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Memorandum Date: September 22, 2021 To: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members Through:Mark R. Statz, City Administrator/City Engineer From: Bruce DeJong, Finance Director Item: 2022General Fund Budget and Property Tax Levy Discussion Staff are pleased to present a preliminary budget and tax levy that meet council goals and come in at a reasonable price. The overall levy increases by only $73,356 or 2.7% higher than the levy for 2021 taxes. These recommendations are built using long-term forecasts with a conservative eye to changes in the larger economy and our community circumstances. As always, the City of Centerville plans to continue providing the excellent services our residents and businesses have come to expect, at a reasonable value, both in 2022 and well into the future. The budget detail for 2022 has not changed since the last discussion in August. On the expense side, we have added a new position at $75,000 per year. This professional level position will replace the 24 hour per week front desk position that was vacated during the pandemic closing. To help pay for that, staff removedthe $20,000 contingency from the Council budget and $20,000 of professional services inPublic Works. We have added almost $15,000 to the election costs. We have elections every two years and so this amount tracks closely with the amount spent in 2020, excluding the Anoka County special election costs. Assessing is up $1,600 based on the contract with our new assessor group. We now have $61,857 budgeted for the police contract increase and $0 for the fire contract increase based on the final approved budgets for those joint powers agencies. The police budget is down almost $8,000 from the estimate in July and fire is down almost $12,000.