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This
fifth
budget
that
I
have
presented
to
council
is
unprecedented
times
demanded,
as
we've
discussed
before
the
year.
2020
has
brought
four
extraordinary
challenges:
the
once
in
a
century
health
pandemic
and
historic
economic
collapse,
horrific
events
that
amplified
and
broadened
attention
to
the
racial
injustice
that
persists
in
our
country
and
community
and
the
relentless
stubborn
challenge
of
our
climate
emergency
we've
already
responded
together
in
many
ways
to
these
crises.
Community-Wide
stay-at-home
orders
helped
flatten
the
curve.
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Millions
of
dollars
invested
locally,
helped
respond
to
the
economic
collapse.
New
levels
of
collaboration
and
investments
protected
our
social
safety
net,
unprecedented
activism,
has
focused
attention
on
racial
injustice
and
all
across
the
community.
We've
marched
and
installed
solar
and
scooters,
and
electric
bikes
and
green
infrastructure
toward
climate
action.
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This
budget
has
had
to
cut
some
things
besides
needed
new
positions
such
as
paid
family
leave
or
encouraging
public
safety
employees
to
live
in
the
city.
We
will
not
repave
rose
hill,
cemetery's
roads
or
launch
a
scatter
garden
in
white
oak
cemetery.
We
had
to
reduce
money
for
new
greenways
we've
hit
pause
on
the
convention
center
and
other
capital
investments
beyond
the
basics.
You
know
I
have
proposed
to
recover
forward
to
help
our
community
recover
more
quickly
and
in
the
right
directions.
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Unspent
money
from
2019
covered
this
program
for
2020,
as
you
just
enacted
in
a
special
appropriation
last
week,
the
2021
budget
year
marks
another
2
million
dollars
from
reserves
to
continue
recover
forward
for
2021,
investing
in
sustainability
and
quality
of
life
in
jobs
and
in
housing
to
keep
all
this
transparent
and
hopefully
easy
to
follow.
The
budget
presents
the
basics,
all
the
core
operations
as
usual
by
department
new
this
year,
several
departments
will
include
a
separate
section
in
their
presentations,
entitled
recover
forward
to
specify
where
that
two
million
dollars
is
proposed
and
for
what
purposes.
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So
should
we,
in
these
years,
not
shrink
from
being
the
active
innovative
experimenting
government
to
do
whatever
we
can
to
confront
the
extraordinary
threats
of
the
pandemic
and
the
challenges
of
advancing
economic,
racial
and
climate
justice?
Try
things
out
and
if
they
work
do
more,
if
something
fails,
admit
it
and
try
another.
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So,
first
to
a
fiscal
overview,
16
departments
in
the
administration
with
about
850
employees
include
all
the
city.
Civil
departments,
including
the
new
proposed
engineering
department
and
three
departments
affiliated
with
the
city,
proper
city,
blooming
utilities,
bloomington
transit
and
the
bloomington
housing
authority
for
these
16
departments
we're
presenting
a
total
2021
annual
operating
budget
of
about
166
million
dollars
that
all
in
operating
budget
of
166
million
is
four
percent
smaller
than
this
year's
173
million
dollars.
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But
in
sum,
we're
presenting
a
rainy
day
budget
focused
on
maintaining
basic
operations
and
investing
in
our
community's
recovery
in
part
by
using
prudent
amounts
of
our
surplus
I'll
turn
to
outline
briefly,
the
key
policies
that
underlie
our
2021
budget.
These
are
not
new.
They
are
consistent
and
they're
important.
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The
2021
budget
proposes
a
2
increase
in
compensation
for
all
non-union
personnel.
Continuing
a
pattern
of
six
consistent
years
for
cost
of
living
adjustments.
Union
contracts,
directed
police
officers
in
the
bargaining
unit
will
receive
a
2.8
percent
increase
and
afscme
bargaining
unit
members
will
receive
a
2.5
percent
increase.
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Firefighters
are
in
labor
negotiations
presently
for
the
2021
terms
and
conditions.
Our
employees
have
invested
great
energy
in
planning
to
deal
with
and
adjust
to
covet
challenges
while
continuing
our
city
services.
I
thank
again
our
city
employees,
noting
a
little
over
one
percent
of
whom
eleven
employees
have
been
diagnosed
with
cold,
but
during
the
past
five
months,
all
of
them,
thankfully,
have
recovered.
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Second
principle:
we
continue
our
commitment
to
transparency,
accountability
and
engagement.
We
will
conduct
the
third
bi-annual
scientific
city
survey
next
spring
to
continue
to
inform
our
choices.
We'll
continue,
publishing
hundreds
of
public
data
sets
on
be
clear
and
developing
and
sharing
our
annual
goals
and
performance
reports
I'll
continue.
My
own
open
door,
open
zoom
policy,
hosting
meetings
weekly
with
residents
who
want
to
share
an
idea
or
concern
with
their
mayor
tonight.
I
can
announce
a
new
step
in
transparency
and
engagement,
we're
launching
tomorrow
our
open
financial
transparency
portal.
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Third,
in
policy,
we
believe
in
innovation,
our
director
of
innovation,
spurs
all
city
government
to
evolve
and
improve
this
year.
In
particular,
we've
learned
to
change.
We've
moved
enormous
amounts
of
work
online
from
parking
permits
to
utility
payments
to
the
farmers
market
and
board
and
commission
meetings.
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We've
begun,
regular
pulse
surveys
of
our
employees,
well-being,
our
continuity
of
city
government,
very
rapidly,
coordinated,
enormous
changes
over
the
past
five
months
as
every
department
and
every
single
employee
changed
how
they
work
to
help
keep
both
employees
and
our
public
safe,
we've,
piloted
closings
of
kirkwood
and
lower
cascades
and
new
parklets
and
new
pickup
drop-off
zones.
We're
exploring
better
alternatives
to
our
leafing
program
and
cbu
is
experimenting
with
covet
testing
of
our
wastewater
to
monitor
for
outbreaks
of
the
virus.
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Third-Party
organizational
assessments
have
also
helped
us
review
and
change
how
we
do
our
work.
Innovative
efforts
like
cdfi
friendly
bloomington,
continue
with
two
deals:
closed
and
10
more
in
the
pipeline
line
in
the
first
year.
This
new
organization
tripled
the
cdfi
investments
in
bloomington
compared
to
the
previous
15
years
and
was
also
key
partner
in
the
rapid
response
of
on
dakova
this
spring.
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Our
administration
seeks
always
to
reflect
those
high
aims
in
our
budget.
I'll
conclude
this
evening,
outlining
specific
priorities
in
the
2021
budget,
related
to
the
two
big
goals:
sustaining
the
basics
and
investing
to
recover
forward.
First,
focusing
on
our
basics,
public
safety,
water
infrastructure
and
mobility
parks
and
recreation
planning,
housing
and
quality
of
life
components
in
2021.
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It
means
maintaining
those
core
functions
amid
unprecedented
challenges.
I
want
to
thank
again
the
leadership
of
our
16
departments.
We
in
bloomington-
and
I
as
mayor,
are
amply
blessed
and
very
fortunate
to
have
the
combination
of
skills,
perseverance,
dedication
and
integrity
that
we
have
leading
these
departments.
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I
am
very
proud
to
serve
the
public
with
them
and
I'm
pleased
you'll
be
able
to
hear
from
each
of
them
directly
this
week
they
and
their
fellow
employees
make
sure
all
of
our
basic
services
get
delivered.
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7.,
neither
rain
nor
snow
nor
heat
nor
gloom
of
night,
nor
the
coronavirus
stays
these
public
servants
from
their
appointed
duties.
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That
was
a
little
boon
to
the
postal
service
too.
In
these
days,
among
the
most
basic
of
services
is
public
safety.
We
know
this
year.
We
have
welcomed
energetic
activism,
calling
for
continued
review
of
how
police
departments
operate
in
our
country
in
part
based
on
horrific
examples
around
the
country
of
police
officers
gone
wrong
and
in
part
based
on
generations
of
structural
racism
in
our
country
that
have
been
reflected
in
law
enforcement,
with
its
special
relationship
to
our
people.
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Bloomington
police
department
is
one
of
the
most
progressive
departments
in
the
nation
with
a
proud
history
of
innovation
and
community
policing.
For
many
years
when
I
took
office,
I
brought
with
me
a
history
of
working
on
civil
rights,
racial
equality
and
combating
structural
racism
and
housing
and
economics.
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For
2021,
we
are
proposing
continued
evolution
of
the
bloomington
police
department.
We
recently
received
the
third
party
review.
We
engaged
for
our
public
safety
operations
and
it
recommended
a
significant
increase
in
what
they
called
proactive
policing
that
is
doing
things
other
than
responding
to
calls
for
service.
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2021
also
debuts
a
fire
department
pilot
program
for
mobile,
integrated
health
care
focused
on
community
members
who
have
been
heavy
users
of
emergency
services
to
do
health
checks,
manage
medications
and
connect
with
other
service
providers.
You'll
see
that
program
in
the
recover
forward
section
of
the
fire
department
presentation
tomorrow
to
improve
other
basic
services,
we're
implementing
recommendations
to
create
an
independent
engineering
department
sitting
alongside
public
works
and
planning,
with
autonomous
autonomy
and
accountability
directly
to
the
mayor.
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We're
also
following
recommendations
to
assemble
and
better
coordinate
parking
services
in
a
new
division
of
public
works
still
on
the
basics.
In
2021,
we'll
also
do
whatever
we
can
with
city
projects
that
encourage
jobs
and
economic
recovery,
we'll
continue
planning
for
reuse
of
the
current
hospital
site.
We
continue
development
of
the
trades
district,
including
with
its
new
garage.
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We
support
downtown
investments
with
a
redone,
kirkwood
or
replace
four
street
garage
and
other
private
projects,
we're
facilitating
private
housing
development,
including
significant
new,
affordable
developments,
both
ownership
and
rental,
and
finally,
2021
will
bring
new
demands
for
our
basic
services.
Besides,
the
impact
of
regular
population
increases.
Our
spectacular
new
switchyard
park
has
new
operation
and
maintenance
requirements.
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The
soon
to
be
returned.
Waldron
brings
unplanned,
but
essential
maintenance
and
operation
expenses,
and
we
see
continuing
recycling,
cost
increases
annual
workforce
health
and
labor
cost
increases
significant
I.t
infrastructure
needs.
Managing
all
of
these
basic
services
needs
is
a
heavy
lift
and,
of
course,
dominates
the
2021
budget,
but
you
know
we
aim
high,
and
the
second
key
area
in
2020
is
to
continue
recover
forward.
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The
recently
passed
john
lewis,
wrote
quote:
democracy
is
not
a
state,
it
is
an
act,
and
each
generation
must
do
its
part
to
help
build.
What
we
called
the
beloved
community
democracy
is
an
act
and
recover
forward
is
a
series
of
acts,
acts
toward
a
beloved
community
characterized
by
economic,
racial
and
climate
justice.
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Racial
justice
means
being
an
anti-racist
community,
we'll
be
engaging
anti-racist
training,
yet
this
year
will
be
implementing
the
divided
communities
community-wide
task
force
now
and
into
2021,
through
which
our
community
may
engage
with
many
potential
topics
around
race
and
racial
justice,
from
public
education
to
housing,
health
care
and
job
from
criminal
justice
to
public
safety
and
more.
Our
recover
forward.
A
2021
program
in
the
budget
includes
specific
new
investments
related
to
racial
justice
in
affordable
housing
and
homeless
relief
in
jobs,
programs
in
public
infrastructure,
in
digital
equity
and
local
agriculture,
in
health
care
and
expanded
jack
hopkins
social
service
funding
and
more
economic
justice
means
fair
opportunity
and
economic
dignity
for
all.
Our
recover
forward.
Program
for
2021
includes
jobs,
programs
to
open
up
better
paying
jobs
to
people
too
often
left
out.
It
includes
energy
efficiency,
investments
to
lower
the
cost
of
living
in
moderate
and
low
priced
housing.
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It
includes
those
investments
to
support
home
ownership
and
help
those
experiencing
homelessness,
and
it
includes
investments
to
expand
public
infrastructure
like
sidewalks
trails
and
bus
stops
for
all
of
us
to
use
climate
justice
means
doing
our
part
to
address
our
planet's
climate
emergency
in
equitable
ways.
Our
recover
forward
program
for
2021
includes
those
investments
in
building
public
improvements
for
lower
carbon
footprints
and
costs.
I
see
coming
close
to
the
end,
but
I'm
real
close
here
hang
with
me
guys.
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It
includes
also
support
for
local
agriculture
and
non-automobile
transportation
options.
It
includes
the
support
for
the
sole
new
fte
to
be
hired
in
2021,
a
transportation
demand
manager
to
collaborate
with
reducing
single
passenger
car
trips
and
we'll
continue
our
city-wide
efforts
with
a
climate
action
cabinet
group
and
our
sustainability
action
plan.
2021
will
also
see
significant
climate-related
action
from
the
housing
authority.
Our
utility
department-
and
perhaps
you
saw
today,
the
announcement
of
bloomington
transit,
won
a
major
grant
to
purchase
four
new
electric
buses
on
order
for
2021..
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Our
commitments
and
our
actions
in
the
coming
years
will
dramatically
affect
how
well
those
shared
values
become
reality.
How
well
we
will
walk
the
walk
and
not
just
talk
the
talk,
I
believe
the
2021
budget
we
have
presented
to.
You
puts
us
on
that
critical
path
responsibly,
energetically
and
effectively
to
walk
that
walk.
I
urge
you
to
pass
it
support
it,
and
I
welcome
any
of
your
questions
or
comments.
Thank
you
so
much.