 Today we'd like to talk a little bit about the budget that's been put together for 2019. Darrell, every year we go through a process that starts somewhere in June where we're beginning to ask our management team to start thinking about their budget for the next year. And I want to, I'm wondering if you could tell us a little bit about the goals that were set forth for the budget team as they began to start that process for each of their departments. There are four goals. The first is comply with property tax levy limits. The second is comply with the state's expenditure restraint program. The third is to keep equalized tax rate at inflation or lower. And the last is to maintain a minimum of 25% of a fund balance within the city's general fund, which is the city's main operating budget. And did everybody do a pretty good job in bringing budgets that met those goals? One understands the restrictions and constraints that the city faces. And as a result, I saw mostly needs, not wants. So I was very pleased with the request that came from the management team. Okay, now everybody in their department, many people would like to see more people to help them out with the workload that they have. What kind of request did you get and what are you recommending to the council and the neighborhood of adding staff to the city TO? I'm pleased that the 2019 budget has a no net increase in overall staffing levels. The positions that we are going to add is an additional four-tenths of an accounting assistant, six-tenths for a human resource generalist, four-tenths for an assistant city attorney, and a one full-time position in our IT network administrator. However, this position will not start until July 1st. For positions that will be reduced or eliminated, a half-time election specialist, a quarter percent of production technician. And then the library is seeing a reduction in staffing levels. Again, citywide overall no net increase. For purposes of tracking the department head's request, there were four additional requests that I did not support. One was an additional battalion chief and three additional firefighters. So those positions are not included in my recommendation to the common council. Okay, thanks for that information. You know, going on, the other big part of the budget is our bonding program. You know, state has put levy caps on us and that we can't increase the levy from our history in the past and only by net new construction. So many times we rely on our bonding program to help out with other projects. Could you give us an idea of what is anticipated in our bonding program this year? Approximately 5.5 million is anticipated for 2019. The annual goal is to keep it around $5 million. So we're slightly above that. The following streets are included in that 5.5. And again, we're fortunate that we're able to leverage other government agencies to pay for some of these projects. So the amounts I'm going to give you tally up to significantly more than 5.5. But our portion, our share, will be included in that 5.5. The first is $3.9 million for the reconstruction of North Avenue between 15th Street and North 21st Street. $3.8 million for the reconstruction of Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. $3 million for the second phase of the City Hall renovation project. $2.5 million for purchasing former right-of-way. This abandoned railroad track is immediately north of Indiana Avenue. $2.5 million to reconstruct streets surrounding proposed apartment complex, 118 units. Again, these are referred to as abadger state lofts. $1.3 million for the replacement of three fixed route buses. And $1.1 million for the reconstruction of Superior Avenue from North 29th to North Taylor. Now we have put a lot more emphasis on some of our streets. And while we still have a garbage fee that we're collecting and that money's going into the street budget, the county is giving us some sales tax dollars to about a little over $400,000. You know, we still depend on some tax dollars going into that and these bonding programs. Could you talk a little bit about our overall plan for our streets that we've put together and how this all plays together? Back in the fall of 2016, Public Works Director David Beeble put together a 14-year plan to bring sort of up-to-speed portions of the community that streets had low-rated street surfaces. And again, along with that 14-year plan, there was a revenue source recommendation as well. The council did approve that in the fall of 2016. And annually, Mr. Beeble puts into the city's five-year cap improvement program how those streets should be situated and ultimately how they are funded. And pretty consistent with that 14-year plan and with the five-year plan, this 2019 budget executes. Again, with your leadership, Mayor, there is a focus on street reconstruction and I think everyone can witness the significant increase in activity throughout our community. Now, you know, we talk about dollars, but I think we need to maybe put this in better terms for people to understand. And I know as we look back in our history before this plan was put together, we had repaved about 2.2 miles of roads or resurfaced roads during the past decade. And so when we ramped this up, we had a couple of years where we hit, I think, three and 3.3 miles. And then last year and this year, we've exceeded six miles of roads that have been resurfaced. And I'm hoping that David's going to be able to hit seven miles if the weather's good and the money's available for the products needed. And so we'll be at our peak this last year, which is really fantastic to see. The city's fortunate that the council supported the purchase of a million-dollar paver, a piece of equipment that instead of hiring a contractor, we could perform the surface layer with our own crew. Our staff is getting better every year based upon experience. And as a result, we're able to stretch the taxpayers' dollars significantly by doing it in-house. So it's a program that's been in place now two years. And as a result, we're able to stretch those dollars even further. Yeah, I think years ago, we used to do all concrete streets. But as we ran into some of the budget problems, we started just putting asphalt overlays on them. And many of those asphalt overlays are deteriorating. And so now we can hire somebody to mill off that asphalt, and then we can replace it ourselves. And in some cases where we have concrete streets that are deteriorating, we can put our own asphalt cover on it and keep those roads in good repair. If some of our citizens want to know where their street is and the plant and when we'll be getting to their area, is there a way that they can find out? Absolutely. On the city's website, if someone clicks under the department, sort of heading, and then clicks the city administrator sub file, and then on that city administrator page, I'll go all the way toward the bottom. And there's a list of many different links. And one of those links is the 2019 to 2000, I think it's 23, Kaplan improvements program. And in that document, there's a large spreadsheet and there's a listing of individual projects and which year the city recommends that we perform the work. And then I think the DPW is going to experiment with a little bit of a new process, a chip seal. The chip seal is putting a really nice, but almost a three-eighths of an inch cover over an asphalt road that's been there for a while to maintain it and keep it in good shape for the future. So they're going to experiment, I think, on one road this year. And if that works out, they plan to do more in the future. Yeah, it's a strategy to try and extend the life a few years longer. And again, it's a way to increase the quality of that sort of drive experience on certain roads. Thanks again for your time today. And thanks to all of our viewers for tuning in to learn a little bit more about the Sheboygan City budget for 2019.