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A
The
chance
to
be
with
you
tonight
and
come
on
there
there
we
go,
as
you
mentioned,
it's
introducing
the
proposed
budget
a
chance
to
go
through
that
with
you
all,
and
here
we
are
again
hard
to
believe
still
amid
a
pandemic
a
year
after
we
did
this
once
already,
we
are
still,
in
my
view,
framing
this
work
in
the
decade
of
the
2020s
a
critical
decade,
with
a
path
forward
that
continues
to
emphasize
two
huge
challenges:
first,
sustainability,
slash,
climate
change
and
second
inclusion.
A
Just
two
weeks
ago,
the
international
panel
on
climate
change
gave
what
the
un
secretary
general
called
a
code
red
for
humanity
about
the
needs
for
responding
to
climate
change,
and
also,
we
know
how
important
it
is
to
assure
there
is
a
place
for
everyone
in
a
very
uncertain
future,
with
deep
inequalities.
Persisting
and,
of
course,
the
pandemic
is
still
with
us
a
year
later,
indeed,
surging
anew
like
2021
as
we
did
this
budget
a
year
ago.
This
is
another
rainy
day
budget.
A
A
We
must
sustain
the
basics
being
able
to
practically
and
efficiently
provide
what
people
need
and
expect
from
city
government,
and
we
must
try
to
reach
farther
aim
higher
toward
the
future,
the
decade
of
the
2020s
to
meet
our
obligations
to
the
future
and
to
be
the
community
that
we
want
to
be
so.
This
proposed
budget
you'll
hear
tonight
and
over
the
next
three
nights
after
tonight
was
developed
with
extensive
input
from
all
nine
of
you,
council
members,
as
well
as
from
many
local
organizations,
members
of
the
public,
of
course,
our
department
heads
and
their
staffs.
A
A
I
want
to
thank
directly
our
cabinet,
the
department
heads
you'll
be
hearing
from
all
of
them
all
of
our
employees
during
this
very,
very
challenging
past
18
months
that
are
not
over
I'll,
particularly
thank
jeff,
underwood
and
his
staff
in
the
controller's
office,
who
have
done
incredible
work
in
challenging
circumstances
to
assemble
all
of
these
budgets.
With
help
from
members
of
the
office
of
the
mayor
and,
of
course,
many
many
other
people,
let
me
bring
attention
to
a
couple
things.
A
First,
you'll
see
in
virtually
every
budget
memo
three
sections.
I
want
to
note
one
on
covid19
and
its
impact
another
on
sustainability
and
climate
and
each
department's
summary
and
introduction
of
some
of
the
work
they're
doing
and
then
finally,
on
equity
and
inclusion,
each
you'll
look.
Please
look
for
those
in
each
of
the
memos
to
highlight
those
areas.
A
A
We
will
be
reporting
on
progress
on
those
several
specific
plans
in
the
coming
months,
especially
climate
action,
comprehensive
and
transportation
plans.
All
of
them
inform
the
budget,
and
it's
kind
of
important
to
note
that
framing
that
lies
behind
much
of
this
and,
of
course,
as
I've
mentioned,
the
american
rescue
plan
act
and
the
cares
act
from
last
year.
The
american
rescue
plan
act
arpa
this
year
dramatically
changed
the
context
for
this
budget.
A
So
let
me
let
me
give
an
overall
summary
fiscally
of
the
budget
and
then
a
couple
few
other
topics
and
then
hand
it
over
to
mr
underwood.
First,
an
overall
summary.
The
budget
presentation
is
about
179
million
dollars
of
overall
appropriation
and
spending
107
of
that
in
the
civil
city
and
then
including
three
other
departments,
adding
up
to
the
total,
with
utilities
of
about
44.5
million
bloomington
transit
about
15
million
and
bloomington
housing
authority
about
12
million.
A
This
covers
over
850
full-time,
equivalent
employees,
17
departments.
We
like
to
remember,
there's
more
than
a
billion
dollars
of
assets
that
we
are
stewarding
protecting.
Investing
in.
You
will
hear
tonight.
We
are
proposing
17
new
positions
in
city
government,
civil
city,
virtually
all
in
public
safety
which
I'll
go
into
soon,
we're
also
proposing
about
15
million
dollars
in
recovery
from
federal
funding
focused
on
transforming
the
future.
A
Let
me
go
just
a
bit
deeper
into
the
fiscal
overview.
You'll
recall
that,
for
this
current
year,
a
year
ago,
in
developing
the
2021
budget,
we
worked
with
two
million
dollars
of
city
reserve
funding
to
support
counter
cyclical
investments,
jobs,
housing
safety
net
and
much
that
we
needed
during
the
pandemic.
A
Over
seven
years,
our
assessed
value
we've
just
been
learned
is
up
over
four
billion
dollars
more
than
five
percent
a
second
year
in
a
row,
a
very
healthy
assessed
value
increase,
but
we
also
have
learned
that
the
local
income
tax
projection
for
next
year
is
down
about
seven
percent,
reflecting
a
number
of
factors
we
did
expect
it
to
go
down.
As
we
indicated
to
you
a
year
ago.
This
time
we
will
continue
to
be
a
low-tax
city.
A
In
light
of
all
of
those
factors,
it
looks
like
quick
personnel
overview,
our
most
important
resource.
As
you
know,
our
people
again
thanks
to
our
cabinet,
all
of
our
city
employees,
for
their
extraordinary
work.
These
past
18
months
of
the
pandemic,
our
continuity
of
city
government
team,
continues
to
meet
to
assure
our
continued
service.
A
We
will
be
continuing
in
the
budget
1.5
of
the
personnel
budget
focused
on
training
and
investments,
that's
a
tripling
of
what
it
was
when
I
came
into
office,
continuing
the
covid,
related
benefits,
flex,
time,
leave,
policies
etc,
as
well
as
the
100
wellness
benefit
for
vaccine
demonstration.
Mention
three
new
points
in
the
budget.
First,
for
we
know
in
union
members
of
our
employee
base
union
members
are
part
of
bargaining
units
that
set
their
salary
increases
each
year.
A
All
three
of
our
unions,
police,
fire
and
asthma,
are
under
contracts
for
2022
that
determine
those
increases
for
our
non-union
employees.
This
budget
proposes
a
2.75
percent
increase
on
wages
or
salaries-
that's
the
largest
since
I've
been
mayor
and
I'm
very
proud
to
bring
that
to
you.
In
addition,
second,
it
also
proposes
a
one-time
500
bonus
effectively
to
every
employee
union
and
non-union
for
their
service.
During
this
crisis,
they
have
been
fantastic.
City
government
has
not
closed
for
one
hour.
A
The
services
have
carried
through
extraordinary
challenges
and,
in
addition,
regular
part-time
employees
will
be
eligible
for
a
300
bonus
to
be
paid
in
january
and,
finally,
third,
in
terms
of
personnel,
we
will
be
planning
to
introduce
a
new
paid
family
leave
program
in
the
in
the
latter
half
of
2022.
A
There
may
be
federal
programs
coming,
but
we
are
committed
to
providing
a
new
paid
family
leave
program.
So
I'm
very
pleased
about
all
of
that.
Let
me
just
note
that
you
are
going
to
hear
a
lot
of
things
about
budgets.
I
know
over
the
next
four
nights
lots
of
details
to
come.
A
I
just
want
to
highlight
two
big
pictures
for
2022,
which
which
are
one
public
safety
investments
and
two
are
transformative:
investments
in
recover
forward
moving
us
as
the
community
forward,
so
first
on
public
safety
that
most
fundamental
obligation
of
city
government,
in
particular
for
the
police
department
that
part
of
public
safety.
These
have
been
challenging
times.
A
It's
true
for
police
forces
everywhere
in
our
country,
including
here
we've
seen
increasing
gun
presence,
gun
violence,
we've
of
course
had
to
deal
with
the
pandemic
and
the
stress
it
puts
throughout
our
community
and
our
people.
We
definitely
see
recruitment
and
retention
issues
like
everywhere
across
the
country
again,
including
staffing.
As
you
all
know,
I
think
we
funded
100
sworn
officer
positions
for
2021.
A
We've
gotten
feedback
directly
from
the
new
future
policing
task
force,
that's
been
set
up
to
make
recommendations
and
the
budget
includes
major
investments
in
continuing
to
expand
and
transform
our
public
safety
efforts
in
police
and
and
beyond,
and
let
me
just
highlight
some
of
those
for
the
police
department,
several
new
components
in
the
budget.
First
funding
for
five,
more
sworn
officer
positions
up
to
105..
A
Second,
additionally,
five
new
non-sworn
officer
positions,
including
four
additional
community
service
specialists,
he's
also
been
known
as
neighborhood
specialists.
These
are
non-sworn
officers,
non-sworn
positions
who
can
help
provide
public
safety
services
in
many
ways
and
in
addition,
a
new
director
of
civilian
operations
non-sworn
overseeing
much
of
the
non-sworn
operations
of
the
police
department,
so
those
five
new
non-sworn
positions.
A
Third,
the
budget
includes
a
250
thousand
dollar
appropriation
for
a
recruitment
and
retention,
pool
the
details
of
how
to
invest
that
will
be
worked
out
with
the
police
department,
members
and
others
to
identify
the
best
ways
to
use
that
substantial
new
pool
for
recruitment
and
retention
during
2022.
In
addition,
we
will
be
exploring
a
new
physical
location.
Obviously
you
know
the
police
department
got
hit
hard
headquarters
on
third
street
during
the
flood
of
mid-june.
A
We
are
relocating
some
folks
and
we
are
reviewing
options
for
new
physical
location,
and,
let
me
know
just
all
those
things
I've
just
mentioned
were
were
actually
generally
the
recent
recommendations
as
well
of
that
of
that
future
of
policing
task
force,
and
we
greatly
appreciate
their
their
encouragement
and
their
review
and
continued
advice
about
that.
A
We
will
also
be
implementing
phase
one
of
salary
adjustments
for
senior
leadership,
the
result
of
the
salary
study
and
the
organizational
assessment,
the
fraternal
order
of
police
just
for
the
record,
their
negotiated
salary
increase
will
be
2.9
during
2022
plus,
of
course,
the
500
bonus
that
I
mentioned,
and
we
will
be
negotiating
in
2022
for
the
new
contract
for
the
fraternal
order
police
as
the
fire
department
component
of
public
safety.
We're
planning
and
the
budget
seeks
two
new
positions
of
community
care
specialists.
A
They
really
focus
on
health
responses,
health
prevention,
new,
two
new
positions
that
we're
very
excited
about,
as
well
as
a
new
assistant,
deputy
chief
for
administration
and
planning
and
as
well
for
fire.
As
you
know,
we
are
exploring
physical
location
particularly
related
to
the
downtown
station
which
took
it
on
the
chin
in
the
flood
of
june
18th,
19th
and
finally,
in
public
safety.
The
dispatch
services
were
proposing
three
and
a
half
new
front
line
positions
at
dispatch.
A
So,
in
a
way,
as
we've
discussed
in
some
settings,
this
is
moving
toward
public
safety,
public
safety
as
a
more
integrated
and
more
diverse
set
of
operations
beyond
just
more
traditional
views
of
police
and
fire
departments,
both
in
terms
of
personnel
and
their
work,
as
well
as
types
of
service
delivery.
So
I
look
forward
to
happy
to
talk
more
about
that
if
you
like.
A
Second
major
component
of
the
of
the
budget,
of
course,
is
the
transformative
investments
of
recover
forward
3.0
new
transformative
investments
to
let
our
city
address
major
challenges
and
support
investments
to
help
our
community
move
forward.
Well,
this
includes
federal
money
of
6
million
very
directly
for
transformative
investments,
really
more
than
10
million
dollars.
A
If
you
look
at
transit
and
and
housing
authority
in
hand,
housing
and
neighborhood
development
as
well
all
of
this
filtered
through
the
lenses
of
sustainability
and
inclusion,
equity
in
jobs,
programs,
green
jobs,
job
programs
focused
on
hard
to
employ
individuals
or
groups
of
people,
growth,
sectors
of
our
economy,
digital
new
economy,
local
agriculture,
arts,
investments
in
transforming
us
forward,
as
well
as
in
housing.
Major
proposed
investments,
improving
our
sustainability
and
our
inclusion.
A
In
addition,
new
investments
in
public
infrastructure,
again
through
the
lens
of
sustainability
and
inclusion
on
greenways,
the
major
investments
in
greenways
in
trails,
as
you
know,
in
lead
line
identification
in
the
water
system
in
cyber
and
digital
equity,
as
well
as
implementing
plans
quite
explicitly
for
the
climate
action
transportation
plan,
with
specific
appropriations,
a
corridor
study
for
college
and
walnut
waste
to
energy
study
and
review.
Continuing
and
many
more
things
like
that.
A
In
addition,
of
course,
they're
ongoing,
transformative
investments
that
are
part
of
our
city
government
beyond
the
american
rescue
plan
recover
forward,
including
you'll,
hear
all
electric
buses
plans
now
totaling
up
to
10
all
electric
buses
on
the
books.
That's
about
25
of
our
bus
fleet
you'll
hear
about,
of
course,
the
housing
authorities,
conversions
and
rehabilitations
of
more
than
200
public
housing
units
modernizing
those,
of
course,
continued
investments
from
parks
in
our
trails
and
such
as
well.
A
Nearly
4
million
dollars
of
american
rescue
plan
act
money
that
we
would
call
basically
revenue
replacement,
supporting
basic
services,
including
information
technology,
network
security,
fundamental
telephone
improvements,
fundamental
investments,
revenue
replacement
in
the
parks,
department
and
public
works
departments,
both
of
which
took
major
revenue
hits
during
the
pandemic,
as
well
as
some
of
these
investments
in
public
safety.
I've
identified,
so
I
I
won't
go
through
in
detail.
A
More
programs
and
innovations
that
we
have
you'll
hear
that
from
department
heads
through
the
evenings
on
energy
and
solar
and
efficiency
and
housing,
changes,
parks,
maintenance
and
upgrades
in
the
new
footsill
court
and
the
cemetery,
scatter
garden
and
bicentennial
trails
and
the
jobs
programs.
I've
talked
about
a
thousand
households
who
mulch
these
pilot
innovation
programs
to
help
us
revisit
the
leafing
system
that
we
have
as
well
as
project
management
resources
that
you'll
hear
about
which
will
help
us
deal
with
major
projects
on
our
plate.
A
Like
the
hospital
reuse,
like
the
trades
district,
the
arts
facilities
in
front
of
us,
housing
and,
and
so
on,
and
the
continued
evolution
of
public
safety,
so
I
think
I'm
going
to
end
without
taking
all
of
my
time.
A
A
These
have
been
very
challenging
times
to
deliver
city
services,
I'm
very
proud
of
the
services
that
our
city
employees
have
given
our
community
over
these
past
18
months,
just
even
one
example
of
the
incredible
collaboration
with
the
county,
the
health
departments,
the
the
public
education
systems
in
dealing
with
the
pandemic
have
just
been
exceptional
and
and
they're
typical
of
what
our
employees
have
done.
I
am
sensitive
to
taking
on
too
much.
We
have
capacities
to
do
what
we
can
do.
A
At
the
same
time,
this
budget
seeks
to
support
our
employees
well
and
also
to
move
our
community
forward
into
recovery
into
this
incredibly
important
decade
of
the
2020s
responsibly,
actively
toward
a
more
sustainable
and
a
more
inclusive
future.
We
appreciate
your
input.
We
appreciate
your
consideration,
your
feedback
and
we'll
be
asking
for
your
support
for
this
budget
and
I'd
be
happy
to
take
any
questions
other
than
that
I'll
be
handing
it
back
to
you
to
mr
chair.
B
Thank
you,
mr
mayor.
I
think
in
the
past
we've
heard
the
introduction
and
overview
the
from
the
controller
and
from
hr
before
we've
taken
questions.
So
if
you
don't
mind,
I
think
we're
going
to
go
that
order
so
stick
around
and
there
is
no.