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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 3,2018 Page 6 Councilmember McGehee stated in some cases when going through the detail there areplaces where the City is gaining revenues such as in the building re- placement fund where total revenues are now eighty-three percent and expendi- tures of sixty-one percent. That is a movement in the right direction. She stated she was a little concerned about the pathway maintenance because revenues are at 142% and spending 180%. One of the things she briefly thought about is in both contracts with Langton Place and the project on Hwy 8 is the City picks up all maintenance after those are put in and she wondered if the Council going forward wants to think about something a little different where some of the businesses and other entities could help with the burden in maintaining those amenities. Mayor Roe noted in the Pathway Maintenance Fund, 142% is the increase from 2018 to 2019 on the revenue side but there is even more of an increase on the ex- penditure side. He stated this fund is shown as a maintenance fund but is actually more of a Capital Replacement fund. Councilmember McGehee stated it seemed to her as the City goes forward look- ing across the board to where that need is, it is much more on the commercial side than the residential side. Yet, residents are paying equally toward the services of both the Fire Department and Police Department and it is possible that the com- mercial side needs to pick up a little more of that because the residents also deal with commercial traffic and everything else associated with our large commercial presence. Councilmember Willmus asked, in regard to what he noted on the license center and what the City has set aside for capital in seeing the remaining balance of $460,836, should the City be putting that back in and reflecting it as license center reserves, rather than having it set aside for Capital. Mayor Roe thought the license center had one reserve fund which incorporates operating and capital within the same fund. Mr. Miller stated that was correct and staff has talked about segregating it out fur- ther in the City's books, which staff does currently on a spreadsheet. Councilmember Willmus thought the City should be properly tracking what it currently has. Mayor Roe thought with all of the funds that have the combined capital and oper- ating before considering where the City is at, relative to policy fund balance tar- gets staff pulls out the capital side. Mr. Miller stated that was correct. Councilmember Etten asked if there were other funds where the City is pulling aside expected capital expenditure in the next year or two.