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Mayor and City Council Budget Memo September 4, 1996 3 · Cut $5,500 from the City Council budget by deleting the purchase of the City Council Chambers computer software and presentation package...or move this expense to the equipment reserve or certificate budget. · Cut 0-$8,000 from the Administration budget by putting less funds into the reserves for the copy machine that is anticipated to be needed in 1998. · Cut 0-$4,000 from the Government Buildings budget by moving the window coverings expense to either equipment reserves or certificates. · Cut 0-$2,000 from the street painting (striping) program. · Cut 0-$2,000 from the snow plowing contract. · Cut 0-$3,000 from the youth initiative proposal. · Cut 0-$2,000 by reducing the Ice Arena Reserve allocation. · Cut 0-$1,000 from the Recreation budget in the Cultural Activities line item (the proposed budget included the contribution for the Community Theater increasing from $1,000 to $2,000). · Direct staff to identify $15,000 in smaller miscellaneous cuts and revenue additions throughout the general fund budgets. If the City Council desires that the budget be further reduced by up to $87,700 in order for the city tax rate change to be somewhere between 0 and 3 percent, then more dramatic budget adjustment steps will need to be taken. One possibility would be to not hire the mechanic and other positions and to reduce the City Council Contingency fund. Another possibility is to move even more of the general fund capital outlay items to the equipment reserves or the three (or five) year equipment certificate payment plan. Additionally, the Council could look at keeping the surface water management (SWM) levy at the same level as last year and moving the proposed additional tax revenues into the general fund budget. However, more SWM projects are anticipated in the next few years for helping to improve parts of the county ditch system that the city would take over (especially ditch 28) and to help address pending surface water needs for development on the east side of Highway 169. The main purpose of these September worksessions is to close the budget gap and to discuss the tax revenue issue. It should be noted that what the City Council needs to certify to the County by September 16, 1996, is the proposed maximum levy and that this amount can be decreased, but can not be increased, in December when we have our public hearing on the 1997 budget and levy. At the September budget worksession, the City Council should consider: A motion approving the EDA tax levy resolution A motion approving the HRA tax levy resolution A motion to adjust the debt levies per the recommendation of the Assistant City Administrator (Lori will have a handout and make a presentation on these adjustments at the worksession)