City Council Work Session

Dustin WrightstaffFUNDING. OUR NUMBER MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT SMALLER IF THAT STATE FUNDING WAS REMOVED. REGARDLESS, WE THINK THAT THIS DEMONSTRATES A REALLY IMPRESSIVE COMMITMENT TO THE SCHOOLS AND THE CITY OF FAIRFACTS. WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT. IN TERMS OF TIMELINE IN THE BUDGET PROCESS, WE, ON THE SCHOOL SIDE, WE WENT THROUGH A PROPOSED AND ADVERTISED BUDGET IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. OR PUBLIC HEARINGS ON BOTH OF THOSE. AND NOW WE'RE IN THIS PROCESS OF MOVING THROUGH THE CITY COUNCIL'S PROCESS. SO WE'VE GOT THIS JOINT SESSION TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE PUBLIC HEARINGS THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THIS MONTH IN APRIL AND THEN A VOTING PROCEDURE IN MAY. I WOULD JUST CLOSE BY SHARING OUR GRATITUDE FOR THE SUPPORT. WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY THIS EVENING

Daniel AlexanderstaffYeah, I think the challenge is we are coming in the middle of the budget process now. So we see this largely informing the work that's going to occur as we get into November, into, you know, the subsequent time. Does that make sense?

It's a really good point. And I think what would be a pretty aggressive timeline to get this in place so that it informs our discussion that typically starts at the end of the year as we move through the budget process which everyone gets really fixated on you know our financial plan occurring in and around this time frame it it does and should start much earlier in that process and so the timeline I think would would take us through you know the end of this year and into that process if that makes sense.

breathing process and adaptable to what we're seeing out in an environment and then providing general guidance on reporting cadence and and dashboard structure there's a lot of what is involved with this that lends itself to staff development and the work that we would be doing from an implementation standpoint which is owning the data governance the collection our system integration populating dashboards and and reports using data for operational management budgeting and continuous improvement and then delivering the quarterly reporting to council and an annual public summaries for us to talk about relative to not only the budget process, but as part of an ongoing cadence around performance management. So I think you know that we've started