City of Bloomington, Indiana City Council, 29 Apr 2020

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This meeting this meeting will come to order. This is a special session of the.

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Bloomington common council for wednesday april 29th 2020 will the clerk please.

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Call the roll and some under a light, your skin valerie rosenberger, sims yeah.

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Roland here, piedmont, smith, yeah.

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Clarity here, smith, here and sandburg here, ok, thank you. Thank you.

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Everyone's here, our agenda tonight is brief. We will be hearing appointments to.

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Boards and commissions, and then we will adjourn followed immediately by a.

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Special meeting on advanced planning for the 2021 budget, I will now open the.

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Floor to nominations to boards and commissions.

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Councilmember sandberg, thank you. We would like to reappoint valerie hutton.

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And byron banker to the human rights commission of motion in a second all in.

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Favor signify by saying aye, I'm sorry we're online with you.

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Everything by vote, madam clerk, please call the roll on those nominations. Yes,.

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Can you give me just one moment please of course sorry, while she's doing that.

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If I can get a show of hands for whoever else wants to nominate, I see counsel.

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Bruce campbell, lurie, counselor, flaherty, constant, repeat, mom smith, anybody else a.

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Point of order :, I had a question about voting on.

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Appointments are we, I believe, consular sandberg recommended to people for.

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Reappointment are we going to handle them as a boat as a batch, because that's.

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How the motion was made or do we need to vote on them individually? I think it.

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Might be better if we did them one at a time. Just for the sake of completeness, I.

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Also note that we need to take an extra step here, because not all nominations.

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Are coming forward with recommendations from nominating committees and my.

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Understanding is that we need to have a two-thirds vote. In that case, mr. lucas.

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Are you here to clarify this on trying to find the message that I just read.

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About it sure, that's that's in the event that a nomination comes forward without.

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A recommendation from one of the interview committees, so perhaps council.

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Member sandberg could clarify if, if her interview committee had a chance to make.

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This recommendation tvc did have the opportunity to meet in a zoom meeting to.

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Discuss all of our nominations that will be coming forward from both myself and.

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Piedmont, smith, very good if we need to do them one at a time. My recommendation.

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Would be to appoint valerie hutton to the human rights commission motion and a.

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Second, on that will the clerk please call the roll okay, so this is just on.

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Hunting, yes, okay, council member! Bravo, yes, scanning boo!.

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Laurie, I'm sorry, I can't hear you yeah. Thank you.

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Rosenberger, I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Oh yes, I love you. Thank you. Simms.

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Yes, boland, yes, piedmont, smith! Yes, clarity! Yes,.

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Smith, yes sandburg! Yes, very special! Congratulations to this.

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Five works, clerks mother, congratulations to her as well! That's september.

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Reappointment to human rights would be for byron bangert. Second,.

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We have a motion in a second with a clerk. Please call the roll as council.

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Members campbell laurie what rosenberger yeah sims, yes, woollen, yes, commencement.

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Yes, clarity, yes, smith,.

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Yes, sandburg, yes, rolla, yes, okay, okay! Thank you! Customer sandburg.

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Councilmember, repeat, not spence. Yes, I want to forward a recommendation from.

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Team c to a point amelia on to the commission on the.

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Status of children and youth. Second, we have a motion in a second with.

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A clerk please call the roll mm-hmm, okay, councilmember rosenberger yeah, since yes,.

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Steve sorry, I'm what my screen has been delayed. It was my name call. Yes, it was.

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Yes, piedmont, smith; yes, clarity! Yes,.

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Smith, yes, sandburg, yes, and if we need to specify that would have been for council.

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Seat one, thank you. Thank you, I'm not done yet.

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Councilman barolo, yes and scam, alert yeah, I'm sorry, yep.

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Thank you. I have a second nomination for the same commission, the commission on.

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The status of children and youth and interview team c recommends the.

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Appointment of sarah chic second, a motion in a second will: the clerk please.

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Call the roll okay and council member since yes bowling yes, peanuts me! Yes,.

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Clarity, yes, smith. Yes, sandburg, yes, rallo.

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Yes, scandal: ory ya know some burger yeah. Thank you.

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Any further nominations: councilmember scambler ii would like to nominate ragan.

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Metzger for position on the environmental condition; second,.

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Consequence can brewery. Does this nomination have a recommendation from.

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Committee team be alright, thank you. Will the clerk please call the roll.

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Hey counts. Remember: voland; yes, piedmont! Smith! Yes, clarity! Yes! Smith! Yes,.

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Sandburg, yes, rolla, yes, scam, burglary. What rosenberger.

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Yeah and sims: yes, thank you that passes counselor scambler. Do you have any.

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Others, no just that one. Thank you, councilmember flaherty! I would.

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Like to move that the council suspend its rules to consider border commission.

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Appointments without first receiving an interview committee report, a.

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Recommendation specifically, I have several recommendations. Dave the second.

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I needs a second second. We have a second go ahead. Mr. flaherty, with your.

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Explanation sure yeah, I'm on interview team b and while we were in the process.

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In late february or early march of trying to make conduct interviews and.

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Make appointments or make recommendations for appointment to a.

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Variety of our our commission's when the stay at home order hit, we still had a.

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Number of interviews that were scheduled, that were, is that then cancelled and we.

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Had not been able to make those up and just through challenges of communication.

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We had not been able to reach a final recommendation on a number of applicants.

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All of the applicants that I would like to recommend in an individual capacity.

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As a council member, though, our applicants that have had applications.

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Turned in through our system and expressed their interest and confirm.

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Their interests, and and had, I think in almost every case, had been at least.

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Deliberated about among interviewed committee b, but we had not reached final.

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Recommendation or conducted interviews in most of those cases.

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So that's the reason for the motion in order to be able to make recommendations.

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Not through an interview committee, but in my individual capacity as a council.

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Member. Thank you. Mr. this motion is debatable or amendable they're questions.

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For the about the motion.

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:, I I have a question. Mr. chairman. Mr. lucas, can this motion stand for all the.

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Nominations that mr. flaherty wants to make or do we have to make the motion.

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For each nomination.

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I think it's up to the council how they want to take it or up to councilmember.

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Flaherty how he wants to frame his motion. I don't know that you need to.

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Have a motion for each appointment, I think councilmember flaherty's.

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Explanation is sufficient to provide the reasoning for the motion so unless he.

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Wants to move for each appointment that he'd like to make. I don't see it. I think.

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That's acceptable, that's fine. This motion will stand for any nomination.

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Tonight that may not have had a recommendation. I am not as assuming that.

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There's going to be many questions here, but in case there's a vote of less than.

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Six votes, then it'll make a difference, mr. lucas, and and perhaps if, if.

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Councilmember flaherty or any other councilmember who asks to make such an.

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Appointment if they could just specify that it's coming without a.

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Recommendation or report from the interview committee, I think that would.

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Be sufficient, that's fine! All right, any other questions about the motion. Seeing.

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None I'll entertain a call it. The question on the question. I need a second.

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All right well, the clerk. Please call the roll on the motion. Okay, council, member.

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Peanuts? Man, yes, clarity; yes, smith; yes, sandburg! Yes, rallo, yes, scam!.

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Valerie, yes, rosenberger yeah, simms, yes and bully.

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Bullying, sorry, my screen free it froze again.

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Yes, what was the outcome? 9 0. Thank you. Alright, mr. flaherty.

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Please proceed. Yes, I would like to recommend daniel olsen for appointment.

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To the environmental commission- and I will specify again well after a second, I.

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Suppose I will add a bit of beeps. I can't that's. Okay,.

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Yeah I wanted to clarify again that that all of the recommendations, I would be.

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Making are people that have applied through our city website and had.

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Expressed their interest reason for interest attached resume, that sort of thing and and all the recommendations I'll be making I'm confident in in their.

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Ability to to serve the city in the capacity nominated, but with that, if.

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Anyone has any questions they can, but we have a motion in a second, the nomination.

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Are there any questions for mr. flaherty.

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Seeing none will the clerk, please call the roll okay. Mr. flaherty, yes smith. Yes,.

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Sandburg, yes, raaaah, yes, campbell laurie, yes, rosenberger yep,.

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Sims, yes, bullying; yes, piedmont! Smith! Yes, it's nice here! Oh thank you.

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Further nominations: mr. flaherty, I recommend we reappoint.

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Sarah rider ban to the traffic commission second motion in a second.

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Will the clerk please call the roll.

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Hey councilmember smith, yes, sandburg. Yes,.

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Rolla, yes, scam, valerie, yep, rosenberger, yeah, sims, yes, boom.

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Yes, peanut smith; yes, clarity! Yes, it's 9-0! Thank you further.

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Nominations. Mr. clarity, I recommend we appoint rin.

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Shaddai to be traffic commission. Sorry, I'm my meeting is glitching. Is there a.

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Motion in a second, I didn't hear it yes, yes, the motion was a recognized call. The.

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Roll on the nomination okay, so this is for ryan today, okay, give me just a.

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Moment I switched over to a new page for the roads.

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Remember, sanford guess: rollo, yes, scam, valerie, yeah, rosenberger, yeah.

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Sims, yes, bullying! Oh yes, good matt smith! Yes,.

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Clarity, yes and smith. Yes, ok, that's 9, 0, counselor flaherty. I recommend we.

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Appoint malek mccluskey to the traffic commission. I didn't hear: there's a.

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Second, well, the clerk. Please call the roll. Ok, um let's see. That's uh that's me.

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For allah, yes, skew mallory, yep, rosenberger, yeah,.

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Simms, yes, rollin, yes, peanuts, man, yes, clarity,.

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Smith, yes, sandburg. Yes, it's 9 0! Thank you. Mr.

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Blair, it anymore, yes, go ahead. I recommend the appointment.

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Of nicole griffin, do the commission on the status of black males motion in a.

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Second, with a clerk, please call the roll.

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Councilmember scam, bellary yep, rosenberger, yeah, simms.

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Yes, peanut smith, what's clarity, yes, smith,.

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Yes, sandburg, yes, rallo! Yes, that pass this nine zeros.

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Thank you, mr. clarity, anymore. Last one go ahead. I recommend we appoint.

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Jasmine hawkins to martin luther king junior birthday, commission louis in a.

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Second, with a clerk, please call the roll.

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Okay, councilmember rosenberger; yes, sims; yes, yes, peanuts, man; yes, clarity! Yes,.

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Smith, yes, sandburg, yes, rallo, yes and skinned.

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Larry yep, that's nothing! Zero! Thank you come on smith. Did you have any more? Yes.

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On behalf of interview committee, see tom the recommendation of the interview.

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Committee, I move that we appoint gyro bias to the his commission on hispanic.

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And latino affairs. Second, we have a motion in a second with a quick. Please.

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Call the roll yes councilman, burger, madam clerk, and that would be to see.

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Through the full seat, there's also an advisory seat, but this is for the full.

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Seat, okay, 4c c1; yes, I'm sorry, I didn't have the actual seat numbers. Okay, just.

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Wanted to make sure okay and we will start with.

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Councilmember sims, yes, boy.

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Yes, peon matt smith; yes, clarity! Yes,.

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Smith, yes, sandburg; yes, yes, scam, burglary, yeah, rosenberger, yeah; okay, that's nine!.

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Zero customer few months, smith anymore. Yes, I have one more recommendation on.

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Behalf of interview committee see to a point francisco ruiz lee moose to the.

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Advisory seat on the commission for hispanic and latino affairs. Second, we.

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Have a motion in a second with the clerk: please call the roll okay, this is for seat c4, and that starts with councilmember piedmont. Smith. Yes,.

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Xxx, yes, smith; yes, sandburg, yes, rolla, yes, skin valerie, yeah,.

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Kristen barker yeah simms, yes and boyd. Yes,.

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That's nice zero! Is that bad, zero? Yes, it is. I must sound like everybody's drunk.

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Uncle right now, because there's been so glitchy here, I do want to say, though,.

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That, in performing my duty under bmc, 204 272 approve meeting agendas. I determined.

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That the items on tonight's agenda have been essential matters critical to the.

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Operation of city government, with that, I believe that our business is concluded.

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For the special session- and we are now going to reconvene in just a moment-.

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For our annual budget advance meeting, no is there any other business before we.

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Adjourn anybody have anything. Okay, we have motion to adjourn. Do we have a.

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Second, second they're gonna, all uh all in favor, say aye.

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You froze again everybody's frozen again, alright.

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We've now adjourned we're going to reconvene now for the annual budget.

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Advance this is a less formal meeting the mayor and his department. Heads are.

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Present to make a presentation tonight, mr. mayor, if you're there first like to.

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Ask how you are and how is the health of you and your family well. Thank you very.

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Much chairman bolin and we are doing all better, thank you and and sympathies to.

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You and your family, I know you've been going through things too.

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As many have we've been thinking about you and thanks for the thanks and the.

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Same to to to dawn as well. Thank you thank you. So let me this off. If that's.

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All right, then, can you hear me all right? I will just make a few brief remarks and.

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Then hand it off to controller jeff underwood to go through some materials.

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And then, of course, mostly what we want to do in the budget advances.

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Listen to you, but, as you all know, budgets are the most value laden thing.

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We do in many ways, so I did want to just make a few comments as we as we get.

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Started and we look forward to working together on this, I will note at the.

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Beginning in case, everybody did not see it a little bit of interesting and.

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Positive news that came today this morning, announcement from katalin one of.

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Our larger employers in the area who announced that they will be they've just.

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Signed a contract with janssen pharmaceuticals, which city area of.

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Johnson & johnson to produce for them their lead, cova 19 vaccine. They will.

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Actually be producing that in the bloomington operation is their plan.

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Which will mean about 300 new employees, starting in july, with a ramp up for a.

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24-7 production line to begin as I as I read it in panyu airy, so we're part of.

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The health system- that's trying to help respond to this, so that was a positive.

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News I just wanted to share with folks today. In case you hadn't heard that.

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So bloomington and the area have had a real punch in the nose. We have been.

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Thrust into a very dynamic situation, as you all know, facing substantial peril.

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Frankly, as both from a health side, as well as an economic side in our.

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Community, and that is a serious challenge in front of us- we're in the.

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Middle of it, it is also, I believe, an opportunity that will demand that we.

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Really dig in and try to figure out the best path forward. You'll hear that we.

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Are? As a city government in a strong fiscal position which won't be a.

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Surprise to you, I think, but also we know there is serious planning that is.

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Warranted and needed in these days, so let me just make three quick points and.

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Then I'll hand it over to mr. underwood number one facts are a stubborn thing.

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We have learned very directly that a small mutated virus, the fact of a small.

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View tative mutated virus that has coerced around the world is a fact that.

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Is stubborn and in front of us and has to be dealt rationally intentionally.

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Intensively and I want to note there are other facts that are stubborn things too,.

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Like that fact, which has so affected us, there is a fact that a little molecule.

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Of carbon dioxide continues to rise in concentration in our atmosphere in ways.

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That will seriously seriously challenge us. That is a stubborn fact that demands.

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Addressing and attention another fact that is stubborn and demands attention.

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Is, for example, the fact of income and wealth inequality in our country over.

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The last two generations has dramatically changed and these I note.

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This only because I think, we've recognized that a stubborn fact like a.

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Virus demands serious response and attention, and addressing head-on in.

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Order to build the community that we want in order to help our people live.

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The lives that they want and those stubborn facts, it's a good reminder. I.

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Guess I just want to point out that these kinds of realities are in front of.

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Us and important to address directly. The second point I want to make in the.

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Context of the budget advance is simply to remind us that in many many ways.

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Governments generally, and our government particularly, are meant to be counter.

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Cyclical governments are often called upon to respond in a counter cyclical.

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Way when things are tough, when people are challenged when the economy is hit,.

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Or hurt that governments, in my view, and I hope we can agree that.

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In many ways, government's role is a counter-cyclical role to try to limit.

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Damage to try to accelerate recovery to try to respond very directly and.

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Consciously and intentionally to help diminish consequences that otherwise.

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Could happen and, for example, it's been a good thing that we have done together.

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Over the last four years, a major investments in equipment and.

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Infrastructure and we're actually poised to do a number of projects that can be.

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Very helpful in a counter-cyclical way, and we need to think about that.

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Intentionally as our role as a government to help try to diminish the.

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Damage and to accelerate the recovery, as well as doing an intensive review of our.

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Options, third point is risk. Just generally, I want to thank all of you and.

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I know you will join me in thanking all of our 700 plus employees, who continue.

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To do extraordinary work every day to help make sure that our families and our.

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Community are all supported, joining a lot of private sector people as well in.

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The health care fields and others we have indeed it seems done a important.

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Job in flattening the curve locally, we have protected the health care system.

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With the steps that we have taken, our employees and many other employees.

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Continue to help make the community work, and I do want to note thanks to that.

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I'll particularly call out the social services working group as well, the.

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Economic stabilization and recovery group and the continuity of city.

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Government group, all of which have really buckled down and focused on how.

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To how to serve those roles as government should we are addressing.

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Head-On these stubborn facts that are in front of us, it's been a sprint to.

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Respond, it's kind of hard to believe that here, at the end of eight.

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That that really six or seven weeks ago, this intensity began in early march, but.

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I want to thank everybody for for addressing those head-on. Our community.

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Will get through this? Our budget for 2021 will be part of the discussion.

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About how we help our community get through this weather, the storm.

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Get to better shores and as again tonight is mostly a night to listen to.

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You so I look forward to that, but I just wanted to mention those introductory.

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Comments- and I think I hand them off now- to controller underwood, who has some.

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Material to share thank you, mayor, good evening. Everyone can you hear me all.

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Yes, yes, please go ahead. Okay, good! All right, stephen is going to pull up a.

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Powerpoint for us to take a look at and so I'll give him a minute to bring that.

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Up just thank you, stephen. We'll kick off a lot of this for those of you who have.

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Been on the council for a while, we'll look familiar, we always like to start off and talk about the actual budget process. We have.

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Kicked that off with department heads you all will here with the results of.

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That budget during the week of august, the 19th for nights of hearings kicked.

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Off with overviews by the mayor and myself and hr events, we'll start in to.

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The departmental hearings, after that the next deadline is september 20th and that.

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Is our deadline to submit notice to taxpayers via the the gateway system, the.

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Public notice that is published ten days prior to the public hearing date, which.

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Would then be on september, the 30th? That's the first reading and public.

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Hearing of the budget and salary ordinances.

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And then, finally, on october 14th, the final council meeting and hopefully.

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Final adoption of the budget and salary ordinances, we then submit that to the.

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Department of local government finance and they have to review and approve that.

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And make any changes by december 31st so that we're all ready to go to begin. The.

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Next year next slide, please.

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As the mayor, we wanted to show you where we stood.

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At the beginning of 2020 on some of our major operating accounts, starting with.

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The general fund, with a balance of fifteen point, eight three, eight million.

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Inclusive, that is the rainy day fund at about four point: eight five: six million.

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The parks and recreation general fund a little over a million dollars, local.

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Roden street and our motor vehicle highway, which is really funds our street.

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Department and a lot of their activities, as well as planning and transportation.

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Related to streets and sidewalks combined totals thereof, 3.4 million.

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Dollars next up is our parking facilities. This would be the garages and.

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Lots we had began the year with 1.1 to 30 million dollars and then parking.

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Meters four point: two: six: nine food and beverage, our newest fund. You can see we.

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Had four point: seven: four: nine million dollars and then risk management. The.

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Smallest of all of these, at one hundred and forty six thousand so total in our.

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Operating major operating accounts, not inclusive of obviously transit or.

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Utilities, almost thirty five and a half million dollars to begin the year next.

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One of the things that we always talk to you about is is having a good reserve.

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Especially in our major operating account, which is the city general fund,.

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We ended the year there with 20 million six hundred ninety five thousand dollars.

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With encumbrances- and this is accounts payable, so these are things invoices.

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That we incurred, but yet had not paid that belonged to the 2019 or earlier.

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Years of 2.75, two million dollars, so our net cash balance was just under set.

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Eighteen million dollars the general fund budget, and that was should say, 2021.

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That we miss done it get me that updated was forty six million seven hundred.

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Fifty nine thousand dollars you can see that that equates to 38.4%.

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And our goal is for months or 33.3, so we were about 5 percentage points above.

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That so staying fairly consistent of what we've done over the last four or.

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Five years they have substantial reserves to begin the year and basically.

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What that means is if we got no revenues for a period of four years or four.

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Months, we would be able to fund the budget and that will come into play as.

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We talk later on next slide. Please.

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Some of the things that are going to have impacts is revenues, and this would.

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Be for all all funds, our expectation is negativeness small growth from 20 to 21.

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Depending range on that from negative five percent to two percent and that.

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Would be somewhere between about three million to just under a million dollars.

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To give you a range of on the general fund, what that would mean? So if we had a.

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Five percent reduction that would be just under three million dollars and if.

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It's two percent: it would be just under a million dollar increase there. Things.

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That we do know about salary and wage adjustments, the fire. This is a.

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Negotiation year for the fire department, so that is to be determined and we hope.

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To have that, if possible, for the budget, if not, then we'll move on, we have.

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Agreements in place with police and ask me police we'll get a 2.8 percent next.

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Year and ask we will get a two and a half percent and then obviously nine.

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Union is to be determined. What are some of the things that could impact the.

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Overall budget, obviously fiscal impacts of the virus and we'll talk a little bit.

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More about that health insurance cost fleet maintenance cost the increase of.

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Material cost and availability concrete asphalt, saw fuel those kinds of things.

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Capital repair, maintenance and construction, state and federal.

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Legislation, weather events, utilities and property tax caps next slide. Please.

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So let's talk a little bit about cobie 19 and we our goal is to be strategic.

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Rather than initiate across-the-board reductions, potential actions that will.

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Take both this year next year and possibly into 2022, would be based on the.

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Impact of those potential cuts and the revenue sources typical for government.

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Is to say we're going to do a higher increase. What you saw the county do.

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Today, we're going to cut all capital replacement, we're going to cut out.

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Travel and education and we're going to ask everybody, regardless of how they.

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Operate to cut their budget by 10%, that's not being strategic! That's a.

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That's easy to do and unfortunately, that's what a lot of places have done.

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But we're not going to do that. We want to be strategic and I'm going to invite.

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Mick to talk a little bit about, he was here when we went through this last case.

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And the impacts on that.

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Thanks jeff, I think some of you are also here during the post recession era. After.

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2008, you might recall that we did not immediately experience repercussions to.

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Our budget right away and where our community as a whole, it was actually.

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Several years later was 9 through 11 that the budget impacts were actually.

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Felt in the city's budget, and also in some of our other sectors across.

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Bloomington, so we were a little insulated and in hitted a little later.

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Date at that time I was on america's ann's budget team and we did do some of.

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The implements some of the measures that jeff has labeled as somewhat non.

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Strategic and I would agree that it can just be a snapshot in time in time. What.

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Some departments budget might have been so, for example, as the parks director.

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Then, if I would have had a budget that had significant capital dollars in it or.

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Consulting dollars than cutting 20% of something that I wasn't going to get.

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Back again, the next year anyway, it wasn't really hard for me rather be much.

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Harder for a smaller department, think of hr or esd some of the departments that.

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Are mostly personnel and a 20% cut for them, for example, would be probably.

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Cutting people, so we would look at anything that we might have to adjust.

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Based on cope at 19 in a more surgical department by department fund by fund.

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Approach instead of across-the-board, based on that experience that I was part.

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Of and some of you were part of back in that era, so I just learned I'll offer.

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Some suggestions from previously lived experiences didn't want to have to go.

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Through another one of those again, but we may have that happen again in the.

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Cycle and then some actions to date that we've listed on here that we've already.

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Asked our department heads to do is in 2020. If you can limit spending, wait till.

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The end of the year for some of the expenses and see how this plays out the.

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Department heads are already looking at doing that. We've also asked them to.

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Create plans based on possible reductions of anywhere from 5 to 20%, for.

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This year's budget doesn't mean we'll implement those. Hopefully we won't have.

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To but we want to be ready for that to have ready to have a plan at hand.

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So if we need to make some some quick decisions, we can do those sort of.

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Apartment heads are working on that and, as you know, by now, we probably would.

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Have asked you for an 2019 reversion spending reallocating those funds and we.

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Have not done that and we will not do that till the end of the year. So we have some potential to react to any of the upcoming koban 19 related challenges.

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That we might face in the coming months.

M

Thanks mick, you know, I would add, that one we've not.

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Been public with this, because we are trying to be strategic. Secondly, it would.

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Be easy for us that gloom and doom and say the world is coming to an end and.

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We've seen that somewhat, but we have department, heads and staff that are.

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Dealing with a very serious issue and the revenue impacts are just beginning.

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We're really about four weeks into reduced revenues and we'll talk about.

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That a little bit, you know we're going to be we're going to we're going to do.

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This right we're going to do we're in manage our budgets, we're going to manage.

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Our cash reserves, but we've been building to this day for the last seven.

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Eight, nine years so that we would have sufficient cash on hand to continue to.

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Fund operations that doesn't mean that you know things will get bad and if they.

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Do I think, we'll be prepared, as we showed, to handle that on a case by case.

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Basis next slide, please so to allude to what.

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Mick said to give you some idea is: this is an analysis that I did and we've.

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Talked about this in the budget presentation to show you as a percentage.

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Of a departments and a funds budget, how much of that is dedicated to personnel.

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Costs so you can see controllers low at 50% and that's because we have.

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Additional dollars for other non aged non hr type projects, but then you look.

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At the clerk it's 85% personnel, the mayor's office 88, the counsel's office.

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Is a my word of safety, hundred-percent planning and transportation, 73 information technology 72. You know.

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Resources 86 next slide. Please.

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Legal 84 cfr d community found resources, 94% fired 90% police, 89%, public works.

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Administration 26 in public rich facilities, 24 again, these are two.

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Departments that have a lot of the utility costs and supplies and.

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Maintenance that go citywide so that tends to bring their percentages down.

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Animal control 70%, yes, the 57 again same thing: housing, a neighborhood development.

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68%, so as a complete total of the budget, 74% is for people and related costs and.

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If you'll remember, we have to budget for property tax cuts and we also budget a.

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Transfer to sanitation to offset its cost. And when we take those out of the.

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Formula, you can see we're at 78% of our total general fund budget, a forty six.

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Million dollar budget is personnel costs. So that's another reason to be strategic.

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In what we do is there are a lot of things that we can't forego. We've got to.

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Pay utilities and we've got to pay debt service and we've got to pay for.

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Materials and supplies to keep these folks going to do their job. So it's not.

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As easy as saying we're going to cut this much percent out of these budgets.

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So go to the next slide and we'll look at a few of the other funds and then.

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We'll move on from there, so our other operating accounts you concede.

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Risk management, 29% street department, 56% parks is 66 parking, meter, 36 parking.

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Facilities, 18, sanitation, 62% and fleet maintenance, 24 and our dispatch center.

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71% of the total budget to just give you a conclusive of all costs and that's.

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About a 90, it's just under a hundred million dollars.

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Factoring in every other cost that we make personnel costs are still 51% of.

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The entire budget, so it's a big part of what we do next slide. Please.

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So we've been looking especially at short term impacts and then intermediate.

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And long term impacts so the short term, that's basically through the end of the.

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Year some things that we're going to see, as you know, the governor allowed.

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Property tax payments to be paid two months late with no penalty. That's four.

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Payments that are made directly to the county, if it's out of an escrow account.

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Those are still due on may the 10th we normally receive about 55 percent of our.

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Annual property tax payments with the may payment, so we get that late may.

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Early june, so we expect that you know at a minimum, we would get about 60 percent.

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Of that 55 percent we're hopeful that other people are paying and we've.

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Received note that they are and then they will be due in july and we'll ask.

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For an additional payment at that time to see where we really stand, we have.

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Heard the reason that we normally get about 55 percent, that there are a number.

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Of people that like to pay the full amount in may so we get it the spring.

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And fall payments together at the same time. So that's why it's about a 45, 55 45.

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Spread in the parks department, obviously program fees. We are not doing any.

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Programs right now, but the good side of that is we're also deferring a lot of.

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Those expenses so a lot of the 10 we're a people that we would have.

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Brought in for those programs, some of the material costs and things we'll be.

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Able to forego those, obviously some of that was already bought in anticipation.

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Of those programs, but we will see an immediate impact on the parks department.

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Parking meter and parking facilities, obviously we're seeing immediate results.

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We anticipate we're estimating right now that on parking meter.

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We'll lose about eight hundred thousand dollars, assuming that we stay pretty.

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Much in place through july, that's about a seventy eight percent reduction over.

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That time period april through july, parking facilities not quite as bad.

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These are the garages because a lot of those were annual permits and they're.

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Estimating about three hundred thousand dollars so for that time period about a.

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Twenty nine percent drop in the street department- and this is motor view of the.

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Highway at local roads street, the majority of their funding comes from.

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Gasoline taxes we're getting a double whammy there. Obviously people aren't.

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Driving as much and fuel prices have dropped dramatically.

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So we're estimating that may through july we could potentially see a loss of.

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Five hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars for about 50% of the revenues.

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During that time, food beverage is another big one. There's a delay in that.

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Is in the amounts that are collected in february, we received two months later so.

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Mark april april's is february, so we'll see a little. You know, it'll be a little.

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Bit of time before we know what the actual amount is, but we're estimating.

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That we'll lose about eighty percent of the revenues that we would normally see.

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In april through july, the other side effect is unemployment claims. These are.

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We are a pay, as we incur. Essentially, most businesses are assigned a physical.

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Percentage that they pay on a quarterly basis up to nine thousand dollars of the.

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First, salaries of each individual governments are as pay-as-you-go. So if.

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We have a for claim as that gets paid. Then we get.

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Built by the state and pay that out and we're estimating right now that the.

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Current claims amount is one hundred ninety six thousand dollars. That's.

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Claims, that's not necessarily what will get adjudicated, but just to give you an.

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A budgeted amount for the years, twenty four thousand dollars so significantly.

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Higher next slide, so intermediate and long-term impacts. This would be for the.

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Twenty one and twenty two years we could possibly see flag growth and the.

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Assessed value, we could see larger property tax caps as people if the av.

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Doesn't grow, people tend to get to the caps quicker and there's always the.

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Potential for more defaults- and you have to be seen as nate noted- we're always.

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Usually kind of insulated on the majority of our revenues for one year so.

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As those get paid the local option- income tax- there is a reserve account.

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That's withheld on every county and every unit of government and state so.

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That, if the revenues are shortfall, then they use those reserves to make sure.

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That you get that current year's allotment so possibly just to get a.

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Quick estimate is that, if, if we go kind of that april through july and then a.

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Ramp up is that there's really a 25 percent loss in twenty twenty. Twenty-One.

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We currently get about eight million dollars. This is in the general fund and.

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That would be the three million dollar loss that we talked about, which was the.

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Five percent negative overall revenues for the general fund for parks, assuming.

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Things come back, their programs would pick back up, but we would end the year.

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In a very low cash balance, because they will have used up the reserves that they.

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Have so you know it's going to be tight in looking at revenues and trying to.

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Start to build those cash balances up and, as mick talked about.

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Once you lose those reserves, you don't get those back in a year or two. It takes.

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You seven eight or nine years of washing your spending to get those back up to.

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Where you would like them to be parking facilities, cash balance and loss of.

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Funds, possibly for repair and maintenance. So again, if we have to eat.

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Into that cash reserve that there's not a lot of profit built in to the rates is.

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That it would take a while to build that back up and we would have to look at you.

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Know maybe stretching out some of the maintenance or repairs street department.

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Again, cash balance and ongoing reduced funds. If gasoline taxes don't come back.

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Up there's a prolonged drop in the amount of mileage and fuel costs that.

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Would continue on into 2021 and beyond food and beverage. The potential revenue.

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The potential revenue losses which we know we're going to incur, we just don't.

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Know how long that's going to delay our ability to sell bonds and finance the.

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Convention center expansion so yeah, you know we that revenue we build up at try.

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To build up a cash balance and then show a revenue stream, that's sufficient to.

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Cover the debt service on the bonds of about one and a half times so that loss.

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Of revenue, obviously, then you shouldn't, you have a much lower coverage, so it.

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Will take us some time to get back to that and then finally, if we see reduced.

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Assessed values weak default, then. Obviously the tif revenues could be.

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Impacted as well, because if property values fall back to what they call the.

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Baseline, so it's increment financing, so you get in the tif anything that's above.

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The baseline that was established on that property at the time the tif went.

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Into effect, if we see a these dropping, then that would be a direct reduction.

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First to tif revenues before it would affect property tax rates. So that's.

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That's a short look of what we're seeing right now again, as I said.

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Really about four weeks into it, when we analyzed our first quarter results, we.

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Were right on the button with revenue projections and spending was actually.

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Down a little bit, we know, we've had increased spending due to coba 19 we're.

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Hoping that we'll recover some of that all the current stimulus things that.

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We've seen do not flow funds for lost revenues down to city units of.

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Government there was some monies set aside for counties of 500,000 or greater.

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So we weren't, even in that first cut, but we're hopeful given the cry of lost.

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Revenues that every unit of government is going to see is that there will be.

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Some stimulus packages that come out that will direct funds back to.

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Government, smaller units of government to supplement that the potential loss of.

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Revenues this year and possibly into 21 and 22, and with that open it up for.

M

Questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. underwood, I've been having my head.

A

Pieces aren't working so I hope that there's not too much feedback all right.

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Many questions I think we have before we go to councilmember priorities. I can now.

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See all members on screen, I see two members with hands raised. Let's start.

A

With councilmember piedmont, smith go ahead, please! Yes, I have a question about.

G

The unemployment claims against the city had has had there been job losses in the.

G

City because of copan 19, I didn't think there had been so I was a little.

G

M

Yeah, to get a little bit into the weeds the way the state pays out, unemployment.

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Claims is they do a look back over. I believe it's six quarters. So if you have.

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An employee that qualifies for unemployment benefits because they've.

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Worked enough over that time period and let's say they've worked for four.

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Different employers, then each of those employers would be responsible for a.

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Portion of their unemployment now for regular businesses that pay and they had.

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What they include in their rate and experience rate, so you may have very low.

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Unemployment for your business, but you pay into a pool for this employees that.

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Cover multiple employers, so in most of our cases these are these are temporary.

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Employees that their employment ended with us normally or people that had.

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Resigned from the city to go to another job and they may not have been able to.

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Start that job and then turned around and filed for unemployment. So, as I said.

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These are claims that have been made. These have not been claims that have.

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Been adjudicated and the city legal will review each one of those and and make a.

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Determination, whether we think that's valid or not, but full time and part.

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Regular part time there have not been anybody, that's been furloughed or laid.

M

Off, thank you, counselor people on smith, councillor morello. Thank you. Mr.

J

Underwood, I want to ask a little bit more detail about an assumption that you.

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Had of anticipated flat growth in assessed values just seen.

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Seeing what's occurring nationally globally, it seems that we're we're.

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Having a very profound economic shock, I would assume that's going to manifest.

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Not only in high unemployment but lower, you know, loans for mortgages and.

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So forth and I would anticipate property values falling so shouldn't it be.

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Prudent to anticipate the negative growth and assess value going forward.

J

And what we're so? Where are you on that? In terms of why do you anticipate flat.

J

Just a flat growth: well, for one thing: we have a very good mix of employment and.

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Very good mix of investment in the city, a lot of businesses that are tied to.

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Strong growth companies, the university, the school systems, ivy tech, the city and.

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The university, so we tend us, we have it, weathered the assessed value, storm and.

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Have shown strong growth when other areas of the state have shown decreases.

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In assessed, value have hit the caps significantly. We have not seen that so.

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Adjusting for that, where we were in that curve compared to others, I that's what.

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Brought me back to a growth, the other thing is that interest rates are going.

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To continue to be low near zero for a long time, we saw actions by the feds.

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Today, that said, they have no intentions of increasing interest rates. You know in.

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The near term, so I think that as long as you have low interest rates- and you have.

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An economy that I think will come back fairly strong in the way that we're.

M

Built here in bloomington, monroe county is that a zero increase is appropriate.

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To think about now again remember the av is what calculates your tax rate. It's.

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The levy divided by the a b, so the levy growth, is a separate formula. That's.

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Based on a seven-year rolling average of non-farm income across the state, I.

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Anticipate that we'll have a bad year, but we're dropping off a bad year.

M

We've been about 3% growth, so I, the levy increase, will will be somewhere between.

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Zero and three percent- and I think we'll see a v- you know zero growth, but that's.

M

Based on again adjusting it probably about the same value that everybody else.

M

Is but we were, we were hiring that curve of growth of assessed value. He do recall.

J

What happened in 2009 that we did? We have flat growth or negative an assessed.

J

Value we had one year of negative growth, but it was just barely negative, so we.

M

Had it smaller increases and then a couple of years after the recession, we.

M

Saw that hockey stick in impact of where it dripped it fit just below one year.

M

And then rent went right back up, so there wasn't a significant increase in.

M

The property tax rates, because it was almost as zero impact thanks for your.

J

Spence further questions from council members.

A

About the presentation, customer risk and blurry and in particular about reserves.

I

Checking my numbers you mentioned that we're at thirty eight point: four percent.

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And our goal was thirty. Three point: three percent is that correct, mm-hm.

I

Yes, well, what, in your mind, would be an acceptable range for reserves? We were.

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Shooting for certain videos how low would we consider yet the minimum that.

M

We have is what the government finance officers association recommends and they.

M

Recommend a minimum of two months. Thank you.

M

So we just as the follow-up that we had a fiscal taskforce that the mayor.

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Appointed shortly after he came into office, and we had a lot of discussion.

M

Around that and and came to the fore, the four month was a good, a good amount to.

M

Have your major operating account it turns out, it is. Thank you.

O

House, member smith and councillor flaherty.

A

I'm mr. underwood, thank you for the presentation. I was just wondering the.

P

Amount of reversion that happens. Can you give us a kind of a estimate, guesstimate.

P

How much does that usually end up being reverted? We've been around two to four.

M

Million dollars in the general fund per year on a forty six, forty five million.

M

Dollar budget, I believe it was 2.9. I think it was just around three million.

M

Dollars last year, with a little bit of a million that would have going back to.

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Departments for their spend. Thank you if I can, if I can just add, and particularly.

L

For new council members we have, since I've been in, we have basically suggested.

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To department heads to encourage them to manage tightly and to save money, we've.

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Been we've basically had a policy saying for every dollar that you save, that as a.

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Potential reversion we're gonna assign half of that to you as a department as.

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Kind of a reward for saving that you can then carry over into the next year to.

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Invest in in equipment or activities or other things that that are a high.

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Priority to you and the other half basically, then, is a reversion back to.

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Our funds, which is what we've traditionally done as as mr. underwood,.

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Indicated this year we have not come back to you to reallocate that in that.

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Way and we're just kind of holding all the reversion funds before we reallocate.

L

Anything so this one to note that it's good enough for you. Yes, sir, that was a.

P

Great, thank you. I appreciate it customer flaherty. Yes, thank you all for.

D

The presentation I wanted to follow up on council members campbell larry's question asking about our goal of a four month reserve. Is that something you.

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Anticipate trying to retain throughout the next couple of years of you know as.

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This crisis unfolds and as the various lags in revenue streams hit, or do you.

D

Anticipate eating into that reserve strategically in some cases or depending.

D

On the context, in order to to whether certain shortfalls are delays in revenue.

M

As the mayor said, we will look strategically and, as I've said and and.

M

And mick said is we will look strategically at each department and.

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Each fund and make decisions based on what's the best for the citizens, so it.

M

Could be that we dip into reserves to utilize that and then they'll try to.

M

Build those back up over time. You know at one point we're down. We had negative.

M

Balances during cruzan administration, we were at around 22 to 24 percent and.

M

We've slowly built that back up. So the idea behind that is to minim two months.

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Is kind of the minimum that we would backstop, but if we need to utilize those.

M

Funds we will and then we'll have a plan to build those back up. Let me yeah let.

L

Me just say thank you for the question council member of flaherty. It's called a.

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Rainy day fund, this is a rainy day. I mean they're they're there to help do.

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What I think is so important, which is for government to be counter cyclical.

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It's not only to preserve our in critically important functions that that.

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We know people depend upon, but it's also to help be a counter cyclical force.

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During a down time, so absolutely I believe, those funds which we've built up.

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Very strategically and carefully and intentionally are meant to be available.

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As needed and prudently to help keep up the services that we need and in fact.

L

Sometimes, to invest in ways that will help our community rebound more quickly.

L

So we will definitely be talking about that with you in the coming months.

A

Members, let me let me take a crack at it still first round here. Mr. underwood, I.

A

Seem to recall that consistently, since the recession and frankly, I think before.

A

The recession, the city has always sort of had such a surplus and it's fun that.

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The state board of accounts has, I mean, like we, never have actually gotten down.

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To 33 percent we were at 40 or 50 or 38 now, but am I recalling that correctly.

A

That we've sort of always sort of missed our goal of getting down to 33 percent.

A

Yes, I don't know, as I said, that yeah actually there is an exhibit. I don't.

M

Have it pull up right now that showed, I think I went back over 10 years on cash.

M

Balances for you and and calculated the reserves and.

M

There was a there was a point in time within the last ten years when the.

M

General fund and rainy day fund were negative, so it grew, has grown slowly and.

M

You know at the end of the cruzan administration, it was up around 22 to 24.

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Percent and again, with the mayor's guidance and departments trying to.

M

Really be strategic on their spending, we've been able to grow that to be.

M

Somewhere between 33 and 45, say 40 percent. It's really been about 38.

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Percent for the last four years, or so so we haven't been much over that when you.

M

Really think about it in terms of dollar amounts the difference between 33 and 38.

M

Is not that much? We've never been cited by the board of.

M

The cast of having too much in our cash reserves, in fact we've been noted that.

M

Being around that for months is as acceptable and prudent and we've also, if.

M

You remember, we recently were upgraded on our bond rating and- and that was a.

M

Direct result of good budget planning and policies and having adequate.

M

Reserves- you know I needed meant to say that you know like it was stood under to.

A

Reiterate the idea that we've generally been very cautious- and I don't ever.

A

Remember a time when I mean what the state board of accounts was saying that.

A

It it wasn't saying it like shame on, you is just more like. Well, that's not.

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Recommended but we've always had greater surplus than was absolutely necessary in.

A

Normal times and I've just always been appreciative of that over the years. Mr.

A

Mayor, I'm sorry to cut you off, no, no, no problem. I just want to note a couple.

L

Things one: we have worked very hard during the last several years of good.

L

Economy as well as some new revenue sources, we work very hard to gradually.

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Build up these these balances- and I think, with mr. underwood's help and with.

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The city council's help approving these budgets and with the department heads.

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Helped in managing these budgets well, we've been able to build up this kind of.

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Balance, which is really important and good to do you know the second point I.

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Just make is rijn this briefly in my introductory remarks, but as some of you.

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May recall we shared a kind of a infrastructure investment which focused.

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On equipment vehicles, road miles, pike miles all those things and we've seen at.

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Least, a doubling and close to tripling of the investment we made during these.

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Years to help invest in the infrastructure, while we had those that.

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Strong economy, so if we come to a place where we need to slow down, if we, if we.

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Have a lower amount of sidewalk and and lane miles that we can get, because my.

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Gas tax we've we've done a lot to invest in the infrastructure in the interim as.

L

Well, as new fire trucks, which you're aware of and many of those kinds of.

L

Facilities these upgrades that have been so important to make sure we did that.

L

During the good years, so I just want to mention that a quick follow-up to that.

A

Mr. mayor, is there any order to mr. underwood? Is there any thought about the.

A

Purchase of gas right now, because it's so incredibly low, even as.

A

We're losing revenue from the gas tax, I guess futures mean.

L

Oh yeah yeah, I know, but I knew bloomington transit- does that.

L

Consistently and I'm sure will continue and I'm not sure yet whether jeff mr.

L

Underwood, whether department administration's looked at or not, of course, when you're when you're anyway, we will be looking at that. I'm sure I don't.

L

Know if we've made any decisions on that yet you know mr. underwood, no, we we do it on a quarterly basis, so that we can take.

M

Advantage of it and we have limited storage, so we we do try to be very.

M

Strategic in our purchase of both diesel fuel and regular fuel for our fleets, so.

M

That we we get the best pricing available. I can tell you that a lot of.

M

Folks that do future buying are going to suffer because they bought at much.

M

Higher prices than than what is currently so, we're will be taking.

M

Advantage of that and buying as much as we can have stored on-site and take.

M

Advantage of those good prices, I look forward to hearing more about that. All.

A

Right any other first-round questions for members, councilmember sims. Thank you.

Q

I just want to thank mr. underwood, I'm sorry.

Q

Deputy mayor make r in hazen and the mayor for their presentations, and this.

Q

Has to do with reserves, mr. underwood, our goal of four months or 38, roughly.

Q

38.4% and the recommended amount of three months is around 33%. What I would.

Q

Like to know was, can you give me an estimate on the difference between what.

Q

Is a month's worth of reserves worth estimated? What what is that amount? I.

Q

Should say it's about? Well, we had a 46 million dollar budget, so it's about four.

M

Million dollars give or take do that quick math in my head, which is always a.

M

A bad thing to do and get not always thank you. Thank you questions. If I see.

A

None I'll go to customer piedmont smith for a second round question.

G

I wanted to ask how much the reversions were from 2019, both in the general fund.

G

And overall I'm I recall the general fund. I think it was about three million.

M

Dollars, I think we were going to give about, it was 2.9 and I think departments.

M

Were going to be at around a million and a quarter million at half requests what.

G

About from, I don't have it off the top of my head, but I'll get that information.

G

Thank you, and speaking of which will we get a copy of your presentation. Your.

G

Powerpoint, yes, stephen, has a copy of that and he'll disseminate it after them.

M

After the meeting, I think would be important this year, yeah any other.

A

Second-Round questions seeing none at all customers say scan blurry go ahead.

I

You talked about not simply doing across-the-board percentage cuts and.

I

Thank you for that. Ten percent doesn't mean the same thing to all departments.

I

So I appreciate your desire to be strategic but directed both to the mayor.

I

And to control or under what could you talk a little more about what strategic.

I

Means I know what that means in my head. But what are the elements of strategic.

I

How do you, how do you think about and evaluate what is it? It's, not, okay, go.

M

Ahead, go ahead, yeah. If I'll, let you go. First, that's fine! I worked for the mayor.

M

Up it's item for a while, and that was an agency that was 90% of its dollars were.

M

Federal dollars, and so we had a very small general fund allocation of about.

M

10% and that was utilized as a match against those funds. So shortly after the.

M

Mayor left, we had an economic downturn at the state and they came to every.

M

Agency and they said we're going to do an automatic ten percent cut in.

M

Everybody's budget, regardless tan and I had.

M

Conversations with the budget agency- and I said that- doesn't make any sense.

M

It's if you cut me back 10%, I'm really losing it. I'm that 10 cents I'm losing.

M

$2, because I can no longer match that so for an agency like I am, it did make.

M

Sense, so that's the same thing, so we look at a department like public works.

M

Facilities, they have the majority of utility bills in there now they we may.

M

Be able to cut back some usage, but we can't just say we're going to cut they.

M

May only have what I call 1% of discretionary money, so maybe they have a.

M

Little bit of money that they get to make decisions about. Well, if I make them.

M

Do a 5% cut overall, then they're going to come back to me and say well: jeff.

M

What billings do you want me to shut the power off on? Because we can't make those.

M

Payments we have to continue to make that service payments and lease payments.

M

So we have to look department by department and say what are those.

M

Discretionary funds that they have available through them and what can they.

M

Contribute back to any budget shortfall, and it may well be that there are things.

M

That I can do because I have more consulting monies. Maybe there are.

M

Projects that we were going to do this year that I can put off so I may be able.

M

To come up with a 20% cut and hr that doesn't have very much discretionary.

M

Money it's almost all personnel is they can do a 1%. So the idea is look.

M

Department by department and fund by fund and also look at the revenue.

M

Streams that fund that, if, if there's a significant cut in there in the revenue.

M

Stream say for the street department: we may not be able to do much repaving.

M

During the year and save up to because we still have to do weather events, so if.

M

We have a harsh winter, then we've got to have enough money left behind that we.

M

Can buy the road treatments and have the plows and pay for the overtime for those.

M

So every department and every fund is going to get a look at really what makes.

M

Up their budget and what can they contribute back to any.

M

Budget shortfall. Well, I just wanted to make four quick points. Number one.

L

Government needs to be counter cyclical. We need to be very sensitive to our role.

L

And the impact in the wider community, when we do things- and I think we need to.

L

Be conscious of that value and the important role, because most entities.

L

Cannot be counter cyclical, they're, right in the middle of the cycle, and it.

L

Depends upon government, in my view, to be counter cyclical. So that's one of the.

L

Factors that we'll look at a second I just would mention is, I am really proud.

L

Of our department heads these are very talented managers, and I want to give.

L

Them the authority and the ability to manage their departments to accomplish.

L

The objectives that are so important wow needing to realize savings as they need.

L

To there they're capable and responsible managers so as to me, that's part of the.

L

Strategic approach and then the last couple points is just the kind of two.

L

Different axes to look at this jeff mentioned these both a little different.

L

In a little way, but one is just the functional analysis: what's what is the.

L

Function of government that we are talking about either increasing or.

L

Decreasing and what is the impact of that? What's the functional impact.

L

They're very different things: if you're reducing police services versus reducing.

L

Street miles being paid, they have very different functions and then the second.

L

Axis is really the source of the funds, as jeff mentioned. Where are these funds.

L

Coming from that, we're saving what we'll be able to do with them, what kind of.

L

Risk do we have if we don't use them, what kind of pressures are on those so.

L

All those are part of the more strategic thinking about how do we protect the.

L

Services that are so important in these in these times that's very helpful. Thank.

K

You both other questions from members, constable rallo.

J

Yeah, mr. underwood, we spoke over the years about anticipating an economic.

J

Decline- and you were, we discussed that you and department heads did a series of.

J

Contingency planning, for that you know, cutting general spending, I'm not talking.

J

About it, I think it's wise not to cut everything across the board, but just in.

J

Terms of you know, general spending, cutting 510 and 50% so forth, and I.

J

Wondered what what do you look at anticipating, employing those contingency.

J

Plans what indicators signal to you that we ought to take measures to employ them.

J

And I assume that we could do that. We might do that mid-year, it wouldn't.

J

Necessarily be for the next budget, but just because we don't know what really.

J

Lies ahead even weeks in advance right now, right, canonic impact, yes and we're.

M

Just beginning to one see the impacts on the revenues, so everything that's out.

M

There right now is purely a guess because of the nature of the collection.

M

And distribution of the majority of our funds is that, as the mayor said, there.

M

You know it's counter. Cyclical is something that's collected in february.

M

We don't see until two or three months later so we will see the first round in.

M

The the month that's going to end this week and and we plan and are set up in.

M

Our office to start to analyze those as those results come in and that's why.

M

We've already asked departments to say for this year what you know for this.

M

Year's planning, as well as next year, be looking at what cuts that you possibly.

M

Could make either in things that could be for forgone or delayed so that we can.

M

Enact those as they come in, I think it's going to take two or three months of.

M

Actuals for us to really start to see a strong impact of where we're headed on.

M

Those but we're set up right now that we've got everybody planning. We've asked.

M

Them to restrict their their their spending really to be for essential.

M

Functions, we haven't cut any programs and we've actually increased spending.

M

For code 19, both for materials and supplies for protecting our staff, but as.

M

Well, as outward-facing with the community, both first small.

M

Businesses for underemployed for homeless folks, so we're trying to deploy.

M

Resources as quickly as we can get our hands on those and we have deferred.

M

Program, so the convention center is clearly food beverage. With your help, we.

M

Set aside, two million dollars in the bu ea, another half a million dollars in.

M

Funds to quick, rapid recovery loans to get out to people so that we they can.

M

Continue to stay in business for go back in business and we've already seen two.

M

Of those loans and had companies announced that they're opening back up.

M

So it's working we've been able to work with not-for-profits and open a hotel.

M

For homeless people who are thought to have co-indictee, nor do you have it, go.

M

To a safe place and we've also set up space for our own employees, that if they.

M

Need to be isolated or away from people to protect themselves and they have the.

M

Ability to do that so we're actively reviewing and working we're just taking.

M

A measured approach and not the skies falling, we we want to do it in a very.

M

Strategic way, while we continue to fund the role of government and the necessary.

M

Elements of what we do did you mention a few of the key indicators that you look.

J

To to determine yeah I mean essentially yeah I mean the the the immediate ones.

M

Were on the first page there that we'll be looking at is one of the food.

M

Beverage, that's going to be a big indicator because sale.

M

Tax will come off of that. We don't get a lot of sales tax unemployment, obviously.

M

Is an issue but again we're protected this year, so we expect to see you know.

M

We'll really be following that reemployment over the next several.

M

Months as as as communities that begin to open up, and hopefully there's not a.

M

Second round, that would then put us right back into that. Obviously, that's.

M

That's a possibility, but we'll be watching those unemployment numbers and.

M

And the rebound impact of those, because if restaurants and bars can open back up.

M

And then the businesses that support then you'll see employment come come.

M

Back fairly quickly, a big key will be the university. Did the students come.

M

Back in the fall, so that's one thing that we'll be watching is because that's.

M

Two things: it's an it's an influx of employment b, especially in the food and.

M

Beverage side, so businesses may be able to reopen in june july and in the august.

M

But if there is not a workforce available to them, even though we have.

M

High unemployment, those types of people have trouble getting employment, people.

M

To come work for them, so those are the things that we will be watching locally.

M

As well statewide to see those are the indicators of food beverage, unemployment.

M

And reemployment as well as travel so we'll see immediately, you know if it.

M

Opens back up and people are traveling more you'll see the gas come back up.

M

You'll obviously see if people start traveling and government allow business.

M

Smoke back up, we will expect to see fuel prices rise back up again, which will.

M

Will provide more revenues, so those are the things that we're looking at.

M

Immediately as well as you know, can we safely reopen parks programs? You know.

M

We're kind of getting into that summer thing of pools: summer camps, youth.

M

Activities that normally baseball and softball would be going strong right now.

M

And they're, not golf courses are way down, so we would, you know, see if those.

M

Are going to be able to reopen, you know and there's there's a lag in.

M

That so it may well be that none of those come back this year so we'll be.

M

Working with parks department to measure those on a month-by-month basis, so those.

M

Are the keys for this year? Thank you any further questions from members before.

A

We'd go to budget priorities, katsura smith. I just wondered if mr. underwood.

P

As if, if the current state of affairs, where the revenues are down, where might.

P

We see the impact showing up.

M

Food-And-Beverage, gasoline tax and parts fees are, the immediate was right, but.

P

That then impacts what for us, what would we well it'll impact the.

M

Deployments that are funded by those, so obviously the parks department, if they.

M

Have to eat into their cash reserves street department? Do we have to defer.

M

Maintenance of the streets and food beverage. Obviously it's going to delay.

M

The expansion of the of the convention center, if unemployment lasts, then we're.

M

Going to see the impact next year, if we see a lag in assessed, value, we'll see.

M

That next year and those are property, taxes and and local option, income taxes.

M

Account for eighty percent of the revenues in the general fund, so you know.

M

What happens to the lit and what happens to property taxes are the important.

M

Things for our major operating account for parts, it's fees as well as property.

M

Taxes and for street department- it's gasoline taxes, yes, so down the road for.

P

People, it means that some of the programs won't be up and running because.

P

We won't have the funds the revenue to do it. Do it is that yeah again, we look.

M

At cash balances available and can we get you know how long could we support.

M

Those things, let me let me just step in we're just we're real early in this.

L

We're gonna be presenting a budget for 2021 by the fall, but you know we want to.

L

Hear your priorities, we're gonna, be evaluating those again. My view is.

L

Government's role is to be a counter-cyclical force, so we're gonna do.

L

Everything we can do to minimize the trough and the depth and to accelerate.

L

The recovery by being prudent and investing, and that may mean investing.

L

More sometimes, but we'll see, okay, fair enough.

P

Thank you. I appreciate it final questions. Councilmember tremont.

A

Smith, yes, mister, under what do you happen to.

G

Know how much money is in the parks reserve fund? Do they also have thirty.

K

Three percent or thirty million dollars they list yeah and then they have.

M

They're not referring fund, I think they were at about two and a half months had.

M

To begin the year and that's about a million dollars, you said a million.

M

Dollars in the general fund, and then they have monies in their non, reverting.

M

Fund as well but clarifying question, but that assumes normal operations.

A

Considering that some operations are greatly reduced in parks, they may have.

A

More than two two months, because some things are shut down, but they'll also.

L

Have less revenue coming in this year because of fewer fees for all those.

L

Albums name activities, so it's a dynamic situation. That's that's why I'd like to.

G

Know the dollar amount in there happy to give you the exact will give you the.

L

Exact dollar amount, it was about a million dollars in the general fund and.

L

Then jeff can share the exact dollar amount on the other. Thank you.

A

Or sims, thank you, and this is for mr. underwood as well and we've talked about.

Q

Indicators good questions, I think from councilman. Bravo, but I'm thinking more.

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In terms of federal funding and in some cases, state funding and that'll be.

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Impacted on into the future, and maybe, as we say, cyclical and to be anti-cyclical,.

Q

When do we anticipate potential, less or less money from the budgeting and.

Q

Revenue standpoint at the federal level- and I know that's hard to because we.

Q

Don't know what impact that they're gonna have with them a lot of things that the federal and state government is doing now, but have we given any thought.

Q

As far as it will impact moving on, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just want to make.

L

First point: we absolutely should be pressing our federal representatives to.

L

Send some bloody money down to the local governments when you have the leadership.

L

In the hill saying let states go bankrupt, that's just outrageous states.

L

And local governments are in the front line of this operation in this effort.

L

And they ought to be sending more money to us. So first talking to our.

L

Legislators is really important for that and I hope we do see some positive money.

L

There was some put in for transit and others, but there needs to be money to.

L

Support local government because we can't run deficits like the federal government does so that's the first point I made, but we have no idea what.

L

We're gonna see it's a big political football right now. Thank you any other.

A

Questions seeing it's time now for members to.

A

Discuss their priorities with council, I think I'd like to go in alphabetical.

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Order tonight so as to not have to worry about who's going next. That means we.

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Will start with councilmember flaherty and again if anybody wants to make to.

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Use the share screen function that is available to you. Let's try to keep the.

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The presentations to five minutes, but I'm not going to be strict tonight. I.

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Just this is these are unusual times, and it's important that that all the good.

A

Ideas that we have that we can have get out so with that mr. flaherty, if you're ready to to begin discussion of what.

A

Priorities you have for the coming year, we'd like to hear them.

A

Sure, of course, first thank you again to mayor hamilton and deputy mayor ricin.

D

And for alergic underwood for your presentation for answering our questions.

D

And all the planning and thought you're putting into this process, it's a it's.

D

Nice to get a glimpse of some of the contingency planning, whether it's you.

D

Know, department head is preparing for scenarios of five to 20 percent.

D

Reductions for this year's budget projected shortfalls and and the rest.

D

And I'm sure we will learn a lot more in the in the coming weeks and months.

D

Obviously this is a very uncertain time due to the cova 19 pandemic and our.

D

Outlook will continue to evolve. You know, even amid that uncertainty, I think our.

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Job is to make sure that we are prioritizing the fiscal health of health.

D

Of the city and the responsible use of taxpayer dollars, I provide essential services first, but I also think that a time of uncertainty is.

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Also, a good time for reflection and an argument to look at our priorities and.

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And think about whether they're, aligning with our goals and and our needs as a.

D

Community so much like the 2008 economic recession fundamentally altered various.

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Sectors and systems in our society, I think this pandemic will inevitably do.

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The same thing, I think you know if we can do our best as policymakers to.

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Emerge from this health crisis, you know thinking critically and working.

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Creatively to spend money in new ways that prioritizes the most vulnerable in.

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Our community, I think, that's what we should be doing and prioritizing equity.

D

And and meeting our city goals earlier tonight, actually I'm mayor.

D

Hamilton mentioned the idea, but the that there are these stubborn facts.

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I heard him mentioned this earlier today at the be edc state of the bloomington.

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Regional economy, presentation- and there were three that he mentioned- the.

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Stubborn fact of the cova 19 pandemic that we are all dealing with and.

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Reacting to and trying to ensure the health and safety and economic health of.

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Our community, through that there was also the stubborn fact of greenhouse gas.

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Emissions that are continuing to rise and driving the climate crisis and and.

D

You know in the very near future, locking us into a series of health and.

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Ecological and economic disasters for kids and grandkids generations, if we.

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Don't do something about this very very soon do better! You know than we are now.

D

And also mayor hamilton mentioned the stubborn fact of growing wealth.

D

Inequality which also absolutely needs addressed and- and I think we can address.

D

Some of those things in the same with the same measures, so for me thinking.

D

About the budget for the next year and what we want to prioritize, even while we.

D

Absolutely need to look at measures to continue to prioritize the health of our.

D

Community, the you know, vitality of our economy as we recover from the pandemic.

D

I think we do need to continue to work to make progress on the climate crisis.

D

Addressing growing wealth, inequality and other forms of systemic classism and.

D

Racism that persist in our community, so you know my hope, would be the department.

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Heads and the administration can utilize this budget process to find new and.

D

Creative ways to to improve and do better on those fronts. I you know that.

D

Can mean a lot of things these are, these, are you know, wealth inequality, climate.

D

Crisis, these are problems that touch every aspect of our lives and government.

D

So I won't get into details and everything of course, but I did want to.

D

Address a few specific items in the context of our transportation system.

D

Specifically- and I picked that area for a couple of reasons- first, the.

D

Transportation sector makes up the largest share of greenhouse gas.

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Emissions by sector in in our community accounting for twenty seven point three.

D

Percent of our community's greenhouse gas emissions. The other reason I wanted.

D

To specifically focus attention here is because we're headed the wrong way in.

D

This in this sector, between 2011 and tene per hour, 2018 greenhouse gas.

D

Emissions inventory report, our per capita vehicle miles traveled, has.

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Increased by 11.5 percent so instead of reducing emissions or even staying.

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Steady, which would still be a problem, these emissions are steadily rising in.

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The transportation sector and our goals in chapter six of the comprehensive plan.

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Specify in detail, as well as, along with our transportation plan, we need to.

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Prioritize non-automotive modes of transportation, improving and expanding.

D

The pedestrian and bicycle network and improving public transit specifically.

D

This has to mean that non-automotive modes are what gets prioritized in the.

D

Budget and I- and I really don't think that's the case currently to my view.

D

Based on recent spending trends, so I'm looking for improvements in that area.

D

Specifically, that doesn't have to mean more spending, of course, where we don't.

D

Have more money to spend it means reprioritizing current spending.

D

To better align with our adopted goals and plans, to my mind, I also think you.

D

Know in the future, we do need to consider new or different revenue.

D

Sources potentially bonding for serious improvements to our sidewalk.

D

Infrastructure and our high priority bicycle network in the transportation.

D

Plan in line with those guidelines, I also think a parking cash out program.

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For the city government is long overdue and I know president boland has.

D

Advocated for this in the past in california, by way of example, employers.

D

Of more than 50 people are required to offer a parking cash out if they provide.

D

Below market rate parking for their employees, like we do at the city, the.

D

Intent of that law is to reduce vehicle commute trips and emissions by offering.

D

Employees, the option of cashing out their subsidized parking space and.

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Taking transit, biking walking or carpooling to work instead in the case.

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Of california, that's implemented by the california air resources board, because.

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It's very much a climate mitigation and air pollution reduction policy as well.

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As a transportation, equity policy and in their experience, based on case studies,.

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Of multiple firms that program has been able to reduce total vehicle emissions.

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For commuting by 12% for the firms that implement that, that would also be in.

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Line with our transportation and management principles- and I think.

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We're due for a tdm plan to be published in the near future. We had a nice.

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Presentation at council a couple months ago from the consultant that helped.

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Develop that plan, I think it's important to do things like that, because it's.

D

Leading by example, as a municipality and in the climate change policy world, it is.

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You know a fundamental tenant that governments and municipalities must lead.

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By example, we can make decisions that the private sector may not make because.

D

We can build in social benefits into our calculus and our analysis of what we're.

D

Considering so you know, I think, if we're gonna want the private sector to come.

D

Along with us on things like that, we do need to lead by example in that area.

D

I'll stop there on on specific changes that I would like to see reflected in.

D

The budget, but it's just a few ideas and I'll emphasize again- that I really do.

D

Think this is a moment of change for all of us and despite the uncertainty, it's a.

D

Strong reason to look critically at the status quo and rethink things, and I know.

D

You know, I think we should be asking across all of our departments how we can.

D

Better allocate our funds to meet our adopted city goals, as manifested in the.

D

Comp plan the transportation plan, the sustainability action plan, how we can.

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Continue to implement those plans and how we can continue to address the.

D

Climate crisis and better serve vulnerable and marginalized residents in.

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Bloomington and as we review the budget again, I know we're looking at some.

D

Belt-Tightening and making sure we're meeting critical needs, but I will also be looking at it with an eye to our adopted plans and.

D

Through a lens of justice and equity, and I appreciate very much the work of the.

D

Administration as we as we move forward on this, thank you. Thank you. Seven.

A

Minutes so a lot of bacon. It's okay! I'm going to ask people to keep an ear on.

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The gong and the beeping just so you know that I'll give you a heads-up at.

A

Seven minutes, personally, all right: we go now to councilor piedmont, smith. Thank.

G

You it's a really difficult time in our community to be talking about budget.

G

Priorities because there are so many uncertainties, the only thing that is.

G

Certain is that we will have money to work with and that's always a.

G

Difficult thing, because the budget advance is usually a time to discuss.

G

More spending and not less, I will put forward one item of cuts that I would.

G

Like to see even this year, and that is the leaf pickup, the roadside leaf pickup.

G

For residential residential homes, we discussed this during the budget.

G

Hearings last year, and it it's really a program that is not environmentally.

G

Sound we do need to accompany any phase out of the program with a lot of.

G

Education about what people should do with their leaves instead, but I think.

G

This is a good opportunity, given the budget crunch to to do away with that.

G

Program, that's quite expensive. I think it's $900,000 or something like that on.

G

The other hand, there is a program that I think should be continued and even.

G

Expanded and I don't think it would cost a lot to expand it, and that would be to.

G

Employ people who have worked with center stone on the road to recovery.

G

From substance misuse disorder to help with the parks and rec projects or.

G

Public works projects in the city center, stone has partnered with parks and rec.

G

And has provided the city with employees who have you know honor umbro, to.

G

Recovery- and this is given them a leg up and a new start to become financially.

G

Self-Sufficient and I think it's it's an excellent program- I haven't spoken in.

G

Detail with those that run it, so I don't know if they're you know tweaks that.

G

Need to be made, but I think, as a concept and from what I've heard it's it's a.

G

Really good idea and I'd like to see that expanded. I agree with councilmember.

G

Flaherty about possess on bicycle and pedestrian.

G

Infrastructure we see that even more now that people are homebound and taking.

G

More walks and that there are places where it's even when the traffic is.

G

Reduced that it's it's not very safe or not very pleasant to walk. My street is.

G

One of them, but so I think that we we will probably in the coming months, be.

G

Talking about 7th street as a an east-west corridor that will be focused.

G

For pedestrian transit and bicycle use- and I encourage those those initiatives.

G

And I think that we really need to do more for sidewalks, we have just a.

G

Pittance of what $330,000 for sidewalks something like that and it you know it.

G

Covers a few blocks every year and we have such a huge gap, and so we should.

G

Really consider tif as a funding source to improve our pedestrian infrastructure.

G

I agree with the parking cash out program that councilmember flaherty.

G

Mentioned and that councilmember boland has has championed for many years. I.

G

Mentioned it last year, I think this is something that we should be doing as far.

G

As leading by example, the I'd like to urge the mayor to continue with forming.

G

The green ribbon task force that he announced on new year's day to more.

G

Heavily involve the private sector in meeting our community greenhouse gas.

G

Emission reduction goals- we can't do it alone in the city, we need to fill those.

G

Partnerships and leverage the community to really make an impact in our.

G

Emissions, I do want to come back to the question that has been raised for at.

G

Least the last four years, and that is, do we have a sufficient number of police.

G

Officers in bloomington, I understand that a review, an administrative review.

G

Of the police department is just wrapping up now.

G

And I look forward to their report. It is, of course, tied also in with the the.

G

Union contract that the fraternal order police has with the city that was just.

G

Started last year, so there are, you know, I know it's not just a you know, flip a.

G

Switch and you get more officers, not least of which the police academy is.

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Closed and there are no new officers going on the job market right now, so.

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It's a tall order, but I would like to take another look at that. I think that.

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There can be a good argument made for non badged officers because really where.

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I see the need for more police is in the social outreach with some members of our.

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Homeless, community: that's where the partnerships that the downtown resource.

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Officers have with social service agencies, have really made a positive.

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Impact- and I think more of those types of police employees could be very very.

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Helpful, I think that's all I had I do. I really like the way that the mayor has.

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Framed the question today saying: hey, you know we, we have koban 19, it's a fact of.

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Life, we need to address it with data and facts and here's some more unpleasant.

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Facts we still have a growing greenhouse gas emissions problem and we have a.

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Growing income, inequality problem and those are really at the top of my mind,.

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As well, and so, even though I'm not in a position to give any other concrete.

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Budgetary recommendations at this point, I will be viewing proposals coming to.

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The administration, through that lens of how can we serve those that are most.

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Vulnerable in our community, and how can we do our part to address climate change.

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And that's that's what I have for tonight. Thank you. Thank you. I just want.

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To point out that, thanks to you, no other concerns, so we may not be able to have.

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Everybody who needs to be here through every members presentation so but having.

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Said that let's go on to the next item that would be customer rallo, you ready.

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Sure I like what has been said so far. I think that we should operate under a.

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Couple of assumptions, one assumption is that the virus will be with us for.

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Probably sometime, and so this is not a temporary situation that we're.

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Encountering, even if a vaccine is forthcoming, I think it's going to take.

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Some time to employ it, and I think that the economic shocks have already been.

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Profound, I think we are living under a great deal of uncertainty right now and.

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But I think that we could probably assume that this crisis is going to lead.

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To some pretty profound social economic changes, I'm cognizant of our.

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Circumstances in terms of revenues will likely decline. I think we should assume.

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That, in the coming years, it's at least several years, therefore, resources will.

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Be limited, I think that under those circumstances, I'm I'm not going to be.

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Recommending an increase in expenditures, necessarily above what we've already.

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Planned to do, I think, redirecting priorities is a good idea.

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Basically, taking certain priorities that we had in the last few years and and.

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Reevaluating those would be a good strategy, but I think that we could do.

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One thing very well with very little expenditure, and I think that involves.

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Probably redirecting staff, and that would be to expand a.

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Local food economy, to the extent that we can. I think that if there's one thing.

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This pandemic has revealed it's for one thing: it's the fragility of our economic.

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System and how leverage is undead, the other thing that it's revealed is that.

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It has shortcomings related to supply chain and we're already feeling those.

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That fragility, but it's probably going to to get worse before it, gets better.

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And particularly concerning, as has been described in various quarters, as our.

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Food supply, so my recommendation to the.

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Administration this year is to direct city resources to bear on real local.

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Ization, but particularly of the of the food economy, I think expanding local.

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Food system, as a priority should be done. I think that it it is, we could take it.

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Could take the form of setting a goal of providing 5% of our food locally within.

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The next two years, we would need a strategic plan. Of course, that would be.

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Incremental we could, we could increase further in the years ahead and it would.

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Also address our local economic recovery by redirecting priorities in that in.

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That fashion we'll need a strategic plan to do this.

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We'll need metrics, it offers, I think, a number of benefits. One is local jobs, it.

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Recirculates wealth because we're spending wealth locally on on food, so we.

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We benefit from a multiplier effect. It helps to protect farmland and utilizes.

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Farmland in ways that are productive, ecologic lee.

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Because much of the farmland is used for growing in monroe, county or elsewhere is.

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For animal feed- and it's it's very taxing on the land, it's a strategy for.

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Cutting our local carbon emissions, we don't really account for the amount of.

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Carbon that is embedded in the energy that is utilized for food production and.

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That is then shipped to into bloomington and it provides security. I think that's.

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The most important going back to the my my first point, this kind of resiliency.

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Provides security for the community and I think it's a very it's a very.

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Psychologically, beneficial activity, and so I think that the air for would be.

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Widely supported, so I would just like to offer that I think that we have.

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Difficult times ahead- and I think that we are way forward- is not just reactive.

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I think it's a it's a proactive way of of going forward to develop resilience.

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As a community to strengthen our community to help insulate us from.

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Outside shocks- and it gives us provides an antidote to the uncertainty that.

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We're inevitably going to encounter as we go forward, so I would put a high.

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Priority on that on on expanding the local food system, but also real.

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Localization, to the extent that we can do, that is a good strategy for the.

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Future. Thank you. Thank you. We go now to council member.

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Rosen barger and I believe you want to have the ability to share screen yeah. I.

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Just put a couple slides together to make it easier: okay, mr. lucas, if you can.

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Make that happen.

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I think I can do it. Let's see to see that yes, very good, please go ahead. Would.

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You read him yeah, okay, okay. First, I wanted to say thank you to the mayor.

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Jeff and mick for the presentation and comments on the budget. I know the.

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Upcoming years will present unique challenges and our budgeting, and I want.

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To acknowledge the current co vid 19 pandemic and all the people being.

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Impacted by that and harmed by this immediate crisis, I agree with a lot of.

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What has already been said, I mean this is going to go on for years and I think.

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It lurtz us to our needs a plan adapt and mitigate for not only this crisis.

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But looming crises that we need a more resilient economy and more resilient.

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Transportation system and a more resilient, equitable community as a whole.

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I hope we can adjust our priorities to address this, as well as the incredible.

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Challenges that aren't going away like climate change and income and.

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Racial inequities that we have here with these challenges on our plate. I still.

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Believe it is incredibly important to prioritize increasing our bicycling and.

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Pedestrian infrastructure in the city and and to help with the region. This.

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Requires funding and I think we have options of where we can get that. I know.

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Mr. underwood touched on our future ability to buffer capital improvements.

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And I hope we will still be able to do that, so this first slide includes a.

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Table of categories of reasons, we should prioritize our bike and ped.

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Infrastructure we could talk at length about any one of these categories, but I.

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Just wanted to touch on a few, a few of them, so in terms of equity. One thing I.

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Continue to bring up is that the average household cost to own a car. I learnt to.

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Operate a car in the u.s. is anywhere between five and nine thousand dollars.

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Per year and the robust bike and ped infrastructure a lot of families to own.

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Fewer cars and save that money, especially with this crisis and folks.

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Being out of work for an indefinite period of time,.

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We, if we have the opportunity to create to create a space where folks can own.

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One for your car, I think that's one of the biggest savings we could give them.

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Then a little more on equity, equitable access to safe transportation makes.

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Biking safer for those who are already writing and helps to get those who wants.

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To use a bike for transportation out on the street, unfortunately, there are still.

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Disparities and access to safe infrastructure for low-income and people.

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Of color communities, and so with that in mind, we need to continue to build out.

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Our infrastructure throughout the city, and really focus on where folks, who need.

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This most live a strong and diverse majority of americans, say more bike.

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Lanes and trails would encourage them to ride, and that is including 60% of people.

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Of color and 59% of those are in less than 30,000 per year. Most of my climate.

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Points have already been touched on by my colleagues. I would just say again.

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That transportation is our largest contributor to our greenhouse gas.

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Emissions here and if we really want to drastically reduce those, we need to.

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Really expand our transportation options for how people get around, and I want to.

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Touch on tourism and economic development, women connect home to the below 500 and the hilly hundreds, and I really think we can capitalize our.

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Nationally, famous bike rides to increase bike tourism and recreation of.

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Bloomington, but to do that, we really need to make sure this is a place where.

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People come to ride and feel comfortable and safe riding in our streets and also.

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Outside of town, just a little bit on economic development from smart growth.

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America in wisconsin, in 2010, bike, recreation and tourism contributed nine.

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Hundred and twenty-four million dollars to the economy in san francisco.

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Two-Thirds of merchants on valencia street said new bike lanes have improved.

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Their business in the efficiency category, a quarter of all trips in the.

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Us are less than a mile, but most people take these by car to investing in bike.

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And ped infrastructure increases walking and biking and reduces traffic.

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Congestion and the cost of road maintenance, the interest by design, is.

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We design our our streets with an autofocus and we don't so much consider.

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The safety and needs of pedestrians and cyclists, the governor's highway safety.

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Association estimated that over six thousand people were killed while.

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Walking in 2019 and a share of pedestrian fatalities is increasing. We.

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Can do something by that by designing our streets as complete streets for all.

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Who are on them? I think it's also also worth noting that our comprehensive plan.

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Lays out goals for all of this, and a lot of my colleagues already touched on.

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Those okay, so next hi. Where are we right now so bike li? And we are a gold, a gold.

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Bicycle friendly city, our total bike network network, two road network with.

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24%, that's just not that much right! That means we are lacking connectivity and.

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It's hard for folks to get around in places that they feel safe and.

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Comfortable engineering, our bicycle network connectivity, is a four point.

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Four out of ten, so we can't expect more people to do making this choice to to.

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Bike when we aren't providing them with the means to do that, I mean what if we.

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Only had 24% of roads for cars, how would people get around? Where are we now.

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Sidewalks, we are bronze, come with our report card from the walk friendly.

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Communities I had a hard time finding a lot of good data on sidewalks. Maybe it.

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Exists- and I couldn't find it fast enough, but I was surprised that I couldn't get the answers to my questions. One thing is the city: doesn't.

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Differentiate and the types of sidewalks we provide, so all sidewalks are created.

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Equal but sidewalks don't work like that when people need to feel safe and.

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Comfortable in order to choose walking as their mode of transportation, so you.

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Can see from these two sidewalks we've got one that's by a busy road and you.

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Like a car can breathe by you right pretty easily here on south walnut and.

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Even a rear-view mirror or side mirror could hit you if you're close enough or.

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Compare that to a third street next to campus, where you've got great tree plots.

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And tree coverage there so thinking about what kind of sidewalks were.

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Offering which we have buffers and trees and bed is really important. This map is hard to see, but this is the condition of our.

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Sidewalks throughout bloomington green is good. Blue means there's nothing not.

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Just a street and then red and orange are fair, so we have about three hundred.

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And fourteen miles of sidewalk in our city and eighty-five miles of those are.

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In fair or poor condition, so that means it's hard for any. You know anyone on.

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Wheels with strollers with knee scooters as wheelchairs to get around all those.

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Just making that more of a priority would help folks get around so other.

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People talk about balance right. I've heard this argument for balance and.

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Before I was on council, we can't build that bike lane because we have to.

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Balance the needs of drivers, so, okay, let's look at how we balance our current.

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Funding I again, this is not a thorough estimate of our funding. I didn't I.

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Didn't spend a ton of time on this, so just sort of like looking at right. Our big our big money is spending over the over the last couple years and, of course,.

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Some of these are bonds like the parking garage bonds, but right now I would say.

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And I think we can agree that we are very much out of balance and we are.

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Spending a lot more on motor vehicle transportation and we are on other forms.

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Of transportation, so with some bicentennial bonds and our city council.

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Sidewalks budget and the alternative transportation budget we're about five.

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To six million dollars, proactive mobility, just so you know so try to wrap.

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It up, I was I banked. I didn't ask any.

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Questions earlier, so so then, so this is just saying what, if we did balance these.

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Things right and like have equal funding. So what? If we can bond for this, and we.

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Can work toward our transportation goals? I think in the end, this is about what.

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Kind of city do we want right, and how do we address this type of climate crisis.

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And coal good crisis and inequities that we have here, I think we have a long way.

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To get, but I think it really is time to challenge the status quo, to make these.

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Curves, pull decisions and really and build our like that network.

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Thank that's it. Thank you. So much, let's go now to councilmember sandberg thank.

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You I this is a budget year like no other, and those of us that did go.

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Through the downturns, 2008 2009 2010, I still appreciate the administration's.

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Approach to we've all got to be fluid, we're gonna have to be flexible and.

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Those of us that have the opportunity to attend the bede sees state of the.

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Bloomington, regional economy: these were brilliant ways to frame our.

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Thinking today I know it was helpful to me, especially in listening to carol.

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Rogers who's co-director for the ib rc. I thought she did a masterful job of.

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Presenting the facts, we all need to deal with the facts on the ground in a way.

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That's you know she's presenting very depressing information, but in a way that.

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Challenges us to how are we going to maneuver through this crisis, which I.

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Fairly, certain is gonna frame the way we think about everything, everything and.

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She provided a lot of statistics, I'm looking forward to getting a copy of her.

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Presentation it was quite instructive, but many of the words that she used. I.

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Thought for were very helpful, a lot of what we're going to be doing at the.

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Local level is going to be dependent on responses from the state in the federal.

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Level and she she had some really good images of the different kind of model we.

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Can all approach as we look at our budget, how we're gonna be the stimulus.

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Factor as the mayor has pointed out, we need to be that stable, stimulating force.

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That's going to help people who are in pain right now, who are going to be in.

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Pain for the foreseeable future- and you know when she was framing where we were.

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Which was in pretty good shape to where we are and then what can we look forward.

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To in the future, I liked her bringing forward that we can do things in several.

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Ways and when I say we, I mean we're dependent on what the federal government.

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Does and what our own state government does, but we can be the wacom.

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Model with this koban crisis and opened things up too soon and then we're going.

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To be in one, you know healthcare crisis after another, which is not ultimately.

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Going to get us to where we need to go and then the controlled chaos model.

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Where we're more a part of the mobilization and the transition from how.

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Do we deal with shrinking revenues and how do we deal with the unemployment.

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Levels and of course she was very honest- we've got to deal with the realities.

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That neither one of those scenarios is going to look particularly good. I'm not.

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A doom and gloom er, I do approach things as a challenge for us to take a look at.

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Things but she was using words like smash industries, the kind of businesses.

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That are gonna really have a hard time in recovery versus those that are in.

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Spike mode that actually will be hiring more people to respond to the crisis and.

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Then she used a word that I had not heard before churn. You know, moving from.

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Where we are now to you know what kind of things are going to bubble up to help.

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Us into the future, so that was just a little bit of what I took away from.

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Today's noon, a presentation- it was very, very good- many of us, were in attendance.

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And I hope that many of much of what we heard is going to inspire us as we.

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Approach this year's budget then also the mayor and alex crowley. He had a.

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Opportunity to contribute to this today and I appreciated them talking about how.

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We're going to be in three months of rapid response, where we are now we're.

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Going to be in 12 months or so in a recovery mode and then longer for.

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Revitalization, and so just just pinpointing what this means for me for.

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My budget priorities, I think, we're going to need a return to basics. Needless to.

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Say with the hard realities of shrinking revenues, we're going to have to maintain.

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The assets that we have we're going to need to maintain adequate staffing, and I.

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Some have mentioned, we need need for more police, but police fire public works.

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Sanitation utilities transportations those basic city services, we've all got.

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To figure out how to keep the wheels turning there and I'm grateful to hear.

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That our first response is not going to be layoffs or cutting things, because.

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City services continue in a way that is going to be of.

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Use to the to the public, we need to continue to invest, as we have been doing.

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I do see for the foreseeable future a continued use of like our social.

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Services working group and our esd working group as we're responding in.

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Rapid recovery mode, I see those teams continuing especially.

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Now, as we are in the jack hopkins social services realm, we are going to be.

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Reviewing our first, you know. First, look at our applications on may the fourth. I.

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Strongly believe that the government will need to continue to be that.

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Stimulus factor making sure that fund is maintained to help nonprofits, who are.

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Working with low income individuals that should not change when I'm thinking.

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About our local government response, I cannot help but think about fdr and the.

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New deal and the works progress administration, and I do think that we.

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Are in a position to help with unemployment by making sure that we're.

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Not cutting as much as creating making sure that opportunities exist to help us.

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Dig out of this hole that we're going to be in for a good long, while.

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Obviously, with economic development, that's still going to be a priority for.

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Me, including the arts, including things that do make life worth living in.

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Addition to us dealing with the emergency services that are certainly.

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Required of the government, so that's basically it. I agree with many of what.

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My colleagues are saying, but I think we're going to have to take a broader.

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Look at where we can be the most useful in utilizing our our city government.

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Funding to help the economy at large and help the individuals around us who are.

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Facing unemployment, indiana university tends to be the thing that inoculates us.

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From our recession, I don't think we're looking at the same kind of recession.

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We've seen in past, I do believe we're going to be the in this for a good long.

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While I mean many people, I mean I'm even starting to think about. Are we going to.

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Be in a depression as a result of this knock this blow to our system, because.

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This is not just a one off situation. This kovach crisis.

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Could come in waves, we could get a handle on it, it could really wintertime.

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And then we're back to square one, and so I think we all need to brace. We all need.

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To focus on the basics- and this is not necessarily a time to expand, but it's.

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Certainly not a time to cut either, so those would be my thoughts going into.

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The budget, I think the administration has already done a great job, both in the.

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Current emergency that we're in and then also I'm thinking forward in the future.

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Of what, if, where were we, where are we now and then looking ahead to the future.

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Being strategic is absolutely the way we all have to be thinking. It's no longer.

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Business as usual, thank you. Let's go now to councilmember.

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Sims. Thank you very very much. First thing. I'd like to do is again thank the.

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Administration for some of the working groups that have been established as we.

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Have rapid responses to copa90 and I'd like to stand out also to some of our.

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Community organizations that have stepped up in order to help those that.

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Are less fortunate us to to withstand this? This crisis that we're in earlier.

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When I tend a stick, you late budget time, they're, mostly centered, around revenues.

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um From a budgeting standpoint, it's really hard to know how to manage your.

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Expenses and some of your non-discretionary and other non de.

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Chinon des or other discretionary uses until you know what the revenues are. I.

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Liken that to pie the size of the pie, the bigger the pie, the bigger the.

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Expenses were allowed, the more discretionary uses, the smaller the pie.

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Then obviously, your expenses have to be cut and you limit your discretionary.

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Uses which is what we do to run city government budget priorities- and this is.

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Early in the game, so it's it's interesting to hear.

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Many of the great ideas that my colleagues are coming up with and I look forward to discussing them as we move forward. Budget priorities is kind of.

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Unknown at this point, but personal priorities have been have been made.

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Clear and we look toward that as we keep moving forward I'll earlier three points.

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In particular, equity, wealth and housing.

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Equity, you look on the up on the other side of that which is inequities, and I.

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Think that's important from a government standpoint in order to to do what's best.

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In particularly for the underserved in our communities, when we talk about.

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Wealth we're talking about increasing the ability to build wealth. This is akin.

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To and adjoin to employment opportunities, you know other other.

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Things such as that transportation, a lot of pieces to that puzzle. There we've.

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Talked about a couple different things also, I agree with some many of my.

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Colleagues that we must increase our pedestrian and multimodal system, our.

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Infrastructure, how much we're going to be able to do that and over what period.

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Of time it will be many of the things that we debate. I will say this right.

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Here that balance, in my mind, is very important and I won't we'll never really.

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Let that go balance is important, so we'll be discussing about balance when.

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We're talking about public safety and there has been talk about increasing.

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Police officers, but, like some of my other colleagues, I am very interested in.

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Looking at can we meet this need for increased public safety and particularly.

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Police officers through the use of non bashed officers, I think we've already.

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Started that I don't want to call it a pilot, a pilot because it's been pretty.

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Successful with the folks that we have, in places with our resource officers and.

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You know those those positions, so that'll be interesting from.

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A budgetary in a city, social standpoint, as we move forward one think about this.

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Pandemic, that is a reveal across the country in the state, maybe to a tad.

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Lesser extent in bloomington, but but I think it's still important- is that this.

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Pandaria has revealed and highlighted social disparities through different.

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Populations within our communities and within the communities in which we live.

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These are with regard to employment, health care, transportation, social.

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Services on the deed for food insecurities: these are clear, and these.

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In my mind, are some of the things that we have to include as part of governing.

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As part of our responsibility, there is definitely going to be social, economic.

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Changes as we move forward again, one of the things that I've mentioned and I.

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Think many of us know right now currently, one in five families in our.

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Community are either very close to or living in poverty. Again, balance is key.

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Prioritize it prioritizing these funds and our planning and being creative will.

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Be the key I think, as we move forward in particularly with not knowing the size.

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Of that pie, revenues and expenses, creativity, looking at its social equity.

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Issues as we've heard housing we'll get more into that later, and what we're able.

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To do that, I don't want us to forget that approximately and give or take a.

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Couple percentages here, I'm not know if I'm exactly but about forty five percent.

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Of our housing, our rentals, our housing market, our rentals, so these are some of.

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The other things as far as our local quality of life on.

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The things that we can do it is important throughout this process, so.

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Thank you and I'm very interested in hearing more from my colleagues as we.

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Move forward quite sure, we're going to have some very robust and spirited.

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Conversations but to me: that's what it's all about and I look that we'll have a.

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Good strong, forward-thinking budget as we work through this process.

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Thank you that customer sims and I aired alphabetically a neglected. My colleague.

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Who comes before council for sins and the alphabet that is councilman bruce.

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Kim blurry, you notice, I jumped right in I'm sorry, my bad all right councillors.

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Campbell larry, please go ahead. Thank you. Hamilton deputy mayor wren,.

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Eyes and mr. underwood controller. Thank you for not just the thoughtful and.

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Intentional ways that we trying to take our feedback just for the work you do.

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Every day, particularly during these unusual times, I'm going to talk about.

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What what has guided my thinking and the mindset I bring to the 2021 budget and.

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Then I want to talk about four priorities that will shape how I look at.

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Individual budget items so, first of all what guides my thinking, certainly the.

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Context is really interesting right now mr. underwood spoke about some of the.

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Uncertainty, we have around revenue the revenue side of this balance sheet. I.

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Don't think we know enough yet about property, tax revenues and food beverage.

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Revenues and so forth, we're also seeing an increased need, particularly for our.

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Social services, safety net. We have seen staggering levels of unemployment that.

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We have not seen any years and that's playing out in some some really.

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Frightening ways and really creating it's creating hardships for many and for.

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Many who are already experiencing hardships it's pushing them to the edge.

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In many ways, so I think that's a context. English we're operating right now in.

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Particular we need to think about 2021. Another part.

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Of my mindset, anyone who has known me longer than a day probably has heard me.

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Talk about the notion that there often are no solutions, they are just trade.

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Offs- and so, as I think about this, I don't just think about what I might want.

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To do if I could create the ideal budget, I think about what kind of things need.

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To be traded off to do that for years I have been a fan of stephen covey and he.

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Talked about in the seven habits of highly effective people thirty years ago,.

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He talked about the difference between what is important and what is urgent.

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Important are those things that are mission-critical that speak to who we want to be long term and what we value.

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Urgent is what we need to attend to you right now and the list of things that.

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Are urgent has changed in the last seven weeks, so that's kind of the mindset. I.

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Bring the four priorities I want to talk about. I just want to mention high.

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Quality versus high quality core services, we tend to kind of glaze past.

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This and talk about some indications that we want to see, but for most.

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Residents, what we do in utilities and sanitation would fire least protection.

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Because I, how we maintain basic roads and pathways is how they first.

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Experience the city, so I think that needs to be in there a second priority.

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That's really important to me is continued efforts around economic.

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Stabilization and recovery and revitalization, I think we have a good.

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Start with rapid recovery funds that have been put in place a lot of what we.

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Do in the future depends on what state and federal resources are brought to.

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Bear but I think, providing those funds that are critical to survival and in.

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Particular critical to maintaining staffing levels and offering employment.

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Is going to be really really important? Most of what the program thus far is.

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Focused on most of the businesses who have sought, loans from us are looking at.

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Resources for salary wages, rent utilities and fixed costs and adjust.

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Their business model to this new reality going online with resources or commerce.

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This is not an opportunity to redecorate the office or pick new drapes. These are.

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Doing very mission critical things that affect individual workers, so I would see.

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That as a continued priority, I would also, as we 6 months 9 months, 12.

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Months, 24 months out, I think reopening and right.

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Revitalization economy is going to be important, I'll, be interested to see what.

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We have, in that regard, my workforce development. The economy is going to.

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Change new positions and new kinds of jobs might come to the floor and I think.

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That would be interesting to see how we respond to that number. Three on my list.

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Is the notion of affordability in general, we've talked about affordable.

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Housing- and I think the city has made some progress in that area. I think.

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Continued investments there are good, but I think affordability is also about.

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Things like transit and mobility, not just about the price tag on a particular.

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House so as we look at programs and resources in the budget, I would be.

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Inclined to prioritize those that speak to affordability, the affordability of.

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Just living and living in general and the fourth item I have is just livable.

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Walkable neighborhoods I'm going to present a district, the north and your.

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North side of bloomington and when I hold constituent meetings, I talk with.

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Neighbors about what it's like to live and work and walk and drive and bike in.

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Their neighborhoods, so I think we will need to perhaps be even more strategic.

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Than usual in looking at how we make infrastructure improvements, preserve.

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Natural resources and look at just a general community infrastructure like.

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Create spaces, and things like that so kind of strategic neighborhood.

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Investments, I think it's going to be important as well, so those are the four.

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Things core services, economic stabilization, recovery and.

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Revitalization, affordability and neighborhoods. So that's the lens! That's.

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My lens, so thank you. Thank you. We go to councilmember smith, your muted sir.

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Unmute first there you are, I said, last but not least, hey. I have to go first, the.

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Avi yeah, just because you're president, I.

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Forget. Thank you, sir. um I think that the kovac crisis really has pointed out the.

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Fragility of the health care system and I would like to challenge the.

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Administration to be bold and help us promote a more equitable healthcare.

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System and perhaps by health fair's, perhaps by encouraging people to monitor.

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Their diabetes, smoking, let's, let's lead in that direction. It's gonna be cut. The.

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Kovach crisis impact is going to be immediate and it's going to be long-term.

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And it seems like a good opportunity for us to be able to lead with some make.

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Bloomington, even better at encouraging healthy ways to live in how to take care.

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Of ourselves, it also seems to me, like we have an opportunity to create jobs with.

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The healthcare system- it's estimated, there's going to be three or four.

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Million jobs are going to be needed in healthcare industry to take care of.

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People as we get older and so there's seemed like there's a lot.

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Of opportunities for us in our budget, perhaps there's a way for us to develop.

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Programs or approaches to that that will be oh, so we can be a leader in the state.

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Indiana's bad with diabetes that bad with healthcare outcomes, they're bad.

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With infant mortality, let's use this opportunity, and so this crisis has.

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Really brought them to the fore, for me is: let's, let's see what we can do with.

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Helping the health in in her community, you know the thing that dovetails right.

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Into that is, I do think. The climate crisis is incredibly important and.

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Something we need to really address so, let's, let's it's got 20 million.

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Opportunities but the transportation issue in bloomington seems to be really.

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Ripe for us to be able to make it easier for people to use bikes, make it easier.

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For people to move around a community without cars, so maybe let's, let's have a.

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Program that we can have reduced or free fares for low-income individuals, so they.

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Get the work so that they can move around the community so that they could.

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Get back and forth to their homes or their apartments. I think the.

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Administration can be bold and promote and develop some plans and all of us I.

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Know would be helpful and want to contribute in that way, so those are two.

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Might my two thoughts and my two lenses would be: let's: let's help help promote.

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Health care and let's help decrease the problems with the climate by increasing.

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Our opportunities and transportation in bloomington, so thank you. Thank you also,.

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For being the shortest and sweetest of three presentations, mr. smith, you're.

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Welcome: okay! What's that I said: you're absolutely welcome you. Could you could.

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Be shorter but, mr. president, if you wanted to make me, I got a couple things.

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To say so, let's see how I do all right.

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First thing I want to say is that the revenues are not as impacted as I.

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Expected frankly, I'm presently supply it surprised, but I also recognize that.

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We're at the mercy of forces far beyond our control, there's only so much. We can.

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Do was the city we're dependent on the county, the state federal government.

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Responses for better or for worse, but we kept the city running 11 years ago. I.

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Have no doubt after hearing tonight's numbers that we can keep the city.

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Running here now too, we can bear this recession too. You know it's going to be.

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Tough, it's a different problem than it was back. Then I'm grateful that we don't have to cut across the board, nor that we have.

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Leadership that immediately goes to that sort of you know brute force approach to.

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Government, I also want to point out one small thing about how we approach.

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Government, like I, I sympathize greatly with councilor piedmont, smith's concern.

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About leaf pickup, I do think it's generally a waste of money, but I've also.

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Come to recognize that it is sort of maybe improperly budgeted. Maybe it's in.

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The wrong department that, as far as it's a function for keeping the sewers.

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Unclogged, it is important that doesn't mean that the public can't change the.

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Way they think about how and why they rake leaves if it's been an aesthetic.

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Function for too long, that's one thing, but if it keeps leaves out of the storm.

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Sewers- it's very much another thing, so I do favor cutting back on it, but I also.

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Want to rethink it from utilities perspective.

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But far and away what I'm hearing tonight comports with my concern, which.

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Is a bit of a surprise to me, but that the the most dominant theme beyond.

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Stabilizing and recovering our local economy is transportation. I am very.

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Pleased to hear my colleagues speaking this way, I want to start by saying big.

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Ups to parking cash out, it's not essential, but it's gonna be my first.

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Priority from the controllers office after the emergency has been lifted. I.

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Had asked the office months ago, the only reason why I haven't brought forward.

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Legislation to implement it has been because I didn't know how exactly it.

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Would affect the administration of salaries? The idea is you give employees.

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Who use the city hall parking lot array is equal to the market costs of what the.

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Parking lot should cost to use, and then you start charging market rates in the.

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Parking lot, so you know as soon as the emergency is lifted, we can do.

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Non-Essential matters jeff underwood, I'm gonna be asking you for what we need to.

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Do to implement it. There is no reason what we can't do: parking cash out.

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Implemented by january 1st, that means legislation in the fall, but a bigger.

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Thing I want to say when I'm hearing tonight I hear a lot of talk about.

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Sidewalks prioritizing pedestrians, I'm very excited about that.

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But sidewalks would not be such a big deal if we more simply reprioritized the.

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Way that we think about streets in general- I am- I have been sheltering in.

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Place for a month and a half in a subdivision that designed itself without.

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Sidewalks on purpose now there are cynical reasons that I can think of for.

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Why they chose not to put them in, but one reason they did say was because they.

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Wanted everyone to share the street, and so pedestrians and bicyclists and cars.

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All share the street and they they police, the neighborhood. Accordingly,.

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We there were meanwhile in downtown bloomington. There was a woman killed by.

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An suv while legally crossing the street just a few months ago, another was killed.

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By a bus, a block away, these were not inevitable, they did not have to happen.

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If we change our mindset about who should I have priority on the streets, we.

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Would see fewer problems like this and we would see fewer people afraid to use.

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The street, because they don't want to be run over by a car, we should be.

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Capitalizing on the remarkable windfall dropped on us by n dot, which is changing.

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A major artery in our street a highway really to have bike lanes on it. It's.

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Time we reconsidered all our streets accordingly, if we were serious about.

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Prioritizing biking and pedestrians, we would not hesitate to follow the lead of.

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I can't believe I'm saying this in des and changing how we prioritize vehicle.

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Lanes, but I also agree that balance is important. I don't believe in closing.

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Streets to cars, I believe, instead, that we should be.

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Redesigning streets so that cars don't dominate them so that pedestrians.

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Bicyclists and yes, even scooter, riders have to make fewer existential choices.

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When it comes to entering the public realm, we need to reduce the incentive.

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For cars to go more than 20 miles an hour on every street, we can every street.

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That we possibly can the tdm study is forthcoming. It will be very important.

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We're going to be here in may, I think if planning and transportation needs an.

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Additional hire to to speed up the redesign of our streets or, if public.

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Works needs funding to revisit so physically. We designed them.

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These should we our budget priority over the next few months for 2021. Finally, we.

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Have an opportunity to get tougher on housing. The market is already shaping up.

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To be soft at best, and if I you doesn't reopen this fall at worse, it's gonna.

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There's gonna be dramatically lower demand for housing every spring semester.

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Before this crisis has seen fewer students that are before.

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All semester, that's always been a trend so, regardless for the next 12 months, the.

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Bloomington housing market is going to be much softer than it's been. There is.

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An opportunity here, rental housing- is going to be at least slightly more.

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Affordable for a while anything, we can do during this time to.

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Rethink our approach to to housing, whether it's and how we and what we.

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Approve to be built whether we have enough, we should build more whether we.

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Need more inspections or a stronger program to make housing more affordable.

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And I'm gonna raise the 7 minute sign of myself here in a second. I think we need.

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To do I don't quite have ideas yet specific ideas on how to do it, but I'm.

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Really eager to work with the housing committee, the council isn't committed to.

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Rethink everything that we've assumed about the blue inch of housing market.

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That's it for me and I'm alright, that's seven minutes. So if there are, we turn.

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This off here there has been at least one request for public comment. If it's.

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The pleasure of council I'm happy to open the floor to public comment on.

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Budget advance is there anyone who would object? I see none all right, I know of at.

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Least one person member the public who wants to speak if anyone else wants to.

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Speak please type into the chat so that mr. lucas can see you or use the raised.

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Hand function in zoom. Would you like to go ahead? Give me one second, and I will.

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Enable his in my life awesome, I alexander, I heard a lot of great.

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Things tonight I especially appreciated what mr. rowland said about how we don't.

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Necessarily have to spend a ton of money, building sidewalks.

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Building sidewalks will cost a lot of money. I said worthwhile thing to do, but in the short term, especially it doesn't cost much money to reconfigure a road. It.

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Doesn't cost much money to repaint lanes or to put up bollards or temporary.

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Obstructions of any sort to slow cars down just to redesign intersections that.

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They're, smaller and more manageable for pedestrians changing subject a little.

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Bit I saw the mayor in the newspaper said that an essential city services.

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Being performed under the crisis, condition is making sure the sidewalks.

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Are passable he, and I am just so tired of hearing democrats talk. You know.

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Because sidewalks aren't being maintained passable, so I went out and.

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Did some spot checks today for street garage, it's being pursue it as an.

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Essential project and it decided, walk, still closed all around it and it's you.

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Know if our tif revenues decrease and our parking revenue fees decrease, then.

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We're really in a pickle we're spending a ton of money on increasing co2.

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Consumption downtown and that's I don't know what to say. I went to the.

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Construction site at 14th and college, the old man she knows and before the.

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Crisis hit, I had called three times because they kept blocking the sidewalk.

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With construction debris and mud and so on, and it had no effect, they literally.

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The next day it was blocked again, and they are the contractors are so.

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Comfortable with the lack of enforcement from planning and transportation that.

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They have taken to simply parking trucks on the sidewalk during crisis. I went and.

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Checked a couple rail crossings at 13th and indiana, and at 11th and fairview.

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These are so important these rail crossings, because that's the only place.

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Pedestrians and drivers can cross the railroad that divides the city and they.

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Were both overgrown to where the sidewalk was was impassable because of.

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All the vegetation- and you know that that's that's budget. You know I to staff.

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And planning and transportation they're of the opinion that it's it's, the railroads problem to clear that sidewalk in the railroad doesn't care if the sidewalks are passable. So that's that's kind of vexing. You know and and twelve.

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Years ago we had the growth policies plan, had an explicit statement of policy.

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From you guys is that public works is responsible for.

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Maintaining the sidewalks is responsible specifically for clearing vegetation and.

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Snow from the sidewalks, and if that's the case, why haven't you ever a located.

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In the ensuing decade, why haven't you ever allocated any money towards this.

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Responsibility- and I do have one one piece of good news: there's a sidewalk on.

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The east side of rogers from the beeline 211 street I've told you guys about that.

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A bunch of times it was closed for a solid year, and then I started talking to.

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You and said this is gonna, be closed for five more years. If there's not a major change and for one reason or another, it was closed for another year, but just the.

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First week of march, it was open again, it's completely unobstructed. It is open.

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It only took two years: that's actually really good compared to our history of.

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Sidewalk closures in areas where there's a lot of active construction so on one.

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Hand I really appreciate that, but that shows how far we still have to go and I.

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I'm really frustrated because I think I can take a little credit for that.

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Sidewalk being open, I don't think it would be open today, if I hadn't come and.

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Gone did literally ten different meetings just of this body and talked.

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About that sidewalk and I've gone dead like five different other bodies and talked about it. I've talked to a bunch of staff about just that one sidewalk and that's an incredible investment of time. You know I. I can't even explain to.

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You but it's like to be a stay-at-home parent and a full-time employee. At the same time, and now my kids are home all day, you know it's. It's incredibly.

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Stressful for me to spend any time on this stuff, but I have to because my kids.

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Walk you know and if you got I don't I hate to ask you guys to spend more time.

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But you can spend as much time in committee as you want. You can spend as.

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Much time talking as you want, but if you actually vote no on a public works.

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Department budget that doesn't include sidewalk management- that is a huge force.

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Multiplier just make sure you remember when you vote on the budget, that is when.

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You actually decide the values of this city and you have the opportunity to.

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Shape those values, thank you, so much for your time have a good night. Thank you.

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Mr. lucas is there anyone else who has mentioned in the chat or use the raise.

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Hand function to indicate that they'd like to speak. We have a public comment.

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Opportunity here.

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Takers have stepped forward. Thank you well at this point, I want to thank mr.

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Alexander for speaking, and I want to thank the members of the administration.

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Who came to present tonight? I think you've heard a pretty thorough summary.

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Of where the council's collective head is that we have a signal from the clerk.

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Madam clerk, you have something to say I do I don't know if this is the.

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Appropriate time is the mayor stoy. The mayor had to leave a little a few.

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Minutes ago, okay, so at any rate, we hope that this will provide the.

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Administration some guidance as they begin to prepare their budgets. I would.

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Urge every member of council to especially depending on what committees.

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You serve on to reach out to department, heads and talk with them individually.

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About specific priorities you might have because they're starting now to think.

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About their budgets and there's no reason why you can't discuss it with.

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Them individually, any particular concern you might have mr. burr nisan learn to.

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Thank the council for your thoughtful comments and I will certainly take them.

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Into account, as we prepare the budget, I would just comment president boleyn, that.

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The last comment you made is a little premature as they're not really starting.

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To put numbers together yet so I'd hold off, it doesn't hurt to absolutely tell.

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Us the comments which gave us tonight will be important, referenced and sent to.

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Our department heads but they're not going to put numbers in it till july when we have a little bit better understanding of revenue, streams and.

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We'll know a little bit more about how we're responding to the cova crisis so.

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That's good to know- and I did forget that we're still working in an essential.

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Basis so although I mean the budget is essential, but I understand what you mean.

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So we'll do and I'm never one to think about you know, keep thinking about your.

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Priorities as the summer precipice what mr. niacin thank you.

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Again, mr. underwood, thank you for your presentation, thanks to the mayor as well,.

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If there's no other announcements, I'm happy to entertain a motion to adjourn.

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So moved all in favor, say aye. This meeting is.

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Adjourned. Thank you good night, we'll see you at our next regular session.

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