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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 17, 2015 Page 21 Additional discussion included Enterprise and Community Development Funds, and clarifying fund balances with overall fund allocations for CIP versus operat- ing funds; and the projected major 2018 CIP expenditure of$1.1 or $1.2 million for a new club house at the golf course skewing that year's funding, and options still under review by the Parks and Recreation Commission for their recommen- dation. As a general comment, Councilmember Laliberte noted these were the areas the City Council needed to get back on track. However, Councilmember Laliberte stated her bigger concern was in continued growth of the operating budget that re- ally needed discussion to make a firm decision on potential cuts in programs and service to balance this rather than just continue to grow the operating budget at recent rates. Councilmember Etten noted that on some funds (e.g. pathway maintenance) the targeted funding remained the same over many years, and questioned as new pathways are added it needed to be adjusted sooner rather than later to reflect in- flation and those new segments over the next 2-5 years, especially with the addi- tions of pathways along County Roads B and B-2, Victoria Street, and other pathways that, while great community assets, needed to realize an increase in maintenance funding. Finance Director Miller advised that, when preparing the CIP a decentralized ap- proach was used with current direction to staff to address the cost to maintain ex- isting city assets over the next twenty years in today's dollars, and that estimate as shown. Mr. Miller advised that unless directed otherwise, each department fac- tored in any additional pathways or other assets coming on line in 2015 by year end, but offered to double check his assumption with Department Heads. Given the health of some vehicle fleet funds as noted on the City Manager's rec- ommended budget, Councilmember Etten suggested continuing review with the possibility of repurposing some of those funds or shifting them for other needs. Finance Director Miller advised that staff looked at that annually as it projected out twenty years, noting that at this time more was being allocated to those funds than necessary, thus the reallocation recommended in the City Manager's budget. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Finance Director Miller advised that inflationary adjustments are not made with all allocations and projections made in today's dollars as a reference. Mr. Miller noted the challenges in attempting to guesstimate those future inflationary rates in any meaningful way using the filter of today's dollars. Mayor Roe opined it would not be a good idea for departments to attempt guess- ing those inflationary numbers for a particular year in the future without the ad-