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A
Good
evening,
everyone,
my
name-
is
Wally
bob
quits
I'm,
the
city
manager
of
Evanston.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
for
our
2014
annual
community
budget
workshop.
You
may
not
be
able
to
see
this,
but
we
are
here
alone.
There
is
no
one
has
come
out
for
the
budget
workshop,
but
we
thought
that
the
presentation
we
have
is
useful.
Information
for
members
of
the
community,
so
it
will
do,
is
will
go
through
that
presentation.
A
We
would
encourage
folks
if
they're
interested
to
go
to
the
city's
website
wwc
of
evanston
org
and
get
information
about
our
budget
process.
There's
an
opportunity
to
provide
feedback
to
the
city
as
we
go
through
the
last
several
days
of
community
outreach.
We
have
a
survey
online.
We
have
asked
community
questions
we've
also
been
out
and
about
in
the
community
asking
people
to
fill
out
the
questionnaire.
So
again,
we
have
no
one
here
with
us
at
the
Lorraine
Morton
Civic
Center
this
evening,
but
we
will
go
through
the
presentation
anyway.
A
A
City
of
Evanston,
like
all
government
agencies,
are
have
fun
based
budgets,
and
so
we
budget
our
of
funds
in
different
types
of
funds,
and
the
slide
shows
you.
The
breakdown
are
our
general
fund,
which
receives
the
general
tax
dollars,
property
tax
sales,
tax,
permit
fees,
support
our
general
city
operations
and
in
the
case
of
the
city
of
evanston
police,
fire,
Community
and
Economic
Development,
health
parks,
recreation
and
community
services.
We
also
have
a
health
department
which
in
part,
has
a
portion
of
funds
that
come
from
the
general
fund.
We
also
have
enterprise
funds.
A
We
have
a
very
large,
a
water
treatment
and
distribution
operation.
We
provide
water,
not
elite
evanston,
but
to
skokie
arlington
heights,
Buffalo,
Grove,
Palatine
and
wheeling,
and
we
just
announced
today
a
matter
of
fact
that
will
be
also
providing
water
to
the
city
of
displaying
so
that
Enterprise
Fund.
It
contains
all
of
the
revenues
and
expenses
for
our
water
and
sewer.
We
also
operate
our
trash
and
recycling
in
its
effort
fund,
as
well
as
our
parking,
and
then
we
have
a
Capital
Improvement
funds,
funds
that
we
collect
either
through
debt
issuance
or
in
other
ways.
A
For
our
capital
projects,
and
that
is,
are
kept
in
several
separate
funds,
as
well
as
special
revenue
funds.
If
the
slide
gives
the
example
of
our
Economic
Development
Fund
and
the
Economic
Development
Fund
receives
funding
from
our
hotel
tax
and
those
funds
from
the
hotel
tax
by
and
large
are
used
for
economic
development
activities,
so
we're
fun
based
budgets,
wheels
focus
most
specifically
on
the
general
fund
couple
more
debt
service
funds,
we
collect
property
tax
to
pay
off
our
debt
service,
our
internal
service
funds,
mostly
insurance.
A
We
are
a
self-insured
to
a
certain
level
and
then
have
outside
joint
powers,
authorities
which
we
work
with
for
excess
insurance,
as
well
as
a
separate
fund
for
our
vehicle
fleet.
We
have
everything
from
fire
ladder,
trucks,
two
sedans
and
everything
in
between,
and
that
is
accounted
for
separately
and
a
fleet
fund,
and
then
finally,
we
have
two
specific
trust:
funds,
such
as
our
police
and
fire
pension
funds.
Pensions
are
funded
in
three
different
ways.
Our
Police
Department
is
covered
by
one
separate
fund.
A
Our
fire
department
is
covered
by
a
separate
fund
and
then
our
general
employees
are
part
of
the
Illinois
Municipal
retirement
fund,
and
so
we
have
trust
funds
and
the
examples
of
the
police
and
fire
pension
funds.
So
I
think
that
takes
care
of
sort
of
the
overview
of
how
we
budget
I'd
like
to
introduce
Ashley
porta,
who
is
our
budget
manager
and
she'll?
Walk
you
through
the
next
part
of
the
presentation
Ashley
good
evening.
B
Thank
you
as
well
as
said,
my
name
is
Ashley
porta
I'm,
the
budget
manager
here
for
the
city
of
Evanston,
so
to
continue
with
our
presentation
here.
This
is
kind
of
outlining
the
budget
process
right
now
we're
in
the
yellow
portion,
the
budget,
operation
and
citizen
engagement
as
well
I
also
mentioned.
We
have
a
survey
online,
we've
been
out
in
the
community
trying
to
solicit
feedback,
and
we
have
had
over
100
responses,
which
is
great
so
far,
so
we
encourage
you
to
go
ahead
and
go
online
and
take
that
survey.
B
That
website
is
going
to
be
at
the
end
of
the
presentation.
So
from
here
we
are
going
to
present
a
proposed
budget
in
October
continue
with
the
conversation
through
November
through
all
these
meetings.
Citizen
comment
is
welcome.
If
anyone
has
anything
they
would
like
to
contribute,
we
are
anticipating
a
budget
adoption,
November
24
2014.
B
Okay:
this
is
a
little
bit
of
information
about
the
2014
budget.
The
city's
budget
is
250,
4
million
six
hundred
twenty-seven
thousand
six
hundred
and
ten
dollars
across
all
funds,
but
the
biggest
portion
of
this
is
the
general
fund.
General
fund
is
89
89
million
dollars,
and
this
accounts
for
police
and
fire
and
Parks
and
Rec
Public
Works
plowing
streets
kind
of
the
lot
of
the
basic
functions
that
the
government
provides
and
here's
how
that
money
is
kind
of
collected.
As
you
can
see,
property
tax
is
our
is
only
thirteen
point.
B
B
So
of
your
property
tax
bill,
this
is
kind
of
the
break
up
of
where
that
money
goes.
So,
as
you
can
see,
the
city
of
Evanston
is
only
collecting
18
point.
Oh
six
percent
of
your
individual
property
tax
bill,
the
school
districts,
district,
65
and
202
together
are
collecting
over
sixty-five
percent
of
your
property
tax
bill.
So
this
is
just
kind
of
a
visual
look
at
the
breakdown
of
where
your
property
tax
dollars
are
going
and
then
of
the
18
point.
Oh
six
percent
of
your
property
tax
bill.
B
Here's
how
we
are
spending
that
and
kind
of
our
internal
division
of
funding
by
both
dollar
and
percentage.
So,
as
you
can
see
again,
the
pensions
make
up
a
very
large
percentage
of
this.
Together,
all
three
of
the
pension
funds
are
getting
almost
forty
percent
of
that
revenue.
The
general
fund
is
getting
22%
and
whatnot.
B
Okay,
this
slide
takes
a
look
at
property
tax
and
so
much
as
the
library
in
the
city
are
concerned,
as,
as
you
may
know,
in
2012,
we
started
breaking
out
the
library
tax
levy,
so
the
city
levy
is
now
lowered
and
the
library
taxes
included
as
a
separate
line
item
on
your
property
tax
bill,
and
it's
just
kind
of
a
graphical
description.
Depiction
of
that
and
this
slide
kind
of
does
the
same
thing
as
you
can
see.
The
general
fund
property
tax
levy
has
decreased
as
the
library
fund,
property
tax
levy
increase.
B
B
Yeah,
so
here's
our
2014
general
fund
expenditures
through
the
end
of
July.
That
is
seven
months,
which
means
we
should
be
on
track
for
about
fifty
eight
point:
three
percent
of
the
budget.
This
is
how
it's
broken
up
all
the
departments
within
the
general
fund.
So,
as
you
can
see,
our
total
expenditures
through
this
time
period,
are
57.7
per
cents.
That's
slightly
under
our
expected
budget.
I
would
like
to
note
that
this
did
include
all
of
our
snow
expenses
that
we
had
earlier
this
year.
B
So
Public
Works
is
right
at
the
percentage
of
budget
that
would
be
expected.
So,
overall
we
are
spending
less
money
than
we
have
budgeted
for
so
far
in
2014,
but
it
is
important
to
note
that
some
expenditure
are
not
always
a
evenly
distributed
throughout
all
12
months,
and
that
is
all
for
the
general
fund.
C
Good
evening,
Marty,
Lyons,
chief
financial
officer
and
assistant
city
manager
I'll
be
walking
you
through
some
of
the
other
city
funds.
The
city
has
over
30
funds
and
we
mainly,
as
the
city
manager
pointed
out,
have
funds
for
specific
purposes
as
we
go
through
this
presentation,
we've
just
given
thumbnail
sketches
for
each
type
of
fun.
So
I'm
not
going
to
read
all
of
these
off
to
you,
but
we
do
have
funds
that
are
organized
by
type.
C
So
our
first
type
is
a
special
revenue
fund,
where
a
specific
revenue
is
delineated
to
fund
the
operations
and
a
special
revenue
fund
can
have
a
revenue
that
is
a
tax
or
it
can
have
a
revenue
that
is
a
fine,
but
for
the
most
part
it
won't
have
a
revenue
that
is
just
a
fee.
When
we
have
funds
that
are
funded
through
fees
for
service,
we
call
those
enterprise
funds,
as
I'll
show
in
a
moment,
so
other
special
revenue
funds,
our
emergency
telephone
systems
fund.
C
As
noted
that
is
funded
by
a
tax
on
the
telephone
bill.
We
have
a
special
service
district
that
is
a
special
property
tax
in
the
downtown
that
funds,
economic
development
and
marketing
activities
for
the
downtown.
And
finally,
we
have
a
set
of
funds
that
are
also
federal
funds.
They
are
community
development,
block
grant
fund
our
community
development
loan
fund,
those
are
sister
funds
and
then,
as
noted
on
the
next
page,
we
have
a
home
fund
and
affordable
housing
fund.
C
Another
set
of
our
funds,
because
the
city
has
a
very
complex
budget
that
I
involves
both
capital
and
operating.
We
issue
debt
service,
or
rather
we
issue
debt
and
in
order
to
pay
our
debt
back
in
a
timely
manner,
so
that
all
of
the
lenders
that
are
buying
our
bonds
understand
that
we
pay
on
a
timely
manner.
We
create
funds
so
that
they
can
see
that
our
annual
payments
are
budgeted
and
funded.
So
of
that,
we
have
a
general
debt
service
fund
that
takes
care
of
all
of
our
property
tax
funded
debt.
C
Then
we
also
have
some
special
debt
service
funds.
The
special
service
area,
number
five-
is
also
a
downtown
fund
that
that's
only
purpose
is
to
pay
debt
for
a
previous
capital
project
in
the
downtown.
We
list
our
text
and
current
financing
funds
as
debt
service
funds,
because
they
quite
often
have
debt
service
related
to
a
capital
project
that
in
turn,
is
paid
for
by
a
property
tax
increment.
C
Finally,
we
also
have
our
capital
projects
funds,
and
these
funds
are
segregated,
because
we,
the
funds
themselves,
will
have
high
variations
from
year
to
year.
So
we
put
them
off
to
the
side,
so
people
don't
think
that
the
city
is
increasing
its
budget
substantially
or
decreasing
it
from
year
to
year.
In
the
case
of
the
capital
improvements
fund
that
tracks
a
lot
of
all
of
our
above-ground
capital,
such
as
streets,
le
improvements,
sidewalks
and
a
lot
of
our
facilities,
improvements
that
are
not
in
their
own
special
fund.
C
Our
special
assessment
fund
actually
tracks
a
50
50
50
program
for
Ally
improvements
where
in
the
city
only
pays
usually
will
pay
half
from
general
funds
and
the
other
half
can
either
come
from
residents
or
from
Community
Development
Block
Grant
funds,
as
noted
before
our
enterprise
funds,
water,
sewer
parking
and
solid
waste
take
care
of
the
business
operations
of
the
city
that
are
paid
for
by
a
fee.
So
in
the
case
of
the
water
and
sewer
fund,
everyone
is
familiar
with
that
operation.
In
that
we
send
out
bills
on
a
monthly
basis.
C
C
And
finally,
the
city
does
have
a
lot
of
services
that
we
support
our
own
external
operation
with,
in
the
case
of
all
of
our
departments.
They
all
require
fleet.
They
all
require
maintenance
on
that
fleet
and
we
segregate
all
of
our
insurance
needs
into
one
area
so
that
we
can
track
them
across
all
funds
and
be
able
to
account
for
our
total
insurance
costs,
which
for
2014,
was
about
18
million,
and
that
includes
health
insurance
to
employees
a
benefit
as
well
as
our
liability
and
workers.
Comp
insurance.
C
Trust
an
agency
agency
funds,
as
the
city
manager,
pointed
out
our
firefighters
pension
fund
and
police
pension
fund.
These
are
separate
funds
that
are
solely
the
responsibility
of
the
board
for
each
fund
and
the
city.
The
as
mentioned
before.
Civilian
staff
are
part
of
the
Illinois
Municipal
retirement
fund,
and
that
is
a
state-operated
fund,
independent
of
the
state
of
Illinois,
but
still
at
a
state
level
that
the
city
has
its
own
separate
account
for.
So
we
do
fund
our
pension
within
I
mrf.
The
owner
admissible
retirement
fund,
separate
from,
for
instance,
the
village
of
Skokie.
C
One
of
the
things
that
there's
always
a
concern
and
something
that
we
keep
track
of
historically
for
the
city
is
the
number
of
full-time
equivalent
staff
or
FTE
that
we
have
on
staff
each
year.
As
this
graphic
shows
in
2009
10,
we
had
842
full-time
equivalent
staff,
and
the
2014
budget
includes
eight
hundred
and
four
point:
seven
eight
and
that
included
an
increase
in
both
library
and
city
staff.
For
that
year.
C
I'd
make
one
note
that,
as
we
look
back
on
our
five-year
projections
in
2008,
we
had
880
full-time
staff,
so
we're
still
ten
percent
below
our
staffing
level
of
2008
dash
nine,
so
where
we,
as
we've
talked
with
the
residents
in
August
at
the
city
council
meeting
on
August,
eleventh
hour
estimates
for
the
current
year,
the
city
budget
and
the
general
fund
is
running
fairly
well.
This
is
due
in
large
part
to
the
fact
that
our
revenues
are
performing
a
little
above
budget
and
our
expenses
are
right
at
budget.
C
So
that
allows
us
to
point
out
that
we're
running
at
a
slight
surplus
for
the
year
and
as
we
move
forward
through
the
end
of
the
year,
it
is
possible.
It
is
likely
that
our
revenues
will
stay
above
budget,
but
it's
also
possible
that
our
expenses
could
also
get
close
to
budget.
Given
that
mr.
city
manager,
what
was
it?
We
ended
up
with
an
eight
hundred
thousand
plus
for
snow
costs.
C
C
Other
funds
are
also
operating
at
or
below
on
their
budget
levels.
Quite
often
our
capital
funds.
At
this
time
the
year
are
still
running
a
little
bit
behind
where
the
entire
capital
project
season
is
just
now
getting
billed
out.
So
that
means
are
all
of
our
contractors
are
now
sending
in
all
of
their
bills,
for
the
summers,
work
and
we're
just
processing
processing
those
now
so
our
capital
expenses
will
catch
up
towards
the
end
of
the
year,
but
none
are
expected
to
exceed
budget.
C
And
what
do
we
expect
for
2015
again
using
our
best
data,
which
is
our
current
and
immediate
past
data?
We
think
that
general
fund
revenues
will
remain
stable.
The
building
climate
is
still
very
strong,
so
we
believe
we
will
have
stable
if
not
increasing,
permit
revenue.
We
aren't
looking
presently
at
any
increases
in
rates
of
any
substantial
amount,
but
we
will
consider
a
few
options,
so
there's
no
plan
for
a
property
tax
increase
for
the
general
fund.
C
One
of
the
things
that
we
have
to
account
for
is
on
the
expense
side
that
we
have
settled
all
of
our
labor
agreements
for
three
years.
So
in
2014
being
the
first
year
of
that
settlement,
we
have
to
account
for
a
two-and-a-half
percent
to
three
percent
increase
in
wages
and
going
forward
that
will
there
will
also
be
another
two
and
a
half
to
two
point:
seven
percent
increase
for
the
2015
budget,
so
we
will
be
accounting
for
that
increase.
The
good
news
is,
we
don't
have
increases
in
our
health
care
costs.
C
So
our
citizen
budget
outreach,
as
noted
before
by
ms
porta,
we
had
already
had
a
event
streets
alive.
The
we
had
collected
many
many
survey
recipients
that
came
out
for
that
event.
Residents
can
submit
their
ideas
to
the
city
on
the
web
by
email,
Facebook
Twitter
by
phone
by
calling
311
by
mail
at
the
city
manager's
office
or
on
mine
mixer,
which
is
at
ww,
engage
evanston
org.
Please
submit
your
ideas
and
suggestions
for
services,
budget
savings
or
any
questions
you
might
have
regarding
the
city's
budget
going
forward.
C
Our
schedule
for
the
remainder
of
this
budget
season
is
that
kind
of
the
proposed
budget
will
be
delivered
to
the
council
in
one
month
on
October
20th
we'll
have
our
first
budget
discussion
and
then
we
will
have
a
Saturday
budget
discussion
on
october
25th.
This
is
a
good
budget
discussion
to
attend,
as
it
usually
will
run
from
9
a.m.
C
to
12pm,
and
we
have
a
good
long
time
at
that
discussion
to
try
and
talk
about
issues
of
interest
to
the
public
or
even
dive
down
into
specific
programs
and
as
noted
before,
we
will
then
have
one
more
meeting.
Actually
we
ask
one
more
meeting
after
that:
November
10th
and
then
november.
Seventeenth,
if
needed
and
november
24th,
would
be
the
budget
adoption
night.
The
city
adopts
a
budget
resolution.
That
means
that
it
can
be
presented
on
the
same
night
that
it
is
originally
written.
C
Our
budget
resolution
isn't
created
until
we're
completely
done
with
the
council's
budget
discussion.
So
any
comments
prior
to
that
date.
That
which
would
be
the
17th
will
be
incorporated
at
the
council's
direction.
I
wanted
to
just
take
one
I
took
a
step
back
saturday
will
also
be
the
Saturday
October.
25Th
will
be
the
public
hearing
date
that
is
required
by
law.
A
Thank
You
mr.
Lyons
miss
porta,
so
this
evening,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
you've
been
able
to
get
a
sense
of
where
we're
at
and
really
were
in
pretty
good
shape.
The
city
of
Evanston
has
gone
through
quite
a
bit
with
the
economic
downturn.
I
think
we've
made
a
lot
of
changes,
but
we
continue
to
provide
quality
services
to
the
residents
of
Evanston.
The
purpose
of
tonight's
presentation
really
was
to
give
everyone
an
overview
of
where
at
and
allow
people
to
provide
input.
A
So,
even
though,
as
I
mentioned,
no
one
is
here
with
us
this
evening
for
the
workshop.
We
do
hope
that
people
will
watch
this
online
and
on
the
replays
on
channel
16
over
the
next
several
weeks
and
we'll
go
to
our
website
at
wwc
of
evanston
org,
to
provide
feedback
or
call
311
they'll.
Take
your
feedback.
You
can
come
to
City
Hall,
we're
certainly
committed
to
having
this
be
an
open
process.
A
We
realize
people
are
busy
living
their
lives,
but
hopefully,
with
replays
of
this
event
online
and
on
cable
of
people
will
learn
a
little
bit
more
about
what
we're
doing
with
the
city
of
Evanston
budget
for
2015.
With
that
I'd
like
to
thank
mr.
Lyons
and
our
budget
staff
for
their
excellent
work
and
putting
the
presentation
together
have
a
good
evening.