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.4 <br />�UMM <br />city that wicks tax^ you <br />Memo <br />To: Mayor and Council of New Brighton <br />From: Dean R. Lotter, City Manager <br />Subject: Draft Budget Ideas <br />Date: April 10, 2009 <br />Council Discussion <br />A follow up meeting on draft budget ideas has been scheduled for April 14, 2009. <br />The department head team debriefed on Wednesday about the direction to staff <br />from the Council. I decided to hold meetings with as many of staff as possible to <br />solicit their opinions on solutions. During Thursday and Friday I spoke with <br />almost all of the full-time staff. <br />As a result of the April 7t" discussion, the following moves were endorsed by <br />Council at the previous meeting: <br />Target $410,000 <br />1. Marketing Events Coordinator Position $ 75,000 <br />2. Step Increase Rollback for Non -Union $ 20,500 <br />3. Tuition Reimbursement $ 8,000 <br />4. Savings from Officer — Troy Hyland $ 50,000 <br />5. Bankruptcy of Previous Charter School - Rev $ 27,000 <br />6. AT&T Tower Revenue 9,800 <br />$219,700 <br />Staff Direction and Efforts <br />Staff was directed to come with additional options and as I mentioned early in the <br />memo, I met with staff to solicit their opinions. One idea that resulted from the <br />meetings was to do a staff survey with options that had financial implications of <br />their decisions. The survey that was sent out is attached for your information. <br />One consistent message that was received at all of these meetings was that staff <br />would prefer to feel the pain spread out over all staff as opposed to making a <br />smaller group feel all of the pain. In other words, people are willing to make <br />group sacrifices for the City and their fellow employees. The idea of unpaid <br />furloughs was discussed and the employees seemed responsive to the idea of <br />C:\Documents and Settings\kbruno\Local Settings\Temporary Intcmct Files\OLK58\Draft Budgct Mcmo for April 14 2009 (2).doc <br />