Good morning.

Good morning.

Welcome to the special meeting for City of Car Springs City Council 2027 budget markup session.

Will the clerk please call the roll.

Councilmember Casey.

You're on one.

Councilmember Crow Iverson.

Here.

Councilmember Donaldson.

Here.

Councilmember Gold.

Here I am.

Councilmember Hindum.

Present.

Councilmember Lion Weber.

Here.

Councilmember Rainey.

Here.

Councilmember Risley.

Here.

Councilmember Williams.

Here.

All nine present.

Moving on to item 2A.

Will the clerk please read item two A into the record?

So I have one quick question.

Do you want me to read them all in or individually?

Is it one presentation or we have to do them individually, is what I was told.

Yep, there's no voting today.

I know.

Oh, but we do need to read all of them in, but I think that they can all be read and then we can have our discussion about

it.

Okay,

that was not what I was

I apologize if I miscommunicated.

But that's okay with me.

And

then we can take a brief sign and thank you.

I know you are because you like reading them all in at one time.

So go for

it.

A

resolution 2A, a resolution fixing and certifying the 2026 annual assessment mill levy for assessments payable in 2027 at zero mills upon each dollar of assessed valuation within the Briar Gate Special Improvement Maintenance District.

To B, a resolution fixing and certifying the 2026 annual assessment mill levy for assessments payable in 2027 at 1.009 mills upon each dollar of assessed valuation with within the Colorado Avenue Gateway Special Improvement District Maintenance District.

2C a resolution fixing and certifying the 2026 annual assessment mill levy first assessments payable in 2027 at 3.935 mills upon each dollar of assessed valuation within the Norwood Special Improvement Main Maintenance District.

2D, a resolution fixing and certifying the 2026 annual assessment mill levy for assessments payable in 2027 at 13.416 mils upon each dollar of assessed valuation within the old Colorado City Security and Maintenance District.

2e, a resolution fixing and certifying the 2026 annual assessment mill levy for assessments payable in 2027 at $1.10 per front footage of real property within the Platte Avenue Special Improvement Maintenance District.

2F, a resolution fixing and certifying the 2026 annual assessment mill levy for assessments payable in 2027 at 3.858 mills upon each dollar of assessed valuation within the Steps and Hills Special Improvement Maintenance District.

2G, a resolution fixing and certifying the 2026 annual assessment millvy for assessments payable in 2027 at 3.615 mills upon each dollar of assessed valuation within the Woodstone Special Improvement Maintenance District.

2H and ordinance making and certifying the 2026 tax levy for taxes payable in 2027 at 3.209 mills comprised of a general operating mail levy of 4.279 mills and a temporary tax credit of 1.070 mills upon each dollar of assessed valuation of all taxable property and a tax credit of 3.209 mills upon each dollar of assessed valuation of all taxable business personal property within the corporate limits of the City of Colorado Springs.

2I an ordinance repealing ordinance 25-86 adopting the City of Colorado Springs 2027 salary structure for civilian and swore and municipal employees and 2J an annual appropriation ordinance adopting the annual budget and appropriating funds for the several purposes named in said budget for the year ending December 31st 2027 good morning Sharia good morning members of city council I'm Shari McDaniel Chief Financial Officer thank you so much for being here today as we um come to the final steps of the 2027 budget on the agenda the first six items are resolutions setting the mill levies for the special improvement maintenance district or SIMDs the budgets for those SIMDs are contained within the budget document and they are contained in the budget ordinance that will be coming forward for um council approval so this is setting just the resolution setting the mill levies for all six of these districts the mill levies are the same as the prior year nothing is changing and again those budgets are contained um in the budget document for the uh ordinance making and certifying the city's mill levy which is two H this is currently reflecting what is contained in the budget at this time I know we've had some conversation about that uh but this is continuing with the temporary mill levy credit of one point zero seven mills in order to uh

And again, those budgets are contained in the budget document.

For the ordinance making and certifying the city's mill levy, which is 2H.

This is currently reflecting what is contained in the budget at this time.

I know we've had some conversation about that, but this is continuing with the temporary mill levy credit of 1.07 mills in order to provide some tax relief to the property owners and to keep the city's revenue below the property tax taber limit.

The ordinance for the salary structure, you have that information in your packet.

We do provide a red line for you so you can see the changes as well as the clean version.

And then we have the appropriations ordinance, which at this time does not have anything attached because today's discussion will guide the creation of the budget ordinance, and then that will be attached to the item as we move forward for approval.

So all of the items that um all of these items will come forward at the first regular meeting in November, and then the ordinance items will again have a second vote, the second meeting in November.

But we use today as the introduction for these items because um to keep all the budget items together for um what's going on for the approval process.