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Sharon Asti-Caranci, acting City Administrator, passed around additional information on the Coal Creek/Rock Creek Trail. Boulder County is asking for an additional $50,000 in 1995, which was not included in the CIP Fund. Mayer wanted to know what the cities of Boulder, Lafayette, and Superior are doing. Davidson wanted to know why it wasn't being funded the way it was originally planned. Asti-Caranci explained that Boulder County would come back at some point and give Council an update on this whole trail. She was going to get answers to those questions by September 12. RESPONSES TO COUNCIL'S COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE AUGUST 24 BUDGET WORK SESSION Sharon Asti-Caranci, acting City Administrator, stated that a summary of the number of vehicles by department was on page 63 of Council's packet, followed by further justification on Parks/Open Space and athletic field maintenance workers. As far as Parks/Recreation fees, they will have to be studied further, so new youth programs in the Budget had been eliminated until the study is completed. DISCUSSION - CONSIDERATION OF ACTING CITY ADMINISTRATOR'S RECOMMENDATION TO BALANCE 1995 GENERAL FUND BUDGET Sharon Asti-Caranci, acting City Administrator, reviewed her August 31, 1994, memorandum (SEE ATTACHED) outlining proposed recommendations for Budget cuts, which was done as a joint effort with department heads. Davidson wondered if Council should be funding new programs from Reserve Funds. He also could not see cutting the Police officer by one. He felt adding two was a bare minimum. Mayer wanted to make sure that the city is not dependant on growth. Sisk suggested hiring one new officer and one new Police car for the Police Department. Davidson stated he would rather buy one less Parks vehicle than give up one of the Police cars. He wanted the Police officers left in the Budget, with one of them being hired in six months, rather than both being hired right away, saving half the cost. He wanted the Director of Parks & Recreation to review the number of people he wanted to hire for possible cuts until next year. He wanted the Library, with the .65 people and the reduction of four hours, to see if it could be done with .45. He wondered what would be the result of not getting .65. Are there other options? He wanted them to look at phasing the money and seeing how many of those things the city could fund and how much is a reasonable amount to take out of the reserve to fund the remainder. 4