Regular Assembly Meeting

Tonight at 7pm is our regular Assembly Meeting. Regular meetings are broadcast on KTOO radio. At 6pm is a meeting of the Human Resources Committee (I'm not on that). One of their main jobs is to appoint citizen volunteers to a wide variety of boards and advisory committees There are always openings in various committees and it is a good way to get introduced to the city process and issues.

It's always hard to predict how long Assembly meetings will go. It seems like a couple hours is normal, but they can go longer if there are controversial issues, and you never know when they will pop up. There are a couple big, but regular, issues on tonight's agenda. The first is approval of this year's property tax levels-- or the mill levy. A mill is 1% of property value. The proposed rate is 10.37 mills, which is the same as last year. So that is $1,037 of tax for every $100,000 of property value.

Another ordinance is the main budget ordinance for 2008-09. The Assembly has been meeting as a Finance committee for several months going over the budget. At our last meeting we finalized it and recommended it to the Assembly. The proposed budget is on the city web site- and the final one will be up there after it has passed.

The final big item is passage of the capital projects list-- or CIP. I think it is unchanged from the initial CIP proposal.