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City of San Marcos 630 East Hopkins San Marcos,TX 78666 Meeting Minutes City Council Wednesday,June 13,2018 4:00 PM City Council Chambers 630 E. Hopkins - Budget Workshop#1 I. Call To Order II. Roll Call PRESENTATIONS 1. Receive a Staff presentation and hold discussion regarding the preliminary Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Budget, and provide direction to Staff. Mr. Bert Lumbreras,City Manager, provided the Council with an introduction and thanked Staff for their work on the budget document. Heather Hurlbert, Director of Finance, provided the Council with an overview of the next two days and what will be covered. Ms. Hurlbert reviewed the City Council's Strategic Initiatives and the action points of those initiatives. She indicated that Staff kept these in mind as they built their proposed budget. Ms. Hurlbert began with the General Fund Base Budget Assumptions. She reported that we would be increasing our base budget by$2,294,000. Ms. Hurlbert reviewed the preliminary revenue and that the revenue reflects a 4% increase, $2.6M from prior year net of economic incentives. Ms. Hurlbert reviewed the preliminary expenditures. Ms. Hurlbert provided the Council with the personnel recommendations. She indicated that the personnel recommendations of$393,000 would be funded by general fund and that$213,500 would be funded by other funding sources. Ms. Hurlbert provided the operating recommendations and capacity alternatives. Discussion was held regarding the additional Community Enhancement Fee(CEF) revenue funding three additional Code Compliance Officers. Discussion was held regarding changing the name of the fee for transparency to Code Compliance Fee. Discussion was held about taking the $213,000 and creating a separate fund to assist low to moderate income,senior or disabled residents to address code compliance matters such as tall grass or Gig of San Marcos Page 1