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Preparing Minnetonka’s city budget is an eight-month process that starts with the five-year capital improvements program and wraps up with adoption of the final budget and tax levy in December. To create the budget, the city council and staff use data to ensure the budget aligns with the city’s strategic priorities. The goal is to provide innovative, responsive and quality city services while maintaining our Aaa bond rating.
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The presentation is clearly, clearly designed to justify this continued budget increase of three times inflation and 3 times the rate of income increases. Where are the more relevant data addressing these:
1. The historical rate of City budget increase compared to all of the CPI, the PPI he CCI and most importantly the MCI (Municipal Cost Index)? I cannot find them in the summary presentation, the Aug 18 packet or on Minnetonka Matters. Do they even show up in the main budget presentation?
2. Where Is the discussion of the historical increase in City budget compared Hennepin County tax increases? Where is the discussion of what responsibilities of other government entities the City has taken over?
3. In the carefully worded polls the City sends out about tax increases, why are no hard numbers included, or even a simple limit to an acceptable increase included - to put a more relevant context to the questions? As presented in your online material, the wording appears as simple "push poll" manipulation to favor an outcome.
4. The City is proud of its communication on the budget, as stated it communicates via the Minnetonka Memo and hears citizens the September pre-approval and Dec final approval meetings. Please name the budget years in the last 20, or even 10, in which the City reduced the budget as a result of these listening sessions.
5. The City council frequently cites its "Values" as justification for increased spending above the rate of the cost of delivering current services. It created a Sustainability Commission just for that apparent purpose.. Where is the discussion of sustainability of the City taxes on the residential ability to pay for it? I cannot find that.
Thank You for your fulsome answers. See you tonight.