Jovan Grogan
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24,449 appearances
70 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 4d ago
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It allows us to dive deeper within each budget and talk about
with respects to the needs of our departments in both the operating areas and the capital areas in a very detailed way.
We have a modest staff here.
The budget team of three, we have one vacancy.
one at home, and so small staff to produce two almost thousand page documents, and so that alternating cycle allows our staff and resources to focus.
If you see when we shifted to that two-year process, our budget books look very different, more in-depth, detailed, easier to read.
So that's our recommendation.
Obviously that is subject to council policy and council review.
If there's a desire to change that in the future, we follow the council's policy lead on that.
With regards to unfunded capital projects, is that prioritized?
We showed the slide of 250 million in unfunded needs.
Does that reach a critical point where we're at risk of compliance and legal mandates, health and safety issues?
So we work.
through the budget process with every city department that has infrastructure to identify what's the highest priority, the best use of those very limited general fund dollars.
And so we do take into consideration health and safety, legal mandates, community needs.
There's a number of master plans and studies that also inform the prioritization of projects that have been before the council.
And so this is very clear in our budget documents, talking about when we moved over to that two-year cycle, we were able to clearly identify what is unfunded, what's funded, what are our future needs.
That was an effort that was critical to support the $400 million GEO bond.
Question number 10, how are enterprise funds defined?
Why are the operations associated with the treatment plant in this category?
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