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Cts yanadattle T 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117-1600 (651) 766-4029 / FAX: (651) 766-4048 www.ci.little-canada.mn.us MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Keis and Members of the City Council FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator Sharon Provos, Finance Director DATE: November 21, 2015 RE: 2016 Budget Decisions MAYOR John Keis COUNCIL Rick Montour Michael McGraw Tom Fischer Christian Torkelson ADMINISTRATOR Joel R. Hanson We need to bring some closure to the 2016 budget process in order to enable us to prepare the presentation for the budget hearing on December 16th. If necessary, a special meeting can be held if further analysis is needed. Here is an update of where things stand and the remaining options you need to decide upon: Levy Update: After the last meeting and the decisions made, the percentage levy increase fell from the 4% we certified to 3.4%. (Levy Sheet 1) You may feel this number was lower given the large reduction in health insurance costs. However, those discussions were not considering the transfer of transfer of expenditures from the Water Fund (601) and Sewer Fund (602) to the General Fund associated with the creation of the internal planner/code enforcement position that we had estimated at $29,600. (Note: If that position is not created, then we do not need to address that issue.) Another change of note is Ramsey County has updated the value information (top portion of the levy sheet). There were modifications to all of the categories noted that increased our tax capacity base from $8,359,358 to $8,367,155. This has the effect of lowering our tax rate from 30.635 (Levy Sheet 1) to 30.608 (Levy Sheet 2). The last update involves additional modifications staff made to the General Fund. Those changes are as follows: We applied the $1,300 associated with no longer publishing the floor agenda as discussed at the last meeting. We eliminated the additional hours proposed for the Accounting Clerk position. While we typically use 22 hours per week for this position, 24 hours was budgeted to give us some flexibility for unexpected absences that could require this position to fill in. We had then proposed an increase in the hours per week to 27 to give us more capabilities with this position. After further discussion, we feel the 2015 hour