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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORK SESSION DRAFT 5 regarding Blue Heron activities, that she is currently looking at the four days of activities 178 to determine what was profitable and paid the expenses. 179 180 The council had provided information on possible budget reductions for staff to work 181 with and identification of some items to be funded by surplus. 182 183 The mayor said he would prefer to remove Alexandra House funding; Councilmembers 184 Cavegn and Lyden disagreed. Councilmember Stoesz said he supports that program but 185 doesn’t believe City funding is appropriate. 186 187 Administrator Cotton noted an increase of $71,000 to the Pavement Management Fund 188 and a $30,000 (back to budget level) increase to the Parks and Trails Fund. Mayor 189 Rafferty remarked that he would like to see those line items funded and is comfortable 190 utilizing surplus funds. Councilmember Cavegn noted that he’d prefer to not utilize 191 surplus funds for those expenses because he considers them ongoing. 192 193 Administrator Cotton noted capital expenses and that many cities utilize their surplus 194 dollars to pay for capital expenses because they are near onetime expenses. She asked if 195 the council is comfortable with that concept. 196 197 Mayor Rafferty asked about adding some funding to move forward and get more 198 information on public works facility needs and possible planning. Administrator Cotton 199 noted that a traditional source of funding for that type of look would be the Closed Bond 200 Fund. Director DeGardner remarked that there has been a lot of time and money spent on 201 options and concepts and the next step would be looking at financing that would be 202 available. As far as the concepts that have been presented, Mr. DeGardner added that 203 things have changed that would impact planning. Considering that as part of a full view 204 of future needs will be a future work session discussion. 205 206 2. Set Meeting Date for Next Budget Work Session 207 208 Mayor Rafferty suggested that the next regular work session (September 7) would work 209 for the next budget discussion. 210 211 The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 p.m. 212 213 These minutes were considered, corrected and approved at the regular Council meeting held on 214 September 13, 2021. 215 216 217 218 219 Julianne Bartell, City Clerk Rob Rafferty, Mayor 220 221