City Commission
Study Session
City Commission Chambers – City Hall
A G E N D A
Budget Process/ Background Information
v Our goals in the budget preparation
process are to ensure that the process is transparent, accessible, and
understandable to the City Commission and the public. A successful budget is well calibrated to
reflect the goals of the City Commission. Recommended goals as we begin
preparation of the 2009 budget:
o
Given
revenue challenges, strive to maintain 2008 budget levels for expenditures
o
Strive
to make progress on Commission priorities as they are defined
o
Continue
to reduce expenditures as possible
Expenditures / Budget Priorities
v
General
Discussion on Budget Development (
o
General
Fund Memo
o
Health
Care Memo
v
Transit
/ Streets / Sales Tax Discussion (
o
Transit
Memo Draft
Letter of Intent Joint
News Release
o
City
Commissioner Committee / Alcohol Advisory Board Recommendations
o
Table
- 5 year
history of funding by agency
v
Capital
Improvement Budget (
o
2008
Bond and Note Issuance Memo
o
2009-2014
Capital Improvement Plan Projects
v
Action Items Update
Staff is currently pursuing the
completion of the action items presented and/or requested by the City
Commission at previous Budget Study Sessions.
Attached
update