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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 14, 2014 Page 26 la, there were no adjustments needed, based on his last revision in 2014 looking out twenty years. Mayor Roe opined that the numbers would work with alloca- tions without that $225,000; and without that $50,000 that the city had not funded in 2014 compared to the recommendation of the committee but remaining suffi- cient. Mayor Roe recognized staff's recommendation, as confirmed by Mr. Miller, for allocation of $55,000 for new capital replacements, with City Hall refunding bonds going toward capital. In addition to staff recommendations beyond refunding for 2015, Mayor Roe sug- gested looking annually at CIP projections to determine benefits from changes in planned replacement costs. However, Mayor Roe opined that it still looked fine to him, and changes could be made in the future as parks and recreation capital funding and skating center costs 2-3 years from now needed funding. Mayor Roe noted that the original CIP looked at $800,000 plus for retirement of City Hall bonds in 2020; and the original projection was to use one-quarter of that toward CIP needs. In his most recent analysis, Mayor Roe advised that perhaps that amount could be reduced, or increased to assist with those costs, or could serve to provide some form of tax levy relief. Based on his analysis, Mayor Roe advised that he was comfortable with where the CIP was at even considering the loss of Local Government Aid(LGA) funds. Mayor Roe opined that one reason the CIP was still on track was based on the CIP Task Force's recommendation to not add an inflation number each year when planning out twenty years, as that could change, but to be fair to taxpayers and provide a more realistic projection, it not be put on automatic pilot but be re- viewed annually. Councilmember Etten referenced and noted that, in the original schedule provided by the CIP Task Force, by repurposing the levy for savings financially, it helped fill in some of that gap in 2015. In response to the City Manager Recommended Budget, and since the COLA pol- icy referred to the CPI and Employment Cost Index for Municipal and State Workers, Mayor Roe asked that staff provide up-to-date numbers based on the latest information from both sources to assist in deliberations. Also, Mayor Roe asked for a better explanation and understanding from staff as regarding his personal challenge in considering FTE's how on-call firefighters were considered "0" FTE or the technical definition of FTE and how the City was actually identifying that to achieve a net FTE.