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Courthouse Square Internal Staff Team Meeting Summary of Minutes of March 5, 1998 Present: Marion County: Gene Berg, Randy Curtis, Sheryl Derting, Michael Hansen, David Hartwig, Sue McCracken, Ken Roudybush, Billy Wasson; Transit: R.G. Andersen- Wyckoff, John Whittington, Mark Wieprecht; Tom Wolfgram; Melvin Mark Companies: Craig Lewis, Dan Petrusich. Agenda: 1. Status Report on SPOC/Justice Petersen 2. Review of $1.30 rental rate 3. Service impact analysis - status 4. Progress report design/construction schedule 1. Status Report on SPO /Justice Petersen Billy Wasson had an opportunity to speak with Justice Petersen for an update on SPOC's next steps. There will not be any additional information requests from staff at this time. Justice Petersen has gotten feedback from other members and is working on a written report. He did not elaborate on what the report would include, but indicated that the report would question the correctness of the $1.30 rental rate and how realistic it is. The second issue is that they are "apprehensive" that not all operating costs have been considered. Staff should not be working on gathering any additional information, until after they receive this report sometime next week. ~ 3. Service Impact Analysis - Stat~~c Ken Roudybush had a diagram on the grease-board of his proposal of county's reporting service impact to the committee. County budgeting is a very complex process. His hope is to show the magnitude of options that go into putting together the county budget. It is not just an easy proforma exercise. The plan is to start with the 1997-98 budget showing actual departments/staffing/ dollazs. The next column would outline the 1998-99 budget yea.r, with actuals that aze known and "?" in areas to be determined. Revenues will be available for this exercise. Then he would outline the contingency liabilities: Courthouse Square, FIMS, TPC (total payroll costs), rents and urban renewal were suggested to be included. The picture starts to change with 1999-2000 budget. A draft copy of the Marion County 1998-99 Budget Process was handed out to staff. This sheet shows the steps of the budgeting process for county. We are currently at steps 1-2 right now. Included in this format would be the strategies to meet liability in the budget process. One strategy involves working during the ne~ legislative session for monetary relief for some mandated changes. We are also looking at some internal strategies on rents that will be discussed in upcoming county meetings. By May 1, the budget officer's balanced budget should be developed. This is submitted to the Finance Committee as a starting framework; with the final budget adoption (with a 10% swing ~ allowed by law), coming from the Board of Commissioners on June 24, 1998. Page 1 of 3