City Council Special Meeting

Lubkemanstaffso if I can make a talk about delaying adoption of the budget and if there's a desire to do that perhaps we wait until you get to that point on the agenda for the budget as the CFO said that these items are not they're directly related but they're not items that are affected at all by the county budget process

Thomas PetersonSo I know that takes some time. We've taken a lot of time in the past. been a compressed time frame for this budget process. Significantly compressed, so that's one of the things that I'm surmising is possibly happening here is some reaction to the fact that we've had this real compression. I'm certainly interested in thoughts on others in that, but that seems to be an important part of what's being considered here.

Stacey Hardy-Chandlerso I I think ongoing understanding can still happen if we are going to set a precedent of analysis of another jurisdiction's budget I think that's a dangerous precedent to set. I think we can have those questions, and still it's not an or. I think we can do both. I think we can continue that understanding, use the mechanisms that we have as part of our budget process, approve the budget, and do both. I don't think one prevents the other. I also think we have trouble following up with our promises. We promised our community that we would finalize this budget today. I think that there are things that we need to follow through on when we put it out there for weeks and weeks and weeks that we're going to do.

Anthony Amoseveryone for the reddit i'm hearing tonight we need to be better and we are grown-ups so it the second youngest guy on council to say that we don't need to bash each other over a budget process that is strenuous. I think we can say everyone here is acting in good faith. They just have different opinions. So what I suggest that we do is we work with a two and a half and add in the language that we had tonight, and we get this approved sometime between now and Friday.

Thomas Petersonwhen you come down to it. So this is a quarter. We went through pretty quick, pretty hard of people to work with on that. I think when we do this again, it may be a little different. I think our budget process is something we've learned a lot about, and we're going to probably spend a little bit of time talking about how do we really want a budget process to work next time around. We've had so much conversation around capital improvement projects, the CIP, for those of you who are listening in, we, you know, talk about CIP all the time. I think that we need to take a pretty look at the CIP for this city, review it, look at its structural issues, this, that, and the other. A lot of money goes into it, a lot of obligations,

and doesn't head off in a dead-end direction. So I really appreciate all of the people in the community who have tried to be a part of that process. I know I have received so many emails from people saying, this is great because we feel like now we've got something we can get involved in. We just need to know how do we continue doing this and how do we do it better. And I hope that is something we pick up in addition to the budget process, the CIP, et cetera, et cetera. I really hope we pick up very seriously on this whole issue of how we enable people to get involved with us early on things and stick with it all the way. And I'll just thank everybody who has helped on all of this at all levels.