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City Council Meeting Minutes October 4, 2018 Page 5 of 10 Mayor Pro Tem Lipton stated Council should not obsess on the recreation issue in this budget cycle as we don't have all the information until we open. Mayor Muckle felt it is important we are transferring from the General Fund for operations of the recreation center some number that is typical of what we were doing before not including the deficit in 2018. Councilmember Maloney agreed this principle is important and that we continue to fund the Rec at a pre-tax level. Councilmember Stolzmann felt we should define what the fees cover and what the General Fund will subsidize and should set policies over the year. Councilmember Keany stated CIP costs for Rec should compete with all other CIP. He doesn't think the CIP transfer should be a set amount, it should compete with every project city-wide so the Council can make a determination of what is important at that time. Same for the Golf Fund. Councilmember Maloney felt the recreation financial plan should have a principle for how to make the recreation fund work. We know there is a problem we need to fix. Recreation Superintendent Martin stated the finance committee of the Recreation Board has been looking at all fees and running numbers from 16-30% to see how it affects the bottom line. One significant difference from the Greenplay report to real-time is the cost of employees. Mayor Pro Tem Lipton stated the Greenplay report had 2015 revenue and expenses which gave us the $569,000 deficit which is what the sales tax number is based on. He thinks the revenue will be much higher than this, the non-resident fee was raised and this is all very manageable. Councilmember Loo would like to see an effort to get the revenue higher and doesn't want to give people the assumption that if we don't meet revenue goals we will subsidize it from the General Fund. City Manager Balser stated there are increased revenue assumptions included here. Councilmember Stolzmann would like a report at some point on what the plans are to increase revenue at the Rec Center. Councilmember Maloney noted the way it is structured for Rec and Golf assumes the General Fund will fund deficits and there is no incentive if the General Fund will always make up the deficit. City Manager Balser stated that is understood and we will address it.