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realize savings of approximately $900,000 over the next five years and $1.2 million for
each subsequent five-year period moving forward.
• Bond Refunding To better manage the city’s debt service costs, staff recommended that
the debt associated with the 2011 Water and Waste Water bonds be refinanced.
Council approved this refinancing, and it is expected to save approximately $1.1M over

the next 10 years.
• Bond Sale Eliminated Following a detailed review of the city’s capital projects, staff
recommended eliminating the $18.1 million bond sale, which was planned for FY 2021.
However, projects will be continued as planned due to the use of escrowed funds,
unallocated resources, and the reallocation of existing funds among eligible projects.
• COVID-19 Funds Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the city received $2.5 million in federal
funds related to the CARES stimulus act. City staff allocated funds to testing and public
health-related efforts in the city, and collectively, were able to successfully offset
approximately $1.5 million in General Fund costs for FY 2021. These costs are primarily

related to Fire Department expenses that were reallocated to the city’s response to the
pandemic.

Organizational Efficiency
Staff has made a number of improvements over the past year to improve organizational
efficiency. Some of the more notable improvements include the following:

• Implemented a power shift to increase police coverage across evening and night shifts.
• Began implementation of new automated fire station alerting system.
• Installed new BRiCK software system to increase online sales by more efficiently
booking classes and other recreational services.
• Purchased new capital project (E-Builder) and asset management system (Cartegraph)
to improve efficiency and accountability in managing capital projects.
• Created a new Health Insurance Fund to better track resources and actively manage

the city’s benefit plans.
• Launched new website to improve communications and provide a new opportunities
for connecting with the city’s stakeholders.

Investments in Public Infrastructure

• SH 174 Traffic Signal Improvements - To improve mobility on SH 174, the city will be
updating all signal controllers and the communications for the signals to sync them with
real-time traffic flow patterns. Total cost of improvements $2,161,123.

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