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• <br />• <br />• <br />WS -1 <br />WORK SESSION MEMORANDUM <br />To: Mayor and City Council <br />From: Al Rolek <br />Date: November 3, 2008 <br />Re: 2009 Budget — Reallocation of Funds for Charter Commission <br />cc: <br />At the August 4 Council work session then - Charter Commission Cori Duffy presented a <br />letter to the City Council requesting a budget of $7,500 for 2009 to further frame and <br />amend the Charter. This request, as well as requests from other outside agencies, was <br />presented to the Council at the budget work session on August 18. Copies of the request <br />and the other requests are attached. At that time staff presented a budget that was very <br />lean and which had been cut by over $500,000, including reduced funding for street <br />maintenance, storm drainage maintenance, trail extensions, capital equipment levies and a <br />number of other areas. Because of the number of budget restrictions and tight budget <br />conditions, Council consensus at the time was to not include additional funding requests <br />in the 2009 budget. <br />Since that time, the Charter Commission has renewed its request for additional funding <br />for 2009. Given the nature of the proposed budget, should Council wish to honor the <br />request, staff would recommend that the additional funding be reallocated from the <br />budgeted contingency. The intent would be to reallocate $6,000 from the contingency to <br />the Charter Administration budget, bringing the total for that line in the budget to $7,500 <br />and reducing the contingency from $44,132 to $38,132 for 2009. <br />Staff is awaiting Council direction on this request. <br />Page 1 <br />