City Council Work Session and Regular Meeting

Stacy SummerfieldstaffI think we could definitely look. We are continuing to look at different ways to potentially, in small ways, lock some of COSTS. I THINK WE COULD CERTAINLY PARTNER WITH THE POTENTIAL FUTURE PARKS FOUNDATION TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS THERE, BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY CONCRETE NUMBERS.

Anthony AmosI mean I think we should keep looking at cost recovery and that's also why we have the parks foundation so I think that's an ongoing process well not just cost recovery but also privatization which I know we were going to cover tonight, but we're going to reschedule it, but seeing where we can also get private dollars for covering, but I think it should be a combination of multiple things. Reductions, how can we decrease our debt, but also cost recovery, privatization. Well, we're decreasing it. We're getting there. We're getting there. But at the end of the day, a lot of the debt that we have is CIP related and is not really completely assisting us with this general fund. so that's part of the reason why the proposal I brought up all that stuff but we got to get to

yeah and just so we don't go far too down this rabbit hole again we have a parks foundation to try to get private money to cover those events well they're supposed to assist with sponsorships that's one of the things yes we're looking for sponsorship opportunities for our our events that are run by parks and if if we're not doing that then we should be but the county they do summer concerts all the time that are completely free because they're covered by private donors so we have an opportunity to do that as well so that's not just an end-all be-all here