City Council Meeting

Stacey Hardy-ChandlerThose things are just so important. They're preventative. So when I think about those things, it puts me between scenario, some mutated or altered is a better word, I guess, version of scenario three, four. That's where I'm sort of landing. So my question is, is there a variation on scenarios three and four that when you consider the revised CIP and remove the elements that impact people, meaning positions, I am not in favor of any vacancies being frozen. and I think that that adds work to the remaining people. And the nonprofit grant program, those kinds of things. But I do think that the real estate fund is on the table, the cash transfer, the deferral of the schools for as little time as possible from four,

Billy BatesI would have grave concerns about but my idea would be to take scenario four and just take that 1.2 million from the school's projects and use that in place of, as Mr. Martinez suggested, in place of the school bond project, but just do the $1.2 million instead of the $3 million, and then just zero out the meals tax increase, and then take whatever that delta is there between that $1.2 million and then the, 0.5% meals tax revenue plus the further reduction to the CIP transfer that would be possible and put that toward, you know, while still keeping the in compliance with the 5% policy and then put that toward the nonprofit grant program and then maybe raise either the real estate tax rate or the property tax rate whatever additional little amount is

needed to bring us back up to three hundred thousand for the nonprofit grant program because again I strongly do not believe this is the time to cut that I still have grave concerns about zeroing out the EDA real estate resource fund and the the Renaissance housing fund and deferring the school bond project but my idea for kind of a compromise