Minutes - Council Work Session - 07/11/2017

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initiatives within the Plan. He highlighted some of the concerns and ideas expressed through the 2016 resident survey. Councilmember Kuzma asked the population growth for the past year. Community Development Director Gladhill replied that the population growth is about 150 households per year, with 2.9 people per household. Finance Director Lund reviewed the staff report, specifically the budget note summary,noting that this preliminary budget includes everything. She noted that as proposed the tax rate would remain constant as the increase in the budget would match the increase in tax capacity. She continued to review the elements of the proposed budget, providing details on the specific line item increase/decrease per department. Councilmember Riley asked the road debt that would be added in 2018. Finance Director Lund replied that in 2018 there will be $98,000 in road debt. City Administrator Ulrich stated that each department head will review their personnel requests. Asst. City Administrator/Economic Development Manager Brama reviewed the functions that fall under administration. He stated that the City Clerk will be moving from a full-time position to a half-time position and therefore they will need to fill that gap. He stated that the Strategic Plan includes items that they would like to focus on that were also identified on the resident survey including communications, website and the image of the City. He stated that they would also like to continue to meet expectations with increased growth. He stated that with the decreased hours of the City Clerk, they reviewed the department as a whole to better deploy existing resources to meet objectives and avoid just doing what has been done. He reviewed the requests from the administration department, decreasing hours in some positions and increasing hours in other positions for a net change of+.27 FTE with an estimated cost of$20,731. Councilmember Kuzma asked if the intern would be a brand new person or whether they would have experience. Asst. City Administrator/Economic Development Manager Brama provided additional information on how the admin intern currently is used at half-time and noted that this would increase that position to full-time. City Administrator Ulrich stated that the City Clerk is going to do the phased retirement, reducing her hours to half-time for the next one to two years and would be able to transfer her knowledge during that transition time. Councilmember Riley stated that this would mean that eventually a full-time City Clerk would be hired. City Council Work Session/July 11, 2017 Page 2 of 6