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2000 Budget July 21, 1999 Faile 5 . revenue in 2000, but we would also reduce the police department expenditure budget by $28,000 for personal services for this C80. Accordingly, by not accepting this grant, we will have a positive impact of $20,000 on the 2000 budget. As you can tell, the intergovernmental revenues category has a lot of shifting of funds depending on the availability of grants, penalties for TIF Districts, and new programs either being created or eliminated by the state. Charees for Services Overp.ll, this category is projected to increase $11,950 or 2.7 percent to a total of $4~,450. . Only three line items have changed in this budget category. The biggest change is that plan check fees have increased by $39,950 to a total of $167,700. This is a 31.3 percent increase over the adopted 1999 budget. (In the 1999 budget, this line item increased by $15,000, and in 1998 this line item increased by $21,750.) Plan check fees are based on a percentage of the building permit (approximately 60 percent). This 2000 increase is significant and, truthfully, is more than I am comfortable with, but is based on recent actual revenues. Historically, staff has been conservative in projecting plan check fee revenues (and building permit fee revenues) in order to not become dependent on this revenue source in case the economy goes bad and in order to have some revenues available at the end of the year to add to the cash flow reserves per the recommendation from the auditor... this increase in plan check fees was unfortunately necessary in order to offset the loss of revenue from the school liaison program. Forty-three thousand dollars is projected for school liaison revenue in 2000 and this is a $27,000 reduction from the adopted 1999 budget. This revenue amount was accepted by the City Council a few months ago...the only other change in this category is a $1,000 reduction in revenues generated by selling copies. . For your information, the administrative project revenue is based on 21h percent fee being charged on public improvement bonds that are issued by the city. The 2000 revenue is based on part of the east Elk River trunk sewer and water project. The revenues from this improvement project are being split between the 1999,2000, and 2001 budgets...the fire calls and contracts revenues are projected in the same amount as last year and this is a very difficult revenue to predict. If revenues are higher, typically then expenses are also higher for part time salaries for the firefighters...the recreation fees are projected in the same amount as last year, but it should be noted that we have never exceeded $60,000 in revenues from this program and it is expected that the 1999 budget is a high estimate. We did receive $58,600 in revenue in 1997, but this amount is the highest amount ever received from this program.