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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION—AUGUST 19. 2024 5 before hiring the Park Lead. Those two roles need to be on the same page and the manager should have a say in who will be in that lead role. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen stated technically there is already someone doing that role, to an extent. He thinks the Park and Rec Manager could learn from the Park Lead as to how the day-to-day maintenance functions go within the parks. Councilmember Holden summarized there will be someone coming in from the outside who will have all-encompassing knowledge from a lot of other places. Then someone from the City will tell them this is how we've done it. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen clarified there are different types of maintenance. So, the manager is looking at improvements where the lead will focus on operations and maintenance. The Parks Lead will help develop the maintenance plan because they understand those smaller details. The Parks Manager shouldn't have to get down to that level of detail. Councilmember Holden pointed out that the manger will manage the parks maintenance policy so her assumption is that those two roles will work together to create that. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen confirmed they would work together to make sure the tasks are successful. There are different levels of the projects. He said it is appropriate to have a Parks Lead position for what that person is doing. Mayor Grant stated this topic should be folded into item 3B as part of the 2025 Preliminary General Fund Budget discussion. B. 2025 Preliminary General Fund Budget Finance Director Yang stated the discussion will start with the 2025-2029 CIP Budget to wrap that up then move on to 2025 Preliminary General Fund Budget. Finance Director Yang reminded that the July 22 Special Work Session included initial discussions of the 2025-2029 CIP and since then, staff has made updates to various portions of the CIP plan. She presented a graphic showing the baseline and proposed fund balances that have been updated since the initial discussion. She noted the $188,483 change in the Sanitary Sewer Fund balance. She is proposing a 9%increase to cover the approximate$100,000 increase over 2024 to cover the Met Council wastewater charges. She has also included $136,436 of America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding that was not included in the preliminary numbers. Per previous Council direction, staff is to utilize the remaining ARPA funding on sanitary/water infrastructure projects. That will offset some of the expenditures in the fund. Again, there is an increase on the wastewater charge, in addition to increases to other operating expenditures, for a total increase of approximately $560,000. Finance Director Yang noted a$175,000 increase for the sewer line rehabilitation project. There were some expenditure changes due to updated pricing assumptions. The 2025 number has been updated from $415,000 to $475,000, an increase of$60,000. The 2027 figure increased from $580,000 to $695,000, an increase of$115,000.