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Mr. Huff suggested we should have a sign on Highway gl0 for the Ramsey Municipal Center. Ms. McAloney agreed that sounded like a good idea. Mr. Schroeder suggested we ought to look at improving our signs. He stated he always thinks of 153rd, but there are others. Ms. Hart stated that the increase for street lights are only for current street lights. The new priority ones may have an impact on the mount. Mr. Sehroeder asked if the street light program would be here. Ms. Hart replied yes, if funded out of the general fund. It was suggested to maybe increase the sign line item. Planning Commission - Ms. Frolik stated it remains status quo - minimum budget. The same with the Horse Care Board. There is no reason to review it. Mr. Schroeder inquired why we don't have a section that just says commissions. Ms. McAloney felt it was nice to see each Commission broken out. Mr. Gromberg felt there is an advantage to having them broken out also. Ms. Hart stated she has been in a situation where all commissions were combined and they were separated for the next budget. It would be a nightmare for accounting, but they could be combined for the presentation. Mr. Schroeder felt it was a bit silly to use five/six pages of paper for $400 in budget requests. Ms. Frolik touched on some training. She stated she would like to up the budget from $160 to $500. The subscription lines says $195 - it should be $124. She stated she would like to add the Zoning News for $55. Mr. Schroeder stated that the EDA will be discussed on Thursday. The goals and objectives will be discussed tomorrow. He stated that, to the Staff who submitted goals, he wanted them to be aware that he goes through them and makes changes. He stated that from the information we are reviewing in the next three days, a document will be prepared for the Council and will be utilized during Council workshops. We try to do it in two to three hour meetings with pizza at 5:30 and meeting from 6:00 to 9:00. The intent of this process is not to make any cuts right now. He stated we do not have any revenue estimates at the moment but it looks like we are about a half million dollars short. There will be some deletions from this. Mr. Jankowski inquired about State Aid. Ms. Hart stated that she really didn't know the amount. She would have to base things on how we have dealt with them in the past. She stated we are looking at a $120,000 increase in tax revenue; that's not nearly enough to cover what the requests are. Staff Budget Meeting/July 19, 1994 Page 7 of 8