<div>Dear readers: </div>
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<div>A couple of points of clarification on Rob's note:</div>
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<div>The first Cafritz meeting is this Saturday, June 2 from 10-2 at Riverdale Elementary. The second one is Thursday the 7th. </div>
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<div>Tonights budget meeting is not limited to the police budget, but will begin with the police budget. I will be somewhat surprised if the council doesn't at least start looking at Public Works tonight too. </div>
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<div>Lastly, while June 8 is an important goal, and is advantagous in several ways, it is not an absolute deadline. It is much more important to calmly get both the expenditure and funding side of the budget done correctly than it is to meet the June 8 goal. Just as there are funding options open beyond property taxes, there are options beyond turning in a rate by June 8.
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>Vern<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Oppenheim</b> <<a href="mailto:oppenheim@email.com">oppenheim@email.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">The Thursday night (5/31/07) budget meeting is likely to be another </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">detail work session, this time going line by line thru the Police budget.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">While the public is more than welcome to attend, I fear it will not </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">answer many questions. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">The new council will likely meet Tues, Wed and Thur of next week </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">(May 5,6,7) to work on the the budget. Unfortunately, that Thur (May 7) </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">is also the 1st Cafritz development meeting.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">The council will have difficulty getting thru the first pass of the budget </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">by June 8 (the tax rate rate is suppose to be set by the 8th). </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3"> </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">The last budget meeting reduced the budget by $13,700. Which is </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="3">not much. That would reduce the proposed tax rate from 68.7 to 68.4.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="3">There is a long way to go.</font></div>
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