HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2007-103 - Directing Prepartion of Alternate Budge - 09/18/2007 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO. 2007-103
A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
PREPARE ALTERNATIVE PROPOSED TOTAL BUDGETS
FOR THE 2008-2009 BUDGET CYCLE
WHEREAS,the City Manager prepared proposed 2008-2009 budgets that were presented to
the newly formed Budget Advisory Commission in June and July, 2007; and
WHEREAS,the Budget Advisory Commission presented a Budget Advisory Commission
Report to the City Council at a scheduled work shop meeting on September 4, 2007, in the Eden
Prairie City Hall; and
WHEREAS, the Budget Advisory Commission Report contained 20 recommendations
relating to various portions of the City Manager's 2008-2009 budget presentation; and
WHEREAS, Council member Jon Duckstad at a preliminary budget workshop in May of
2007 requested that a 2008 budget plan be prepared by the City Manager with no spending increases
over and above the current 2007 total budget in the sum of$39,261,313; and
WHEREAS, an alternative proposed 2008-2009 total budget plan would permit the City
department heads to make sensitive reductions in his/her respective department in the event the
City Council determined less spending is appropriate when establishing a final budget plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council:
1. Directs the City Manager to prepare an alternative total proposed budget for 2008 not to
exceed the sum of$40,261,313; and
2. Directs the City Manager to prepare an alternative total proposed budget for 2009 not to
exceed the sum of$41,261,333.
ADOPTED by the City Council on September 18, 2007.
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en Vorta, City Clerk