 Very important, your tax dollars at work and everybody gets a chance to participate and see how your tax dollars are being spent. The priorities that you all have, one thing that I can say very proudly about our city manager is that she really, and her whole team is that they really listen to what some of our concerns are. And so that's why we're here today to continue to talk about these budget issues. So these, last week on August 7th, the manager proposed a fiscal 2015 budget that is balanced and includes no layoffs and no property tax increases. We also have recently received again for the eighth year in a row, I think triple A, fifth year in a row, triple A bond rating. It's especially important because it allows us continue to do more projects in your neighborhoods. So I also want to just take a moment to thank my staff that's here today. Most of us are sitting in the back. We have a few sitting throughout in the pink t-shirts. Our volunteer team, we have several volunteers and also my staff from District 5. We have our field office here at Nogalitos and also one at Las Palmas. And here to answer any questions that you all have that are not related to the budget but we're here for you if you have any questions. So I'll talk to you guys a little bit about, oh, and in fact it'll give me the opportunity to announce, Councilman Joe Crier is here from District 9, going to sit in and listen to the presentation today. I thought I saw maybe another council member but I don't have my glasses. So who's here? We saw Crier, we announced Councilman Joe Crier and as I come we'll announce them because I think we had some others that were coming. And so thank you all and for your participation. Please participate and let us know what you want to hear. This is for you all, it's your presentation that you all are here to learn. And also if you hear things that you don't like about the presentation, not about the numbers per se, but if there's things that we can do to improve the presentation, for example if you can't hear enough or if you would like a greater expansion on a particular item, please let us know so we can address those concerns. So thank you all for being here and I'll just turn it over to the City Manager so she will talk to you about how the project will work today, starting with the video and then some other exercises for everybody to participate in. So thank you all so much for being here. Thank you Councilwoman. And our thanks for the staff here at our Senior Center. I used to shop here when it was an HEB, how many of you remember when it was Yes, because I live close by, so we're glad to be here and this is one of the best attended Senior Centers so we're happy to be here tonight and thank you all for coming. We appreciate the input and Councilman Ron Nirenberg just walked in as well. Ron represents District 8, maybe, wait, there he is in the back. So we have three Council members here tonight and what we do at these meetings that we do out in the District, we collect all of the information, the input that we receive and we share it with all the Council members so that they can hear from everyone throughout the community. We have a number of staff here tonight and I see our Fire Chief in the back of the room and Assistant Police Chiefs. So let me ask and at each of your tables there are staff members so that they will take notes and compile the information and we'll ask you to designate an individual to speak on behalf of your table tonight. But let me just ask the staff members to stand and be identified. We have quite a few department heads and assistant department heads and executive staff here to take notes and to listen to you. So staff, thank you all for being here tonight and participating as well. So we have about a five minute video that summarizes the proposed budget. It is balanced. We're required by law to maintain a balanced budget. It's balanced today. It'll be balanced when it's adopted by the City Council and we keep it balanced throughout the course of the year. It identifies the video that we will share with you, identifies the changes and what's proposed in the budget. We have some very good things in the budget this year, including increased street maintenance, increased drainage improvements to prevent flooding in neighborhoods, as well as some increases in our parks budget, our libraries and our senior centers because we're opening two more senior centers. So the input we get from you all at these types of meetings and direction from the City Council helps us prepare the budget annually. And then we use the input that we receive from these meetings as well as the Council's deliberation about the proposed budget to finalize the budget before it's adopted. And our budget adoption is scheduled for Thursday, September 18th. We're required by law to adopt the budget before the end of September because our fiscal year is through September 30th and the new fiscal year begins October 1. So we're going to show you a video, then I have a couple of slides I want to share with you that further describe what's included in the budget. And then we'll break into our table conversation and report out before we end this evening. And our goal is to be done by 8 PM so that we can all get home, okay? So let's roll the video and then we'll share some slides with you. The City of San Antonio's fiscal year 2015 proposed budget provides recommendations for making it easier to get around. Becoming healthier, more educated, and providing affordable public safety. The city's $2.4 billion proposed budget is a reflection of what is most important to the community. The proposed budget is balanced as required by law. Includes no increase to the city's property tax rate for the 22nd year in a row. Increases the street maintenance budget significantly. Strikes a balance among the community's many priorities and does not include layoffs for uniform or civilian employees. Priorities that you shared with us during the five community budget meetings held in May. More than 400 people attended and worked in small groups to identify the cuts they would make, as well as to add funding to an existing service. Following these community meetings, the city council held a day-long goal-setting session and together agreed on the following budget priorities. Increase funding for streets and drainage. Develop a multi-year plan to improve and acquire more parks. Enhance the city's investment in education, including more library services and adult literacy programs. Maintain and strengthen public safety without crowding out other services like streets, libraries, parks, and human services. Enhance animal care, neighborhood code enforcement, and other programs to improve neighborhoods. Keep the economic development toolbox equipped to attract new companies and jobs to San Antonio. Fund and complete a comprehensive plan for the city, including policies related to transportation, water, air quality, and public spaces. Public safety is by far the largest expense in the city's budget. Two out of every three general fund tax dollars are spent on fire and police protection. The fastest growing driver of public safety costs is the health care benefits the city provides for uniformed employees. Health care for uniformed employees costs the city nearly double what it costs for civilian employees. In the city's recent community survey conducted by an outside pollster, 70% of respondents said they want to see uniformed health care benefits brought more in alignment with civilian health care benefits. The fiscal year 2015 proposed budget makes changes to health care benefits for firefighters and police officers, saving the city millions of dollars, while still continuing to cover 100% of on-the-job injuries and offering better health care benefits than those provided to city's civilian employees, and better than those offered in other Texas cities. This follows the council's direction to ensure that public safety does not exceed more than 66% of the city's general fund budget. By maintaining affordable public safety costs, the city can invest in other priorities. The proposed budget adds an additional $21.8 million dollars for neighborhood street maintenance and drainage projects to the current $52 million dollars in the infrastructure management program that is used for the continuous maintenance of San Antonio infrastructure. It will grow the infrastructure maintenance program by nearly 30%, which will significantly increase the number of roads fixed this year. It adds funding for the maintenance and operation of a new library, two new senior centers, and new parks projects approved by voters in the 2012 bond program. It funds the hiring of two city veterinarians to conduct spay-neuter surgeries, to reduce stray animals and keep the city's live release rate of stray animals at 80%. It provides resources for a new program to regulate vacant buildings throughout our city. And finally, it funds a code enforcement case management system to close cases faster and more transparently. The fiscal year 2015 proposed budget does not include an increase to the stormwater fee. Instead, the city will review a new stormwater rate method and make recommendations to the city council and the community in the 2015 calendar year. The budget also does not include any funding for VIA's streetcar project. There are a few fee increases, including an increase in the fee for being transported by EMS and a $1 increase in the solid waste fees for garbage collection. So there you have it. The fiscal year 2015 proposed budget, balanced, no tax rate increase, addresses the community's top priorities by keeping public safety costs affordable and does not include any layoffs for uniform or civilian employees. The city budget is the most important policy document the city council will consider in any given year. And before the council considers adopting it on September 18th, we want to hear from you. There will be five community budget meetings held across the city and two public hearings at the city council chambers. You can learn more at the city's website, www.sanantonio.gov. I think this week about the budget and we learned something new at each meeting. Questions come up or information is shared and so we'll offer some additional information for you as you talk within your work groups. And let me share just a couple of slides with you specifically about public safety and why we're making the recommendations we are. So as we had the goal setting session with the city council in May, the city council said let's keep our public safety costs in check. Right now it represents two thirds of the general fund budget and we don't want to have to reduce our libraries and our senior centers and our social services and the delegate agency funding as those costs grow faster than our general fund revenue. So we're keeping public safety at 66% of the general fund budget so that we can fund the new parks acreage that's coming online this year and as well as the new libraries and other services that are included with our 2012 bond projects. Most importantly and what we hear the most from the community is that we need to do more in terms of street maintenance. We maintain 4,000 miles of streets and I think we all have a favorite street that needs repair. Is there anyone that doesn't have a list of streets that need to be repaired? So even though we have large bond programs that focus on some of the bigger streets there's still so much to do in the community. So this budget does include a recommendation to increase our street maintenance. This about a year ago the city council appointed a task force to take a look at what we call legacy costs, pension and health care for city employees. Civilian as well as public safety and it represented civilian employees both active as well as retired and uniform employees. It also included business representatives from the community that are experts in health care and pension. So it was a combination of people to study the issues and there were eight meetings in total more than 30 hours of meetings. A lot of study of numbers and that those recommendations were presented to the city council. Here you see the pie chart, public safety representing two-thirds of the general fund and all the other departments are shown here on the balance of the sheet. So everything else, libraries and health and animal care services, code enforcement, the municipal court, the health department, our delegate agencies, street maintenance, parks and recreation, all of that is in the other one-third and over the past five years there's a phrase that has been coined called crowding out and what happens is public safety becomes a larger and larger percentage of the budget. It crowds out some of those other services. So we're looking at ways that we can manage our costs long-term. Health care is one of the major cost drivers for the expense within public safety. For the civilian employees we adjust the health care plans annually and we all know that we contribute to the cost of health care and are required to make changes in how much we pay on an annual basis because health care costs are going up in the public safety area. And here we're showing our civilian employees as compared to the uniform employees. Our civilian employees contribute about 30 percent of the total cost of health care and we're talking about health care, general health care for themselves and for their families. The national average is 43 percent. So we're providing better health care coverage for our civilian employees than happens on a national basis. In terms of our uniform employees they contribute only about nine percent of the total cost. No premiums for themselves or their families and very low out-of-pocket low deductibles. So those costs have increased on average over the last three years about 20 percent per year just on our claims. So we know that it's a major expense driving the cost and we are asking our uniform employees to contribute toward the cost of health care like almost all of us do. Here's how much we spend on an annual basis for uniform health care as well as for civilian health care and it compares us to other cities because we need to benchmark ourselves. How do we compare to other cities within the state of Texas? And you can see that what we spent last year about 13,000 per uniform as compared to 7,000 per civilian employee for health care paid for by the city and how that compares to other cities in the state and we are by far the highest. So what here is where we are 7,000 per civilian employee almost 13,000 last year per uniform and we've offered an alternative to both unions to say we're willing to meet in the middle. We're willing to negotiate with you something that is less than what you have today but something a little bit more than what civilian employees have and we're hopeful that they will have that candid conversation with us and we invite them to come to the table and negotiate with us on that point. Now even I want to show you here's a police officer you might say well maybe the salaries are different what about total compensation? Salaries, special pays, benefits, how do we compare to other cities? And you can see for a police officer 20 years of service here's how we compare. We're second only to Austin within the state on a total compensation basis and for firefighters we're tied for number one in terms of how we compensate our employees. So even if there was an adjustment in health care we'd still be at the top of the list. So that is what we're talking about as you hear some of the conversation. Our firefighters we want them to come to the table and negotiate with us. We haven't had a meeting with them yet, they haven't been willing to meet with us but we're encouraging them to do that and we're inviting our police officers the union to come back to the table because we want to negotiate something with them that's reasonable for them and fair and also affordable to the taxpayers because we know that is what you want. Now at some of the meetings so far, Dale can you hold that for a minute? We've heard a few comments and I just want to share this information with you as well. There are no recommendations you heard that there are no layoffs in the budget. We have reduced a number of city positions over the past eight years and we haven't laid off any employees in the process. We have increased the number of police personnel by nearly 500. Added 500 police officers and firefighters over the past eight years. It's one of our core services and we need to keep up with population growth as well as the size of our city. We've also cut during that same time frame 1200 civilian positions all without layoffs. A question has come up in the budget meetings over the last two nights. This budget does not include the elimination of the victims advocacy unit in the police department. There's been some conversation that we are recommending, eliminating that we're not. There's no cut recommended in this proposed budget. Secondly, property tax revenue. So when we talk with the council about the forecast in May, we estimate what we think property values will be and how much they will increase but we don't set the assessed valuation. That's set by the Bayer appraisal district at the county and they give us the tax roll the end of July. It was up a little bit more and we're recommending that those funds be used for the street maintenance improvements that we're proposing within the budget. So the tax roll in May we had recommended at about 3.9%. It actually came in 1.7% better at 5.6% and those additional revenues are built into the budget. Back in May we estimated sales tax revenue would be up about 8% and that's what's included in the proposed budget. So we have a combination of factors cuts in the budget. There are some cuts on the civilian side but we're also increasing a net increase of 13 positions to staff our new parks and our new libraries and our new senior centers so that we can take care of the highest priorities for the city. Again the budget is balanced. There is no property tax rate increase and there are no layoffs proposed in this budget for uniform or civilian personnel and we've taken into consideration any revenue growth now that we're coming out of the recession. That too is built into the budget so that we can accommodate the changes. Our budget's complicated. We are a corporation that includes many different types of services and we all have different things that we are here perhaps to ask about or advocate for tonight. So you'll see in the table discussion and Maria is going to come up here. Maria Villagomez is our budget director does an outstanding job with her team helping to work with the departments and balance all of these competing priorities. And what we'd like to ask you to do tonight is to identify those things that you think we should increase in the budget but also tell us what you think we perhaps could do with less. That is perhaps we could do without something or we could make some reductions in an area to be able to fund those things that are most important to the community. So I'm going to ask Maria to explain what we'll have you do over the next 30 minutes and then at the end of the meeting we'll ask a designee at each table to report out to summarize the consensus or the major points that you make during the conversation this evening so that everyone can hear what you discussed and then we'll gather up that information and share it with the entire city council. Maria. Thank you Cheryl. Well good evening everybody and thank you for joining us tonight. What we're going to do over the next 30 minutes is ask you for your priorities for this proposed budget. So now that you know about the budget what is included and what we're recommending we're going to ask you two questions. Number one what areas of the budget you support and you don't want to see any changes. So for example if you are in agreement with a recommendation of additional street maintenance and you don't want to have any changes made to that recommendation that would be an example of those areas that you support. The second question is to provide us up to three areas or programs within the budget that perhaps you wanted to see increases and you don't see those reflected today. So for instance if you wanted to see more dollars added to the library and that's not what we're recommending please provide us with that feedback and as the manager mentioned our budget is balanced so if you are recommending an increase to the library then we're also going to ask you to make a recommendation in another area that you want to see a reduction so we can continue to maintain a balanced budget. So we're asking you again for up to three programs that you support and you don't want to see any changes made in the budget and another three programs where you perhaps want to see some changes or increases. Once you have that information for your table the facilitators that are your table will help you through that process. If you can please assign a spokesperson for each table to report back to the group. We're going to give you 30 minutes to go to go through that exercise. We also put some materials at your table like this handout that I'm holding in my hand and this has some information about the general fund where the money comes from how we are proposing to invest those dollars and also some additional information on areas that perhaps you need additional data such as the non-departmental budget the transfers budget. Last night we got requests for the delegate agency's funding so we also have included that on the packet for tonight. And I'll be around answering any questions that you may have. So thank you so much and we have 30 minutes. Thank you. I'm Shirley Gonzalez City Council District 5. Do I look at you or do I look at the camera? You can just look at me. Okay. So tell me about the budget process and why people care about it. Well this is the budget process we're going through and finding some of the details and we've got to vote on the budget on September 18th. So what we're doing here today is giving people an opportunity to give some of their feedback that they would like to see. We do have to present a balanced budget as the city manager mentioned so if we would like to see some increases in some areas we need to make reductions in others. But this is an opportunity for the public to get out and talk about the issues that they're concerned about and hopefully see some of that reflected in their city. And how should people learn more about this and what's the next step? Well we can always learn more about it by going online and checking out some of that information. It's all online and it's all available to the public anytime. It's all in open records and open books. So being here today is one way that people can learn about it and see what the priorities are for everything that is being presented and then what was your second question? Like what's the next step? The next step it would be that we'll vote on this here in September. And how can people who didn't attend this meeting today have their input after all this information? So we have still a some open area to make comments online. We can also there's a box in front of this building or you can just drop and give a little bit of input if you want to do it deal fashion way just write it by hand or you can always check the websites for the city of San Antonio.gov. And what are the most important issues to you? The most important issues to me first of all are just our balancing the budget. That we have increase in streets and sidewalks and drainage. I think where the priorities as public safety is always the number one priority. And then commitment to social services. We do have so many of our agencies that do a lot to help the community. We want to make sure that they get all the help they need so that they continue to help other people that are the most vulnerable. Thank you so much. Hey, thank you. Thank you. Tell me your name again. My thout. My name. Thank you, my thout. Can everyone take a seat so that we can report out and hear from each of our tables? Table two requested to go first. Okay. My name is Jim and we had a really good table here. We had a few good laughs at some of my terrible jokes, right? You know, now we had a really good table here. Some of the things we support that are in the current budget are the streets and sidewalks. We all agree those need a lot of work and we do know where a lot of those that work needs to be done at. We'd like the idea with the drainage being in the budget. We know that's very important, especially during these flash floods. We support the current staffing levels and we appreciate the fact there are no layoffs in the civilian or the sworn positions. We appreciate the continued funding for delegate agencies, especially for Project Quest. Give me a shout out there. We like the fact that we're maintaining the victim advocacy programs over at the police departments. Changes and additions. I had to admit, I stole this from last night, but utilize vet schools for maybe getting some of the veterinarian texts, you know, because we have one of the biggest medical training facilities here at Fort Sam. You know, maybe they can alleviate some of those issues and know that for you guys. I mean, it's huge over there. That's a huge resource. Like I said, and we'd like the fact that there's two vets going over there in this budget. Increase workforce development. We also wanted to see an increase in youth services, drug prevention programs, maybe bringing dare back to the police department and our safe units already built to maybe do that. I just don't know what kind of cost or time they have. I'm not familiar with with what's involved with dare. And the ways to maybe pay for some of those additions is maybe look at streamlining the vendor purchasing process, you know, make it competitive to where if I know, for example, we have staples, maybe in their contracts, say, look, you have the price match. If an officer can go out, get some of Costco, Sam's or things like that, you know, not paying for those goggles that cost five dollars if we walk in. Like I said, I just would like to see the department heads have the ability to maybe just credit cards, this or that, but I think there's a huge amount of cost savings there. And another thing, we're all proud of how we do things here in the city of San Antonio is maybe solicit our services and find example is solid waste, you know, soliciting to all these other communities, you have maybe waste management who are a lot more expensive built in a margin there to where we can actually increase revenues by soliciting our services to other parts of the bear county. Not necessarily consolidation, but things we're already doing. Hey, let's make some money on what we do, do very well here in the city. Everybody does a great job here. And that's, is that it? That was team quest report. Thanks, Jim. All right. I think Diane's table next. Can we, can we help you with that, Diane? Oh, okay. Okay. The first thing I'd like to say, okay, the first thing I'd like to say is that we looked at how to increase revenues. One of the things is that we should try to solicit volunteers wherever we can. The animal care services are getting so many volunteers that are really doing a lot of heavy lifting in it. And I'm sure there's places that we could be having more volunteers because a lot of people do like to help. So that's number one. The second thing is where we can increase money is not reversing decisions that we've already made. Such as Flora Street or the bike lanes, that reversing the decision cost us a million dollars. And I don't know how much negotiation was made, but we were talking about that, that isn't there some other way that we can deal with the traffic problems and just instead of saying, no, we don't want it, let's just redo it. Yes, there was not enough input from the citizens ahead of time, but still a million dollars and you can't figure out something that will keep the bike lanes and not cost us a million dollars. Another thing that we talked about is the revenue from commercial properties, that these seem to be ways that we might be able to get more money by the vacant properties getting better taxation on it. The things that we're supporting and would like to see as is are in the new budget, animal care, victims, advocacy and family violence unit, the aligned civilian uniform benefits. And the one thing that we're proud that it's not going to be a draconian measure for the firefighters and our police that they will have to give something, but when you see the disparity that there is two thirds of the budget for 4,000 employees and one third of the budget for the salaries of 7,000 employees and everything else that we're giving libraries and parks and everything else, that's a big disparity and not to go draconian, I think was a very good move. At least for the beginnings of the negotiations. So we appreciate that. And we don't want to say show the police and fire that we don't appreciate them, we do and that's important. We thought there might be room for an increase of some benefits for a quest because it provides a good service. So we have all our revenue sources in line. Thank you. All right. Which table would like to volunteer to go next? Okay. Right over here. Table number five. Hi everyone. My name is Martha Bonda. We have a lot of district five cheerleaders over here. So yay for district five. And thanks to John Jacks. He was a really great city facilitator. So starting with our support, no change items. We have parks and rec and the wellness initiatives. We'd like to support and keep that. And also any the inner city redevelopment iCrypt and the other item that's on there. We would like to continue to support that. Libraries and adult literacy streets and infrastructure maintain that. And then on the change increase in cut. There was a recommendation to cut the hemisphere funding that I think is a one time project fund. And also to add street lighting to district five. And then increase the health department budget. Given our health statistics here in the city. We'd like to see that increase. And then support of desi sase and other cultural and arts activities in the city. We'd like to see that increased as well. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. We didn't talk about it, but the budget does include increasing our adult literacy center. So we piloted a program this year that was developed by our human services department. And we're expanding that in this budget. So thank you for that input. Okay. Paula your table wants to go next. Number is that six. Okay. Hello everyone. This is what table six came up with. What we support. No change is the additional funding for the street maintenance sidewalks and drainage. We support improvements for the parks and recreation. And also for the vacant building program. And we'd also like to see a complete streets being fulfilled whenever there is any kind of reconstruction on city streets that they comply with all current policies, federal policies. We'd also like to see increases, especially in the animal care services. I think district five, especially where I'm from, there's a lot of stray cats and dogs. More street lighting maybe on both sides on West Commerce. Most of the streets, most of the lighting on West Commerce is on the south side of the West Commerce. If we could have lighting on both sides. I think that would enhance the importance of a very major artery in the city of San Antonio, which is West Commerce. We'd also like to see competitive wages for cities employees, I guess. One percent is not enough and they're talking about the cost of living allowance. And they'd like to see it come from the, and by all means, we love our men in blue. But it would come from the Fire and Police budget. That's it. And commercial property that they pay their fair share in taxes. Okay. But a couple of tables have mentioned increased lighting in the neighborhoods and Councilwoman Gonzales has asked us to take a look at that and increase the lighting. And this budget does include an additional $300,000 for improved lighting within District 5. So she's listening to your comments and we did too. And so there is a recommendation in the budget for increased lighting. Okay. Next table. We, okay. Table seven. Okay. All right. We are Table 7. And although I don't live in District 5, I have a business and business in District 5, so my heart is there. We support street improvement and we also maintain, we would like to maintain the current funding, the proposed current. We would like to also support victim services and the vacant building ordinance. I think that will prevent a lot of crime and homeless just running around those vacant buildings. We would like to add more funding for victim services, an enhanced increase for enforcement and prevention. For, I think it was more for, what kind of victim was just a crime or just abuse domestic violence? So we would like to add monies for domestic violence, enforcement and prevention. Street lights. We would like to add monies for under the bridge lightning. I know you already have street lighting, but we would like to see it under the bridge. We would like to add education, transitional programs for teens, and this is what I come into place. I've seen a lot of the teenagers that are aged out of the shelters. They're homeless and they have no direction in the after hours, so we would like to see programs for them and maybe guidance, extract curricular activities for those children, Dali, for instance, in heaven for hope. There is not a program for them. There is a program for families, but not for those teenagers, aged out teenagers. And we would like, transitional programs for this, general reserve? What is this? Here's somebody else. This reserve shaves some from the reserve fund. Oh, okay. Wherever we could shave and maintain the AAA bond rating. Oh, that was shaving some from the general, from the fund reserve in the general fund, wherever to, of course, to maintain that very important AAA bond rating, but also to shave some of that 10% down. A lot of this doesn't add up to the 10% that would come out of that general fund. And the last thing was, not our entire table was not in favor of that, but the 1% tax increase, which would do $7.8 million, the 1 cent tax increase, which would do the $7.8 million in revenue, which could pay for everything on our table. That's us, table seven. Thank you, table seven. All right. We're going to jump back over here, what table four, and then we're going to come to table three. Okay. Hi there. I'm Maria Salazar with Project Quest, and we're table four. And the areas that we were looking for reduction were to reduce economic development by 1.5 million, to reduce city attorneys by 4 million, to reduce the one-time projects by 2 million. So that would give us about a 7.5 million revenue to go into these increases and to the agencies that we support. What areas we support or no change? One of the first ones is delegate agencies in my particular Project Quest. And then second, increase civilian benefits and align with safety employees, and then increase also funding for animal care. Great. Thank you. Table four. Edward, your table's next. Table three. Hey, everyone. We're with table three, and we came up with some recommendations. What we supported were street infrastructure. We liked that increase, especially in district five. We need sidewalks, lights, parks, drainage. I mean, there's tons of different projects that I think we need to get done. In addition to that, we like the status of the parks and recreation funding. We feel like, you know, the what's going on with the city. We think there's more parks to be had. And we really like that. We didn't like, you know, we didn't want that to decrease or anything. The third thing we supported were the new library. And in addition to that, senior centers. So if there's any way, you know, to maintain those funding mechanisms to keep those, we liked. Now, with changes, though, the increase in civilian health care, we, you know, judging from those slides, we realized that the civilians really needed some better benefits. And to offset those costs, we figured maybe a tax increase of any sort. But in addition to that, efficient collection of, you know, anything from cold compliance or other fees to help offset an increase in civilian benefits. And that's it. Okay. Do we have one more table over here? Table number nine thing. Vincent? Yep. You gonna help? Okay. Linda. Yeah. Go ahead. We had several people who had to leave. One because he was like four. So we agreed with the overall budget and we were excited about the library funding. And we also were pleased with the animal care funding. We did come up with the fact that a lot of people are still talking about they'd like to have the library hours extended. But I understand that we would have to hire more employees so that makes it a major increase, which I don't know that we can afford. And we feel like the staff has done a great job getting this budget together. I know y'all have spent weeks. I know months, probably Maria. So we're thankful that you were willing to stay with it. We'd like to have a funding increase for community centers. Apparently this area is lacking in that. Not only do they not have lighting, but they also need community centers other than this one. And we thought that it could come out of the increase on city council fundings. That's it. The private funding for stuff like Illuminatius instead of coming out of the city budget. And encourage the employees to take leave and to actually, they can't accrue leave time. We were talking kind of like the firemen who can leave and they still have accrued a lot of days, you know, sick days. And then look at reducing it says leave payouts to retiring fire fighters, fire department. I was not prepared to do this because our person left. So thank you. Well, thank you everybody for your input. Thank you for staying till the end and giving us your input. We're looking forward to getting all of the information together from all of the different budget hearings like we've had today and then reporting back to the community as soon as they're already. So thank you everybody for coming. Have a wonderful evening.