Common Council Budget Work Session

MEMORANDUM Bloomington Common Council-Council Budget Work Session Allison Conference Room, #225, City Hall, 401 N. Morton Street, Bloomington, Indiana Wednesday, May 29, 2024 NOTE: Formal minutes are not produced for City Council Work Sessions, which are held as an opportunity to review proposed legislation. This memorandum summarizes the following meeting. Meeting called to order: 6:32pm Councilmembers present: Courtney Daily, Isabel Piedmont-Smith, Hopi Stosberg, Sydney Zulich Councilmembers present via Zoom: Isak Nti Asare, Matt Flaherty, Dave Rollo (left at 8:14pm), Kate Rosenbarger (arrived at 7:02pm, left at 7:45pm), Andy Ruff Councilmembers absent: none City staff, officials, and guests present: Jessica McClellan, Stephen Lucas, Chief Deputy Clerk Sofia McDowell Topics Discussed: 1. Call to Order 2. Topics for Discussion a. Agenda Review b. Councilmember Discussion of 2025 Budget Priorities c. Public Comment d. Overview of Next Steps 3. Other Business 4. Adjournment Meeting ended: 8:26pm Memorandum prepared by: Sofia McDowell, CHIEF DEPUTY CLERK City of Bloomington  COUNCIL MEMBER BUDGET PRIORITIES FOR 2025 CATEGORIES TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC SAFETY SOCIAL SERVICES SALARIES/ PERSONNEL HOUSING CLIMATE ACTION INFRASTRUCTURE / PLANNING CITY SERVICES Zulich, Rosenbarger: Zulich: More support for Designation and maintenance of housing for individuals making designated, safe sleeping / 60-120% of AMI, possibly Zulich, Daily: Downtown Daily: police, fire, EMS pay and parking spaces for individuals Zulich: Increase salaries for through city-provided housing Daily: Prioritize programs to Daily: More focus on infrastructure Ruff: Bring back city leaf circulator bus staffing experiencing homelessness city employees or city support for BHA address climate change investments (roads and sidewalks) pickup Ruff: Developing strategy for more affordable and workforce Ruff: ensure adequate staffing Asare: free bus passes for Rosenbarger: Reviewing job housing, possibly through land IPS: Decrease greenhouse IPS, Asare: Increase fees for Zulich: Extended late night for police/fire; investments to people experiencing grades to ensure equity and trust, use of land fund, gases, increase equity, reduce Ruff: Street and sidewalk repair and scooter company licenses and service improve retention, morale homelessness transparency reprioritizing city expenditures car dependency (Rosenbarger) maintenance enforce existing regulations Flaherty, Rosenbarger: More equitable pay structures; Stosberg: Police, fire, dispatch improve retention and Stosberg: Maintenance of streets, staffing/retention; ability to staff satisfaction; having sidewalks, parks, buildings, other public Zulich: Combine city/IU late those shifts without consistently Asare: more storage for senior/cabinent level positions Daily: More to support HAND, Stosberg: Continued progress structures, sewer and water systems, IPS: Eliminate general fund night services relying on overtime displaced individuals aligned with core values of city Heading Home, BHA on Climate Action Plan etc. subsidy for trash service Flaherty, IPS: Specific, increased Zulich: Improve walkability, funding ($2m) for sidewalk infrastructure, street lights, covered bike Rollo: Support for police to be Flaherty, Zulich, Rosenbarger, Asare: Achieve sustainable Rollo: Reduce runoff into Lake along with equitable method for Asare: Some effort to move parking, closure of Kirkwood fully staffed - possibly through Daily: Increase salary for city housing solutions; support for Monroe, other utilities, protect allocating resources, sidewalk master toward an outcome-based to vehicles pay increases, incentives, etc. Asare: more case workers clerk the Heading Home plan water quality plan, repair of sidewalks model of spending Flaherty: Goal - equitable and safe community; reducing racial disparities in policing and justice system; greater perceptions of safety; funding a feasability Flaherty, Rosenbarger: TOPICS / study for dept of public safety Increase housing security / PRIORITIES with non-policing alternatives affordability, possibly through Stosberg: Small loans for Daily: Free EV charging (as called for by CAPS Flaherty, Rosenbarger: Review code updates, support for Rollo: Review of repair / maintenance entrepeneurship with better stations Commission) Asare: funding for data support salaries for councilmembers Heading Home plan No data needs for roads payback plans Asare (top priority), Flaherty, Stosberg: Continued investments Rosenbarger: Increase in Stosberg: Investments / in improving transportation system, IPS, Rosenbarger: Increased funding for Jack Hopkins opportunities / grants / in all modes so that people can safety for all members of the program - and possibly education / entrepreneurship safely and efficiently get from Point A to B regardless of transportation public, through feasability study combining funding sources Rosenbarger, Rollo, Stosberg: and small businesses / method, including bike lanes and of new public safety department related to social services salary review for elected community engagement for Flaherty: Increased funding ($5m) for trails (CAPS recommendation) (JHSSF, CDBG) officials individual residents No data bike/ped infrastructure No data Stosberg: Development of neighborhood activity hubs (e.g., Hillside and Henderson), financial incentives to Flaherty: Chief Equity Officer encourage businesses to locate in more and Chief Climate Officer Rosenbarger: Look at donating underserved areas, particularly for Ruff, IPS: Increase in funding for positions as cabinet level some of Hopewell to Summit essential services (grocery stores, No data Jack Hopkins positions Hill Community land trust No data childcare) No data Rosenbarger: Chief Equity Officer as cabinet level Flaherty: Design / engineering costs for Rollo: Increase (x3) in funding position, equity training for staff planned street improvements - e.g., No data No data for Jack Hopkins and elected officials No data No data shared street on Kirkwood No data IPS, Daily: Address mental health / substance abuse issues - Flaherty: Safe, sustainable, connected, expand employment partnership vibrant streets, to lead to fewer injuries, with Centerstone, develop increased connectivity, increased ped programs / partnerships with Asare: look at staffing structure and business activity, increased use No data No data County within the city No data No data streets as public spaces No data Zulich, Stosberg: Addressing food insecurity, particularly in Rosenbarger: Vision Zero & Safe Streets No data No data food deserts No data No data No data for All; College/Walnut corridor redesign No data  Where to find/trim funds? Councilmembers Ideas ED-LIT could support additional expenditures, staffing reductions, be mindful of possible downturns, reviewing cash reserves and operational budget during 2008, investing heavily in high-cost issues to see future returns Asare and less spending Less money on outside consultants, outside counsel fees, fewer projects like Hawthorne/Weatherstone Ruff greenway Flaherty Investigate new sources of revenue, ARPA dollars, former CRED funds, ED-LIT funds, F&B dollars, TIF funds, Rollo Info on outside counsel costs re: annexation; keep healthy city reserves (e.g. 10 months of operating costs); PS- IPS Cash reserves, wants info on ARPA, CRED funding, end general fund subsidy for trash services, increase Rosenbarger Look at opportunities to leverage projects and add in our prioritized transportation projects when feasible