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Welcome everyone.

The time is one oh three, and we will call this meeting to order.

Madam City Clerk.

Councilmember Rogers.

Present Council Member O'Krepki.

Here.

Councilmember McDonald's here.

Councilmember Fleming.

Councilmember Ben Wells.

Here.

Welcome back everyone.

Sorry to be late.

We'll reconvene into open session.

Madam City Clerk.

Thank you, Mayor.

Councilmember Rogers.

President Councilmember Krepke.

Councilmember McDonald here.

Council Member Fleming.

Councilmember or Vice Mayor Alvarez.

Councilmember Ben Wells?

Here.

Mayor Stapp.

Here.

Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Vice Mayor Alvarez and Councilmember Fleming.

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All right.

Let's move on to our main show.

Mr.

Wagner, thank you for being here and and Veronica.

Thank you both for being here for our official launch of this year's budget discussions.

It is.

The floor is yours.

Oh Madam City.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor.

Uh so good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayors around here somewhere.

Uh and council members.

So first want to express my appreciation uh for the entire team to for delivering this work excess exceptionally early.

You know, normally this presentation doesn't come to us until February and while some of these numbers are unaudited, I just want to say thank you for Herculean task that you've uh completed.

I also uh want to thank the council members for prioritizing uh physical sustainability as our primary um goal during council goal setting session.

Um your commitment definitely has been instrumental in moving our goalposts forward and it's enabling us now to reach the milestones in our final journey.

So today you're gonna see some positive outcomes as a result of our mid year reductions, the end of the year adjustments, and some of the retraction from our stale appropriations.

Now while we have remained focused, um and made some progress, we want to just remind you that it's important that we remain standfast and disciplined during this process.

Looking ahead coming up in the next couple of months, we do have labor re our labor reopener.

Um have the implementation of the class and compensation study, which I think we owe it to our workforce and right around the corner we have upcoming labor negotiations again.

Um even outside of that I'm pleased to report that all of our major projects, um, including one final that has not received uh approval from the council are fully funded.

Um so we have definitely uh maintained our commitment to our constituents.

Um but again, I just want to thank the council for prioritizing uh physical sustainability because this could not have happened uh without your leadership.

At the conclusion of Scott's presentation, we will um ask for some feedback on how you would like to see reductions if any come be brought forward around February.

Uh Scott will provide some additional detail and some suggestions that we have on maybe the tiered approach to bringing back some of those suggestions.

Um, but keep in mind as we bring back some of those suggestions, we are still working through zero-based budgeting, and we're still working through organizational assessments as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure uh fiscal sustainability.

So, with that, Scott and Veronica, I'll turn it over to you.

Thank you, City Manager.