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To: Mayor and Council Neal Beets, City Manager From: Chris Miller Date: October 18, 2004 Re: Response to Councilmember Schroeder's Budget Inquiries On October 13, 2004, Council1nember Schroeder submitted a request for information regarding the 2005 Proposed Budget, along with some suggested budget cuts. The information below provides the requested information, as well as some additional thoughts or concerns regarding the suggested budget cuts. Councilmember Schroeder's request was as follows: Neall Chris Attached are potential savings to the 2005 Budget that I would like to discuss as part of our 2005 Budget discussions. However, some questions I have, need to be answered before this discussion can take place. The budget fund summaries listed in the 2005 Budget Book that the council received don't fully explain how you got from the 2004 Adopted Budget figures to the 2005 Requested figures. I need explanations as to where all the cuts (listed below) made last year (2004) fall into the summaries and where do Neal's suggested cuts for 2005 fall into the summaries. If we don't approve the cuts Neal suggested, where in the summaries will the dollars be added back in. Why are some of the budget line items increasing or decreasing? Did you decide to spend money on something new, was it inflation, what are the reasons? Chris mentioned once inflation costs ate up the savings we thought we were getting with the new phone system. That would have been a huge inflation rate to eat up the telephone costs line items listed in each fund. I heard cell phones were bought with the 2004 savings from the new phone system. The council needs to know what the savings they thought they were making in 2004 were eaten up by or replaced with. This all should have been incorporated into the summaries. Just stating the 2004 was $100,000 and now it is $125,000 doesn't explain anything. 1