Ben Sorensen
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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And I'm happy to report, as you'll find out later today, they have done that.
Another thing that we've talked as a board and I've talked, brought this to the attention of the commission for about the last eight months, we focused on reviewing topics that would have impacts for FY27.
Keeping in mind that we wanted to look at, we understand that affordability and cost of living is a big concern for the taxpayers, not only for the homeowners, but also the renters.
and the people that live here in our community in a lot of the downtown rental units.
We also dove into what AI, artificial intelligence, can hold for the future in efficiency opportunities.
As you know, and Commissioner Herbst, we've had some good discussions about the future of AI.
And yes, it will affect
jobs, but there's more efficiency and there's a way to handle those job losses through attrition, not filling vacancies, perhaps buyouts.
There's other opportunities as we move forward.
But this is the trend in the nation of all municipalities as we move forward incorporating AI and especially the larger municipalities such as ours.
We also recognize that there's revenue loss, but there's also with some revenue losses come opportunities for additional cost recovery and enhancements, which we've looked at and we are putting together a report in more detail that when we come back in August, we'll report back on some of our ideas.
I'm pleased to report though that some of those, the city manager and OMB and department heads have already taken
TAKING SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS AND THEY'RE LEANING FORWARD TO START WORKING TOWARDS WITH THIS COMMISSION TO TRY TO RECAPTURE SOME OF THOSE ENHANCEMENTS AND SOME OF THOSE ADDITIONAL REVENUE SOURCES.
AND THEN OUR BUDGET APPROACH IS OBVIOUSLY TO WORK WITHIN OUR MEANS AND A BALANCED BUDGET WITH BALANCING STRATEGIES.
AND THEN THE MILITARY AND BENCHMARKING ON THE MILITARY.
As you know, we went 19 years up to this year with no millage increase.
We've been fortunate enough to have assessed values increase.
However, when you look historically now, those assessed values are trending downward.
We're not in the double digits like we were three and four years ago.
We're in 7%, 8%.
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