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Sep. 17, 2024

To the Honorable Mayor Mizani and Members of the City Council

Re: The Annual Budget for Fiscal Year 2024-2025

It is my privilege to present the FY 2024-25 Adopted Budget. This budget represents months of hard work
from your budget team and department directors and continues our tradition of conservative fiscal
management paired with a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, service, creativity and
communication. As always, we remain focused on exploring new opportunities to provide exceptional
service to our citizens in an innovative and resourceful manner.

In pursuit of continually honing and improving our services, City Council held a Strategic Planning
Workshop in March 2023 to revisit their five community goals established in 2021. The 2023 session
resulted in six community goals and an updated Strategy Map for the City of Keller. These six goals are:

1. Elevate Family Life
2. Attract Vibrant Development
3. Demonstrate Fiscal Discipline
4. Improve & Maintain Sound Infrastructure
5. Put People First
6. Expand Citizen Engagement

These goals — and the strategies and initiatives established by City Council to achieve them — were
integral to crafting the FY 2024-25 Adopted Budget, helping ensure that it meets council's vision for
delivering excellent quality of life and safety to our residents while mitigating their property value
increases through maintaining a low tax rate and maximum homestead exemption.

They were also reaffirmed through a community survey completed by 1,802 residents this spring, boasting
a 97.6% confidence level. According to survey results, residents are highly satisfied with the city overall
and believe we are headed in the right direction. We do not take those results for granted.
Our citizens' trust and confidence must be earned each year, with each project, and throughout each day
as we work to keep Keller Texas's Most Family-Friendly City.

I believe this budget reflects the vision of the City Council as discussed at the March 2023 Strategic
Workshop and adopted at the Aug. 1, 2023 meeting, and this memo outlines the connection between this
year's adopted budget, leadership's strategies and the desires of our citizens shared in this year's survey.

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