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~ '31 Prior to action on correction #2, discussion included the follow- ing; Commissioner Whitmore said that Councilman Rosselli had I -- -I. --.., - told him that Coupcil does not see initial budget requests and had indicated that neither original or department recommendations are seen by Council until after the budget review committee has gone over them and they are submitted by "staffll; that the Comm- ission is bothered on this as we put in quite a lot of time on things we think are important and these things may never even come to the attention of Council; that with nobody from the Commission or from Council on the budget review committee, it bothers us that when we put in a lot of extra time, with special meetings, etc., to help the department heads with the budget that our efforts come to naught. q~~y ~na3e~_Ullri~h said that the work budget which goes to Council has, in the past, shown the dollars involved but not all af the work sheets; that the City Charter provides that the City Manager puts the budget together and submits it to Council as his budget, and until such time as the Council approves and adopts it, it does not become the Council's budget; that the department heads concerned represents this Commission at the budget talks and/he presents his budget as approved by this group; that the work budget from each department would probably represent around 300 pages, and for this reason this information, from a mechanics and expense standpoint, is not in its entirety presented to Coun- cil; the budget committee makes the preliminary cut and puts it back together and then the Council decides at their public hearing meetings what they will approve and adopt; that the budget review committee consists of the finance officer, the assistant city manager, and himself; that in the-essence of better relations, that after Mr. Balzarini and Mr. Morton sit down with the budget committee, and before the preliminary budget is presented to Council, he will present the suggested budget to the Commission or its representatives-for discussion and review of items for parks and recreation and possible priorities. Commissioner Coffis suggested that while it is understandable L""" L . - - "-- that there has to be some slicing of budget requests in order to conform to monies available that it should be the perrogative of this commission, or its representative, to suggest the general area of the cuts and to have an alternative of determing which items are given up rather than having them deleted by someone else without having them come back to us for review. Commissioner Whitmore suggested that as the Commission is appoint- ed by Council to consider park and recreation problems and give recommendations for them, it should be utilized for this purpose. The Commission expressed its satisfaction of the opportunity to review budget requests as outlined by Mr. Ullrich. .------ -~-------------------- ---------- ------ __n -- --- ------ --~ ____n_____"___--__nn___n_- _---L______--------- ---------- _n______------------ -- ---- : " c-. -