City Council Meeting

John Farrellpublic commentTo continue providing the level of service and professionalism that our community deserves and expects, we must be able to recruit and retain the very best officers. I respectfully ask the council to keep this in mind as you move forward in the budget process. I've provided a copy of a handout that I'll leave with the clerk if you're interested in some of the comparisons that we did. Thank you.

Kyle LuxYeah, and so the first is you on at least an annual basis as a city and certainly through your budget process and we're even here even more often than that are routinely looking at what are the long-term projections for your debt levels given what's in your CIP. And so your guardrails, you've had city council adopted policies for years and years. You've adhered to those policies. That's what you see up on the screen right now as of July 1st. policies up there and so those are first and foremost your guardrails and it's looked at annually as well and so you as a city council each and every year you're looking at the CIP you're looking at the budget you're making those adjustments as need be obviously with your professional staff and being able

Austin SachsBut we do see that increase need on the capital side in terms of the CIP. The level of capital investment compared to the five years prior is increased over the next five to ten year time period. And so I think the biggest point on this page is in that blue box that we'll continue to look at this annually throughout the budget process. And we've got the option to course correct as necessary each and every fiscal year going forward to take into account the most recent data. And then on the last page, we've just got next steps. Like I mentioned, in April, we'll be back to introduce an ordinance and really look for council public hearing and action at your May meeting. And that would authorize us to move forward with the VRA program,

Mr. AlexanderstaffI think that we would probably handle these as we typically have. This is my first through the budget process, but I'll turn it over to CFO to address anything we've done differently.