Pat Showalter
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1,848 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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We have over 700 employees, and I would...
I would venture to say that probably at least 100 of them and maybe 150 of them have been actively involved in getting this budget together.
So, you know, thank you all for working together to do that.
And I also want to talk about how, a little bit about how, you know, budgets are kind of a story.
They're a story of how we're going to spend our money.
And they're a story of what we value and what we care about.
And I think that one of the parts of the story that I think are so important now is that we're really trying to focus on the things that we can control.
We're working on affordable housing, things that we can help get built.
We're working on getting more parks for people.
We're working on the inspections that keep people safe.
We're concentrating on what are the things we can control because we know that some of the insistence from the federal system, it's just not what it was before.
And so we have to stand
by ourselves and we have to collaborate internally to do that and I see that the staff is doing that and I really appreciate it and I hope you're having fun doing it and you're learning more about what each other's jobs are
And that can be really a great professional growth experience as well.
And it also saves money because if you find out by working together that you can have one process that can meet a certain subject instead of having 10 of them, well, you've saved a lot of money.
And that's a good thing.
So then I also wanted to talk a little bit about revenue and how we are really working to get some increases in our revenue.
Like we fixed the minimum purchase agreement issue with our water bill that has amounted to upwards of $3 million a year, I mean,
We have a, that's not a lot in terms of our budget, but it all adds up, so I think, and that goes into our water fund, which we will need money in forever to maintain our infrastructure.
We have Measure G, which is bringing up new money.
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