285
01:15:10,881 --> 01:15:11,850
So, yeah, so but if you like

2286
01:15:11,850 --> 01:15:12,682
I said, he sent me an e-mail

2287
01:15:12,682 --> 01:15:15,682
with those issues because it's

2288
01:15:15,719 --> 01:15:16,253
2 acres of open space that's

2289
01:15:16,253 --> 01:15:19,256
just north of the park. We

2290
01:15:19,256 --> 01:15:19,890
might be interested in making

2291
01:15:19,890 --> 01:15:21,292
that part of

2292
01:15:21,292 --> 01:15:23,227
the park. It's for self.

2293
01:15:23,227 --> 01:15:24,227
So if you can send us and you

2294
01:15:24,227 --> 01:15:25,230
can send me an email and and

2295
01:15:25,230 --> 01:15:28,830
Dave Lewis and our open spaces

2296
01:15:29,699 --> 01:15:30,568
can look at that. Thank you.

2297
01:15:30,568 --> 01:15:32,568
I'd like to.

2298
01:15:34,572 --> 01:15:36,773
>> I'm Allan Cejka. I live on

2299
01:15:36,773 --> 01:15:38,773
Samuels Avenue and

2300
01:15:40,440 --> 01:15:43,644
I moved here in 1979 and some

2301
01:15:43,647 --> 01:15:45,647
of the street.

2302
01:15:46,382 --> 01:15:49,382
We're not having anything done

2303
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:51,255
with since 1985. This year are

2304
01:15:51,255 --> 01:15:54,255
getting done. Show your whole

2305
01:15:54,558 --> 01:15:56,958
process of working with.

2306
01:15:58,696 --> 01:16:00,300
>> Old.

2307
01:16:00,300 --> 01:16:02,430
>> To finally getting something

2308
01:16:03,300 --> 01:16:04,635
done. I thank you for finding

2309
01:16:04,635 --> 01:16:05,169
making.

2310
01:16:05,169 --> 01:16:08,769
>> The old the new and the

2311
01:16:10,809 --> 01:16:11,442
already as part of a process.

2312
01:16:11,442 --> 01:16:11,675
Thank you. And that's what lane

2313
01:16:11,675 --> 01:16:13,675
mention.

2314
01:16:14,411 --> 01:16:16,811
>> You know, the pavement

2315
01:16:17,681 --> 01:16:20,810
management. It nearly doubles

2316
01:16:20,385 --> 01:16:21,986
what we have in Pago.

2317
01:16:21,986 --> 01:16:22,587
And so what they're going to

2318
01:16:22,587 --> 01:16:23,853
put into place is to keep your

2319
01:16:23,853 --> 01:16:24,422
streets and fair streets from

2320
01:16:24,422 --> 01:16:26,822
falling into that condition

2321
01:16:27,359 --> 01:16:27,926
is one of the things so that

2322
01:16:27,926 --> 01:16:30,926
you stop. We stopped digging

2323
01:16:30,929 --> 01:16:32,970
the hole, right? At least stop

2324
01:16:32,970 --> 01:16:32,797
digging the hole.

2325
01:16:32,797 --> 01:16:34,466
By having more streets, find

2326
01:16:34,466 --> 01:16:35,660
fall into that so that

2327
01:16:35,660 --> 01:16:36,735
ultimately we can get to those

2328
01:16:36,735 --> 01:16:37,269
streets and fill in the hole

2329
01:16:37,269 --> 01:16:38,970
with bond because the last

2330
01:16:38,970 --> 01:16:40,571
thing you want to do it, I

2331
01:16:40,571 --> 01:16:44,171
mean, think about it. You don't

2332
01:16:44,910 --> 01:16:46,778
want to use your 30 year

2333
01:16:46,778 --> 01:16:48,746
mortgage. To buy.

2334
01:16:48,746 --> 01:16:49,748
We walker that's going to last

2335
01:16:49,748 --> 01:16:51,149
for years, right? Because

2336
01:16:51,149 --> 01:16:53,549
you're paying interest for 30

2337
01:16:54,452 --> 01:16:56,354
years. So we do want to use

2338
01:16:56,354 --> 01:16:56,922
that.

2339
01:16:56,922 --> 01:16:58,356
Do maintenance on the street

2340
01:16:58,356 --> 01:17:00,658
the last 4 years. We want to

2341
01:17:00,658 --> 01:17:02,727
ease cash if we can. And that's

2342
01:17:02,727 --> 01:17:06,927
what that fee will help us to.

2343
01:17:07,299 --> 01:17:09,699
>> Because it took from 19 93.

2344
01:17:10,235 --> 01:17:12,235
Until.

2345
01:17:13,438 --> 01:17:13,905
Hampton Road to not be

2346
01:17:13,905 --> 01:17:15,774
washboard way.

2347
01:17:15,774 --> 01:17:19,440
And it's the only 4 blocks at

2348
01:17:19,440 --> 01:17:20,845
that street that have never

2349
01:17:20,845 --> 01:17:21,412
been touched.

2350
01:17:21,412 --> 01:17:22,814
It hasn't been done yet, but

2351
01:17:22,814 --> 01:17:25,814
it's part of the program.

2352
01:17:26,284 --> 01:17:29,284
They're working on it. That's

2353
01:17:29,521 --> 01:17:32,570
where I'm happy. Again. Going

2354
01:17:32,570 --> 01:17:35,570
back to Creech of traders.

2355
01:17:35,359 --> 01:17:38,562
So part that nobody seems to

2356
01:17:38,562 --> 01:17:40,962
know who owns it.

2357
01:17:43,702 --> 01:17:44,269
The the issue about that is

2358
01:17:44,269 --> 01:17:46,669
in 18. 49, when Traders Oak

2359
01:17:48,841 --> 01:17:50,275
Park had a trading building

2360
01:17:50,275 --> 01:17:53,275
on it, the military, the

2361
01:17:53,778 --> 01:17:54,446
Indians and the settlers went

2362
01:17:54,446 --> 01:17:56,846
there to get water.

2363
01:17:58,316 --> 01:17:59,485
That water system that they

2364
01:17:59,485 --> 01:18:00,252
used is in that create that

2365
01:18:00,252 --> 01:18:02,388
right now. We apparently don't

2366
01:18:02,388 --> 01:18:05,658
know who owns and the city is

2367
01:18:05,658 --> 01:18:07,693
taking care of. We can find out

2368
01:18:07,693 --> 01:18:09,561
who owns it. You can just see

2369
01:18:09,561 --> 01:18:11,597
me as we can do. That thing is

2370
01:18:11,597 --> 01:18:13,933
when the railroad put the spur

2371
01:18:13,933 --> 01:18:16,701
line in on the side of traders

2372
01:18:16,701 --> 01:18:17,435
show park to go to Cargill or

2373
01:18:17,435 --> 01:18:20,740
whatever it is. Well, that is

2374
01:18:20,740 --> 01:18:22,441
all been removed to Snell, void

2375
01:18:22,441 --> 01:18:24,441
land.

2376
01:18:25,344 --> 01:18:26,440
Does the railroad maintain the

2377
01:18:26,440 --> 01:18:28,848
ownership of that land? Does it

2378
01:18:28,848 --> 01:18:32,151
go back to who owned it prior

2379
01:18:32,151 --> 01:18:32,851
to the railroad taking it or

2380
01:18:32,851 --> 01:18:35,755
does it belong to the people

2381
01:18:35,755 --> 01:18:37,456
that use the railroad track to

2382
01:18:37,456 --> 01:18:39,824
move their product out of

2383
01:18:39,824 --> 01:18:41,824
there, commercial building,

2384
01:18:43,261 --> 01:18:46,632
either one set on it. So that's

2385
01:18:46,632 --> 01:18:48,734
my question. Is because that's

2386
01:18:48,734 --> 01:18:51,134
a road of unused.

2387
01:18:51,270 --> 01:18:54,574
Property that MAY or MAY not be

2388
01:18:54,574 --> 01:18:55,410
a part of your original

2389
01:18:55,410 --> 01:18:55,608
traders. Oak property.

2390
01:18:55,608 --> 01:18:58,800
>> All good questions. I've

2391
01:18:58,410 --> 01:18:59,579
never known a railroad to give

2392
01:18:59,579 --> 01:19:00,713
anything away. So.

2393
01:19:00,713 --> 01:19:02,949
Line. Yeah, I know what by the

2394
01:19:02,949 --> 01:19:05,949
road. I've never known the

2395
01:19:06,251 --> 01:19:07,220
beginning. I had one question

2396
01:19:07,220 --> 01:19:09,220
back there.

2397
01:19:11,757 --> 01:19:12,758
>> So I know this is a bit of a

2398
01:19:12,758 --> 01:19:14,160
hot topic recently, that's

2399
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:14,794
first of my knowledge and I

2400
01:19:14,794 --> 01:19:16,762
wish him more informed as I try

2401
01:19:16,762 --> 01:19:19,899
to be informed when I come to

2402
01:19:19,899 --> 01:19:20,799
meetings like this. But I know

2403
01:19:20,799 --> 01:19:23,199
the police department has

2404
01:19:23,501 --> 01:19:25,638
recently signed a new or

2405
01:19:25,638 --> 01:19:26,205
contract with Flock. With the

2406
01:19:26,205 --> 01:19:29,205
drones that have been. That

2407
01:19:32,111 --> 01:19:33,579
have been developed recently.

2408
01:19:33,579 --> 01:19:34,180
And I was just curious as snow

2409
01:19:34,180 --> 01:19:36,916
when that contract and if you

2410
01:19:36,916 --> 01:19:38,985
would have to turn around and

2411
01:19:38,985 --> 01:19:39,986
has to if it's possible to look

2412
01:19:39,986 --> 01:19:42,986
at that contract been cut

2413
01:19:45,392 --> 01:19:46,225
because I know a lot of people.

2414
01:19:46,225 --> 01:19:46,826
And Fort Worth have concerns

2415
01:19:46,826 --> 01:19:48,529
suffer. Who is accessing those

2416
01:19:48,529 --> 01:19:51,529
cameras and for what purpose

2417
01:19:51,797 --> 01:19:53,967
they have. For accessing.

2418
01:19:53,967 --> 01:19:55,668
And it's just very

2419
01:19:55,668 --> 01:19:56,469
I just I feel very distrustful

2420
01:19:56,469 --> 01:19:58,869
as many others, too.

2421
01:20:01,341 --> 01:20:01,942
>> So I would suggest that you

2422
01:20:01,942 --> 01:20:02,442
maybe have a meeting with with

2423
01:20:02,442 --> 01:20:04,110
the folks in the police

2424
01:20:04,110 --> 01:20:05,312
department. They use them so

2425
01:20:05,312 --> 01:20:06,280
you can get clarity on how

2426
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:08,447
those those are used and and

2427
01:20:08,447 --> 01:20:11,447
wider use and the policies

2428
01:20:11,485 --> 01:20:12,118
around their use. I don't know

2429
01:20:12,118 --> 01:20:15,718
the dates how long the contract

2430
01:20:16,890 --> 01:20:19,890
isn't anything off the top.

2431
01:20:19,359 --> 01:20:21,328
My head. Is there a p d anybody

2432
01:20:21,328 --> 01:20:21,894
from?

2433
01:20:21,894 --> 01:20:25,494
Maybe we can have. Have you

2434
01:20:26,399 --> 01:20:27,334
have a ham have a meeting with

2435
01:20:27,334 --> 01:20:27,934
g for it? 2 car ball.

2436
01:20:27,934 --> 01:20:30,360
Then you can answer your

2437
01:20:30,360 --> 01:20:32,272
questions and provide details.

2438
01:20:32,272 --> 01:20:35,642
I think there's a lot of stuff

2439
01:20:35,642 --> 01:20:38,642
on the Internet that. That's

2440
01:20:38,812 --> 01:20:40,812
not necessarily.

2441
01:20:41,215 --> 01:20:41,915
Not necessarily.

2442
01:20:41,915 --> 01:20:42,415
People say, well, you face

2443
01:20:42,415 --> 01:20:44,415
facial recognition flock

2444
01:20:46,653 --> 01:20:47,521
cameras in the city don't have.

2445
01:20:47,521 --> 01:20:48,856
You know, facial recognition.

2446
01:20:48,856 --> 01:20:49,456
So there's a lot of stuff out

2447
01:20:49,456 --> 01:20:51,291
there that's out there. That's

2448
01:20:51,291 --> 01:20:53,691
misinformation. The people get

2449
01:20:54,795 --> 01:20:57,364
excited about. I can tell you

2450
01:20:57,364 --> 01:20:59,498
this. It. Those cameras have

2451
01:20:59,498 --> 01:21:00,100
been highly effective in

2452
01:21:00,100 --> 01:21:01,368
solving crime and catching bad

2453
01:21:01,368 --> 01:21:04,368
guys. Like really bad, bad

2454
01:21:04,638 --> 01:21:07,400
guys. A lot quicker than

2455
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:07,841
otherwise would happen.

2456
01:21:07,841 --> 01:21:09,375
>> j I got so caught up in my

2457
01:21:09,375 --> 01:21:10,430
compliments to your staff that

2458
01:21:10,430 --> 01:21:13,643
I forgot my actual question to

2459
01:21:13,780 --> 01:21:14,314
you. But I did mean those

2460
01:21:14,314 --> 01:21:14,948
compliments and sincerely.

2461
01:21:14,948 --> 01:21:17,948
So, Christiane, earlier you had

2462
01:21:19,152 --> 01:21:19,886
that kind of barbell scale.

2463
01:21:19,886 --> 01:21:21,121
Slide, which showed that there

2464
01:21:21,121 --> 01:21:23,521
were was an improvement.

2465
01:21:24,424 --> 01:21:26,693
There is still sort of money

2466
01:21:26,693 --> 01:21:27,194
on the table.

2467
01:21:27,194 --> 01:21:29,594
Between our current tax

2468
01:21:30,630 --> 01:21:33,630
estimated tax value for an

2469
01:21:36,203 --> 01:21:39,203
average. Taxpayer. Here it was

2470
01:21:41,776 --> 01:21:44,176
over. The scale. One.

2471
01:21:44,479 --> 01:21:45,580
It's near the end.

2472
01:21:45,580 --> 01:21:47,482
This witness.

2473
01:21:47,482 --> 01:21:48,416
>> The scandal got Gates and I

2474
01:21:48,416 --> 01:21:50,350
understanding it's quite

2475
01:21:50,350 --> 01:21:52,750
nominal. We're not talking

2476
01:21:54,221 --> 01:21:55,223
about $1000, but there seems to

2477
01:21:55,223 --> 01:21:58,193
be some money for Fy 2027 still

2478
01:21:58,193 --> 01:21:59,293
on the table. And I just wonder

2479
01:21:59,293 --> 01:22:02,130
what was the decision that led

2480
01:22:02,130 --> 01:22:02,663
to leaving that small gap for

2481
01:22:02,663 --> 01:22:04,165
each taxpayer on average.

2482
01:22:04,165 --> 01:22:07,435
>> We then I'd in was an

2483
01:22:07,435 --> 01:22:09,938
attempt to actually it was how

2484
01:22:09,938 --> 01:22:10,471
much we thought.

2485
01:22:10,471 --> 01:22:11,406
Reduce the budget without

2486
01:22:11,406 --> 01:22:14,406
having huge impacts of the

2487
01:22:15,310 --> 01:22:16,144
citizens on the services right.

2488
01:22:16,144 --> 01:22:19,144
And then the difference was

2489
01:22:19,546 --> 01:22:21,249
what I decided to increase the

2490
01:22:21,249 --> 01:22:21,849
tax rate by okay.

2491
01:22:21,849 --> 01:22:22,816
We hadn't even checked to see

2492
01:22:22,816 --> 01:22:25,816
what the actual impact was

2493
01:22:26,588 --> 01:22:29,230
until after the fact. And so as

2494
01:22:29,230 --> 01:22:29,757
more of where we feel

2495
01:22:29,757 --> 01:22:31,358
comfortable reductions that

2496
01:22:31,358 --> 01:22:34,429
and there were still wearing a

2497
01:22:34,429 --> 01:22:35,163
of y'all don't want some of the

2498
01:22:35,163 --> 01:22:35,797
reductions right? But if we let

2499
01:22:35,797 --> 01:22:38,366
we went further would've been a

2500
01:22:38,366 --> 01:22:39,734
lot more people, right? So

2501
01:22:39,734 --> 01:22:41,935
that's that's really. How we

2502
01:22:41,935 --> 01:22:42,470
got to this number was a

2503
01:22:42,470 --> 01:22:44,470
purposeful, pretty close.

2504
01:22:45,473 --> 01:22:46,807
Yeah, it is pretty clear it

2505
01:22:46,807 --> 01:22:47,508
wasn't possible.

2506
01:22:47,508 --> 01:22:50,311
>> And the tax rate change that

2507
01:22:50,311 --> 01:22:53,248
would bring these 2 things in

2508
01:22:53,248 --> 01:22:53,847
perfect alignment is fairly

2509
01:22:53,847 --> 01:22:56,751
nominal, but really the every

2510
01:22:56,751 --> 01:22:57,180
every 100 of the penny. So you

2511
01:22:57,180 --> 01:22:59,180
know that.

2512
01:22:59,821 --> 01:23:00,821
>> The right to 0, you make it

2513
01:23:00,821 --> 01:23:02,356
to one. It's at $110,000.

2514
01:23:02,356 --> 01:23:02,924
Got it. So to the budget.

2515
01:23:02,924 --> 01:23:05,924
So every 100 is about 110 is

2516
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:08,360
110,000. Okay. Thank you, Jay.

2517
01:23:13,568 --> 01:23:14,635
We got one back here. First.

2518
01:23:14,635 --> 01:23:15,203
Okay. As a two-part question

2519
01:23:15,203 --> 01:23:17,706
I know is on the boards back

2520
01:23:17,706 --> 01:23:18,600
there. Some of the information

2521
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:19,106
is general.

2522
01:23:19,106 --> 01:23:19,841
>> It's kind of like I don't

2523
01:23:19,841 --> 01:23:22,511
want to put the sticker on

2524
01:23:22,511 --> 01:23:23,211
there because I don't later on.

2525
01:23:23,211 --> 01:23:23,812
I don't know. Specifics.

2526
01:23:23,812 --> 01:23:28,830
So like I say, oh, I want the

2527
01:23:28,830 --> 01:23:29,183
neighborhood to be transformed

2528
01:23:29,183 --> 01:23:31,185
to me for partnership with the

2529
01:23:31,185 --> 01:23:33,154
a private company that set out

2530
01:23:33,154 --> 01:23:34,189
there on the border on the comp

2531
01:23:34,189 --> 01:23:34,656
plan. Yes, so I was thinking as

2532
01:23:34,656 --> 01:23:36,758
they I say might be a

2533
01:23:36,758 --> 01:23:39,158
partnership with something I

2534
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:41,296
don't like. But I was which

2535
01:23:41,296 --> 01:23:44,266
leads me to the next part.

2536
01:23:44,266 --> 01:23:44,833
Well, is there something on

2537
01:23:44,833 --> 01:23:45,767
this on the city website are

2538
01:23:45,767 --> 01:23:48,703
some that we can look to the

2539
01:23:48,703 --> 01:23:50,739
What gets cut that way? We know

2540
01:23:50,739 --> 01:23:52,540
what the fight for. I was on

2541
01:23:52,540 --> 01:23:54,176
the year. The city's priority

2542
01:23:54,176 --> 01:23:54,742
to cut on the paygo money.

2543
01:23:54,742 --> 01:23:55,244
So the this presentation and

2544
01:23:55,244 --> 01:23:57,644
also the presentation to

2545
01:23:59,114 --> 01:23:59,915
provide the city council is on.

2546
01:23:59,915 --> 01:24:00,416
>> On our website, the

2547
01:24:00,416 --> 01:24:02,160
itemized, if they're all

2548
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:05,616
listed, all the cuts are listed

2549
01:24:07,389 --> 01:24:09,825
on there. Okay, ok, thank you.

2550
01:24:09,825 --> 01:24:10,359
So question.

2551
01:24:10,359 --> 01:24:10,594
i'm just a simple resident

2552
01:24:10,594 --> 01:24:12,594
here. So

2553
01:24:13,362 --> 01:24:16,598
>> I you know, this MAY be.

2554
01:24:16,598 --> 01:24:20,198
Really simple how much of this?

2555
01:24:20,436 --> 01:24:21,904
Revenue is from residential

2556
01:24:21,904 --> 01:24:24,274
property taxes and how much the

2557
01:24:24,274 --> 01:24:24,840
companies and corporations.

2558
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:27,509
Hey, how much of that is is

2559
01:24:27,509 --> 01:24:29,770
that they're contributing and

2560
01:24:29,770 --> 01:24:32,140
I'd like to know that.

2561
01:24:32,140 --> 01:24:32,480
>> On the property tax about

2562
01:24:32,480 --> 01:24:34,880
60% of our revenue. Is

2563
01:24:35,251 --> 01:24:36,151
residential, but that includes

2564
01:24:36,151 --> 01:24:38,551
apartments as well. Right?

2565
01:24:39,487 --> 01:24:42,487
Multi-family is part of the

2566
01:24:42,892 --> 01:24:45,892
residential. Yes. So I would

2567
01:24:46,270 --> 01:24:46,562
say about 53 to 54%.

2568
01:24:46,562 --> 01:24:49,465
The city's tax base, it's

2569
01:24:49,465 --> 01:24:49,999
probably less now. We have to

2570
01:24:49,999 --> 01:24:52,399
recalculate it. It was 53.

2571
01:24:53,100 --> 01:24:53,402
54 from just single-family

2572
01:24:53,402 --> 01:24:55,170
residential.

2573
01:24:55,170 --> 01:24:58,140
But that was before the values

2574
01:24:58,140 --> 01:24:59,174
have gone down some so it might

2575
01:24:59,174 --> 01:25:00,442
be close to 50, 50. Then you

2576
01:25:00,442 --> 01:25:00,910
have the apartment with row

2577
01:25:00,910 --> 01:25:02,910
apartments because the

2578
01:25:03,747 --> 01:25:04,880
residential but into the

2579
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:06,880
residential calculation.

2580
01:25:07,449 --> 01:25:10,287
It's we've the city for the

2581
01:25:10,287 --> 01:25:13,287
last 10 years has been trying

2582
01:25:13,590 --> 01:25:14,124
to more right-size that we were

2583
01:25:14,124 --> 01:25:16,524
at sick almost 65% about.

2584
01:25:18,940 --> 01:25:18,694
Together about 15 years ago.

2585
01:25:18,694 --> 01:25:21,897
And so we brought it down 5%.

2586
01:25:21,897 --> 01:25:23,300
But as as I mentioned last

2587
01:25:23,300 --> 01:25:24,734
night, we had it.

2588
01:25:24,734 --> 01:25:27,134
2 billion dollars and net

2589
01:25:28,304 --> 01:25:28,804
growth last year and the on the

2590
01:25:28,804 --> 01:25:29,805
commercial side and the

2591
01:25:29,805 --> 01:25:32,800
residential reduction kind of

2592
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:33,810
took that off the books because

2593
01:25:33,810 --> 01:25:35,211
it's we're a large city.

2594
01:25:35,211 --> 01:25:35,812
So it takes a look. Takes a

2595
01:25:35,812 --> 01:25:38,782
while to get enough values on

2596
01:25:38,782 --> 01:25:40,650
the business side to start

2597
01:25:40,650 --> 01:25:42,184
balancing that out.

2598
01:25:42,184 --> 01:25:42,685
From a long-term perspective

2599
01:25:42,685 --> 01:25:45,722
for us as a citizen as a

2600
01:25:45,722 --> 01:25:47,357
taxpayer, you just thought of

2601
01:25:47,357 --> 01:25:47,824
yourself as a taxpayer.

2602
01:25:47,824 --> 01:25:49,893
You want to have more

2603
01:25:49,893 --> 01:25:51,527
commercial and business paying

2604
01:25:51,527 --> 01:25:54,831
taxes to keep our. Taxes low.

2605
01:25:54,831 --> 01:25:56,165
And so that's the Ying and Yang

2606
01:25:56,165 --> 01:25:57,200
of.

2607
01:25:57,200 --> 01:25:57,801
Everybody wants their taxes

2608
01:25:57,801 --> 01:25:58,400
lower. But lots of times they

2609
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:01,137
don't want a business located

2610
01:26:01,137 --> 01:26:04,441
in close to where they live.

2611
01:26:04,441 --> 01:26:08,410
So it's that back and forth.

2612
01:26:09,790 --> 01:26:10,480
>> And everyone said earlier, I

2613
01:26:10,480 --> 01:26:12,716
heard you say that hope is get

2614
01:26:12,716 --> 01:26:14,718
hopes team is getting cut.

2615
01:26:14,718 --> 01:26:15,317
And I was asking. If you can

2616
01:26:15,317 --> 01:26:17,717
provide some more information,

2617
01:26:17,721 --> 01:26:21,321
but worth of services are going

2618
01:26:21,757 --> 01:26:22,359
to go and what the city

2619
01:26:22,359 --> 01:26:24,827
apartment will be for our ice

2620
01:26:24,827 --> 01:26:25,695
caps this population. Sure.

2621
01:26:25,695 --> 01:26:26,229
So the.

2622
01:26:26,229 --> 01:26:27,960
>> The actual services not

2623
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:27,697
being eliminated just can be

2624
01:26:27,697 --> 01:26:30,635
done by a different group that

2625
01:26:30,635 --> 01:26:30,834
can be done by folks on the ems

2626
01:26:30,834 --> 01:26:32,834
side.

2627
01:26:33,503 --> 01:26:34,105
>> Versus the dual role.

2628
01:26:34,105 --> 01:26:36,340
Firefighters who are. We'll go

2629
01:26:36,340 --> 01:26:36,940
back to the stations and can

2630
01:26:36,940 --> 01:26:38,909
fight fires. Because currently

2631
01:26:38,909 --> 01:26:42,112
there doing that work and we

2632
01:26:42,112 --> 01:26:43,547
have to pay somebody else over

2633
01:26:43,547 --> 01:26:44,147
time to be in the in the

2634
01:26:44,147 --> 01:26:45,480
firehouse. So we get him back

2635
01:26:45,480 --> 01:26:46,651
in the firehouse will reduce

2636
01:26:46,651 --> 01:26:48,385
the cost of the overtime.

2637
01:26:48,385 --> 01:26:51,655
That's what the savings is and

2638
01:26:51,655 --> 01:26:54,655
ems folks will continue to

2639
01:26:54,825 --> 01:26:56,825
deliver that service.

2640
01:26:59,964 --> 01:27:01,865
>> I just want

2641
01:27:01,865 --> 01:27:03,633
to support the man over there

2642
01:27:03,633 --> 01:27:06,803
said we need to go for hire

2643
01:27:06,803 --> 01:27:07,370
tax rate.

2644
01:27:07,370 --> 01:27:09,770
>> Just one where you

2645
01:27:10,408 --> 01:27:12,408
can vote.

2646
01:27:12,676 --> 01:27:14,578
>> I mean, I think we can do

2647
01:27:14,578 --> 01:27:16,713
that. And Ed, I must say, as

2648
01:27:16,713 --> 01:27:19,113
we've advocated for libraries,

2649
01:27:20,685 --> 01:27:21,419
but I'm going to advocate for

2650
01:27:21,419 --> 01:27:23,320
the front-facing Parks and

2651
01:27:23,320 --> 01:27:23,954
Rec Department, the co

2652
01:27:23,954 --> 01:27:25,954
compliance folks, developmental

2653
01:27:26,890 --> 01:27:26,590
Services.

2654
01:27:26,590 --> 01:27:30,260
>> I deal with them as a

2655
01:27:30,260 --> 01:27:32,426
neighborhood later every day,

2656
01:27:32,896 --> 01:27:36,000
every day. So I really think

2657
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:37,340
that if we can. This is not a

2658
01:27:37,340 --> 01:27:39,402
final product under. It's not a

2659
01:27:39,402 --> 01:27:41,705
final product, but if that is

2660
01:27:41,705 --> 01:27:42,240
on possible, an incremental

2661
01:27:42,240 --> 01:27:44,640
increase that could help.

2662
01:27:44,742 --> 01:27:45,420
Those departments would be

2663
01:27:45,420 --> 01:27:46,244
beneficial.

2664
01:27:46,244 --> 01:27:49,244
>> You sound like are council

2665
01:27:49,513 --> 01:27:50,281
members yesterday and the day

2666
01:27:50,281 --> 01:27:52,281
before yesterday.

2667
01:27:53,584 --> 01:27:56,853
I would suggest you tune in

2668
01:27:56,853 --> 01:27:58,853
tomorrow's budget meeting.

2669
01:28:05,162 --> 01:28:07,162
Calming myself.

2670
01:28:08,432 --> 01:28:11,432
>> I get excited very easily

2671
01:28:14,106 --> 01:28:17,106
I'm now thinking about parks

2672
01:28:18,209 --> 01:28:19,243
and recreation. There was a

2673
01:28:19,243 --> 01:28:20,811
bond issue. We voted for.

2674
01:28:20,811 --> 01:28:23,811
We supposedly increase some of

2675
01:28:24,882 --> 01:28:25,583
those dollar amounts. But yet.

2676
01:28:25,583 --> 01:28:27,983
In reference to our

2677
01:28:28,853 --> 01:28:30,200
neighborhood, we're not seeing

2678
01:28:30,200 --> 01:28:32,420
any benefits from it.

2679
01:28:33,290 --> 01:28:36,290
Again, I'm dealing with Park.

2680
01:28:41,532 --> 01:28:42,600
And the other question I have

2681
01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:44,968
is. The coordination of

2682
01:28:44,968 --> 01:28:48,568
the people that read black top

2683
01:28:50,740 --> 01:28:51,108
our streets and when they re

2684
01:28:51,108 --> 01:28:54,108
blacktop them because I waited

2685
01:28:54,546 --> 01:28:56,381
20 years for Samuels Avenue to

2686
01:28:56,381 --> 01:28:57,810
get a new blacktop.

2687
01:28:57,810 --> 01:29:00,810
One week after it was

2688
01:29:00,751 --> 01:29:01,118
completely done. They started

2689
01:29:01,118 --> 01:29:03,120
digging up for a

2690
01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:05,520
water line that ruined

2691
01:29:06,390 --> 01:29:08,790
everything that they did.

2692
01:29:09,194 --> 01:29:09,760
>> So now you go.

2693
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:13,360
In front of my house because

2694
01:29:13,531 --> 01:29:14,266
they transfer the water line

2695
01:29:14,266 --> 01:29:16,869
from the odd side of the street

2696
01:29:16,869 --> 01:29:20,105
to the even side of the street

2697
01:29:20,105 --> 01:29:23,750
at my property. And when they

2698
01:29:23,750 --> 01:29:25,443
filled in the black top, they

2699
01:29:25,443 --> 01:29:26,440
didn't They created the ditch

2700
01:29:26,440 --> 01:29:29,644
and it took 2 years before the

2701
01:29:30,315 --> 01:29:30,749
ditch became a only a little

2702
01:29:30,749 --> 01:29:33,749
from come help. So a

2703
01:29:35,921 --> 01:29:38,560
coordination of where the city

2704
01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:39,858
works on road repair and road

2705
01:29:39,858 --> 01:29:41,858
construction and road

2706
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:43,896
resurfacing. Nice to have a

2707
01:29:43,896 --> 01:29:45,696
little more coordination show.

2708
01:29:45,696 --> 01:29:48,433
We don't pay to have a brand

2709
01:29:48,433 --> 01:29:49,000
new road and a week later get

2710
01:29:49,000 --> 01:29:49,166
something worse than what we

2711
01:29:49,166 --> 01:29:50,167
had.

2712
01:29:50,167 --> 01:29:52,236
>> I agree with you that we try

2713
01:29:52,236 --> 01:29:54,236
to coordinate our

2714
01:29:54,373 --> 01:29:55,339
transportation public works and

2715
01:29:55,339 --> 01:29:55,941
the water to the water

2716
01:29:55,941 --> 01:29:56,475
Department tries to coordinate

2717
01:29:56,475 --> 01:29:59,177
one of the things that you

2718
01:29:59,177 --> 01:30:02,177
can't coordinate or you can't.

2719
01:30:03,247 --> 01:30:04,820
Can't time is one of the water

2720
01:30:04,820 --> 01:30:06,820
line breaks.

2721
01:30:06,685 --> 01:30:07,319
So the water line break, Sarah

2722
01:30:07,319 --> 01:30:10,221
and bright. This was a new

2723
01:30:10,221 --> 01:30:11,256
water line that was larger

2724
01:30:11,256 --> 01:30:11,624
because of the Kelly apartment

2725
01:30:11,624 --> 01:30:13,624
com.

2726
01:30:14,158 --> 01:30:14,793
>> So those development and

2727
01:30:14,793 --> 01:30:15,359
it was for the development that

2728
01:30:15,359 --> 01:30:17,496
was put in a billion. That's

2729
01:30:17,496 --> 01:30:20,767
that's what is more tied to

2730
01:30:20,767 --> 01:30:22,634
the development. Any other

2731
01:30:22,634 --> 01:30:24,634
questions?

2732
01:30:24,703 --> 01:30:25,269
Well, thank you all. Thank you

2733
01:30:25,269 --> 01:30:27,207
for coming out this Council

2734
01:30:27,207 --> 01:30:27,807
Mbeki want to close the show.

2735
01:30:27,807 --> 01:30:28,407
Are you good? Okay.

2736
01:30:28,407 --> 01:30:31,407
>> Well, thank you all. Thanks

2737
01:30:31,411 --> 01:30:34,411
for being here. Appreciate it.