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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 17,2023 Page 5 The Council discussed with staff the funds within the Parks and Recreation fund as well as the Golf Course enterprise fund and movement of money between those funds. Councilmember Schroeder thought it would be nice if the enterprise fund could support its capital,but it cannot at this point. Ms. Pietrick reviewed the IT fund. She noted staff was going to fold the IT fund into the general fund because it will eventually go away. She also reviewed the general facilities fund and explained staff reduced the levy and are anticipating a State bonding next year for the OVAL project. If the City does not get the funding, the bonding and project will move to another year. Councilmember Schroeder explained on the general facilities fund, she noticed staff reduced the levy. She reduced the levy even further and it looked like even if more money is taken out of the fund, it would still stay healthy. She asked if staff could look at removing even more in this area to help offset some of the other funds. Ms. Pietrick thought staff might be able to do that,but noted this is one of the funds where there were not significant changes in the expenses to account for current pricing. Her hope is that departments will take a harder look to see if the numbers are still realistic as a lot of the numbers are still historic. She reviewed the park improvement fund. Councilmember Schroeder thought there was funding for Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) on the operational side of the budget. Ms. Pietrick explained there was not any funding for that except for in the park improvement fund. Parks Director Matt Johnson explained the EAB number the Council is seeing in the CIP, noting when the City went forward with the accelerated EAB program, which was about 1.4 million dollars, it was paid for with a combination of CIP dollars and tree replacement funds. This is a three-year program and was broken out based on tree estimates so the number is a combination of removals and planting from that final year of the accelerated EAB program. He noted there is an allocation within the operating budget for disease and hazardous trees because non-ash trees continue to fall, and the City still has its standard forestry operation. Ms. Pietrick reviewed the pavement management/street replacement fund and the street light replacement fund with the City Council. She noted the City is coming to an end of the lease contract with Xcel Energy and will need to maintain a larger number of streetlights as a result.