Good evening, folks. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. Good. Mic check. Yes. Can can you hear me, Lloyd? Yes. Okay. Jen, it looks like your your name has Natalie, or is it just me? It's because Natalie forwarded me the Zoom link. But let me change that. That's great. No. That's Although it's kinda fun. Yeah. I'm here I'm here too. Yeah. Okay. We're at six. Do we have everyone here? Don't see Michael yet. Okay. So, he'll probably join in. I think we can go ahead and and get started.
I saw Sam come on. Is he I'm here. Okay. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll? Councilor Fleischer? Here. Vice mayor Ostrin? Here. Councilor Payne isn't here yet. Councilor Snook? Here. Mayor Wade? Here. This is a a work session for the budget, and I would turn the meeting now over to, you, city manager Sanders. Good evening, councilors and members of the public. We welcome you to your first work session for this budget cycle. All the fun begins starting tonight.
So miss Hamill is gonna walk you through the opening presentation. We have additional, team members here who are gonna be sharing various perspectives as it relates to setting up the budget conversation. So So I'm gonna turn it over to miss Hamill, and then I'll chime in when she has asked me to be prepared to do so. Good evening, everybody. It's hard to believe we're here already. I'll be so much more excited to talk to you in March than tonight because on the other end, we'll be balanced. Right now, we're not. So, lots of fun stuff to talk about tonight. And as Sam mentioned, we have, several folks with us as well.
So, real quick, I'll go over the agenda. We're gonna go over the budget guidelines and the financial policies. We review these each year at the beginning of the budget cycle. This is just a reminder to counsel of what our financial policies are, and they're sort of the framework for some of the decisions we make in the budget as well as the budget guidelines. And this provides counsel with an opportunity to weigh in on any of those if there are things that you think need to be changed or you'd like to add, as decisions are being made, things for us to consider.
This would be the time to talk about that. Then we're gonna, our assessor, mister Milton is here tonight. He's gonna present to you the results.