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October 20, 1999 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Chuck Whiting, City Administrator Re: October 25, 1999 City Council Work Session and City Council Meeting • We will have several items to review Monday night, most of which appear to need more discussion than decision-making. Here's what we have: Work Session—4:30 p.m. Start Item 1—Y2000 Budget Review and Non-General Fund Budgets: We can visit the General Fund for any further review. So far the Council has not requested any changes. The budget as presented was used as the information budget for the upcoming Mounds View Matters issue delivered to residents. Bruce, Rick and I met with Bob Long and Scott Riggs on the City's legal expenses and how better to work with Kennedy and Graven. We can review that discussion Monday. The non-General Fund budgets need some attention. Mike will be present to review the utilities budgets. Council has mentioned an interest in basing sewer rates on water usages rather than a flat charge,and what the MCES sewer rate reduction means. Some attention will need to be paid to the water budget,particularly its cash flow over the longer term. Other funds like Cable TV are healthy but that may indicate a lack of planning. The EDA budget reflects the tif accounts and will be reviewed in part this week at our joint meeting with the EDC. Obviously, decisions on the interest funds that can now be viewed as non-tif affect the long-term cash flow of the tif accounts,but provides possible solutions to other budget concerns such as streets funds and the golf course loan. The Special Projects fund doesn't change much,but it isn't supposed to either. The Street Light Fund appears to be getting little use and the significance of that should be reviewed. A transfer for the Pinewood storm sewer project is the only significant item in the Surface Water fund, and this transfer figure is only an estimate. Review of the Vehicle and Equipment Fund and maintenance of the fleet appears to be in order. The Ongoing questions about vehicles suggest something other than what has been done is being sought. Perhaps some clarification on that can be given. The Community Center now has nine months of operations under its belt and some estimates for next year should be viewed as tied to the General Fund line item transfer at the end of that budget. Bruce has some updated figures to share with the Council on this. The Lakeside Park Fund reflects the shared costs Mounds View has with Spring Lake Park on the maintenance of this park. The Council should know that the Spring Lake Park Council takes this joint effort very seriously. The staffs do the most work,but for those of you who know Council members from Spring Lake Park it would be a benefit to understand a little about this budget and how it works. We should also be ready for the Golf Course budget for next year,probably a good thing to review in preparation for the interfund loan discussion. I have asked staff to be on hand for the budget discussion in case there are any questions. Item 2—Review of Park Dedication Capital Purchase Plan: Terri Blattenbauer will review the long- term capital purchase plan of the Parks Department. Item 3—Review of Interfund Loan Options for Golf Course Fund: The last time we discussed this issue,we had just discovered the option of using tif interest proceeds for the loan. We should review this more thoroughly,particularly in light of the meeting with the EDC. Enclosed is a letter from Jim O'Meara on the State Auditor's opinion on tif earned interest(first paragraph, IX. Page 12. Don't be confused by the page numbers on the bottom,only pertinent sections were taken from a longer letter from O'Meara two years ago).