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Special City Council Meeting Monday,May 27, 2015 Page 2 9. Consider Items Removed from Consent 10. General Ordinances for Adoption 11. Presentations 12. Public Hearings 13. Budget Items City Manager Trudgeon briefly introduced the purpose of tonight's meeting as an initial step in developing the 2016 budget, beginning with department presentations to identify specific operational issues and priorities that will impact the 2016 budget. Mr. Trudgeon advised that staff was seeking to present a fiscally responsible budget with limited impact to the taxpayer, as well as identifying other opportunities to provide services and/or iden- tify any available cost savings. Mr. Trudgeon noted that management staff had been working with their various staffs and were provided an opportunity to review program- ming and rationale for continuing that programming or services, rather than just continu- ing to do so because"we've always done it that way." Mr. Trudgeon noted that the intent tonight was for each department to provide a general discussion with trends, areas of focus, and specific City Council feedback and/or requests for additional information from those departments. Mr. Trudgeon advised that several departments would present tonight, and the remainder present at the Special City Council meeting scheduled on June 1, 2015. Mr. Trudgeon advised that he would use this infor- mation and solicit any additional feedback from the City Council, along with results of the priorities and initiatives outlined in the strategic planning exercise to prepare his City Manager-recommended budget intended for presentation in July of 2015 for further dis- cussion and refinement. Mr. Trudgeon reviewed the budget process and next steps over the next few months, re- action and other comments by the City Council at their June 15 workshop; opportunities for public feedback throughout that process; and involvement of the Finance Commission in the process before preliminary levy and budget adoption in September and a Final Budget and Levy enacted by December 8, 2015. a. Finance Department Budget Presentation Finance Director Chris Miller provided opening comments and then deferred to the Finance Department's leadership team and various operating departments: Fi- nance/Accounting, License Center, and Information Technology Division. Mr. Miller advised that the department had, over the last twelve months, per- formed a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) assessment as they developed a five-year strategic plan, which they would present to the City Council at a later date. Mr. Miller advised that tonight's intent was to outline the