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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 9, 2009 Page 4 1 D. Consider Resolution 09 -058: Setting the e City of St. Anthony 2009 "Revised" Budget and 2 Authorizing of the Liquor Fund Transfer. Mike Morrison City Manager / Department 3 Heads, presenting, 4 5 City Manager Mornson indicated that the proposed resolution sets the 2009 "Revised" Budget 6 and authorizes the Liquor Fund transfer to offset the loss of Market Value Credit. Mr. Morrison 7 provided an overview of the following General Government 2009 Budget Adjustments: General 8 Operating Budget @ $135,000 reduction (City Council, Public Relations, General Management, 9 Elections, Finance, Assessing, and Legal); Capital Equipment @ $18,300 reduction 10 (Administration/Finance). 11 12 Police Chief Ohl provided an overview of the following 2009 Police Budget Adjustments: 13 General Operating Budget @ $11,000 reduction (Police and Animal Control); Capital Equipment 14 @ $30,000 reduction (Police Department). 15 16 Fire Chief Malenick provided an overview of the following 2009 Fire Budget Adjustments: 17 General Operating Budget @ $7,100 reduction (Emergency Management and Fire); Capital 18 Equipment @ $27,000 reduction (Fire Department). 19 20 Public Works Director Hartman provided an overview of the following Public Works 2009 21 Budget Adjustments: General Operating Budget @ $19,300 reduction (Public Works Division, 22 Tree & Weed Care Division, and Parks Division); Capital Equipment @ $7,000 reduction 23 (Public Works). 24 25 City Manager Momson recapped the proposed 2009 Budget adjustments. He advised staff 26 recommends approval of he proposed resolution reducing the 2009 General Operating Budget by 27 $52,700 and the Capital Equipment Budget by $82,300. The "Revised" 2009 General Operating 28 Budget now totals $5,224,700 and the "Revised" 2009 Capital Equipment Budget now totals 29 $317,700. 30 31 Mayor Faust stated it is anticipated that the City will lose $135,000 through un- allotment of 32 Market Value Homestead Credit. The City Council held four meetings with staff, and the City 33 Manager and staff held many meetings as well. The easy thing would have been to eliminate the 34 sewer jetter; however, they came to the conclusion there may be some things to spread the risk 35 around. He appreciates the departments, the City Manager, and the City Council for their work to 36 ensure that these cuts are equitable. 37 38 Councilmember Thuesen stated there have been a lot of meetings and this budget cut issue was 39 taken quite seriously. The departments will still do their jobs, but there will be some hurt with 40 these cuts. He applauds the departments for trying to make do a little longer with some things, 41 and he appreciates staff working as hard as they did and doing short term compromises. He 42 stated cities need to be careful about deferring items and they need to be careful not to defer for 43 too many years. 44 45 Councilmember Stille stated the sewer jetter was the low hanging fruit as the worked through 46 this. However, the equipment has not made the priority list for replacement for a number of