Agenda - Council - 09/25/2018 - Laserfiche WebLink

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(one starting Oct. 1, 2019) and Public Works Maintenance Worker (March 1, 2019 start). 2. Supplies: $63,000 of levy increase. Attributed to uniforms for two new patrol officers and increase in road salt 3. Debt Service Levy - Decrease of $117,931. 50% of road debt will be one-time funded from the Public Improvment Revolving Fund (PIR) and Fire Station #2 debt is being reduced by $75,000 from remaining Fire Station #1 debt service funds. As noted, the EDA levy is included in the overall levy amount of $11,906,550. While the proposed levy can always be reduced, it cannot be increased without "higher" level approval through an appeals process. The proposed levy must be certified to Anoka County by Friday, September 28, 2018. Therefore, the Council must make a decision this week in regard to the amount of this levy. Schedule Budget Public Hearing Date: The Truth -in -Taxation (TNT) law was changed in 2009. The City is no longer required to hold a special TNT hearing or to publish a notice of the TNT hearing. In lieu of the eliminated formal TNT hearing, the City is required to hold a regularly scheduled meeting at which the budget and levy will be discussed. The City may adopt the budget and levy immediately following. The public meeting must be held between November 25 and December 28 and held after 6:00 P.M. Staff is recommending that the public meeting be held at its regularly scheduled meeting of December 11, 2018, with adoption of the 2019 General Fund Budget and levy to immediately follow. The public meeting date must be certified to Anoka County by Friday, September 28, 2018; therefore, the City Council must make a decision as to the date selected for the 2019 payable public meeting at tonight's meeting. Notification: At its worksession of August 28, 2018 the City Council created an Option 3A out of the five options that were presented. Option 3A would keep the requested levy amount at $11,906,550, but also add back a new October 1, 2019 hire for a Patrol Officer (two new Patrol Officers are now included in budget/levy request). The additional funding (approximately $30,000) for this October 1, 2019 Patrol Officer was to be offset by $30,000 in line -item budget reductions. The $30,000 line item reductions are as follows: ($18,000) related to Taser Replacements. Original budget requests was $24,000. Tasers will be purchased over a period of 4 years instead of 1 year. ($9,000) related to health insurance. A recent hire was budgetd for family insurance, but waived coverage ($3,000) Police Over -time ($30,000) Total Observations/Alternatives: As this is the adoption of a preliminary levy that can be amended (only lowered) no alternatives are being listed. Budget work sessions until final adoption in December will allow for alternations if needed