Council 7-28-2026 [84:12-87:36]

So, slide 30, strengths. We have healthy fund balances and most of the funds. We're showing historically stable assessed value growth. Again, we might see a downturn in the growth. We'll still see growth in the NAB but it might be slow growth. Opportunities for additional funding under the new lit structure so because the county can replenish the amount that it's losing with the new structure, there is opportunities for additional revenues if you did want to increase that rate higher. A few weaknesses and challenges. Again, we have a few structurally imbalanced funds. I'm not super concerned with those because they're imbalanced on purpose to utilize cash balances so we know about them. We know that we need to keep an eye on them. Not a huge concern. It is just something that we want to keep in the back of our mind as we move forward. Property tax reform is reducing the revenue flexibility. You saw the graph that shows that those property tax credits are increasing in those future years. So again, we want to keep an eye on those property tax revenues. And again, while the local income tax structure changing can be a positive because it might allow for more revenue, it's still going to be a challenge to coordinate with all the different units and make sure that the county has a large responsibility of making sure that they're adopting the different lifts that all the different lifts are going to need. So it's still going to be a challenge for the county. A couple of the considerations, the health aviation, I'm not going to reiterate that. We talked about that several times. The possibility of an efficiency analysis to see, we come in and see if there's any redundancies that maybe you can eliminate and maybe cost savings. Statewide 9-1-1, and actually, now that I'm thinking about it, that wasn't one of the major operating funds that we covered. It will be in full FSP, but we need to align the recurring expenditures with the revenues and evaluate funding alternatives before fund balance are exhausted because I think it's 2029. Explain that to me again. I don't know. The Statewide 9-1-1, so currently, and I apologize, we don't have the cash flow for it, but once we get to, I think it's 2029 or 2030, Statewide 9-1-1 is going to start to dip below that 15% operating balance because currently the expenses are growing faster than the revenues, which the revenues aren't growing. They're declining and we're seeing that statewide. So, either, I guess, really kind of the only option, unless there's something changed in the Statewide 9-1-1 funding, as expenditures won't need to be funded from another fund. I understand that. You'd explain me again why everyone calls 9-1-1. How's that going, Dan? We go. We believe maybe it's partially because of the use of temporary, like, track phones that don't pay 9-1-1 fees, so more people using those would cause a decrease. Why they don't pay the 9-1-1 fee? I don't know, but we think that's the reason for the decrease in those.