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the City discontinued the Co-Pay Plan and added another high-deductible plan and added <br />a third high-deductible that complies with the new Health Care Act just to be safe (this is <br />a very high deductible and the Co-op allowed members to add this for compliance <br />purposes. Over the past few years, the City has equally shared rate increases with the <br />employees. Staff would recommend continuing to use this formula. cost per <br />employee per month has only increased by $22 over the last seven years since we started <br />the High Deductible plans with HSAs. We have also gotten back over $40,000 in <br />dividends in three of the last four years from the Co-op). <br /> <br />Update the five year CIP. Staff is currently in the process of updating the current plan to <br />discuss with the City Council at the June work session. Does the City Council have any <br />feedback or direction they would like to provide staff with in regard to the CIP? <br /> <br />An area where staff sees a need is in park funding. Park dedication fees are generally <br />limited to capital improvements, not general repair and maintenance items, and there is <br />not a steady stream of income. The PIR fund is used for a lot of the larger park <br />expenditures and for some matching funds for grants. In looking at the financial plan, <br />staff sees a need to set up a reserve for park improvements. This fund would then be a <br />funding source for items which are included in the CIP. <br /> <br />Another area is street improvement funding as we corrected the structural problems in the <br />budget last year and discontinued the $200,000 transfer from the General Fund to the PIR <br />and moved the street maintenance items from the PIR to the General Fund Streets <br />department this was basically a wash as the amounts were close to the same amount. In <br />looking at the financial plan, staff sees a need to find a funding source to build up <br />reserves for this fund also. <br /> <br />Another area where staff sees a need is in the EDA Budget. We need to find a permanent <br />funding source for general economic development activities. Also the Round Lake TIF <br />District will be expiring in 2015 and the City Council/EDA budgeted this fund balance <br />after the bond is paid (February of 2015) for the Round Lake Road improvement project. <br /> <br />As a step in creating a quality budget document, performance measures/service indicators <br />should be established for each department. Some of these may come about as a result of <br />the community survey (if one is done) as areas that the Council would like to improve. <br />Goals and objectives also need to be established for each department. These would need <br />to be established in 2015, then in subsequent years actual performance can be tracked to <br />show progress against these goals. This would provide Council and the public another <br />tool to evaluate city services. Staff would appreciate input from the Council on this <br />matter. <br /> <br />A proposed budget calendar is attached. <br /> <br />Recommended Action <br />: <br /> <br />Staff is seeking direction from the Council as it continues with the 2015 Budgeting process. <br /> <br /> <br />22 <br />Page of <br /> <br />
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