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Date: 07/28/03 <br />Item; III. A. <br />Presentations <br />Budget Review soon <br />f <br />You asked staff for a zero - increase budget not counting the increases re- <br />lated to our building project. You also asked for more line -item detail. <br />The attached budget meets both those directions. It also includes all the <br />charts and diagrams we usually include in a budget to illustrate what <br />the numbers mean. Finance Director Chris Miller will summarize that <br />budget at your July 2 8 Council meeting. <br />In addition, I have created the following recommendations with explana- <br />tions. <br />City Manager's 2004 Budget Recommendations <br />__._r� #. <br />A. state Funds Have Been Cut Simifica ntl <br />As you l nom, the state has cut its general purpose funding to Roseville <br />� g <br />by a total of $1.4 million for 2003 and 2004. <br />In addition, I doubt the City of Roseville will see any significant amount <br />of general purpose state funding after 2004. By all accounts, the state <br />governments budget crisis is deep and on- going. <br />Even when the state's economy and the state government's budget im- <br />prove, many deserving programs and priorities will compete for state <br />funding. These include health care for special populations and K- <br />education, both of which are enormously important and expensive. Fur - <br />thermore, many rural cities lack a meaningful local tax base and so have <br />histori <br />