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' City f Kalispell
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MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor Johnson and City Council
Front; Doug Russell, City Manage
Re: Budget Work Session
Meeting Date: April 28, 2014
BACKGROUND. In preparing the annual budget, a large portion of the work revolves around
the activities that present financial challenges. As we initiated the process last year, I am
presenting four of these activities at the beginning of the budget review process in order to
identify how we want to approach them in this, and future years.
Three of the activities were identified during last year's budget process, and one activity is new.
t the work session, we will be looking at the following activities:
1) EMS (Ambulance)
) Downtown Parking
3) Forestry
4) Light Maintenance
For these activities, we have identified various service levels for review and the associated
funding that would need to be provided. These reviews include: decreasing service levels,
maintaining the current service level, and enhancing services for each activity.
'The presentations that will be given on Monday night for each of these activities are attached to
this memo. For the EMS fund, we also provided a detailed funding review.
e do expect the discussion for these respective activities will continue past the work session,
though we anticipate that by the end of the budget process we trill have a clear direction of how
to move forward with these for future years.
R.ECOb 1r DATION: It is recammen the City Council rive the presentation and
begin the discussion related to these activities.