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Our goals moving forward include:

Bring up compensation for employees to a competitive level to maintain and attract competent staffing
with a 5% compensation increase.
Completion of City Hall and the Law Enforcement auxiliary building with a combined budget of $52
million.

Continued progress on future Streets, Drainage, and Water/ Sewer improvement and maintenance
projects.

Replacement of inoperable and outdated vehicles and equipment.

Our future goal will be to continue broadening the tax base utilizing the 3-pronged approach of attracting
job-creating businesses, increasing new residential housing, and holding to development and code
standards that is showing results. The right kind of economic growth will be the answer to sustain our
current path.

Once again, I want to thank you Mayor and Council for your dedication, commitment, support, direction,
and leadership to our staff and for our community. Together, we will continually create a community
environment where families flourish, and businesses prosper.

I know you will agree to express appreciation and recognition to our staff for the many months of
hard and tedious work preparing this proposed budget. We have continued our focus on conservative
fiscal management and commitment to the Council’s Value Statements of dependability, integrity,
responsiveness, respectfulness, and accountability.

Fiscal responsibility and significant economic growth are the two overall factors that have been and will
continue to be the key to our success.

Respectfully and sincerely,

Rex Phelps, City Manager