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all right we do have a presentation for

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for this as well we can we can go
through the presentation fairly quickly

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and bryce is bringing up the first few
slides so i'll introduce this at least

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we know that we've uh
presented this to you

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actually so
adopted the preliminary budget back in

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in september and then we've had some
discussions about this since that time

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but for tonight we have
conducting the public hearing and the

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proposed
budget to the public

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and the purpose is not to address the
market values but that uh

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residents we had a few calls on that
brenda has dealt with those on a

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one-on-one basis so
we would receive any public comment and

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it appears that we may have scared them
away at this point and then we have the

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2021
tax levy collectible in 2022 and then

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approving the 2022 budget as well as the
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salary and wage schedule
the next slide the budget process is uh

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got a very small font in in these boxes
here but january is our new fiscal years

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you know april through may city council
would workshop on the budget and levy

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goals if we're um
looking at for for the following year

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and then staff submits our capital
improvement plan requests by the end of

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may so that budget process begins in
that first quarter

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um or the first quarter begin the second
quarter june july and august is when we

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prepare and uh brenda primarily prepares
the preliminary budget and levy uh for

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consideration we workshop that um
sometimes

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in august and then the city council
is looking at approving that preliminary

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levy by the end of september
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the adopted levy then which in this case
it was a five percent adopted levy um we

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look at all of the additional additional
elements in that fourth quarter council

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workshop on the capital improvement plan
adoption of the capital improvement plan

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preliminary tax statements are mailed
out and then the budget hearing and

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adoption of the budget levy which is
what we're doing right this evening

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budget outcomes of course our balanced
budget and to continue to maintain city

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services
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we do have an increase of
seasonal staff wages of two dollars per

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hour
we did in the proposed 2022 budget we

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have a 0.3 fte additional hours for one
of our positions

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and uh additional three months are
included in the budget

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as you remember we deferred
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hiring of the code enforcement rental
housing coordinator until uh the second

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quarter of 2021 so that is now a full
year fte position or it's a part-time

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position but it's budgeted for a full
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and
the last slide here

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um
we have some other

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significant purchases coming up
obviously the ladder truck which we

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talked about
certainly 140 000 will be a nice little

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assistance to that uh fund
for for that ladder truck um

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2022 street improvements on yorkton
ridge wood woodland maple lane and ryan

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drive
still still to see the woodland avenue

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and the ryan drive
public hearings for that

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rondo park improvements with the arca
funds coming up and

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one additional element on your agenda
later tonight

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facility assessment improvements
park improvements and

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again no debt levy is proposed for 202.

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with that oh we do have the strategic
plan items here too these are something

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that we just
wanted to to make a few notes i won't

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read through all of these items but the
four key criteria in the strategic plan

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enhancing and empowering the community
creating operational efficiency

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maximizing our assets to catalyze
development and mandating action and

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accountability each of those have
several elements or one or more elements

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that are included in the 2022 budget
that apply to those items

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so
with that i will

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move it on to brenda to go through the
specifics of the budgetary

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that council approved in september
we sent that levy over to ramsey county

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and they sent out 2022 proposed property
tax bills

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to
the taxpayers here in little canada

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and based on that tax bill what we'll be
talking about tonight is for every

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dollar that is on that proposed property
tax bill uh 21 cents comes back here to

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the city
uh 28 cents goes to the school district

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43 cents to the county um eight cents
goes to other taxing jurisdictions

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that's primarily the watershed but what
we'll be discussing tonight

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is that 21 cents that comes back to the
city

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here is our
showing our certified levee for 2021 we

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were at three million five hundred
eighty two thousand three hundred thirty

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dollars
based on our preliminary levy which is

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also option one tonight uh we would have
an increase of five percent to that levy

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or 179 thousand eighty dollars
and then we also do have option two uh

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to consider uh that's a four point five
percent uh increase in the levy or 161

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thousand one hundred and fifty dollars
um and then just to uh note that our

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property tax levy uh the primary uh
source of the property tax levy is for

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the general fund that's our chief
operating budget

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but then we do have a portion that goes
to our fire equipment fund that helps

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fund our fire equipment purchases
and then we have 122 200

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that goes to our infrastructure fund
that funds our street projects each year

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uh the reasons uh for those levy
increases of either five percent or four

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point five
are listed here we have our salary and

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health insurance increases for our
employees

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it is accounting for 1.55 percent of
that levy increase

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and then we have some market salary
adjustments that

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haven't been identified the positions
but we are going through a position

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and classif or a
position and compensation study here at

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the city
and that study will be completed and

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presented to council in january february
so we have just over one percent of our

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levy increase is for possible
adjustments

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based on that study
our police services contract um it is uh

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0.74 percent of the levy increase uh
just important to note that uh with the

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preliminary levy that was going to be
1.8 percent of the levy increase

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based on our preliminary contract with
ramsey county sheriff's department

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although
but because of a change in the

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allocation of the funding with the seven
contract cities

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that is now at point seven four percent
of the levy increase

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we have a public works reallocation uh
the public works had a restructuring

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earlier in this year
and when we looked at

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what the public works staff was doing
they were

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being coded they were cutting their time
sheets

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to more water and sewer
activities but in reality they were

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doing more street maintenance and so
we're recommending to move those over to

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the general fund
for those street maintenance activities

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and so that's a half a percent the levy
increase

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and then the fire services contract
and it's 0.49 percent of levy increase

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and i just wanted to note on that though
that the fire contract in 2021

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little canada fire department who you
know provides fire services here for the

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city
for 2021 they came in with a

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3.5 reduction for 2021
this year they have a five percent or

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four percent increase and so the
two-year average of their contract

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is just a quarter of a percent

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based on those levees that option one
option two

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we take that uh versus the the tax
capacity that tax capacity that's set by

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the ramsey county assessor's office
but our city tax rate based on option

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one and option 2
are either 25.559

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or
25.419

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which is a 6.57 percent increase or 5.99
increase in order to put that in

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perspective if we go to the next slide
what that means here are all the

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communities in ramsey county
and their tax rates based on the

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preliminary levy
as you can see either option one or

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option two our tax rate
compared to the other communities in

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ramsey county we are the third lowest
we had been

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the sixth lowest for several years in
2021

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we dropped to the fourth lowest and now
with this preliminary levy at five

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percent
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or four point five percent we do drop
again to uh the third lowest so our tax

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rate uh is declining
based on these levees

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and we can go to the next slide
but then

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here is based on i picked one of them i
picked the 4.5 increase

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in pink there is our
median value home

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in little canada had a value of 293 000
in 2021

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that has increased by 3.75 percent
for calculating the 2022 taxes so 304

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thousand
uh important they paid 676

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last year
based on the 4.5 they would pay

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7.47 it would be a 71 dollar increase
and the next slide is showing

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though that based on either option one
or option two

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this is a newer slide and the numbers
are pretty small but what it's looking

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is all the communities in ramsey county
is looking at their median value home

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and it's taking their
preliminary tax rate and it's saying

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what they would pay in city property
taxes so as you can see here

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either option one or option two option
one we're at seven hundred fifty one

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dollars for option two we're at seven
hundred and forty seven uh we are the

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third
lowest in ramsey county

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and only a four dollar difference and a
four dollar difference between the four

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and a half percent or the five percent
levy

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um and so of that the four and a half
percent levy like i said they would pay

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747 dollars and what that's funding is
the the largest portion is our police

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services budget that 333 dollars a year
of that property tax bill goes for

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police services or
27.75 per month

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and then we go with our fire services at
118 dollars per year

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our parks recreation community services
at 98 that's uh for maintaining our

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parks
public works that's for our snow plowing

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our street maintenance at 77 we have
general government at 65

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capital infrastructure as we had uh
talked about

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in the levee we have that 122
200 and so 25 dollars

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annually is for that street
reconstruction

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community development which is our
planning and building inspections is at

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21
and then we round it out with our

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contingency
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747 dollars per year or 62 dollars per
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that is mayor council
that is the administration finance city

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clerk
correct

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the city hall building the maintenance
of the city hall building is in there

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too
okay

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great question
that was nice to have that in there

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service
here

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we're going to be talking a little bit
more in detail about the general fund

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but as
council knows and the public we've got

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a budget document that's a hundred pages
or so

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and we talked about all about the funds
that we're budgeting tonight and so

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those are the budgets
that we'll be

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approving this evening

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and more on the general fund so that is
you know we've talked about this before

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but this is our chief operating budget
here for the city uh we have a balanced

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budget and so here first of all is the
expenditure side we've got 4 million

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three hundred eighty three thousand
three hundred and ten dollars

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uh for that budget in expenditures the
largest portion is forty one percent for

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police services uh parks and community
services is just under thirteen percent

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and then general government just under
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public works 11 community development
and then we rounded out with contingency

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and then on the revenue side
since we have a balanced budget we have

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the the same dollar amount there four
million three hundred eighty three

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thousand three hundred and ten dollars
for 2022

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and since the services that we talked
about on the slide before with the

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police services fire services
plowing streets

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maintaining our parks we don't charge
for those services

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and so we need to collect revenue for
that and so property taxes is how we pay

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for that and so that's
71 percent of our general fund budget

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and then licenses and permits are
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intergovernmental revenue and we go down
from there with license and permits we

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did increase that
by 36

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300 from the 2021 budget
anticipating that we will have increased

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building permit activity here in little
canada in 2022

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had we not had that
we would have either needed to cut

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expenditures or increase the property
tax levy further

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property tax relief if there is anybody
that would

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like further information the state does
provide direct property tax relief to

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taxpayers
we've listed four programs there the

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homeowners
homestead credit refund special property

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tax refund the renter's property tax
refund and the senior citizens property

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tax defrail program
they can contact the minnesota

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department of revenue the phone number
is there on the screen

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or the website or they can contact the
city and ask for me and i would be happy

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to assist them also

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tonight then we would just ask uh for
you to close the pub public hearing then

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to approve the 2022 preliminary property
tax levy either at option one or option

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two or another option
approve the 2022 budget and then approve

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the 2022 salary wage schedule
heidi does have will verbally give you

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an update on that schedule we have a
couple changes that we're making not in

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the dollars but um on some
certifications on that

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with that i can take any questions

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yes i'm mightily impressed that we've
been able to decrease the

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level of city tax rate relative to our
pure cities of the county um year after

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year despite having uh increases what it
tells me is that as a city we've done a

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good job being
moderate in our approach and not

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spending too much um
and i think that ought to be commended

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so uh i
am just it's a miracle that we're

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we've gone down as far as we have been
despite not particularly wanting too

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much for
for for any given thing here in the city

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everything still works and that's
good that we're not cutting to the bone

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too close

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mr mayor and council members actually i
think one of the reasons just uh

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observation but the other two cities
that were in front of us are

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lower than us in the past would be wiper
township and badness heights and

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their
biggest reason for jumping is

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they have had some deferred investment i
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streets and and improvements
and um wiper township did a pretty

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massive
bonding

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project to do some some catch-up
and uh insights is also increasing their

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their public streets funding um in
recent years and so

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um
kudos to you that have done a long-term

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you know capital improvement plan and
tried to stick to that uh

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one million dollar range that's that's
kept our streets in really really good

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shape for a long period of time and uh
and has you know we've increased from

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that as needed so
um it's not just our personnel cost it's

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actually long-term policy decisions in
regards to our infrastructure that i

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think are making that that difference
well you know i would agree with that

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chris but i also think that the staff
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from you on down everybody
brenda especially in the finance

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department have done very good job of
keeping us aware of where we're at

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and what our goals are and how do we get
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and
the thing that i've appreciated the most

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is how well staff listens
i i i do i commend all of you for that

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that you do listen you don't come in
with preconceived ideas

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uh it's not your way or the highway and
it's made

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working with you very easy and it's it's
been very healthy for us as

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a council i've
i can't say enough good things about

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that

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so i i guess i'll i'll pile on as well
as you know that the whole budget

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process now is i'm sorry guys the whole
budget process now is almost taking the

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full year right but it but it's it's
becoming a non-event it it because it's

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part of the nature it's part of what we
do

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you know on a monthly basis or quarterly
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it's less of an event to put the budget
together so i i think that the

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systematic way that the staff is going
through this is amazing i appreciate it

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chris also kudos to you for having a
breakthrough with the ramsey county

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sheriff's department and the contract
cities

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to you know we've
we've fought for years about we think

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we're paying a little too much share in
this and and

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you and the team have been able to put
together the right pitch

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to get a little tweak in there that that
saved this entire city a lot of money

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without repercussion you know it's not
less service we're

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we're
equalizing the load across the contract

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city so thanks for that

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so what do we need to do here accept the
budget first

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five or four and a half i will uh make
mostly close public hearings oh second

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there's a mole
motion to close public hearing all those

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in favor say aye opposed
always keep us in line tomorrow ocean

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carries fives here
we don't want them rushing the stage

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so with
i i would i'll make a motion that would

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go with the five percent
thank you because i was a could have

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done that too
i'll be the heavy this year

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somebody else's turn next year we will
have uh

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no
cost

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a month is not that great there's uh
potentially salary increases that are

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coming up that we need to
we need to deal with and

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that five percent will
will help a lot more

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i will second that motion
all right we have a motion in a second

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to increase the
levy to five percent all those in favor

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say aye aye aye
opposed

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motion carries 5-0
mayor i'll make the motion we adopt the

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2022 budget option one

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i have a motion in a second all those in
favor say aye

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aye opposed
well she carries 5-0

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we have to have a motion for
certifying the levy and all those

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where is that covered
you covered but i think let's have one

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more motion
to

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do the reduction in the debt levy
as council knows we have a scheduled

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levy for the public works building of
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we pay that with our water and sewer
fund

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and so we can certify that levy at zero

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zero a motion in a second
all those in favor say aye aye aye

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opposed
motion carries five zero