►
Description
January 22, 2019 - Committee of the Whole City Council Meeting
http://www.cityblm.org
View meeting documentation:
http://www.cityblm.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/10068/17
Music by www.RoyaltyFreeKings.com
A
C
D
A
E
B
A
B
A
And
all
the
woman
helman
could
you
vote
on
that?
We're
doing
that
electronic
voting
yeah?
It's
not
your
fault,
it's
my
fault,
because
I
was,
for
whatever
reason
thought
that
we
didn't
have
to.
The
motion
carries
8
to
0.
There
are
no
needs
to
announce
Madame
clerk
and
we
move
then
right
along
to
our
presentation
of
our
comprehensive
Parks
and
Recreation
master
plan
and
I'm
going
to
go
ahead
and
turn
this
over
to
our
city
manager
and
JTED
fall
was.
F
C
Evening,
I
just
wanted
to
give
just
a
kind
of
a
really
quick
I
guess:
history,
bringing
back
history
to
this
before
Tom
comes
up.
So
if
you
remember
a
couple
years
ago,
David
Hills
had
$100,000
for
two
feasibility
studies,
one
for
O'neal,
one
for
a
recreation
center
I
went
to
him
and
talked
to
him
said
the
zoo
or
the
the
parks
master
plan
is
from
1997.
We've
had
two
updates,
but
we
really
need
to
update
that
with
new
directors,
new
seed
manager
and
other
staff
just
felt
there
was
a
strong
need.
So
what
worse?
C
So
there
really
was
three
pieces.
There
was
visibility,
study
for
a
rec
center
feasibility
study
for
O'neal,
and
you
guys
have
heard
some
of
those
numbers
and
we
used
some
of
those
numbers
and
when
we
talked
about
O'neal
clock
Center,
what
we're
talking
about
tonight
is
the
comprehensive
plant.
The
comprehensive
master
plan
so
I
wanted
to
make
sure
that
I
kind
of
brought
that
up,
but
we're
only
talk
one
one
piece
of
the
three
that
is
in
front
of
you
tonight.
They
also
the
goal
for
me
is
that
you
ask
all
your
questions.
C
You
have
because
Tom
will
not
be
here
next
time,
so
I
don't
have
to
answer
all
your
questions.
You
can
ask
your
questions
so
feel
free
to
ask
any
question
you
have
tonight
and
the
goal,
depending
on
the
discussion,
will
be
a
vote
for
next
Monday,
but
that's
that
all
depends
on
where
the
discussion
goes
tonight
right
so
and
that
no
funding
is
attached
to
this
plan.
That's
important
to
understand
as
well
as
no
funding
is
attached
to
this.
So
it's
using
the
recommendations.
C
G
Thank
you
very
much.
I
appreciate
you
giving
me
a
few
moments
of
your
time.
Welcome
real
quick
I'm
with
green
play
and
I
have
over
30
years
of
experience
in
Park
and
Recreation,
so
I've
operated
facilities
and
everything,
and
just
so
you
have
that
a
sense.
This
is
a
comprehensive
master
plan.
The
word
comprehensive
is
key.
G
G
G
The
first
thing
is
the
first
recommendation
talks
about
grass,
that's
an
analysis
that
green
play
and
Design
Concepts
have
developed
and
have
done
hundreds
of
projects
together,
and
they
compare
parks
and
facilities
and
different
agencies,
and
basically
in
looking
through
that,
it
indicated
that
there
was
a
need
for
some
higher
level
of
service
in
some
of
your
parks.
So
what's
recommended
in
the
second
bullet
is
to
add
some
new
elements
to
your
park,
and
the
third
bullet
is
recommending
that
you
develop
site-specific
master
plans
for
each
one
of
your
parks.
G
G
These
recommendations,
basically
it's
to
develop
a
capital
improvement
budget
for
your
parks
and
we're
talking
about
quality
over
quantity.
So
there
is
some
discussion
about
possibly
repurposing
some
of
your
parks,
so
we
didn't
give
you
specifics
about
each
exact
Park.
That
would
be
where
you
do
a
site-specific
Park
master
plan,
but
we
believe
you
should
be
focused
on
the
quality
and
then,
as
I
said,
consider
repurposing,
some
of
your
components
here.
We're
recommending
that
you
continue
to
address
the
ad
a
compliance
issues
and
that's
something
that
you
should
just
constantly
be
doing.
G
We're
recommending
that
you
update
your
codes
and
ordinance
to
reflect
what
are
our
recommendations
for
parks
per
acre
and
then.
Finally,
we're
recommending
that
again
here,
you're
partnering,
with
the
Planning
Department,
to
update
all
your
GIS
data
sets
for
parks
and
all
the
components
we
talked
about
trail
and
walking
path
recommendations.
G
The
other
thing
we're
recommending
is
that
you
look
at
the
trends
that
are
all
across
the
nation
in
the
region
and
we've,
given
you
some
recommendations
to
consider
things
like
dog
parks,
skateboarding,
more
community
events,
things
like
that
and
the
bottom
bullet
is
to
look
at
the
benches
and
your
site
furnishings
and
come
up
with
a
standard.
A
lot
of
your
benches
are
starting
to
show
their
age,
and
you
should
come
up
with
a
specific
standard
of
how
you'd
like
to
have
them,
replaced
and
then
actually
develop,
not
only
the
standard
but
also
replacement
schedule.
G
G
I
think
this
talks
a
little
bit
more
about
tracking
the
lifecycle
of
your
play
apparatus
and
in
the
different
hardware
and
the
associated
hardscapes.
We're
also
recommending
that
you
classify
several
of
your
parks.
We
have
them
listed
here.
We
went
through
I
think
it
reclassified
your
parks
in
a
standard
that
we've
used
and
there's
some
that
still
need
to
be
addressed.
G
We
recommend
that
you
evaluate
the
maintenance
for
your
evaluating
prioritize
improvements
for
your
condition
and
maintenance
of
your
parks,
so
that
you
have
a
list
and
you
can
start
putting
prices
to
those
and
again,
we've
identified
that
in
the
master
plan,
but
you're
going
to
need
some
site-specific
plans
for
each
park
and
then
we're
recommending
that
you
look
to
improve
your
field
conditions.
A
lot
of
your
fields
have
drainage
issues
or
under
drainage,
need
some
regrading
and
so
forth.
G
Let's
see
here,
I'm
just
trying
to
give
you
the
bullet
points
establish
the
deferred
maintenance
list
is
one
of
the
recommendations
that
we
have
I.
Think
there's
things
that
agencies
keep
deferring
and
deferring
you
need
to
get
them
on
the
list
and
prioritize
them
and
make
sure
they
don't
just
keep
being
deferred.
We
recommend
that
you
continue
with
your
tree
replacement
program.
G
That's
been
going
well,
but
you
need
to
continue
to
do
it
and
pay
special
attention
to
the
Elmer
ash
borer
and
then.
Finally,
we
have
recommend
that
you
evaluate
the
amount
of
bluegrass
that
you
have
and
mow
and
maintain
that's
quite
costly
to
maintain
all
of
that,
so
maybe
to
look
at
some
other
thoughts,
low
Moltar
for
native
Prairie
or
pollinator
areas.
So
we're
looking
at
giving
you
some
ways
you
might
be
able
to
reuse
that
space.
G
We're
recommending
that
you
continue
recreation
programming
and
that
you
focus
new
programs
for
the
demands
and
the
trends
that
are
out
there.
So
not
just
keep
doing
what
you're
doing,
but
to
take
a
look
at
the
programs.
Add
new
programs
retire
ones
that
are
being
effective,
we're
recommending
a
full
service
assessment
of
your
programs,
and
then
you
also
review
the
programs
that
are
duplicated,
that
you
might
be
able
to
reduce
if
you're
doing
them
in
two
different
places
where
it
could
be
done
in
one
or
it
might
be
being
duplicated
in
the
community.
G
We're
recommending
that
you
look
for
programming
for
young
adults,
for
people,
young
families
and
also
to
pay
attention
to
the
active
and
aging
adults
what
adults
are
looking
for
and
some
people
call
them
senior
some
people
call
them
aging,
isn't
what
it
used
to
be.
It's
not
just
sitting
at
a
table
playing
cards.
It's
much
more
active
we're
recommending
that
you
continue
to
add
community
special
events.
G
There's
ways
you
can
do
a
cost
recovery
to
take
a
look
at
what
you're
charging
in
fees
and
and
how
that
money
is
being
spent
to
pay
for
it
to
make
sure
that
your
resources
are
properly
being
allocated
and
then
we're
also
giving
you
some
recommendations.
As
far
as
marketing
goes
to
add
some
marketing
resources
and
I
think
I
just
meant
a
person
who's
been
added
in
marketing.
So
that's
good
and
to
look
at
communication
with
partners
and
programs.
G
Look
for
additional
multicultural
opportunities
to
evaluate
the
scheduling
of
your
facilities
and
your
programs
and
then
finally,
to
address
the
perception
of
the
East
West
and
from
what
our
study
shows.
The
west
side
does
have
many
facilities
and
I
think
you
need
to
help
get
that
across
to
the
community.
So
there's
not
a
perception
that
they're
not
being
taken
care
of
in
the
West
I
think
those
are
the
slides
that
we
have
so
I'd
like
to
open
it
up
to
questions,
questions.
H
Just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
putting
this
together,
there's
multiple
different
things
that
I've
been
talking
about
for
a
while
that
are
in
here.
One
of
the
things
I
before
I
was
on
council
I
went
through
the
Bloomington
101
class
and
I
distinctly
remembered
Jay
talking
about
the
number
of
man
hours.
We
spend
mowing
grass
in
the
city
every
year
and
I
think
at
the
time
it
was
12,000
hours
per
years
that
sound
about
right,
yeah.
So
so
I've
had
a
conversation
with
Tim
multiple
times
saying
is
there?
H
What
can
we
do
to
reduce
that
number
down,
and
is
that
involved
planting
more
pollinator
grasses
native
wildlife
areas?
More
walking
paths,
you
know,
Tipton
trails
is
hugely
popular
for
people
walking
through
all
that
area.
Are
there
other
parks
we
can
convert
to
that
same
area,
because
my
understandings,
we
spent
a
lot
of
time
loading
and
unloading
equipment
to
mow
various
little
Wiggly
bits
of
grass
here
and
there
all
over
the
communities
and
the
more
of
those
every
year
we
can
change
back
into
non
or
pollinator
Gardens
or
whatever
that
don't
have
to
be
mowed.
H
All
the
time.
I
think
the
better
off
we'll
be
in
the
long
term,
so
I
was
happy
to
see
that
I
was
also
happy
to
see
that
the
plan
talks
about
fewer
parks
with
better
and
more
amenities
in
those
parts
for
much
the
same
reasons
with
the
maintenance
costs
associated
with
getting
people
to
the
parks
to
take
care
of
them
is
a
significant
portion
of
our
our
time.
So
I
was
very
happy
to
see
that
in
there.
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank
you.
Thank.
G
Think
I
think
the
first
thing
was
looking
at
the
the
of
parks
and
the
quality
of
the
parks,
and
then
we're
asked
recommending
that
assessment
of
your
facilities
to
take
a
look
at
how
well
they're
used
and
what
their
condition
is
and
then
go
from
there.
So
if
the
condition
of
a
facility
is
is
in
such
a
shape
that
it's
going
to
cost
a
lot
of
money,
then
it
might
be
not
recommended
to
continue
with
that.
But
that's
not
what
we
were
able
to
do
during
this
scope
and.
E
I
I
was
also
interested
in
the
suggestion
that
we
kind
of
pare
down
some
of
the
parks,
but
I
I've
always
believed
that
parks
are
kind
of
a
gathering
place.
You
know
it's
almost
like
the
living
room,
you
know
of
a
neighborhood
or
community
where
everybody
kind
of
comes
together.
So
if
we
do
that,
then
that
means
that
we
we
might
be
going
more
to
a
maybe
a
regional
and
a
thing
or
but
either
way
you
know
I.
I
A
G
Not
talking
about
going
to
the
regional
share
level,
we're
looking
at,
you
only
have
so
many
resources,
and
rather
than
trying
to
have
everything
making
what
you
have
a
better
quality.
So
taking
a
look
at
where
there's
multiple
parks
that
are
serving
that
population
and
instead
of
maybe
three
could
one
be
repurposed
and
to
have
better
amenities,
and
would
they
be
better
used?
It's
it's
not
so
much.
You
know,
closing
them
down,
it
might
be
repurposing
them
changing
what
the
amenities
are
or
what
the
active.
Okay.
I
Thank
you
for
the
clarification
and
then
the
other
question
that
I
have
I
know
this.
This
does
not
necessarily
address
funding
but
I'm
just
interested
in
your
opinion,
in
terms
of
what
you've
seen
nationally,
you
know.
Obviously
this
is
you
know
we
have
a
lot
of
challenges
in
terms
of
funding.
You
know
facilities
and
then
different
infrastructure,
but
I
am
curious.
What
you've
seen
as
sustainable
models
out
there
green.
G
Play
has
done
over
500
projects
since
1999,
and
what
we're
continuing
to
see
is
communities
investing
in
parks
and
facilities,
the
quality
of
life,
the
economic
benefit
brings
jobs,
brings
people
to
your
community
all
within
reason,
and
in
what
a
community
can
afford,
but
we're
seeing
people
continuing
to
invest
in
their
parks.
Adding
walking
trails
is
huge,
making
sure
that
the
community
has
appropriate
facilities
and
looking
at
what's
available
in
the
community,
as
well
as
what
the
parks
and
recreation
can
supply
or
or
provide.
So
that's
kind
of
where
the
partnership
comes
in.
G
You
don't
want
to
duplicate
something
that's
already
being
done,
but
as
times
could
even
tougher
for
people
more
people
are
looking
to
parks
for
services.
They
want
to
go
there
to
walk,
they
want
to
go
there
to
rectory,
they
want
to
go
there
together.
They
want
to
go
there
to
do
activities
so
I
think
we're
seeing
continued
growth.
J
You
mayor
Renner,
and
thank
you
very
much
for
the
study
and
all
your
hard
work.
Your
project
team,
that's
really
delivered.
Some
interesting
data
to
us.
I
have
several
questions
kind
of
like
how
the
data
connects,
maybe
with
some
other
concepts
so
that,
in
one
point
and
in
the
recommendations-
and
here
in
the
larger
report,
you've
made
mention
that
there
was
some
map.
Mapping,
inaccuracies
in
regards
to
connecting
territory
and
the
like
and
I'm.
G
Landscape
architect,
firm
that
we
worked
with,
took
all
of
that
into
consideration.
They're
just
recommending
that
the
maps
that
the
city
has
in
the
planning
department,
we
didn't
believe,
were
accurate
from
the
GIS
standpoint.
So
it's
just
getting
those
all
cleaned
up.
Our
person
went
on
site
and
walked
every
one
of
your
parks
and
looked
at
all
of
your
amenities
and.
J
J
Thank
you
so
we've
had
some.
We
have
some
concepts
here
about
divestiture
and
you've
made
a
couple
recommendations
about
doing
some
further
study
of
repurposing
and
the
like.
So
I
want
to
kind
of
get
into
the
weeds
a
little
bit
with
that
and
talk
a
little
bit
about.
You
know
some
mechanisms
you
would
use
to
identify
which
parks
would
be
best
to
divest,
for
instance.
So
if
we,
if
to
me,
what
comes
to
my
mind,
is
all
right:
did
we
track
the
use
of
the
various
parks?
J
G
G
What
we're
recommending
more
is
to
look
at
where
you
have
multiple
parts
that
are
serving
a
population
and
then
take
a
look
at
which
of
those
parks
has
the
amenities
and
the
potential
have
better
quality,
which
parks
doesn't
have
as
many
amenities
or
doesn't
have
the
potential
to
go
to
the
quality
that
you'd
like
it
to
be,
and
then
take
a
look
at
that
and
consider
upgrading
the
parks
that
have
the
potential
in
the
park
that
doesn't
potentially
repurposing.
It
doesn't
mean
you
know
necessarily
eliminating
it.
J
G
J
Thank
you
for
that.
When,
when
I
look
around
Bloomington
I
see
that
what
I
consider,
in
my
parlance,
a
suburban
City,
in
other
words
I,
don't
feel
like
we
have
an
urban
feel
to
our
to
our
city.
We
don't
have
a
lot
of
high-rise,
living
and,
and
the
like,
and
so
I
wonder.
Does
that
impact
this
portion
of
the
study
that
relates
to
population
density
and,
and
then
the
level
of
park
service
that
you
would
yes.
G
We
looked
at
a
combination
of
the
the
demographics
of
Bloomington
and
then
our
person,
who
did
our
study
degress
study,
looked
at
the
density
that
was
near
parks,
did
look
at
things
like
walkability,
drivability
and
things
like
that,
and
those
are
all
guidelines
or
standards.
It's
not
an
exact
science
that
you
know
you
have
to
have
a
park
within
a
five
minute
walk
it
that's
not
always
possible,
but
they
also
combine
as
component
based
with
the
different
amenities
and
elements
in
the
park.
So
that's
how
we
looked
at
it
and
yeah.
G
J
Parks
serve
lots
of
purposes,
obviously
gathering
and
and
having
place
to
do
activities,
but
at
the
same
time
they're
very
functional,
because
if
you
have
a
dog,
but
you
live
in
a
high-rise,
you
you
need
a
park
place
where
you
can
go
and
read,
create
your
dollar
give
your
dog
breaks
versus.
If
you
live
in
a
more
suburban
community,
like
generally
my
kins,
partly
yes,
we
see
in
Bloomington
folks
have
green
space
availability
in
the
form
of
yards
or
their
life
that
they
can
avail
themselves
of
that
for
that
daily
activity.
J
G
I
think
we
felt
there
was
a
good
dispersement
of
your
parks
and
there
were
a
few
areas
that
might
have
been
short
on
parks.
When
we
look
deeper
into
it,
it
was
commercial
areas
and
a
low-density
or
or
not
high-density.
At
the
time
it
might
become
more
neighborhoods
in
the
future.
Then
you'd
have
to
reassess
that.
J
G
When
we're
involved,
whether
we're
doing
one,
for
instance
in
Alexandria
Virginia
we're
doing
one
in
Kirkland
Washington
and
we've
done
several
others
we
come
in
and
we
look
at
all
of
the
activities
and
programs
that
a
an
agency
does
and
we
look
to
categorize
them
as
ones
that
benefit
everyone
in
the
community
and
ones
that
benefit
fewer
in
the
community
and
in
between.
We
have
a
pyramid
and
there's
five
different
levels.
G
We
try
to
place
the
categories
of
service
in
those
different
locations,
and
then
we
try
to
look
at
what
the
fees
are
and
we
also
look
at
the
cost
recovery.
So
what
it,
what
it's
actually
costing
you
to
do
the
different
activities
and
then
based
on
that
it
helps
lay
out
your
fee
structures
and
it
makes
every
one
we
do
it
through
community
involvement.
So
we
actually
have
workshops
where
invite
the
community
and
and
have
them
tell
us,
you
know,
is
a
group
exercise
class.
Is
that
program?
G
Is
that
at
the
bottom
of
the
pyramid,
where
everyone
can
benefit,
or
is
that
at
the
top
of
the
pyramid?
With
few
benefits?
You
know
we
do
that
with
dog
parks.
We
do
that
with
all
the
different
activities
and
we
try
to
get
a
sense
of
that
and
that
helps
sort
out
what
the
potential
fees
maybe
should
be
and
what
your
level
of
cost
recovery
should
be.
Theoretically,
if
very
few
people
benefit
from
it,
it
probably
shouldn't
cost
an
agency
a
lot
to
do
it.
That's
not
fair
to
everyone
else.
G
If
everyone
in
the
community
benefits
from
it,
that's
typically
the
things
that
you
try
to
pay
for
with
your
your
base
budget,
as
opposed
to
user
fees.
Arc's
is
a
perfect
example.
Theoretically,
everyone
can
benefit
from
the
use
of
a
park.
You
don't
have
someone
standing
there
collecting
a
fee
or
checking
ideas.
You
enter
a
park
where,
if
you
go
to
a
specific
program,
there
might
be
a
registration
for
that
or
something
it's
a
more
specific
group.
G
A
D
You
I
think
one
of
the
things
that
surprised
me
about
this
report
was
the
acknowledgement
that,
in
terms
of
acres
of
parkland
per
person
were
actually
below
average,
and
that
surprised
me
because
I
think
that's
contrary
to
many
residents
perceptions
of
our
city
and
also
our
aspirations
for
what
the
city
is.
But
I
didn't
really
appreciate
your
approach
to
dealing
with
that
that
you
didn't
just
make
a
blanket
recommendation:
oh
you're,
below
average,
you
need
to
fix
that
by
adding
parts
you
took
a
you,
took
a
much
more
pragmatic
approach
and
said:
okay.
D
G
D
D
Some
of
these
concerns,
and
the
primary
one,
of
course,
is
roadways,
and
we've
done
some
of
the
work
on
that
as
a
council,
in
adopting
a
Complete
Streets
model
and
I
and
I
would
think
that
that
that
continuing
down
that
that
line
in
making
our
streets
more
easily
accessible
to
all
forms
of
transportation,
including
pedestrians,
would
help
alleviate
and
remove
some
of
those
barriers
so
that
again
the
parks
that
we
have.
We
don't
need
to
start
putting
more
parks
in,
but
the
ones
that
we
have
are
more
accessible
to
more
residents.
So.
G
K
Said,
thank
you
and
also
thanks
for
your
presentation.
A
few
minutes
ago,
you,
you
said
adding
walking
trails
is
huge.
I
think
is
what
you
said
and
so
I'm
wondering
if
you
can
provide
just
a
little
bit
more
detail
or
a
little
bit
more
context
behind
that
statement.
If
you
wouldn't
know,
maybe
I'll
have
a
question
or
don't
laughter
that
we.
G
Find
that
walking
trails
and
connectivity
or
through
the
biggest
things
communities
are
looking
at.
We
found
some
statistics
out
there.
If
you
have
a
park
and
there's
a
place
that
most
people
enter.
If
you
can
have
a
walking
trail
or
a
path
ACCA's
around
the
park
and
comes
back
to
the
start,
you
can
increase
the
use
of
the
park
by
as
much
as
70%
I'm
from
out
of
town
I'm,
seeing
in
the
hotel
if
the
weather
was
nicer,
I
might
want
to
go
for
exercise.
G
So
if
I
went
out
of
my
hotel
and
decided
to
run
down
the
street
I,
don't
know
how
far
I
need
to
run
before
I
got
to
turn
around
to
get
back.
I
can
run
three
miles
and
then
being
what
do
I
do.
I
could
run
a
mile
and
get
back
and
I
only
ran
two
miles
and
I'm.
Not
if
it's
a
loop,
you
go
around
the
loop
once
and
you
get
a
sense
of
what
that
was
like.
G
So
then,
you
know
every
time
you're
coming
to
the
park,
you're
looking
to
do
three
or
four
loops
and
then
over
time
you
might
build
it
up,
but
the
other
thing
is,
you
see
all
the
activity
going
on
in
the
park.
So
if
your
children
are
doing
programs
or
other
people
are
doing
things,
you
actually
get
exposed
to
everything
else.
That's
going
on
and
you're
more
likely
to
become
involved.
Okay,.
K
G
Likely
it
would,
you
know,
depend
on
the
specific
piece
of
property
sure
what
you'd
want
to
make
it
connected
and
accessible,
and
then
you
know,
depending
on
what
the
piece
of
property
is.
Yes,
if
you
can
have
walking
path
around
it
and
some
of
the
things
we
recommended
we're,
adding
things
like
benches,
adding
outdoor
fitness
equipment,
things
like
that
you're,
giving
people
more
reasons
to
go
there.
Okay,
all
right!
Thank
you.
You're.
A
J
Thank
you
very
much
for
speaking
more
about
the
walking
paths
and
trails
and
I
thought
that
was
very
exciting
proposition,
especially
when,
in
a
larger
report
you
coupled
it
with
some
economic
development
and
and
talked
about
connecting
up
Constitution
trail
route,
66
and
then
creating
connections
that
blend
with
the
recreational
opportunities
with
restaurants
and
retail
opportunities.
Is
there
just
sometimes
visuals
really
help
me?
Is
there
particular
place
that
or
model
that
I
could
think
about
or
check
out
that
would
incorporate
kind
of
a
park
with
this
retail
and
restaurant
idea
that
there's.
J
G
Have
to
give
it
some
thought
didn't
get
back
to
it,
for
a
specific
one
that
would
relate
to
Bloomington,
but
again
by
the
connectivity.
People
might
walk
from
downtown
or
town
hall
or
the
Gathering
Place
to
a
park
and
back
people
go
to
a
park
and
because
they
can
walk
to
a
restaurant
they'll
make
more
of
a
day
of
it.
That's
what
we
see
you.
J
G
I
A
F
You,
mayor
and
council,
we've
discussed
FY
20
in
lesser
detail
with
the
introduction
of
the
finance
director
report
five
months
ago,
but
this
is
our
first
formal
discussion
on
FY
20
men,
Enoch
steps.
Our
approach
to
the
budget
was
to
predict
for
you
in
the
community
the
most
accurate
budget,
as
we
possibly
could.
How
is
this
done?
F
Always
a
conservative
and
respectful
approach
to
the
use
of
taxpayer
funds
using
historical
trends
as
the
best
indicator
in
some
cases
as
far
back
as
a
decade,
the
goal
is
not
to
be
ultra
conservative
and
leave
budget
dollars
on
the
table
when
an
exhaustive
list
of
capital
expenditures
remain
and
also
to
avoid
being
too
optimistic
and
very
challenging
times.
I
mentioned
many
steps.
F
We
project
predict
a
surplus
of
500,000
and
the
upcoming
FY
20,
but
this
is
not
an
anticipated
ongoing
source
of
revenue,
but
does
a
law
council
to
direct
what
I
will
call
one
and
done
smaller
capital
projects?
The
budget
also
provides
an
additional
$500,000
surplus
and
the
capital
projects
funds
fund,
which
was
recently
used
to
pay
for
the
balance
of
the
wayfinding
signage
couple
of
weeks
ago,
had
a
balance
of
about
$900,000
and
after
action.
Council
took
that's
down
to
about
$500,000.
F
This
is
an
opportunity
to
potentially
undo
a
trend
where
we've
been
forced
in
the
past
recession
and
post
recession,
where
we're
borrowing
for
some
of
our
equipment
purchases
such
as
vehicles,
much
better
practice
to
pay-as-you-go.
If
we
can
in
upcoming
meetings,
I
will
also
be
providing
council
a
menu
of
options
on
new
revenue
considerations
that
could
be
pledged
or
dedicated
to
capital
projects
that
the
community
has
discussed
for
many
years.
I
believe
exciting
days
ahead
for
the
Bloomington
community
and
at
this
time,
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over
to
finance
director
Scott
Rathbun.
Thank
you.
L
Evening
this
is
meant
to
be
kind
of
a
high-level,
not
digging
into
the
details
too
much
overview
when
I
walk
you
through
how
we
were
looking
at
2020
last
year.
At
this
time,
we
were
projecting
a
two
million
dollar
deficit,
using
very
conservative
assumptions
at
the
time
walk
you
through
how
we
got
from
the
two
million
dollar
deficit
to
a
half
million
dollar
surplus
and
then
just
kind
of
give
you
a
real
high
sense
of
you
know
the
use
of
those
funds
for
infrastructure
improvements
and
then
finally
kind
of
go
through.
L
So
a
reminder:
2020
assumptions
used
or
an
FYI
19
budget.
These
were
captured
in
the
city
manager's
letter
in
the
budget
book.
We
didn't
spend
a
lot
of
time
discussing
this,
but
with
it
around
the
city,
but
the
staff
everyone
was
familiar.
There
was
a
two
million
dollar
deficit
projected
in
that
write-up
that
there's
you
can
picture
the
table
or
goes
out
five
years
twenty
to
one.
He
showed
one
point:
nine,
eight,
six
million
dollar
deficit.
How
do
we
arrive
at
that?
Well?
Revenues
during
the
FY
2019
budget
are
concerned
about
our
largest
local
employer.
L
L
Historically,
we've
been
recognizing
a
million
a
half
to
two
million
dollars
during
2018
we
had
a
two
and
a
half
million
dollar
vacancy
savings,
but
we
kept
the
half
million
that
we
used
in
2019
budget
flat
through
the
future
years
salaries
and
benefits.
We
used
an
approximate,
a
blended
two
and
a
half
percent
increase
over
the
2019
budget.
That's
not
just
for
salary
increases
that
health
insurance.
You
know,
police
and
health
insurance
goes
up
quite
a
lot,
so
blend
into
a
half
percent
increase
and
then
the
other
expenses
commodities
contractuals
supplies.
L
L
Moving
forward
to
this
year
and
running
through
the
budget
process
and
arriving
at
the
half
million
dollar
surplus,
the
current
surplus
now
we're
still
working
on
this
number
I
want
to
throw
out.
You
know
we
we
went
to
the
department's,
asked
them
for
voluntary
reductions
to
come
up
with
additional
money
for
capital
improvements.
It's
it's
incorporating
this
half
million,
there's
gonna
be
a
little
bit
more,
but
we've
got
a
you
know,
one
hundred
and
sixty
thousand
dollars
worth
of
cuts
from
the
departments.
L
These
are
just
voluntary
deductions
from
what
their
original
ask
was,
but
the
material
difference
to
the
assumptions
revenues
you've
been
hearing
me
say
this
over
the
last
few
months,
we're
cautiously
optimistic.
It's
turned
into
more
than
just
optimism.
Now
we're
seeing
increases
I
mean
property
tax.
That's
a
realized.
Revenue
increase
that
was
voted
on
a
month
ago.
Home
rule
is,
is
definitely
trending.
Favorably
income
tax,
local
use,
that's
the
internet
sales
tax.
L
We've
increased
that
a
couple
hundred
thousand
dollars
for
2020
over
what
we
have
in
for
2019
food
and
beverage
has
been
trending
very
well
interest
income.
It's
another
one.
I
wanted
to
highlight.
That's
a
couple
hundred
thousand
dollars
right
there
and
interesting
comes
just
from
the
interest
rate
increases
we're
seeing,
but
I
mean
that
has
a
material
effect
when
you're
you
know
you're
running
high
cash
balances
like
we
are
fortunately
able
to
do
vacancy
savings.
L
L
The
spousal
eligibility
exclusion
policy
that
was
put
into
place
had
a
very
material
effect
on
our
health
insurance
projections.
Now,
other
expenses
kind
of
went
the
opposite
direction
on
us.
That's
actually
increased
over
our
projection
that
we
were
using
last
year,
fuel
and
repairs
and
maintenance,
older
structures
we're
having
to
address
those
around
the
city,
there's
an
additional
subsidy
to
the
arena
for
some
electrical
that
we
need
to
do
there.
L
L
Do
some
infrastructure
improvements
for
the
city?
So
first
you
know
the
general
fund
departmental
that's
kind
of
our
operating
capital.
Improvements
to
the
fire
facilities
are
just
the
facilities
around
the
city
parks,
Public
Works.
You
know
right
now
we're
projecting
using,
depending
on
our
conversations
about
using
surplus
towards
capital
equipment,
instead
of
doing
the
lease
I'm
going
to
segue
here
for
a
second
work,
we're
really
looking
at
trying
to
wean
ourselves
off
that
capital
lease.
L
So
this
you
know
for
the
departmental
we
could
be
between
a
half
million
dollars
in
a
million
depending
on
how
much
how
many
funds
we
want
to
divert
to
paying
cash
for
equipment.
We're
going
to
start
doing
that
immediately
with
the
enterprise
funds
paying
cash
for
equipment,
except
for
storm
storms
fund
balances
a
little
bit
challenge,
but
for
sewer
water,
solid
waste,
we're
going
to
do
a
partial
on
solid
waste
using
their
fund
balance,
we're
gonna
start
paying
cash
for
equipment.
L
Just
I've
already
mentioned
this,
but
you
know
the
departmental
capital.
Improvements
are
funded
via
our
surplus
dollars
Tim
and
mentioned
that
we
do
have
some
additional
funds
available
in
the
capital
improvement
fund.
When
the
council
improves
the
capital
improvements
for
the
coming
year,
we
set
up
transfers
into
the
capital
improvement
fund
based
on
that.
If
those
projects
are
not
executed,
those
funds
will
stick
in
the
capital
improvement
fund.
L
They
become
available
for
other
projects
or
projects
the
following
year
and
then
the
final
amount
pending
budget
balancing
you
know
additional
dollars
that
we're
gonna
find
or
additional
additional
dollars.
We
may
divert
to
capital
equipment,
we'll
move
that
the
amount
available
for
capital
improvements
for
the
department's
up
or
down
I
wanted
to
highlight
the
B
CPA.
Now
these
are
restricted
dollars,
they're,
it's
part
of
the
general
fund.
It's
not
part
of
our
budgetary
fund,
balance
of
the
nineteen
plus
million.
L
These
were
raised
via
the
capital
campaign
and
community
foundation,
but
the
B
CPA
is
going
to
be
fixing
the
roof
and
the
HVAC
system
on
the
create,
well,
the
creativity,
Center
kind
of
categorize,
those
together
streets
and
sidewalks
and
alleys
five
million
dollars
everyone's
very
familiar
with
the
first
bullet
they're.
The
four
points
you
know:
everyone
talks
about
four
point:
four
to
four
point:
eight
from
the
quarter
point
on
a
home
rule,
sales,
tax
and
four
cents
on
a
local
motor
fuel
tax.
Well
in
the
capital
improvement
fund.
L
If
dollars
are
transferred
in
four
streets,
those
are
restricted
just
for
streets.
So
but
it's
the
same
concept
as
with
departmental
we
transfer
it
in
if
it's
not
utilized.
If
a
project
comes
in
under
it
sticks
in
the
capital
improvement
fund,
the
difference
here
is
for
streets,
sidewalks
and
alleys
is
restricted
for
streets,
sidewalks
and
alleys.
So
we
have
an
additional
four
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
fun
balance.
So
that's
why
we
have
a
budget
of
five
million
dollars
for
streets,
sidewalks
and
alleys.
L
L
So
that's
why
some
of
these
numbers
are
very
high,
but
there's
some
very
ambitious
projects
planned
for
the
coming
year:
motor
fuel
tax,
approximately
fourteen
point,
1
million
dollars
in
improvements,
water
fund.
Ten
point:
eight
sewer,
four
point:
four
storm,
approximately
one
point:
seven,
the
arena:
this
is
the
electrical
improvements.
I
was
referring
to
earlier
half
million
dollars
for
improvements
at
the
arena.
The
arc-flash
that's
one
of
those
things.
Electrical
safety
with
these
big
panels
at
the
arena
and
the
other
one
has
targets
to
improve
the
lighting
and
potentially
save
money
on
electrical
bills.
L
This
is
something
we
need
to
do
it
and
it
becomes
more
of
an
active
component
of
the
budget
process
because
right
now,
the
way
it
works
not
to
get
into
too
much
accounting.
The
lease
is
kind
of
a
next
year
occurrence,
because
the
debt
service
doesn't
start
for
a
year.
So
when
we
spend
money
on
equipment,
we
wanted
to
effect
a
budget
now
review
potential,
large
capital
improvement
projects
and
potential
new
funding
city
manager
mentioned
this.
L
It
will
be
going
on
in
the
discussions
that
we
have
with
you
coming
up
remaining
2020
budget
schedule,
so
we'll
have
another
one
of
these.
A
little
bit
more
detail
on
February
18th
committee
of
the
whole
and
then
the
proposed
budget
presentation
of
every
February
25th
well,
hopefully
have
the
proposed
books
to
you.
Prior
to
that
meeting,
it
takes
a
little
time
to
get
all
those
together.
You
know
we're
trying
to
reduce
the
size
of
those
budget
books.
There's
there's
some
reduction.
L
Everyone's
read
those
cover
cover
right,
riveting
yeah,
step
number
one
is
to
look
for
redundant
information
through
the
books.
You
know
like.
Are
we
showing
revenue
and
expenses
in
the
narratives
and
then
showing
it
again
on
the
reports
and
trying
to
remove
some
of
that
activity,
just
just
to
reduce
that
volume,
but
I'm
pretty
positive
you're
still
going
to
be
getting
two
books,
so
maybe
we'll
do
a
query
out
to
you
guys
to
see
if
you
really
want
to
get
those
proposed
books,
but
we'll
give
you
the
final
ones
for
sure
proposed
budget
public
hearing.
L
We
need
to
do
that.
That's
required.
We
have
to
adopt
the
proposed
budget
by
March
15th,
that's
why
we
have
it
scheduled
for
February,
25th
and
then
final
budget
adoption
on
April
egg.
That
leaves
us
one
additional
council
meeting
after
that,
as
kind
of
a
backup
for
that
so
move
kind
of
fast.
But
it
was
just
kind
of
meant
to
give
you
a
flavor
for
where
we
are,
how
we're
doing
some
of
the
material
differences
between
last
year.
L
H
You
I
just
wanted
to
know.
If
we're
going
to
last
year,
we
did
a
budget
retreat
and
if
we're
gonna
do,
that,
I
would
just
like
to
put
that
on
calendar
soon,
so
that
I
can
make
sure
that
I'm
present
for
that.
Just
for
you,
if
we're
not
gonna,
do
it
that's
great,
but
if
we're
gonna
do
it
I
just
would
like
a
proposed
date,
so
I
can
get
it
on
a
calendar.
K
Ultimate
sage,
thank
you.
Scott
will
appreciate
you
asking
to
get
that
onto
calendar.
I
know,
that's
always
one
of
his
favorite
events
to
to
be
able
to
attend
Scott.
One
thing
that
I've
asked
for
the
last
few
years.
It's
been
helpful
for
me
is
just
to
get
the
budget
on
a
CD
because
then
I
could
it's
searchable.
We
don't,
you
know
like
don't,
have
to
knock
down
a
couple
of
trees
on
my
behalf
and
there
may
be.
K
A
I
E
E
L
E
D
Have
next
step
finalized
the
department's
capital
improvement
list?
Well
we
have
that
prior
to
the
next
bunch
of
discussion,
or
will
that
be
later
in
the
process
because
I
know
that's
a
question
I'll
get
from
residences.
What
are
you
doing
and
I
know?
That's
still
in
progress,
so
you
can't
it
would
be
premature
to
discuss
it
but
I'm
just
wondering
at
what
point
will
we
discuss
it?
We.
F
L
A
F
You
mayor,
just
real
quick
upcoming
agenda
item
for
next
council
meeting,
unless
I
hear
otherwise
under
aldermen
comments,
is
the
master
plan
for
parks
that
we
just
heard
that
presentation
tonight
and
then
second
meeting
of
every
month
is
the
finance
directors
report.
You
will
have
that
there
might
be
two
additional
items
that
we're
discussing
internally,
but
nothing
too
controversial
so
and
then
we'll
shift
gears
to
alderman
Matthies
council
initiative,
I'm
going
to
turn
the
floor
over
to
him.
F
H
You
so
this
initiative,
I'm
putting
out
there,
is
to
create
a
technology,
innovation,
commission
or
it
can
have
a
different
name
than
that.
Whatever
we
choose
to
name
it,
it's
something
that
I've
talked
to
Scott
sprawls
about,
and
you
know
we
have
commissions
for
beautification
and
historical
buildings
and
things
of
that
nature.
But
we
don't
have
anything
that
really
looks
at
what
we
are
currently
doing
from
an
IT
practice
in
the
city
and
what
we
should
be
looking
at
as
terms
of
more
of
a
long
term
planning
I
was
thinking.
H
You
know
talk
to
Scott
that
this
is
like
a
advisory
board,
not
a
binding
Commission
like
some
of
them
are,
but
the
my
concept
was
is
to
we
have
where
we're
very
geeky
city.
In
general,
we
were
rated
that
continuously
on
various
one
of
America's
geekiest
cities
and
technology,
innovators
and
stuff,
like
that,
and
let's
start
tapping
the
the
brains
of
some
of
the
people
and
some
of
the
thought
leaders
in
the
city
who
live
here
every
day
and
what
are
they
looking
for
their
businesses?
H
Where
can
we
go
if
we're
looking
at
the
city
as
a
business?
To
start
making
smart
decisions
now
as
we're
looking
at
as
we're
redoing
roads
should
we
be
burying
conduit
to
run
fibre
to
new
access
points
in
the
future,
even
if
the
conduits
empty
right
now,
you
know
where
what
technology
should
be
will
be
looking
at
around.
How
do
we
use
smart,
smart
cells,
I
brought
forward
the
initiative
to
switch
over
to
LED
lighting
and
possibly
use
those
existing
light
poles
as
wireless
access
points.
H
You
know
different
things
that
we
can
do
around
that
nature
and
a
large
part
of
my
thought
process,
and
this
is
that
I
think
that
you
know
giving
the
continuing
rising
costs
as
that
cost
that
we're
incurring
that
it's
not
going
to
be
too
long
before
we're
going
to
have
to
make
do
with
fewer
people
to
do
the
same
amount
of
work.
So
how
do
we
equip
the
people
that
are
still
here
so
that
they
can
work
as
efficiently
as
possible
to
deliver
the
best
customer
service
to
the
citizens
of
Bloomington?
H
You
know
and
I
think
that's
that's
all
I'm
talking
about
at
this
point,
but
the
big
things
where
I
worked
with
Scott.
It
would
be
an
Advisory
Commission
in
my
mind,
not
a
binding
Commission
and
just
people
to
put
brainpower
to
ideas
like
you
know,
open
data
policies.
How
do
we
we
collect
a
lot
of
data
as
a
city?
How
do
we
let
one
of
our
two
universities,
their
researchers,
have
access
to
some
of
that
data,
anonymous
anonymize
and
come
back
with
recommendations
to
us
or
do
we
have
a
sit
I?
H
Don't
know
that
we
have
a
citizen,
private
privacy
policy,
of
how
we
treat
citizen
data,
you
know
and
I'm,
not
sure,
that's
ever
been
defined.
So
there's
a
lot
of
kind
of
those
big
picture
things
that
other
people
might
have
already
dealt
with
and
created
solutions
for,
and
we
don't
have
to
recreate
that
wheel
entirely.
Thank
you.
Wow.
A
E
Think
it's
absolutely
wonderful
idea.
I
would
like
to
clarify
Jamie.
Are
we
talking
about
this
being
internal
to
IT,
or
are
we
talking
about
this?
A
little
bit
larger
sense
of
you
know,
thinking
about
economic
development
and
maybe
how
it
intersects
with
Planning
Commission
issues,
I
mean
I,
I,
don't
know,
I
I
don't
have.
H
H
You
know
or
create
a
standardized
open
data
policy
where
all
three
entities
operate
under
one
policy
so
that
wherever
you
live,
you
know
how
we're
going
to
treat
the
data
we're
it's
going
to
be
anonymized
and
non.
There's
no
game!
No
identify
identify,
Abell
properties
to
that
I
think
there's
a
lot
of
opportunities
for
partnering
with
the
other
organizations
in
our
area.
H
I
I
A
Think
that
would
be
one
assuming
there's
no
sound
like
there
were
no
objections
for
us.
Bringing
this
to
the
council.
Would
those
are
the
kinds
of
things
that
we
would
explore
in
the
council
discussion
of
a
specific
proposal
and
me
and
say:
okay?
Well,
if
we
did
this,
there
might
be
some
additional
staff
burdens,
but
we
think
that's
worth
it
or
we
did
that
this
way
it
wouldn't
be.
You
know
again,
that's
that
that
would
be
us
or
our
decision,
obviously,
and.
I
And
I
and
I
do
like
the
fact
that
you
brought
up
that
it
would
be
advisory,
not
binding,
because
I
I
know
sometimes
when
it
you
know
if
it
is
binding
and
those
that
can
create
some
issues
with
the
staff
you
know.
So
we
need
to
have
a
little
bit
of
flexibility,
because
sometimes
when
people
bring
an
activist
mentality
to
you
know
to
the
work
that
they
do
and
if
it's
binding,
then
this
is
what
has
to
go
and
it
makes
things
a
little
bit
more
difficult
for
staff.
M
This
was
a
great
idea,
I
think
it's
really
been
a
long
time
coming
that
we
do
something
like
this,
but
I
do
think
that
we
need
to
be
very
careful
about
who
gets
appointed
to
this
particular
Advisory.
Committee
I
think
we
need
people
that
actually
know
something
about
technology
that
are
on
this
committee
and,
and
you
know,
make
sure
that
it's
not
a
political
football,
but
something
that
actually
will
move
us
forward.
Thank
you.
I
have.
H
A
I
think
that
some
of
what
the
publicity
that
we'll
get
out
of
the
discussion
and
then
the
actual
you
know
follow-through
you
know,
will
in
it
certainly
we
can
contact
people
at
the
computer
science
departments
that
Illinois
Wesleyan
and
I
state
heartland
make
sure
that
we
have
a
broad
group
of
people
or
millennial.
Councilperson
isn't
here
to
speak
in
favor
of
that
tonight.
So
anyway,
all
of
them
in
no
one.
I
Way,
alas,
they,
you
know
I,
like
what
all
the
woman
paint
have
brought
up
to
have
people
who
actually
know
about
technology,
but
the
the
the
counterpoint
is
also
good,
because
you
need
some
people
who
don't
necessarily
understand
technology.
You
know
so
that
we
understand
what
the
impact
on
those
people
will
be
as
well.
A
We
fest
with
my
kids,
tell
me
they
were
older
eyes
when
I
ask
stupid
questions
about
my
smart
phone.
Okay.
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank
you
me
Jamie,
and
it
looks
like
that's
the
case
at
this
point,
my
glasses,
but
it
looked
like
what
we
were
at
the
point
of
a
journey.
Is
there
a
motion
to
adjourn
move
by
all
the
woman
Helmand?
Is
there
a
second
second
by
all
the
woman
Schmitt,
all
in
favor
signify
by
saying
aye
and
we
are
30?
What
are
we
36
minutes
under
budget.