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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Read Before Packet - 9/15/2020 - Memorandum From Travis Storin Re: September 8, 2020 Work Session Summary: 2021 City Budget 215 N Mason Street 2nd Floor PO Box 580 Fort Collins, CO 80522 970.221.6795 970.221.6782 - fax fcgov.com 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 DocuSign Envelope ID: FD777A9D-2760-4B0E-BE93-743B9F173244 Attachment #1 Mtg 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. DocuSign Envelope ID: FD777A9D-2760-4B0E-BE93-743B9F173244