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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — AUGUST 25, 2025 22 Finance Director Yang did a 10-year look back and it has been steady at $250,000. Councilmember Monson assumes there were transfers into it when we were over 50%, when it was available. Finance Director Yang confirmed. Councilmember Monson would like to see a consistent investment in our roads so we don't have to have these transfers from the next year. She is open to scenario E with some money starting in 2026. She doesn't think $50,000 per year from 2027 on, would be sufficient for scenario E. We have the increase of $163,000 where we're over $300,000. She doesn't know if we would have to do $350,000 or $400,000 in future years. Councilmember Weber said the debt service is built in. Councilmember Monson said she interpreted Councilmember Weber's comment to suggest adding $50,000 a year, per year. Councilmember Weber said increasing it $50,000. Councilmember Monson said in 2027 it would be $163,000. In 2028 it would be increased by $50,000. Councilmember Rousseau asked if the PIR is what we are looking at for the Park Master Plan. Finance Director Yang confirmed. Councilmember Monson outlined it's at $250,000 now. This would be an increase of $163,000, totaling $413,000. She stated Councilmember Weber is recommending we go to $463,000 in 2028 and $513,000 in 2029. Councilmember Weber said it would be $326,000, instead of the $250,000. Then $512,000. That's a huge increase. That includes the debt service. Councilmember Monson isn't following that. Finance Director Yang said it sounds like Councilmember Weber is suggesting starting the $50,000 in 2026. So it would start at $300,000. Councilmember Weber confirmed. He said then add the $162,000, getting to $462,000 and doesn't include the $50,000 we add in 2027 to continue building the PIR. That is a giant jump. Maybe we leave it out of 2027. He recognized that going from $250,000 to $412,000 is a big jump but he would rather get a head start. Finance Directory Yang can look at different scenarios. Councilmember Monson said maybe we want to start earlier and not have a $163,000 jump.