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2020 Budget – Page 1 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Mayor Walsh and Orono City Council <br />From: Ron Olson, Finance Director <br />Subject: 2021 Budget <br />Date: August 24, 2020 <br /> <br />Attachments: Budget Information <br /> <br /> <br />Staff has continued to work on the 2021 budget. The information being provided tonight for the <br />Council’s review includes: <br /> <br />• Summary information for the General Fund budget. <br />• Tax levy information <br />• Enterprise expenditure budgets. <br />• Draft Public Works CIP with fund balances. <br /> <br />Issues for discussion: <br /> <br />• The General Fund budget has been looked at during work sessions in June and <br />July. If the Council has anything to add or discuss about the General Fund, this <br />will be the last scheduled opportunity prior to the adoption of the preliminary <br />budget during the September 28th meeting. <br /> <br />• The overall tax levy is increasing by $478,000. This increase does not increase the <br />overall tax rate. Included in the levy is are new levies for parks in the amount of <br />$50,000 and one for buildings in the amount of $180,000. Most of the building <br />levy is made up of funds freed up by refunding the 2010 bonds. This is the levy <br />that staff is prepared to bring to the Council for approval in September. <br /> <br />• The expenditure budgets for the enterprise funds are also included for your review. <br />This is the first time that the Council is seeing this information. <br /> <br />• A very preliminary working draft of the Public Works CIP is attached. The <br />purpose of this is to further the discussion about the possibility of building a new <br />Public Works building and how to fund it. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />