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----- Administrator Comments for the June 29, 1998 Council Meeting . Page Four June 26, 1998 3. Community ReDresentations As City Administrator, 1've attended a variety of meetings representing the City this past month. Among others, these have included RAB, Day in the Park, Ramsey County Sheriffs Contract Group, Mounds View School District Community Leaders, School District/City Managers, and MCMA. 4. Finance Department a. MCES 1999 Budget Goals Staff attended the MCES 1999 Budget Breakfast meeting and learned that the 1999 Budget goal is a 6.0% expenditure reduction to $157,000,000. The longer-term customer cost goal is to reduce processing costs from the current $900/mg to $800/mg by the year 2000. These cost savings will largely be realized by the success of the agency in reducing headcount from 960 to 760 employees (a 21 % reduction). There was also considerable discussion of the "fairness" of SAC charges. b. 1999 PreliminarY Budget/5- Year CIP . Staff developed the 1999-2003 Capital Improvement Program which was provided to the City Council at its June Worksession. This was the first phase ofthe budget planning process. Staff ""ill now begin working on the preliminary budget for 1999. c. 1998 Budl!et Books The 1998 Budget bcoks are nearing completion. Staff continues to work on inputting this information into the necessary data bases, and will have it available shortly. b. Committee Updates The City ACCOlli"lw..l1t also attended meetings of the Newsletter and Finance Committees. c. Personnel Staff completed background checks and finalized the appointment of a new Senior Accounting Clerk. At the same time, staff began review of the applications for Associate Planner. (Between the two positions, approximately 95 applicatioIlS were received.) Staff has interviewed six candidates and will be conducting a second interview with two candidates. .