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. . . Elk River City Council Meeting August 30, 1993 Page 6 Regarding the equipment certificate budget, the Council discussed overall goal of reducing the City's use of this financing tool. number of sirens and police vehicles were discussed. the The Regarding the landfill budget, questions were raised regarding the estimates for environmental and legal services related to landfill activity. Discussion also took place regarding the transfers out to the general fund. The Council indicated its support for the HRA levy and its plans for redevelopment activities in 1994. It was noted that the reserve for future projects would be less due to a request to spend some money in 1993 on the Chuba project. The Council reviewed the EDA budget and offered no comments. Regarding the special assessment budget, it was noted that the total payment is down in 1994, but that payments in 1994 include assessments for the first time for the Meadowvale Heights Park land. 7.4. 1994 Expenditures The City Administrator discussed the overall need to control expenditures when putting together the municipal budget. It was indicated that a number of the new programs were being proposed in 1994 as well as a number of new staffing positions. It was noted that consistent with past years, the personal services category is about two-thirds of the total expenditures. Also noted was the fact that.. the capital outlay expenditures are proposed to increase by almost 100% and now are projected to be about 7% of the total general fund expenditures. This increase is in addition to the 50% increase that took place last year in this category. The general fund $3,518,100. This is budget. This is budget gap between $145,800. expenditures are proposed in the amount of a $511,700 or 17% increase over the adopted 1993 approximately 5% more than projected revenues. The proposed expenditures and available revenues is The $511,700 increase can mostly be found in the personal services increase of $320,000 and the capital outlay increase of $116,000. By category, the major increases are in police ($171,500), fire ($93,700) planning and building and zoning ($112,850), administration ($69,650), parks ($17,250) and recreation ($25,200). Each individual department budget was reviewed by the Council. Highlights discussed by the Council include the following: - the shifting of some of the expenses from the economic development budget to the EDA budget the increases in the administration/finance department personal services area