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<br />10/4/83 <br /> <br />Page -14- <br /> <br />service or re-evaluation of the rates possibly <br />should be examined by staff under the City <br />Administrator's direction. <br /> <br />Councilman Cussen <br /> <br />Referred to the memo from Sgt. Lynn Hamilton <br />on Emergency Preparedness, stated he would <br />like to have Council consider funding for <br />the first phase of the warning system, which <br />was $18,000 and would be a matching from the <br />government of $9,000. Would like to have this <br />included in the Emergency Preparedness budget <br />for 1984 with the stipulation that if we <br />didn't get the government matching funds <br />we would not enter into the agreement, did <br />not wish to increase the budget by $9,000, <br />but delete this amount from some other area <br />as he was concerned about the 14 new positions <br />being added. <br /> <br />PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED <br /> <br />Mayor Meier closed the public hearing on <br />Resolution #38. <br /> <br />AMENDMENT PROPOSED <br /> <br />Councilman Leary moved, Councilman Cussen <br />seconded that Resolution #38 be amended <br />that under the General Fund be changed to <br />read $3,097,544 (a reduction of $100,000). <br /> <br />Councilman Leary stated there were 2 major <br />reasons for his amendment - first that he <br />felt we were over-extending ourselves with <br />this budget based on the fact that only <br />two-thirds of it are coming from real, genuine <br />general purpose government types of revenues, <br />and if you look at those revenues especially, <br />i.e. sales tax, the increase in the past <br />year was not overly healthy. In this budget <br />we are looking at an increase of approximately <br />35%-36%, which he felt was a tremendous in- <br />crease; a good share of it is being funded <br />with soft monies. In going back to our <br />revenue sources, partially because of the <br />commitment to use sales tax money to pay <br />off City Hall, we are looking at only 2% sales <br />tax increase projected into the General <br />Fund this year and possibily the increase <br />in property tax will be 10%-15%; but we are <br />increasing our budget by 33% but our good <br />reliable sources of revenue are only increasing <br />from 3% - 15%. Granted some of the growth <br />revenues are appropriate, i.e. the money <br />