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MEMORANDUM
DATE: September 9, 2020
TO: Mayor Troxell and City Councilmembers
THRU: Darin Atteberry, City Manager
FROM: Travis Storin, Interim Chief Financial Officer
RE: September 8, 2020 Work Session Summary: 2021 City Budget
The focus of the work session was a review of the Offers included in the 2021 City
Manager’s Recommended Budget. For this work session the following Outcomes were
discussed:
- Culture and Recreation
- Economic Health
- Environmental Health
- Transportation and Mobility
After a brief presentation on each Outcome, City Council dialogue ensued with responses
provided by staff. Attachment #1 contains the follow-up questions and requests not
addressed during this first budget work session. Responses will be provided in upcoming
Thursday Packs over the next couple months of budget discussion s.
The remaining Outcomes to be reviewed are:
- Neighborhood Livability and Social Health
- Safe Community
- High Performing Government
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Attachment #1
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Date Outcome
Council-
member Offer #Question / Request
8-Sep C&R Cunniff N/A
Please provide a version of both the Total Revenue chart and the Sales
and Use Tax Revenue chart that displays the inflationary impact of
COVID compared to prior years. Specifically, restate slides 3 and 4 from
the presentation based on CPI
8-Sep C&R
Cunniff /
Summers 43.4
Please provide additional information on the legitimate uses of
Conservation Trust funding and any restrictions on that funding source.
Also, what impact would a one-year deferment of $515k have on trail
development?
8-Sep C&R Stephens Various
Has staff been reaching out to potentially impacted groups, like swim
teams, about the reduced facility hours?
8-Sep C&R Gorgol 64.7
What would it take for the APP program to be expanded to include
murals at high traffic graffiti locations? Would additional funding be
necessary to service those areas?
8-Sep C&R
Gorgol /
Gutowski 50.9
Based on a discussion at a recent Urban Renewal Authority (URA) board
meeting, shat can be done to make the Northside Aztlan Community
Center (NACC) more accessible? What could be done at NACC to make
the facility and associated programming more accessible to all areas of
the community?
8-Sep ECON Gutowski 70.1 What are the COVID impacts to Lodging Tax revenues?
8-Sep ECON Cunniff 32.10
Please provide more information about the online processing fee
proposed to be charged to businesses submitting online sales tax filings
8-Sep ECON Stephens 40.5
Are there any additional City Give or volunteerism opportunties that
could help offset the proposed reductions to the Downtown Parks and
Amenities Maintenance Offer?
8-Sep ENV
Cunniff /
Pignataro
/ Stephens
27.9 &
27.10
Please provide detail on these proposed reductions for the Climate
Commitment and Air Quality Programming. Multiple Councilmembers
don't support these reductions, but may be ok with targeted reductions
to meals for Board and Commission meetings and reductions to staff
training, as those types of reductions are included in multiple Reduction
Offers
8-Sep ENV Gorgol N/A
What would be included in an Enhancement Offer to address the
potentially inequitable billing of manufactured home park residents,
since there is only 1one meter for the owner of the park?
8-Sep ENV Gorgol 27.6
What other opportunities are there for alternative uses for recycling
materials that no longer have an international market?
8-Sep T&M Cunniff 10.10
What is the decrease in dedicated tax revenue (the three quarter cents
and KFCG) from the 2020 adopted budget to the 2021 forecast? Please
then compare that with the Reduction Offers associated with those
funding sources to determine if there are reductions greater than the
decline in revenue.
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