City Council Work Session

Anthony Amosjust quickly on that. I mean, again, it goes back to my point on education. It's more so, I mean, if you look at the main causes, it's essentially schools and CIP. But having that contextual factor, people can understand that narrative a lot more clearly. I mean, I was explaining the budget process to my partner, and she was like, nine and a half cents, oh my goodness. Then I went through the CIP projects, Van Dyke Park, went through the school contract and how we're, in my opinion, on the wrong end of that deal. and when I broke that down for her she's like well you know when you put it like that so having all everything on the table completely transparent I think that's extremely beneficial

Stacey Hardy-Chandlerand not just isolated pieces of information, not only do we get more input, we get more understanding about the budget process, and it carries more credibility to your little sample group of one to be able to really draw the lines between the dots. So I'm in favor of that while recognizing that we're not there yet and how we get there collectively while meeting the requirements of the decisions that we have to make now is something that we have to all agree and work together on.

Anthony AmosNo, I completely agree with the mayor on that point, and that's part of my personal frustration with the public hearing process. When they did a national study a few years ago, they looked at public hearings across the country group of people who showed up to every public hearing with similar complaints and even with the budget process I saw with the county it's either a group that's advocating for a particular thing usually on behalf of like for example like parks or libraries or people who want the tax rate reduced it is generally older white retired people who don't use public transit it's all those factors so it doesn't have to be a budget town hall but I do want some kind of venue where it's

Brian Fosterstaffso so i think there are potential options that we can look at absolutely but again did not want to presuppose any of those things in terms of trying to balance the budget. That's an action outside of the budget process that there's no guarantee for us in making a recommendation that council might take. Understood. Thank you.