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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 08,2011 Page 32 Mr. Kysylyczyn expressed his perceptions from observing a previous Council meeting and the request of Councilmember Pust to receive additional budget de- tails, and Finance Director Miller or City Manager Malinen's comments that that level of detail did not exist. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that the City Manager- recommended budget cuts were similar to those scare tactics used by school dis- tricts; and that was his take on the staff memorandum dated August 8, 2011, and included as part of tonight's agenda packet materials. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that he found the documents (Attachments A and B) to be personally insulting, with over half of the numbers blank, and providing no detail as to what any of the items were for, except in the broadest sense. Mr. Kysylyczyn further opined that this was worthless data, while staff provided a detailed list of their recommended cuts, again signifying a scare tactic prompting public testimony of the programs and services they don't want cut; and causing the City Council to try to determine which expenditure was most important. Mr. Kysylyczyn noted that the only items listed in detail were those staff recommended cutting, with not detail provided on those recommended to continue; and expressed frustration that this was the level of information provided to the public. Mr. Kysylyczyn advised that he was distributing budget information that had been presented to the public in 2002 for the 2003 budget, specific to the Police De- partment, when he was Mayor of Roseville; with that information providing the level of detail being requested by Councilmember Pust, as well as data from pre- vious years for comparison purposes. Mr. Kysylyczyn also provided an even more helpful document, a budget worksheet for 2004, again specific to the Police Department, providing actual fund numbers, similar or the same as those used to- day. Mr. Kysylyczyn advised that this his bench handout was only ten (10) of the forty (40) pages specific to the Police Department, but addressing the various cat- egories, and previously provided during his tenure as Mayor to the City Council and the public to allow them to make determinations of where the money was going. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that, if the information existed in 2003, he thought the in- formation should be in existence today; and he subsequently visited the City's Finance Department, and had found the information as her presented. Mr. Kysy- lyczyn provided bench handouts consisting of budget details for 2008, 2009, and 2010 in the three page handout; and a more substantial handout that included a general version of the entire City budget identifying where all the money is going. If this information as available to the public in 2002 and 2003, Mr. Kysylyczyn questioned why is was not being used today and provided to the public; providing for a more informed discussion and examples of where money was being spent.