It's city council finance and Budget Committee to order. we have It looks like late schedule. That that we've got wonderful staff Ellen Mitchell from is going to officer 225 year projections. We also are having a conversation about the chairs, budget and any budget amendments that are coming from my colleagues today. So even though it looks pretty late, we've got a lot to get through. So metal and to best of your abilities, give us. Your best timely presentation. I think what I will do is again kind of mischief. That mission management that time management so will be open to questions. But kind of the moment we hit a critical point. I'm gonna make sure that only gets the rest representation. So but that
hand it over to you today. I mentally welcome. Morning Council members and Madeline Mitchell, budget manager. Now with us. I'm here today to present the 225 projected general fund spending and revenues. I ws asked to be briefed. I will do my best top quickly. I would like to start by thanking the budget team and all of our department partners. There's a ton of work and time that goes into making these projections. So thank you to all involved. And if I could distill this presentation into 2 takeaways, they would be that this is an extraordinary year due to the cyber incident and a historic payment for a lawsuit and that these projections are changing every day and we work really hard each year to provide the most accurate. And information that we can, but they're still a lot that can change. And really the only thing that I
can guarantee about these numbers is that they will change. And so. Like I said, and we hve 2 extraordinary and unexpected costs that created immense pressure and the city budget this year, 2 and a half million in costs related to the cyber incident. 1.5 of which is in the general fund and the 7 and a half million paid in SEPTEMBER as a result of a recent lawsuit. And this is the best information we have right now. Transactions and budget amendments will continue to process through the end of the year. And then revenue will continue to come in een into 2026. Revenue legs a month or 2 behind. And then we have urine transfers and internal charges that occur and well into 2026. To this is a really busy time of year for city accounts as they continue clean up and trees and make
final budget changes on the whole. We are projecting that we will have aonetime deficit of 8.4 million for 2025, this number comes from comparing projected revenue to projected expenditures said another way. We expect to spend 8.4 million and we will receive in revenue. As you know, we do have a spending and hiring labor hiring freeze in place to help with this gap. We won't know the full impacts of this freeze until the books are closed in 2025, but we're hopeful that it will continue to help bring 0. 4 million number down. Know it best. We are actively working with departments to find creative solutions to close the gap for 2025, but it will be a significant challenge. So to start, here's a high-level summary of our projections, Milwaukee, through reading this table, the amended budget in the second column reflects the adopted budget. Plus, any
changes that have occurred in the last 11 months and including budget amendments and any carryforward needed for purchase orders are open at the end of 2024. These second, the 3rd column, our projected actuals and those are combination of actual spending and revenue that has occurred. And at posted in our finance system and any anticipated additional spending and revenue for the remainder of the year. The 4th column there is the projected variance. That's the difference between project. Actual spending and the amended budget, a positive number in the projected variance column is a good thing on the spending side. It means department has not overspent their budget on the revenue side. It means we collected more revenues than
budgeted. And the last shows the percent of the amended budget over under spent over under revenue. We are expecting the 2025 General Fund budget and to be overspent by 8.9 million. Which is balanced by additional right after Jackie Revenue of 5.3 million over budget. And if you're doing the math here, you MAY wonder why our deficit is a point for instead o the difference between a 0.9-0 that 5.3 number. And this is because the number in the 4th column that projected variants variance to budget. So if you look at the second column, you'll see ended spending budget is 419 million and our amended revenue budget is only 414 Million. The majority of
the difference between those 2 due to our carryforward processor budget authority for open for disorders is rolled forward into the next year. If we compare projections of actual revenue to actual spending, that's where we get to a 0.4 million dollar number. I want to highlight here that absent the cyber incident and the lawsuit payment or projections would show is coming in very close to budget 618,000 to the good. So with that, bottom number. Next, we have spending by department Sorry. Chris Mullin whose question was comes tax cuts. PRESIDENT, thanks, Chair Thomas Mitchell just to make sure understand because I'm we provide kind of quickly to that. So even before the cyber incident class and the lawsuit payment costs, we would have been. 0.4 million. Below what we expected to be or does that
include? Those additional council the before? They 0.4 million includes the cyber attack the lawsuit. So were it not for those 2 items? We would be 617 to the good. Okay. So you're showing them underneath? Yeah, not as additional information but pulling them out the mountains above to illustrate Thank you. Kuzma Johnson and thank you. So that is really helpful. It's additional contacts. My question since more, if we're projecting at a time it's looking into NOVEMBER DECEMBER and final months of the year. What is the can you just share a little bit more about what steps are being taken to curve that? Projected variance. I know we talked a little bit
about a hiring freeze in the previous slide. What exactly. Is taking place right now that he's going to curve that because clearly that would be over budget and its finances that we don't. Seem have. And even looking at just the next slide over and the department spending. I'm just curious as to what each department is doing my understanding is that they were all instructed to give. To basically see where they can make cuts. Some of these are going to be sick. But less than dollar amounts and others. And I'm just wondering. What steps are being taken to the wind. checking accounts Johnson and tell you a little bit about the methodology for the
projections first. So the way the way that projected these as we started with actual. So what we have already spent this year and then we looked at recent history of payroll and salary expenses and projected that out for te remaining pay periods of the year. So that's the salary expenses, which is we know is the bulk of our general fund spending then we worked with departments to get an understanding of what other costs they have. Remaining to pay through the end of the year. So typically the way we do that is like a straight line spending. We base it on how much they've spent earlier in the year and continuing through the remaining months this year. We started with that as a baseline. But knowing that we have a spending freeze in place, we s departments to come back to
that number and make adjustments accordingly, knowing that there will be some things that MAY have been spent in prior years and will not be spent this year. The hring waiver hiring spending waiver process that we have in place means that. Departments we are we're putting additional additional scrutiny on any hiring decisions. And so they essentially limited to the positions that have urgent public safety needs or that would otherwise cause like additional financial burden t the city. And then on the spending side for purchase over 5,000 departments have to submit a spending waiver and it goes through similar review process for us to understand what the impacts are of for going that expense or delaying it until 2026. We don't We don't know what is not being
submitted through that process and that's where the savings. Likely comes. Come from. So we'll we'll know more about that as we close the books on 2025. But I think it's it's going to be very different from department to department just knowing that the needs are going to be different each apartment. Next, we have spending by department. So the majority of departments are coming in and are spent in 2025. And that largely due to the spending and hiring freeze that we have in place. There are a few expect next section largely related to public safety and cyber cost. Emergency management and otc are projected to be oerspend. That's all related to the cyber incident where we had emergency management and otc staff operating out of the oc for something like 18, 20
hours a day. I don't think they slept at all the fire department is projected to come in 3.9 million over budget. This is driven by increased overtime. Costs were calm ad higher than projected materials and supplies spending related to utilities, medical supplies, vehicle repairs in the second recruit Academy. The general government line here is projected to be overspent by 6.3 million. This is where the lawsuit was paid So but for that payment, we would have had savings in departments. And as a reminder, the general government accounts isn't really a department, but more is more an account for activities that exist across the city but are not necessarily a sign a bill to one specific department.
Budget for things like city elections outside legal services, district councils, citywide audit and tort liability costs. There. The Parks Department's projected to be overspent by just under 3 Million. A large chunk of that is driven by replacing and repairing lights hit by copper wire theft. Te remaining is due to unexpected costs related to summer storms in closing caves and they're also increase costs for rec center and pool safety at which I believe Director Rodriguez touched on in his recent presentation. The police department is projected to be 2.5 million dollars over spent. But I will note that this will be closer to 1.5 million once a budget amendment is process that recognizes additional spending and revenue. And this is largely due to services materials, including computer software, maintenance supplies
and ammunition. There is under spending across departments and like I said, related to the spending hiring freezes that will thankfully help offset some of the higher costs in other areas. Overall, I would say because of the pressures that we're facing this year, many departments have made changes to how they're operating. So we are treating this year as an outlier rather than indication of future spending patterns. Council PRESIDENT Thanks, chair. And I know that we often have unavoidable things that come up. But I guess I'm curious about some of those reasons for the overspend that you're talking about, which are significant. Especially in fire parks and police I mean, for example, replacing copper wire lighting, that issues frequently heard from public
works, for example, that they don't have the money to replace the lights in certain areas. I'm trying t understand how department is allowed to. Spend money that it doesn't have the and its budget to make choices like that. chair can an acre you want To Check him and helped PRESIDENT Acres. So in the case of the Copper wire theft because of the public safety concerns related lights being out across the city and the like pervasiveness of that issue. And earlier in the year. There was a decision made to proceed doing as much replacement as we can. And understanding that life throughout the year fest will be working to make sure that the city still kind of came in on balance. And now, like in the
slider, we can you know, I revenues are actually coming in better than budget, right? So I think we have 5 million more revenue than we had budgeted for. So in typical year, we would see some over spending and parks to address that public safety need and we would still be coming in on budget because we better revenues than expected. But this year because of unplanned and one time spending that came up, that kind of adjusting. But Ofs is still working to ensure that we do come in on budget on the whole. But basically there is a decision made earlier in the year to try to address that public safety need. And then parks was directed do that. Comes mostly. Council member council vice PRESIDENT Kim, thank you so much. I just want also just like piggyback off of council
PRESIDENT Acres question because I I just think in terms of being good stewards of our of our dollars and we go through an entire process right to adopt the budget and we go through entire process to be ale to approve whether it's transferring ares emergencies and even all departments have the opportunity to go through a process, whether it's like capital improvement, budget sand different type of other ways of being able to finance some of these these these initiatives and these emergencies is public safety needs. I'm just wondering is are are there guardrails right as their caps in terms of like where is alert systems, I guess of when department is going over budget how is that you convey to council members in advance. checked him counsel, everybody. Thank you. I would
say mean, throughout the year, the department's like in the budget presentations, departments are presenting kind of where they are in process. So I think we all shared our budget to actuals at that point. So in those AUGUST SEPTEMBER departments are sharing kind of where they are during the year, but that budget to actual data. I would also add there a number of different guardrails in place. One of them is that to department's hit budget restrictions and then for certain categories, we don't have those person now because people need to get paid. for services and materials and once the department is going to be over in that it does trigger an alert too fast. And so then that is when
we look into it and see what you know what is causing that? Councilor Jones. Yeah, appreciate it. Won't elaborate a little bit more on my wall. We were the points. However, what I will say is just that. With a projected variants like the projected variance from the budget is the cap that would be looking for. And it's the folks are going through like the budget, overspending, the budget or being able to exceed department budgets by the end of the year like? That gap itself is above what the negative projected variance and itself could problem solvers. People would stick to their budgets in the departments that they have. And looking at just some of the, you know, I don't
actually know if it's a I heard you say that we are projecting this kind of as a one-off. But last year we also had similar issues where there was over spending and some of the same departments and not actually sure that some situation or thats a reoccurring one and some and some instances for different reasons. But I remember having conversations particular about overtime overspending which actually warranted council decisions on the police department and having conversations similar in the fire department. And, you know, general government MAY not it MAY be an exception because that's where the lawsuit was paid out from to see because of the emergency management. But then as we head into next year, we also are seen perceiving memos that are addressing a need for additional funding and cybersecurity in and addressing cyber attack needs
and to 2026. And I'm just instead of treating something like this was a one-off, how we're planning ahead for future potential pending lawsuit litigation that we have to account for that can Tom and started even just additional emergency situations that come up because it doesn't seem like that is something you know, for treating this like an anomaly tan I would expect to see the numbers of the variances as well. We've seen those in 2024 in 2025. As well prior to this, you know, in the space of like even talking about how to budget, how to budget for the year. And as we head into next year. I'm not sure if we kind of allow for overspending 2 of largest departments, interesting math like of our overall like the projected expenditures, you
know. Half of that is house with 2 departments and I just I'm wondering, kind of looking at, you know, just the numbers at the end. And even hearing from Hollywood responding in talking to departments about how they would be, you know, needing to think about their proportion of the overall budget if they're over spending their budget how they're contributing to the 0.4 million dollar deficit. That's there. And then some of these other departments or even the House and redevelopment Authority having too account for millions of that deficit because they cannot siempre pre it for me. And it's actually quite concerning. And so I guess my question really is like we're treated like an anomaly, but I don't necessarily know if it's a one-off situation because we can't predict the future of a geisha, pending lawsuits. But we also can't predict the future of how to respond to
crisis emergencies. Without being able to budget for that or to plan for the future. So instead of like treated like a one-off, I'm just wondering what can we learn from this year? Because last numbers? In some of these departments, want all that different overspending, which that's required additional, you know, budget committees, additional action from council additional reporting requirements this year for some of the departments that were overspending in the overtime budget by millions. So that's not an anomaly. And I'm just wondering how we're planning ahead for 2026. Chicken Council rejects and I should clarify that the piece of it that we are treating as a onetime anomaly is the last in the cyber attack. The lawsuit was historic payout. We've never had them out even anywhere
near that number. So it really was something very different than what we have before. We do have funds in place for for lawsuits and how we work through those throughout the year. But this one was that was far beyond anything that we've eer paid out. So it really was something that was an anomaly in that way. And then the cyber attack and a well as you're not something that anybody expected. We made investments and puts new systems in place to prevent against that going forward. And there are investment included in the 2026 budget to help protect against future attacks like that as If Questions Thanks, Just
going back a essential to the previous slide cause. I think hearing some of my colleagues getting out is that they're obviously those unpredictable, extraordinary expenditures. And then there's the fact that with the amended budget, as you pointed out, we were already predicting 5 million dollar shortfall from revenues to compare to expenditures. And so. I guess I just wnt understand that a little bit better. Is it that we adopt a budget balanced general fund budget when we adopt the budget and then over the course of the year, all of those budget amendments that we see coming in front of us that the council week by week. That's how we got to a point where the amended budget overall showed a 5 million dollar short politic s. And my follow-up to that would as I think Councilmember Lisa very, very well. I think it's important for this council to
understand the impact of those budget amendments as we're making them because I think we're putting a lot of faith. You know, there's always the attachment that says in the mayor certifies that there is money for this right? I don't I've never thought as we've been mking those amendments that that means that we're gradually adding to a 5 million dollar whatever the size every year gap at the end of the year ad I think it's important for us to have that context as we're making those My understanding it right that that's how we got from a balanced budget. And to this point over the course of the year. Well, council council PRESIDENT, the main piece of that difference between the 419 and expenditures in front 14 is what we call carryforward. And that's when department's
enters a purchase order in the prior year. And it's it, which attached to budget authority from a prior year. And then that. The purchase order is not closed, are not completed. The purchase is not made that authority from the prior year moves forward. So it essentially it's similar to like a use of fund balance. And this is just sort of in the counting technical piece we only added on the spending side. The assumption is it's like we have savings from that in either of the year before they for that and that we're pulling from to make those purchases in the current year. Okay. So the 5 million just to ensure understand all. Expected to spent in the previous year that we had budgeted for arts fence and that getting spent in this year. And w're showing it is a 5 million lost. We actually had 5 million left over last year. That was best council
PRESIDENT. Thank you. Okay. And the revenue side here coming in, pretty close to budget overall about 1.3% over our initial projections. The biggest driver here is in that 3rd line that's pension eights paramedic fees and interest earnings. We expect about 2.7 million higher than budgeted revenue on interest earnings and city investments. That's in part due to higher interest rates in recent years. We do expect this revenue source to decline in the future as the Federal Reserve is projecting cuts to interest rates. We ae projecting an additional 400,000 and paramedics fees and around a million in additional police aid police pension disability insurance. Police pension aid is based on the car insurance premiums and also the number of police
officers that we have the met. We receive for fire and police disability insurance is based on the number of employees on duty disability under the age of 65 and the cost of health insurance. So this increase is driven by more people going on duty disability and paired with rising health care costs. Franchise fees are also coming in better than expected by about 1 million 2024. Was a 5 year low for both gas and electric franchise fees. And 2025 is more of mortar return to normal. For many of these, we have already made appropriate adjustments in the 2026 proposed budget to reflect increases. And so we're continuing to work on finding solutions end 2025. On budget. We're hopeful that we will continue see for their savings from the
spending and hiring freeze. We have also started the process of the state of Minnesota for potential reimbursement of costs related to the cyber emergency and within our own budget. We're looking at all options, including grant funds that are expiring soon to see if we have any eligible expenses that have yet to be shifted to those grants. And we're looking that special funds of healthy balances that could provide support to the general fund on a one-time basis. And this includes evaluating some of our own internal charges to determine whether we can reduce or eliminate some of those expenses for this year. So closing, this gap will be it'll be a big challenge, but it's essential to maintaining the health of the general fund long term. That is the end of presentation. Kristen, from
the cps. Thanks, chair. 2 questions can use a little bit more about what you expect to be the potential reimbursement for the cyber incident. I know we were really proactive and smart about I'm declaring an emergency so that we would be potentially eligible for some of those reimbursements. I'm just wondering what the scale of that projected to be. Would know. And then second of all, are all us. Coming to this body? Asking for any amendments or changes to the current budget in order to. Candidate for that, Laura? Sheriff, thank Chair Cam and council PRESIDENT. So the first question related to the reimbursement requests with the state, we're still in that process. And I believe I know we have some emergency management folks here they can check me if I'm wrong. I believe that we're currently waiting on the
governor to declare the official emergency. We had to work through be told by the state that we should request an official emergency declaration and I would work through the county to do. That's there's a lot of kind of bureaucratic steps. Believe that's on the governor's desk right now. And then if they if he declares that this is an eligible emergency, then we will continue to move through the process ensure that our expenses that we have coded to the incident are actually eligible there's potential for us to be reimbursed for up to 75% of our caucus. So would not be the full amount. But we've worked really diligently with all departments to ensure that we have coded all of our expenses that we know are
related to the cyber incident in a way that it's easy for us to pull and share with the state when they start reviewing, they have really specific rules about what is deemed ineligible expense and emergencies. And so what we deem as all of our incident related expenses MAY not actually be eligible. So we're doing everything we can to make sure that we make the best case for why we should get reimbursed for. As you note that full 75% of our expenses. But at this point, it's not clear to us. You know, there's just a lot of steps that still have flow through that. We don't have control over, but we're doing everything we can. And emergency management is leading on that hs been doing really great work. So prepared as we can be to get as much
money as we can. Your second question, I just talked for so i forgot what it was Any asks to this body for amendments to covid get that's right for you. Thank you. Yes, thank you. And at this point where still working through exactly what is needed. We've started to do some outreach. With chair Johnson related to the hra. I know that she just referenced that as well. So we're kind of discussion on that. But I don't think we anticipate any other budget amendments. A lot of the solves that we're looking at would be looking at expense is currently in the general fund that are eligible to be paid for out of other sources that are already budgeted as well. So like if there's a grant that's already budgeted that's
under spent, can we move any current general fund expenses into that grant and out of the general fund. So most of what we're looking at would not require budget amendments thank you. Johnson and Johnson, guess just so. I know that. But he's a 75% of the cars. It's that of the 1.5 million or is that of Because what is our actual? Ivory looking like? So looking here, we've heard many different numbers. I'm just wondering. Fish Chair Tim and Councilmember Johnson. So than the numbers, the number kind of continues to change because they're still ongoing work related to the cyber incident. Right now we're at around 2.5 to 2.7 million. And some of that is for employee salaries that we would have already
paid. And if not for the cyber incident. So and it's not 2.7 million. In addition, you know, over and above what was already budgeted. Some of that is people's current salaries but there is overtime. And there there are, you know, contracts for support that we did not have in the budget already. So some amount of that 2.7 million is and over and above what was in the city's budget. We're hopeful to make the case that the full 2.7 million is eligible and so that it be 75% of that. But and I'm I doubt that the state would agree that that full amount is eligible because there are we included some folks like current salaries and there's just really specific rules related to current salaries and
eligibility. So one of vice chair. Can I do a question? Just one says get a quick refresher. I know you talked and and a 3rd slide here. But in terms of like the lawsuit payment, can you just walk us through what it's like? Also the source of it from my understanding, I believe it just comes from the general fund but has always historically been that way. can talk about a little bit about that from I understand there's like a tort fun, but won't it exceeds that? Then it comes from the general fund has has it always been that or has there been some adjustments to to actually some of the loss of payment check and have some it does come from the general fund. As far as I know, that is
where we have always paid for things like this. And it's just exceptional. And in that it's a much bigger number this time. And if you speak to. I guess you could just like reference the Tort Fund in. And how that's budget for. And, you know. It seems like that's kind of like the mechanism that we use to actually lawsuits. It seems like historically it exceeds that. And had wrecked. Council member the I believe that tort budget has around U.S. 720,000 in there. And it's been a mix. There have many years or we don't need that budget at all. They're years where we exceeded a little bit. And then they're years like this year we exceeded by quite a bit. So we have an amount budgeted and yeah, it's it's really highly dependent
on the way that litigation buses, city. Chair, if I could just add the that $720,000 is also budgeted in the general fund. It's all it's not a separate fund. It's just general fund. He Stardust. We have I Guess Inc, would have OCTOBER you 2 dates at this point. We have the protections. But with the speeding up of OCTOBER numbers check him cancer, you deserve a stuff. Walked over the years. Would we be able to get OCTOBER numbers by department? Just curious as to how we're tracking. Check cause number. Yes, the thing that I would add to that is that there there is a lot of analysis that goes into this projections and to make
them what they are. There are quite a few accounting entries that have yet to be made. You know, departments doing journal entries cost between funds. And so the actual MAY not reflect some of those changes that need to be made. So so they don't tell the full story. And that's why we, you put the work in to to do projections so that we can figure out some of that before you all see it. And you said and then also, I just to the piece of The projected spending or revenue and the carry over from year to year. Do we anticipate? Do we anticipate having carryover this year since her? Are there certain things that will show up next year amended budget or projected actual variance. That is money that he's not being expanded this year that were dissipating for next year. And I'm just curious, do how that it's factored in is like what we continue year after year because for some of
these, I'm just wondering like we had 5 million dollars of funders of unspent money. Moved into the year. We carry you know, consistently hear here. I'm just wondering if that like how do we have a chance to see like what is actually carry over in the budget process every year that didn't get completed. Councilor we are we're still working through that process right Given that we are in this situation or in the general fund, we're reviewing how much you know, if any is appropriate to carry forward into into 2026. So more to come on that. In in general, I would say over the last few years we have been working on our carryforward process to make sure that we are really only carrying forward the funds that are needed and will be
spent and that are available. So we're continuing to refine that to make sure that that We're not doing that unnecessarily. I would just add that we're also planning to connect the carryforward process next year with our spending waiver process this year. So we would want to see from departments. Did w approve the spending? Didn't go through the spending approval process and fall of 2025. And if so, you know, that's we already approved. The department could do that spending. And so that would likely be allowed to carry forward. But if that was not, you know, kind of pre approved that would have additional scrutiny. So we're trying to ensure that we connect those processees this year. Johnson and just as far as budget process itself, think what is really interesting to me is like. So many of those decisions are internally. Donna not
communicated to counsel about what actual requests are coming in, like which positions I mean approved which ones are not being approved, which like things are being cut, which is not being cut. What is the communication look like to counsel about the carry forward the things that like the decisions that are being made currently, but within the city Martian, but not necessarily be communicated back here, too. Us. Chair Cannon House member Johnson. I think where like great bres certainly open to continued communication on those items. And I think the year and projection meeting, I know that metal under this presentation last year. So I think this is this is a space where providing that information. And I think a lot
of these processes are administrative in nature. So certainly happy share information and understanding. There's also yeah, a level of administrative. work that's happening, you know, based on are our responsibilities in terms of managing the budget. Yeah, I think really helpful jst to especially for some of the positions and but, for example, the hiring freeze the positions that have been approved approved those budget impacts that those questions to me like if they're going through a process, we have documentation of what that entails. If they're going the process as we head into 2026. To continue that be an argument for why they would or
action now for why they would continue. But likewise would be, you know, for k overs and things that would gt into the 2026 budget. I'm I'm assuming we would council still see those projected on that the time when we have budgeted polls for next year. Is that not right? So Chair Buchanan, House member Johnson. I think When we. I'm just make sure I'm understanding the question when we're putting together like the gap for next year. You asking if the Kerry for it considered as part of the gaffe. To what extent the council has the ability to in on that. So when we don't want put it into the gap are looking at the next year. So like the 2027 budget and that the you know, the mayor's proposed budget is solving that future
year gap. What we're facing this year is sort of extraordinary circumstances that have created a gap like in the current year. And so where we're working through solutions to solve that Catholic in real time and some of them we can do and Ministry Lee, just because of the way that the budget is already set up and, you know, grants ready, been accepted. And so we can try to move expenses into those. But then some of the other potential solutions are things we do need to come to the council on. So Ithink we're we're working through that process to the best of our ability of ensuring that we're partnering counsel and you have information that you need and then in the areas where we can administratively move forward solutions, we're going to do that. And then in the
areas where we cannot move forward without council support, we need to work with you on us. Sounds All right. Thank you so for coming to chambers having such a great update. We - appreciate all the time. And under put into all of our financial documents. So thank you so much. We are now going to transition. It's 10 45 or sort of right on time. So already time was still a lot to We're going to transition to just really briefly speak about the chairs 2026 proposed budget budget amendment to the mayor's proposed budget. And then we will take and will I will time folks that whatever time remains after stardom, ice fields the month that will have for amendments. And appears as of yesterday there were 12. And as of this morning, there were 15. So I'm gonna just also briefly speak about process and what to expect moving forward. Since then, there's proposed has
proposed the 2026 budget the city council spent in a very lengthy and deliberative process on the way our final budget vote on the way to our final budget bill on DECEMBER. 3rd, this process has included detailed presentations and briefings from every single department community engagement across the city in every ward where we heard directly from residents about their priorities and concerns and a strong collaboration with their office partners, the death of input we've received reflects the shared values and concerns that we all share about Saint Paul. As we present these proposed amendments, we do so with the weight of our fiscal reality in mind, the budget decisions before us require down, think headed priorities with very limited resources. At the end of SEPTEMBER, the council
voted to approve a 5.3 maximum Levy. We understand that increases in property taxes are felt acutely by residence. Our amendments are designed to strengthen our core city services. Our residents depend on most and we believe these changes will strike the right balance between investing in what matters and exercising fiscal responsibility during these challenging times. Specifically these amendments include in no particular order restoring the number of firefighters. Icus. This one for Stringer rec center hours, restoring our library hours and Ft. Our firefighters restoring our the last night shift unit restoring our cares unit. Cuncil communication staff, restoring funding for audit committee in our Children's collaborative
adding additional funding for district councils, restoring our councils, security, safety and security renovation. Listening are lstening. Houses work now, program. And sustaining our commercial corridor funding at the level of 2025, which was probably led by our. Hrh or Johnson and Caring for Dar reparations commission funding. We also have identified key sources that help us balance the budget with our priorities for increasing are in the ambulance, transportation fees for eliminating vacant positions, reducing money for Millen overlay, remove removing funding for about extra thing. Repurposing transfers from a jury and we're adjusting. The timeline for hiring are unfulfilled hero director position. And this information 8 will be posted to legistar. But our total proposed use is is 4.1
million and our total post source's is also 4.1 million. So I'm very poud I'm very proud of as the very interim budget chair wth our budget carrying 2 for a proposed - amendment to the mayor's to the mayor's budget as a balanced one and one that has a very strong support of both our colleagues, but also the residents that we represent. I'm going to potentially embarrass our budget officers or anything that I missed that want to just make sure that we emphasize us. Thank you. Chair cam. Yes, that the proposed amendment shared view on I would. show that it it has consensus that has the broadest of food. The estan working JULY, finalized version in the sense, you
know, match to match this is that the sources and this is what it's going to find how it is going to be faithful. And we appreciate patients and engagement as we define and the amendment to ensure. Thank you to see and alignment. But the cause entities. Thank you. Thank you. I know just very briefly, Ghana, very briefly talk about essentially what this process look like and what folks can expect moving forward. So we had asked folks to submit an idea to budget office or by Friday, NOVEMBER 5th. Any idea that they had and terms how they would like to amend amend the proposed chairs, budget. And it's also the councilmembers responsibility to budgets all for it. And
we're asking for potential budget solves by this last Monday at 05:00pm. It was also very clear that budget solves for amendments cannot includes funds that we used for the chairs. Budget proposal and that we would be strongly discouraging our colleagues to provide or bring forward amendments that impact or alter the chairs budget. We have a very strong support to conversations to all of our colleagues. So all of the amendments with a potential. But it's been just distributed to come yesterday by noon. And for review and also little bit of vetting. Moving forward, we will hear all of the amendments today. And next week. It is each office's responsibility submit their legistar with no less than 4
supporting members. And and to do so so that we can vote on it with our final a doctor, final budget and Max Levy on DECEMBER 3rd. And I'll put all this in writing for folks. For the millions of home. If you are an amendment that you really love, please live your councilmember. So it is 10, 50. We have 40 minutes, right until 11, 30. And we have 15 whatever that is, it's like to. and enough for 2 minutes. 2 minutes, 2 minutes each. Additions. Okay. Thank you. So we It's been each minute each personal, 2 minutes per amendment. And again, what we're looking for is what it is kind of why are interested. And if you have a potential, but it's all for you don't have to be incredibly detailed. But we do have a that our budget officer
provided us of his onetime are ongoing. I'm going to distribute the list that was existing for our budget officer in that timeline. And then. My understanding is that councilmember, thank you. Has also provided 3 d I c 3 additional met potential Not sure if they have budget implications or not, but we'll find out shortly. So we will prioritize the ones that were submitted within that timeline. And then we'll take up the 3 comes up and are we submitted this morning's so? Yes, Council PRESIDENT. Thanks, chair. I'm happy to use my time to say but I just I just wanted to thank you for your leadership on this process. I think people. Throw the term unprecedented around a lot. Not always in context where it's appropriate in this case
everything about this has been unprecedented rate. We started by saying that we were going to have a transparent process for budget that we're going to talk about our budget publicly in a way never have before that we were going to commit to a timeline and stick to that timeline and inclusive process. And you and I both been through enough budgets to know it's easy to say that at the beginning of the process, it's much harder to actually it. This conversation is unprecedented. The fact that we're sitting here today talking about our amendments publicly so that everyone knows what we're thinking is unprecedented. The fact that we are proposing 13 amendments that we have consensus on is this council and never seen so many amendments better that we have fund and there they are all responsive to the things that we've heard from our constituents specifically about frontline services and
things that affect people's daily lives. And then we're going to continue and be on time. Budget DECEMBER, 30th after budget. So I just I don't want that to go with that being said, because it's been your leadership and your is also chair it's gotten us to this point and I'm really proud and we're going to disagree right on some of the details of this. And we will. But by and large, process has unprecedentedly good interest. So I want to say that that took my time. It's been I really appreciate that. Yeah. And I just strong could leadership team with you in customer Johnson. It's just been such a incredible partnership and kudos to our budget officer and operations Director Jay Williams. It's the it's the teamwork that gets us the bulk of the work. And again, a huge shout out to the staff know a festive, an
incredible partners to this. So. All right with that. Now it's time for 2 threes. So we're going to still stick to the 2 minutes. And I think we're just gonna go from the top. So I will be the kind of guinea pig in this exercise. I'm gonna start 2 I do plan on bringing these together. I guess I could bring them separately. But I am I and strong partnership Chair Yang Councilmember Coleman on both of these items. So really quickly, the immigration Defense Fund, Saint Paul's home to roughly 70,000 migrants or about 20% of our population. The American Immigrant Council. Reports that detained migrants are 10.5 times more likely to succeed with representation and without in Minnesota, specifically the Vera Institute for Justice estimates. 51% of migrants
facing deportation are without representation. Now more than ever with the federal administration intent on subverting our constitutional rights. We need to sustain funding for unknown for own immigrant defense Fund, Saint Paul Partners with men in Minnesota, legal aid advocates for human rights and the Immigrant Law Center to provide and rep to provide representation to residents facing immigration action. The New American loan program or nationalization support fund in a similar vein, the New American Loan Program is one of the the package of programs the city has to support a migrant community. This program is particularly for permanent U.S. Residents going to the naturalization process process, which is a lengthy and incredibly expensive for new residents. This program
offers an interest free loan to assist residents with the cost of naturalization. So the amendments for both of those cherry ankle swimmer Coleman and I plan bringing forward is to amend the budget to city to the city attorney's office to increase by 300,000. The Amendment. Allocates 200,000 and one-time funding to support the Migrant Defense Fund in the Newark and loan program. We have a budget solve that. We will be using unspent special fund dollars to 11 that were specifically budgeted for the police academy. They did not use any of their funds and they're planning on using salary savings to fund the 2026 Police Academy. 15 seconds left and I would. Yield to to my colleagues. If you want to speak for 10 seconds about it. Thank you. I really appreciate is part my colleagues. We look forward to reading your
support as the curve and that's sure. So just to be clear, the funds, the source for this would be from unspent funds from the police academy in. 25 wouldn't affect the department's ability to hold. Academies and 26. The police based on their proposal, they're using salary savings to fund their 2026 academy. So it does not impact their ability host Academy next year. Thank you for the question. Going on the line needed to win 2 minutes, we have routine to peo is proposed to be cut in Twenty-twenty 6. Who is amendment is that alright cuts PRESIDENT Turned on the college but in 2 in 2 minutes we'll see what I can do as we all kow. Parking enforcement is a huge issue in our city. Want to basic promises to our constituents, residents or
employees or visitors. Is that we set our laws and we enforce our laws. And right now that's just not hppening when it comes to parking enforcement, which means that accessible parking spaces are taken up. We're not seeing the turnover that we need to support our businesses people get frustrated when they pay for permit parking districts every year and then they don't actually see that enforcement happening in their neighborhoods. The reason for that is that we have currently 10 parking enforcement officer citywide. That's 3 at any one time because they're divided into 3 shifts. And we're proposing the mayor has proposed in this budget to cut 2 of those. So we would go down to 8 parking force master citywide parking enforcement officers not only pay for themselves with the ticket revenue that they collect, but
also they're a critical pipeline into the police department, specifically for young people, specifically curing people of color. So this proposal is to retain the 2 p o's who are being proposed to be cut and at 6 additional p o's which would bring us up to a total of 16 officers. We do need to have 25 to be fully staffed. So this doesn't get us there. But it is revenue neutral in that it bringing I the amount of money actually a slightly more. Expected to get revenue according to the department. Woman is 60 seconds. Any questions or additions? And if there's a whole 45 reason on through this is great. I will lift up single finger to show you one minute mark and maybe give you one of these at your us. All right. Next up, we've got higher community prosecutor the city attorney's office.
Thanks, chair. This is also This is a revenue neutral or budget neutral proposal. The downtown alliance has proposed hiring a community prosecutor that would live in the city attorney's office. They have the budget for This would not be coming out of our general fund but the ideas to budget for it and then take the dollars from the downtown alliance, a community prosecutor offers benefits such as reduced crime through strong relationships with the community and proactive partnerships to try to get at the root cause causes the quality of life crimes we see in our neighborhoods, drug use vandalism, retail theft, which I know we've seen in many areas, both downtown midway. And these are folks who can actually get a little bit more proactive and more relational about solving these problems rather than taking everything -
through a justice system that is frankly already overloaded. And it's not going to take those crimes seriously. These are folks who can actually get people into the treatment they need get people connected to the services that they need and kind of like familiar faces be the prosecutor who's more familiar with the individuals who are regularly committing these kinds of crimes so that they actually get the help that they need. So this is a model that's been proven in many other jurisdictions. And again, we would not be paying for this would simply be accepting the grant from the downtown Alliance. That's your questions for the council PRESIDENT And amendment. Wonderful moving right Lake. Plating on shepherd roads for submitting them all into one after going to my last one lighting a separate
rows. So as we all we have lost lighting throughout the city to the copper wire theft. And it is the most both used, but also sort of most remote stretches where we have lost lighting. That the most dangerous, both to pedestrians to cyclists and motorists. And they're also the areas that that their public spaces that we've invested in and when they're not let they don't feel safe and then people don't use them. So we are losing all of the investments that we've made in the spaces because people don't reverse them because they're afraid. And we've been hearing from many of our constituents, both customer just and I about Sheppard road the cost for Lighting Sheppard road is extremely high because the lights actually need to be
replaced with new lights that are harder to steal from. The whole idea here is not just to replace the wiring and having it stolen again, but to replace lights with lights that will prevent that theft. The $750,000 I'm proposing is only for the stretch from downtown from simply to Eagle Street. This is that stretch. The public works recommended starting with because it's the most reversed and has the most potential for conflicts the proposed source is from the Cip Fund for lighting. And actually I was originally proposing 500,000 from the lighting fund and 250,000 from the Street Alley, Sewer and lighting program. Now seen a fast that there are balances in those accounts. And actually there's about 1.1 million in the lighting fund Simon to revise my proposal and suggest that we take all
of that 750 fom the lighting fund, which will still have several $100,000 left over after that for lighting in the rest of the city. That does just come down to where we think we need to replace lights. And I know that that we might argue about that. But I think Sheppard road is worthy of your consideration. We've received 54 e mails that 53 in support Perfect timing. 6 seconds 6 seconds to go. And we are cruising right now actually this is fantastic. All right. Next up, we ev car share. Ys, you can also be of assistance to I multiple folks had on there. Their list of amendments, the ev car share program is something that we, you know, utilize throughout the whole cty. Right now we're in a really challenging
situation, this Cayman kind of minute that we did not have the the the funds that we needed for this item. A lot of it do to, you know, the federal government and other pressures on our city. So what we're asking is for the city to kick in $200,000 to be able to restore part of that. We're also hoping to get some support from Minneapolis in through regional solicitation. But this is just a program that is is so important for accessibility to transportation and as well as you know, transportation. That is no better for our for environment. And I think a lot of are a lot of our words really, Carol, a lot about because we do have still have
areas throughout the city on the some parts of some parts of my word to that. Don't have access to the set. We would like to continue to maintain what we have and Expand the program. I would add on to that and strongly a second. Everything that comes from Burgess shared also had that I think in this moment, as we're thinking about the need for new investments in both our multi-modal transportation infrastructure and our climate resiliency work making sure that we are not losing are backtracking on investments we've already made is very critical. And so when we identify a Catholic this, I think it's quite important that we work to fill it, knowing that we will be able to make all of the new investments that we might want
to see. But that hopefully at a minimum, we are able to maintain the work that has been put in place up until to address both transportation and climate. Thank you. And with the last 10 seconds will add, my understanding is that they're using the decertified funds. Thank Tell a kid to 200,000. Thank you so much for the time. Perfect timing. Pricing help port authority to increased staffing capacity. Trey and thanks him yet this a budget because they came from Authority, our Budget committee's work very filton so we can put them in, but they're going to be coming in later today at the council meeting to present the originally asked for a $500,000 increase and the mayor's wasn't granted any increase, but they're the revised ask an increase of $250,000 for inflationary
costs and to at an increased their staffing capacity. And as you all know, they are a very important partner to our city, especially. And so this I added them to our And the you all here that up all that 900 of over $900,000 in excess. Tip coming back to the city. And so that is where the money for this would However, if this is an ongoing cost and will have to definitely think ahead aout what we want to do for future years, too. Question from Kuzma not necessarily a question. Just wanted to add as another as the treasure of the Super for They have also been operating and and budget. For years So this is actually an increase that they have asked for after not receiving crease for several years. It counting and a And so some of the staff and
he says that they're asking for that while we've kept up with other inflation cost throughout the city regarding salaries and other staffing capacity is the single port authority hasn't actually received an increase from the city. And so this is something that I think what hearing about what their rationale is for in asking for, we have obviously adjusted salaries and staffing capacity. In the meantime, on the in the last few years. But the actual increases not been reflected in the budget. Thank you. Treasure of support. For Johnson. Moving right along, we have fun. 7 Ft. Public safety specialists. Items that. And think councilmember. Oh, yeah. I I believe it's already result. Perfect. Okay. Great. Thank you video skits times having I have a couple
of things on in my email that see on the list. But I'm happy to just get over it when if you have to wait around. Yeah, I think at this point we're reason so the next one is funny for for study. I believe dust. For think there might be a typo, but will cause Larry Coleman address that? And near 2 minutes? Thank you that there is a typo one-tenth the amount money listed here. So the ask U.S. For $50,000, the total cost. The city is $500,000. But and being asked to put all of that. So I will just say quickly coming into the council much more recently than other folks here at working very quickly to get up to speed on top priorities from folks in Ward 4 for what they wanted to see in the budget this year. This was one of the first tasks that come
to my office within weeks of it being seated on the council and heard from multiple district councils asking to sit down and have a meeting about the I-94 Sunday at that listed here. So we know that the rethinking I-ninety-four process has been going in dot for many, many years. It was initially seen as an opportunity to reimagined not only a major transportation through fair Fair, but also the land use around it. It has tremendous implications for public health, environmental equity, climate excellent value and general quality of life for folks in Midway. Saint Anthony Park Union Park. And that's just more forward. Not even get into another part of the city in dot has it. And you know, I think in many ways for us the community and felt like they were not being responsive to those most impacted. And so this effort is a collaboration with the city of Minneapolis, Hennepin County and the University,
Minnesota to better understand what more expensive versions of this project rethinking 94 and of how we conceptualize urban freeways. But that could mean for our city. So supporting the study, will it doesn't? You know, it is in part about I-94. It's also effort over the next 2 years to identify model and apply a full cost benefit analysis to or been through a couple projects. So would include other urban freeways that are impacting your city and help us develop a fuller understanding of the impacts of these projects and allow us to make that a decisions, data driven decisions going forward. I think it's important which show that we're serious. Medical transportation, land use development and community needs. What sort of the post
but just off Thank And so for the most such assault with said, just tif district coming in right at about $950,000. We are looking at that as a source of the 50,000. Question. Yeah, that's just for clarity. Is that a city study or a council study? So the city itself would be commission. That's the Minneapolis with the Center for Transportation, that the recipients of The funding from multiple sources, so it could be funding the city of Minneapolis. So, yeah, I would well, it would not go Minneapolis. It would go towards the full cost of the contract that study. But they would be the one holding the contract. And executing the study. The Center for Transportation Safety the U.S. Could see. Would be a joint study So it's a joint from Minneapolis and city of Saint Paul. And think
history 37 to center. in the Senate and the Center for Transportation they face? The other Because a full totality of 24 quarter that you're looking at with be worn mostly asking because obviously word. I-94 goes to multiple awards. Yes, oh, no. Worldwide metro area wide looking at the impact throughout the Twin Cities. Thank you. And also just to going beyond just 94 and so looking at ways within the metro area and has a $50,000 quoted from like some players So that's the asked that we've received from community of 50,500 $1000. Is the full amount with the amount that's anticipated from other governmental entities. That's for Saint supporters. Yes, you MAY have said this was coming, but is Ramsey County be asked
to participate as well? They haven't asked at this point. I 18, we don't know for sure if they will. Obviously there give them much told that So we're hopeful that they'll be contributing that. Wonderful. I think we're gonna keep moving. I have questions like this is definitely a word wind related. Yeah, that's fine. We have 20 minutes left. And so it is just say we've got one to 2 for 5 and council room. We have at least 5 more. And then it sounds like treating had a few that to make it onto the list. So I'm just and just you can ask the question. I'm just saying we have now that we've got 20 minutes left. Yeah, totally understand. Weak and top off and about it, this wandering to the degree chief resiliency officer chief climate officer s taxes is brought into this because I
know h's spearheading the men that packs processed So we've been in touch with Prosecco about this is where city in the Fiesta and how it might play into computer decision-making for the city. And this a part of it. My understanding is yes, just tell us understanding is that, yes, okay. You got commitment from that that thinks that understand this for there's a action. I definitely will top off. I think it's really important that we connect rhinos engagement. And if you're talking about people's impacted, the brand of community definitely had been impacting experience harm from the freeway. S I think to the extent that that community group is and engage with the really important. Thank you for those comments. All right. Moving right along, restore public works for about a painter.
Some of combined Oprah you're gonna bring in Florida's one they're they're separate amendment technically. But when I talk about the moment to talk about them together, thanks, sure. So this item restoring the public works robotic painter and restoring the public works in overly fund. Our is an amendment that I'm bringing basically to restore 2 of the proposed funding sources. From from the Council's amendment that was presented earlier. So the robotics for machines, about 450,000, the mill and overlay money is about almost 319,000. So I think these 2 investments, which originally part of the mayor's proposed budget are about public safety and about investments in our infrastructure, a roadway quality and safety is a core
function of our city. Residents expect Illinois over Lee money is important for keeping u with our street maintenance. It's important to the resilience of our roads and as well as a lot of the deferred maintenance on our roads. That only gets more expensive. If we don't continue to maintain those investments. spent a little bit more time talking about the robotic France Machine Road Prince, which I think maybe not everyone familiar with the people listening So this was presented to us by public works when Director Kershaw came in with those giant life sized stencils. This is a modernization of its almost 100 year old practice for how we lay down street markings. So right now requires 3 workers to lay those markings down. This is for crosswalks
turn arrows. School markings, bike lanes. We as about 4200 gallons of paint per year for those markings with Prince machine that would only required possibly to workers. It would take workers out of the street. So this would significantly increase efficiency in this process and we be able to reallocate staff to other critical public works services and this is would pay for itself over 7 years. I think this is about 2 things. This is a mention road safety, but it's about pedestrian safety, which, you know, is a priority is that our council shares and that our city
shares we are currently behind in our printed markings. You can see them in our roads when you drive through them, dozens of them on our way. Hear that. You can't even see any more. Its absolutely critical that we catch up on those printed markings. These need to be visible for the safety of our streets and the markings, for example, I had some markings public works in were 3 nearby, a school last year in the fall of 2024. Today, you can you can barely see them and they need to be repainted. I think this is a top issue that I hear about in our city about pedestrian safety, especially kids being able to get to schools, road safety. We get so many requests for traffic improvements all throughout our word. And I think throughout our city. This
increases safety for al road users with these more effective and more efficient place, visual street markings, it's more affordable, more accessible. It's safer to apply. Also talk about worker safety really, really briefly, just as I mentioned, the more that we can get wrote road workers off the streets, the safer that is fewer injuries and accidents for cars, roadway safety. These wouldn't be used on highways. But when you combine roadway safety with high worker safety, that is one of the top most dangerous kind of a fatalities that we see for our workers. So I think that these 2 just to wrap up, you know, the snow and overly the restoration of milling overly and road prints are about our shared commitment to safety in our
city. On the job site all of our roads. No matter how you travel, if you're a pedestrian and bike or you're in a car or taking transit resource. The source for this right now would be a tif district decertification, which we think is going to be about $950,000. If you do add up the a c 1, 2, 3, 4, so items that folks are proposing for that money proposing over $950,000. So I do actually have a couple other potential sources that I'm going to look into 2 if needed. But that's for those who come from. Tend think reach us. Moving right along. ok, so now we've got 4 minutes. Know, we've got. And not a math. We have 6 more Sullivan, 16. So that's 2 minutes. Okay. So the first
one up, we've got oversight of opioid which Israel's something that comes we brought in this morning. You might just a backpack is 3 of Yeah. That's how experiment to get it out the that's totally on second, let me set this time or for you So I'll sart. I have 3. So the first one loya? An effort. Actually don't mind. The first one going to be the Rhondda library. And then the second one is John, a place. And the 3rd one is the opioid settlement funds. So with the Rhondda Library, this particularly Asians making sure that there's guardrails and make sure that council is in collaboration with this new administration. The real reality is that we're preparing for a budget for a different mayor in for a nw transition.
a new administration, it's really, really important that we have some guardrails put in place to protect the most critical public asset and that these guardrails help us move forward together with clarity accountability. What's really important, as you all know, as a line representing have around the library is really, really surely the heartbeat of this neighborhood in closing, it is going to cause some harm to that neighborhood. This amendment simply ensures that there's guidelines and clear deliverables, particularly ensuring that there's a from reopening date for the Van Der Library, a contractor selection timeline, a community input process regarding the design programming, safety and services and ensuring that those monthly updates in the
future found the library directors and a joint department approach, particularly around safety issues on that corner and not just the library, but that surrounding areas. So this actually doesn't require budget. Saw pays for itself on its going to be utilizing the existing library budget funds. This is pretty much just putting conditions on the funds in terms of how the funds will be rolled out and how the renovation projects will managed in the future. There's going to be a lot of transition. And I think it's really important to make sure that, you know, for the community who uncertainty, that this is clear guidelines
and making sure people know every step in the process. So that's any questions for that. The second one is John, a place and the second chance housing alocation for the last. If you are here at the last public safety, a community wellness committee meeting, we had Minnesota Justice Research Center Common PRESIDENT About the returning home program that existed in the office of Financial and about 3 years ago, that word was incredible. And it was done under the pandemic and really didn't get a chance to really see that they have light. We have heard from many community organizations such General Place, who has been no great partners with the city in terms of delivering the community ambassadors program.
This program is morsel provide funding so we can ensure that people backgrounds have access to housing. We know that they face a severely barriers to housing. A lot of stigma. So this is more so of a crime prevention and public safety. Investment to ensure that our most viable has access to housing. A roof reduces recidivism and strengthens our public safety. And these are just proven strong partners. I anticipate on actually solving for this bdget. But looking at 3 different budging sources, I don't want to share now just because, you know, I still need to get more information in clarity about it. But I do appreciate you all support, particularly now hearing it in the Public
Safety Committee meeting, but also like actually investing in 2 fair housing, the future. Any questions moving forward? Change things Church. Yes, I just like a clarification area already making this investment into a program like this are ready John. There's there has been so one of the sources was office of Financial empowerment. It was on the city has had buying time on investment in it. So just would be a reoccurring investment from about 3 years ago. So you'll still be through the Office of Financial Empowerment and or it also be a fast. There is a fine through life as that they can just directly appropriate these dollars to organization. In the next one. Okay. Last
but not this has Has been a really clear pathway and ensuring that we have. Strong council oversight and controls over the big conversation that we've been all wanting to have as a council regarding the opioid settlement dollars. You know, it was some months ago. I want to appreciate our budget chair and ensuring that we hear from Ramsey County Public health director guarding the settlement approximately 14 million dollars. That is going to be going through the city. But there hasn't been really consistent core in a decentralized plan. And that is just really what we have experience. We have really
excited to see what the department's and what the city has in mind to actually address. But in all crisis we have on that ended a budget address where there was announcement of a million dollars to go to bed and I intervention. I have requested on Moscow occasions for tem to come and present about how that 1 million dollars should be invested into the community. And we have not heard anything. And I think giving the authority that we have on moving into the future, we should it controls and ensuring that these dollars are secured and ensuring that the departments and the going into a new administration, the opportunity to actually collaborate. And te opportunity for us to make sure our residents have the - fund so we can continue saving
lives of some continue supporting recovery from covid continue expanding our services. Most importantly, stabilizing our neighborhoods. This amendment is a simple commitment. Before we go out to spin millions of dollars that has that. Actually have came to council. We need to have a plan, a real plan, a shared plan. So this is I'm asking my colleagues to support me and ensuring that there's council oversight, I'm going to be continuously working with essential staff to make sure that we have the proper. I've seen the proper account mechanism for it. If there's any question that can definitely answered that sunscreen. I don't see any questions. And we're at 11 24 or sleeves. I think the perfect amount for the last You so much for the incredible detail. And I strong moments they are
bringing forward. Huntsman rightfully so treating you have 3 and you're 6 minutes. I'll just keep it rolling pass the questions that you that the remaining every time stray I just want to give you a heads up that I will be making rounds with everybody too. More about I for their nominations that they can positions. As I look at the list from hr, there are some positions that have. since 2023. And and I'm just, you know, doing that based off of the things that we've been hearing from committee members, even our city staff to which is w want more frontline staff members less to provide users. And we've always in the council here talked a lot about. I want to have a one-year mark and I think it you know it the position goes open for longer. There really should be an evaluation about what are we doing that position. We needed
to make some adjustments. For example, major adjustment so that it's competitive. There's also some positions that have been open since 2022, that's well. And then the second you have my that I in favor of fully funding our council Rent Council Office renovation project to make sure that our spaces are safe for our staff and the public too. The amount that we see on the amendment. Let's hear. I don't believe that is the full amount, but I would be interested in filling gap for that come with connect mostly about that. And then lastly, I am still very committed to lowering the levee even more. So you want to let you all know that if there all right and used dollars or let's say, you know, we know there's a new revenue coming in next year. Die. Very interested in using that to lower than what the morning without your support
on that. Awesome. Yeah. That's wonderful. 11. 25 so again, I'm just going to thank you. First, I think just all of my colleagues in the credible budget work that we've been doing an a kind of listening and hearing all these great ideas. I think it's just really a testament of that big body force. That is sir. The best group project that the chairs chairs push PRESIDENT Cares proposed by that. But I can speak and then also the incredible ideas and the ways that we're really just kind of looking at the guts of the city. And and I just really appreciate the level of detail throughout entirety of our budget process. And so very friendly reminder, please work with and our office. We are expecting each council office to submit their resolutions into legistar. We will provide a format to do that. They will need to be entered into
legistar with no less than 4 in support. And we will take on. We will take up voting on on DECEMBER. 3rd are finalizing our levee Max Levy and also finalizing our budget. Any other lasting? That's questions or concerns for my colleagues yesterday on Sunday. Thank you. I just want to add a clarify question. Going back t the to what's required for the Reno Library. Innovations. And the oversight of the opioid dollars. If you don't have budgetary changes, correct? They're just they're no change. The reporting resolutions, uk and John Place with the new additional funding that would. And then I think along just something
that fight for our colleagues. We will be at the long lines of reporting have asked for community include language in the House and Redevelopment Authority's budget. The overall resolution that would require quarterly here to you state budget to actual reporting that same language is my attention. So so to make sure Bennett and the city's budget and part really getting to a place where we are seeing quarter the reports of a budget to actuals. And so that's just something didn't. It's not an amendment that similar to like the reporting mechanisms of what's present here Ripley better ways to ensure that taste like over time. But also transparency just because the way that we do in budget to actuals currently when it comes to
reporting at least right, we hear about them. In the middle of the year and then we hear about them again after the budget is already passed for that people for the next year. Moving forward in a public way. This change that to be quarterly and both the city and the budgets. So that which coming as like a resolution, it will be because within overall budget resolution that approved that sunscreen. Thank you so much. And again, a friendly reminder to all millions of viewers at home. If you're amendment that you particularly love and without thank you, chair on sees please lobbyist for those interests. Alright was nothing else. The force returns