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Goals and Policies The City of Louisville has many policies in place that help to shape the budget. These include: • The City of Louisville will seek to provide only those public services that citizens require or support, and for which they are willing to pay. • The minimum unreserved, undesignated fund balance of the General Fund shall be calculated annually at 15% of the current operating budget. • Capital projects will be a main focus, with continued investment in infrastructure and improvement of quality of life as primary goals. A comprehensive list of all Council -approved policies may be found beginning on page 7, Policies. Goals with 2003 Budget Impact During the 2003 goal setting process, many goals were defined that will impact our community in 2003 and beyond. Those goals that have a budgetary impact in 2003 include: A. Maintain Louisville as a safe city. o The high risk tactical and entry training has continued since 2000, currently at $12,000. o A citizen's police academy, begun in 2001, is beingfunded in 2003 at a level of $1,800. o One new replacement police vehicle is budgeted in the Fleet Management Fund at $48,400. B. Begin construction of new police station. o The construction of the new police station is budgeted in the Capital Projects Fund at $2,914,000 for 2003. Conceptual design of the new facilig was completed in 2002. C. Continue with design process for Highway 42/96th Street Connection and begin construction. o The Highway 42/966 Street Connection is being worked on through the Northwest Parkway Intergovernmental Agreement and is beingfunded directly through their bond proceeds. The construction of the Highway 42/966 Street Connection is budgeted at$11,960,000 in 2003 with expected completion in 2004. The design phase was started in 2002. D. Continue the leadership/facilitator role in the US 36 Environmental Impact Statement process. o Funds to hire a lobbyist to facilitate the US 36 Environmental Impact Statement process have been included in the City Council budget at ,$10,000 for 2003. This project is being worked on in conjunction with several surroundinggovernment entities along the US 36 corridor. E. Respond to changes in the Senior Meals program. o Beginning in 2003, the County of Boulder will no longer provide meals for the City's Senior Meals program. As a result, several changes have been made in the 2003 budget so that this program may continue in this budgetyear and in future years. A separate program titled Senior Meals has been set up under the Recreation and Senior Services department to specifically track the costs of this service. The total program is budgeted at $89,330. iii