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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 2, 2013 Page 18 At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Miller clarified that maintenance costs had al- ready been programmed into the 2014 numbers for the fire station; but the park improvements had yet to happen, so that additional maintenance burden had not been addressed, and any additional funds should be little if any in 2014. Mr. Mil- ler concurred that those costs needed to be addressed for future budget cycles, and as noted by Mayor Roe, also in long-term CIP programs. Councilmember Willmus concurred with Councilmember McGehee's concern for the need to fund ongoing maintenance of facilities. With regard to park im- provements, however, Councilmember Willmus opined that the City Council could not go down the path of not doing so, and take steps to prevent that from happening. Mayor Roe noted that the CIP Task Force had rolled a number of Park improve- ment items into the Park CIP going forward to account for them in tracking throughout the City. Once the Renewal Program cycles through, Mayor Roe not- ed that there would be expiring bond issues (e.g. City Hall and Public Works buildings) that could be repurposed to fund those adequately. Mayor Roe noted that the Task Force had also recommended including subsequent levy increases in the 2017 to 2019 time frame to deal with those current unknowns. Mayor Roe encouraged that the institutional knowledge of those recommendations and their rationale needed to be clearly carried forward to future City Councils and staff. While most entities look at a five year CIP, Councilmember McGehee noted that the longer-term projections became less accurate the further out they were. How- ever, Councilmember McGehee reiterated that the City Council was choosing to reduce what was initially determined for that CIP need within the first 2 years of the program, while capital improvements continued to be added and paid for with public funds and becoming part of the asset management program, causing the program to fall short at the very beginning, and supporting the previous historical pattern of unsustainability. Councilmember McGehee opined that this needed to continually brought home and decisions kept upfront for the citizens to uphold fu- ture City Councils to keep the pat that had been set. Mayor Roe note that, for at least 2015, this sitting City Council was the future council. Councilmember Etten clarified that the $225,000 used this year was not from re- serves, but being paid by local government aid; with concurrence by Mr. Miller. Councilmember Etten spoke in support of making sure the CIP was fully funded. Councilmember Willmus expressed his ongoing struggle as addressed at previous meetings related to proposed wage adjustments, basing his concern on the Octo- ber market compensation adjustment, and the proposed 2% COLA for 2014, mak- ing that figure significantly outpace inflation over the last two years by 3.25%,