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City Council Meeting Minutes October 10, 2017 Page 3 of 6 Mayor Pro Tem Lipton agreed with Councilmembers Maloney and Stolzmann, we should see what can be postponed He stated it is always tempting to add more and fund it from the Open Space & Parks Fund, but now it is clear the General Fund is the backstop to the Open Space & Parks Fund. We need to have all the projects compete equally and we need a new methodology on this Mayor Muckle agreed with the comments. He reminded everyone the operating expenditures shown here are decisions we made, this is the budget we approved These are not new costs we weren't anticipating He agreed the tax was never designed to cover all of parks and open space expenditures, it was meant to supplement the General Fund. We were always spending a lot of General Fund on open space and parks, and never intended otherwise until the recession He stated there was an assumption we would always undue that when we could afford to do so He supported the suggestion of an ongoing payment for operations and maintenance out of the General Fund Mayor Muckle supports keeping capital the way it is and using the 2007 numbers (adjusted for inflation) to support operational costs without a Capital Fund transfer Councilmember Stolzmann supports this and also looking at what capital projects might be reclassified. Councilmember Loo asked if the idea is for all capital projects to compete together. Councilmember Stolzmann stated yes except for a few that are specific to the Open Space & Parks Fund. Mayor Muckle stated he was still not sure what effect this will have on the Capital Fund and asked does City Council want to take every capital project out of the parks fund or have a threshold for large projects to remove. He suggested we need defined principals/policy to determine what is paid from which fund. Councilmember Keany clarified that in this plan the Open Space & Parks Fund would be mainly used for open space and parks operational and the capital would compete in the Capital Fund with the rest of the city's projects. Councilmember Keany asked how trails would be handled. Mayor Muckle stated he doesn't think we need to define it so specifically Councilmember Stolzmann stated she would like a more specific view of what capital projects really qualify for the Open Space & Parks Fund. She would like a policy and parameters on how to fund these Interim City Manager Balser stated staff will make a recommendation on that for the 2019 budget.