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November 28, 2018 ________________________________________________________________________ ADMINISTRATION 2019 Budget The City Council has adopted the Preliminary Budget and Tax Levy for 2019. This amount will be publicized with the Truth in Taxation Notices. The Council may adopt the proposed levy as its final levy or may adopt a lower amount, but may not raise the proposed budget. The council also held a budget workshop on November 14, just prior to the regular City Council meeting where additional guidance on a final budget was given. A final budget workshop will be held prior to the November 28 meeting, with the final budget adoption taking place at that regular council meeting. The overall budget schedule is below: November 14 Special Work Se nal Budget and Tax Levy Adoption Centennial Public Schools City staff met with school staff on October 23, 2018. The meeting was productive and we are moving towards resolution of the plat issues at Centerville Elementary School. A wide variety of other topics were discussed, including display of some of the Dupre artifacts, use of the school parking lot, snow storage, downtown redevelopment and much more. Elections Election season has finally come to a close. Thanks to Clerk Bender for managing the entire process, including a dozen election judges, several weeks of early and absentee voting and one final marathon Tuesday. All in all, it was a smoothly run operation for what is an essential part of democracy. Congratulations to Mayor Paar and Councilmember Love for winning reelection and to Councilmember-elect Lakso for her election. Metro Cities Draft Legislative Policy Metro Cities is a branch of the League of Minnesota Cites whose main function is lobbying on behalf of its member cities (like us) at the state legislature. Each year, they put out a draft of their proposed stances on various topics that may come up in legislation at the next session. That draft policy is voted on by the membership at a meeting in late November. I will be in attendance at that meeting and will be casting our vote. Therefore, I am your voice in shaping this policy. Please read through the draft policies at this website https://www.metrocitiesmn.org/legislative-policies and let me know if there are any policies, with which you disagree.