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City Council Special Meeting Minutes October 21, 2008 Page 3 of 9 REGULAR BUSINESS PRESENTATION - 2009 PROPOSED BUDGET -SET PUBLIC HEARING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2008 Mayor Sisk requested a Staff presentation. City Manager Fleming explained the City's budget is the most significant policy considered by the Louisville City Council each year. It establishes the City's priorities and provides funding to achieve those priorities. The budget process, including the public hearing, provide the public with opportunities to comment on and advise the City Council about those priorities and levels of funding. Based on Council's comments at the October 1 meeting and based on continued input from Department Directors, the budget currently under consideration has changed rather significantly from the budget presented on October 1, 2008. A listing of the more significant adjustments follows: • Changed 2009 Lastoka Property Conservation Project in the C-I-P from $33,500 to $12,000. • Deleted the Skate Park Sidewalk Project from the C-I-P (included as part of another project description). • Changed the timing of grants related to the Dillon Road and Hwy42/SBR Projects. • Removed $150,000 from the $180,000 estimate for Traffic Signals from 2008. • Added $200,000 to the 2011 C-I-P for Traffic Signals. • Adjusted the Library Operations Budget. • Increased temporary salaries and overtime in Recreation Management, Aquatics, & Youth Activities fora combined increase of approximately $60,000. • Adjusted the operations budget within the Parks & Recreation Departments. • Within the Long-Term Financial Plan, the assumption on the Conservation Trust sales tax was changed to have it expire after 2012. • Added the Mass Notification Warning System to the C-I-P for 2009. • Changed the building maintenance budget allocations as requested by Public Works. This reallocation does not change total bottom line appropriations. • Reclassified the Golf Course Pond Renovation project and the Golf Course Parking Lot Repaving project (2008 projects) to the Golf Course Fund with a transfer of funds (loan) from the Wastewater Utility Fund. • Moved the ongoing (2010-2012) Golf Course "subsidy" from the General Fund to the Wastewater Utility Fund. • Updated the Golf Course C-I-P. • Changed the 2009 increase in employee health insurance to 3% over 2008.