Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

James FeatherThank you. Others? Mr. Denton? Mr. Briggs? Anything? Just a couple thoughts of my own. I have similar concerns, questions as to those raised by Mr. Cunningham. I think our recommendation may look a little different this year. There are a couple things that cross my mind. First, we have a very large increase. You talk about 80-some million. That's just the general fund projects. When you look at the total funding, it's up 60% of the prior year, but the general fund, we're expecting to pay out of the general fund, 156%. There are some serious decisions that will have to be made because, of course, obviously there's funding options and incurring further indebtedness. That's what the council's job is in consultation with the CFO and our financial advisors.

but I almost feel like we may need to be ourselves may have to do a little bit more in terms of recommendations this year related to the potential risks of not being able to do everything we'd like to do again similar to what mr. Cunningham raised and the variability in the program also was quite interesting as mr. Cunningham pointed out overall program up this year 60% next year is going to be down 35% the next year up six next year down eight and for next million general fund down 68% from the prior year it feels like it should be a difficult thing to manage if I were trying to plan this and try to maintain reasonable tax rates and so forth that's what the City Council is elected for they have some difficult decisions to make but if there's any place that we

That's a $4 million investment. And that obviously the council will have to make the decision and listen to the community. But from what we're already hearing, that could be one that may be questionable. It's a small drop compared to the overall, in the bucket of the overall program. But there are things like that that we could certainly look at and think. The question is how the city will ultimately make its decisions about where the priorities lie. And there will be a limit to what they're willing to raise the tax rate to fund some of these things. When we look at a $51 million general fund increase, none of those are listed as financed, if you look at the current CIP proposal. I don't know if that's realistic or not, but $51 million spread onto the tax rates,