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Budget Study Session <br />May 18, 2005 <br /> <br />working together, with the Park staff reporting their capital outlay proposals to the Park <br />Commission, which then endorsed them, and forwarded to the City Manager. There is <br />an orderly process to follow. Mr. Ollendorff reported that he did not know how it worked <br />this year. Mr. Wagner wanted to comment here, but Ms. Brungardt persisted with her <br />questions, noting that human resources were used to create the master plan and <br />commenting that she did not want such plans to become “bogged down with initiatives <br />devoting human resources to plan which cannot be funded right now.” She does not <br />want staff to spend meeting time creating ideas for which there clearly is no money and <br />she wants to avoid that kind of situation. Mr. Ollendorff does not understand how what <br />she just said related to the Ruth Park Golf Course master plan, because that plan was <br />funded only from the practice facility which the Council rejected. <br /> <br />Mr. Wagner disagreed and Mr. Ollendorff, concurred by Mayor Adams, reiterated that it <br />was funded from the practice facility. Mr. Wagner again strongly disagreed stating that <br />the Mayor had directed at that meeting that the Council was not to discuss how it was to <br />be financed and advised everyone to review those minutes. <br /> <br />Mayor Adams disagreed with Mr. Wagner, stating that he said that the Council would <br />not discuss how we were financing the creation of the practice facility. The practice <br />facility itself would have generated the revenue to do the master plan for the Ruth Park <br />Golf Course. Mr. Wagner stated that it was now a moot point, because nobody wanted <br />the driving range. Mayor Adams said that he would have welcomed the driving range. <br /> <br />Mr. Ollendorff said he understood that Ms. Brungardt did not want the staff spending <br />lots of time on projects which had no chance of being funded and he agreed with it, but <br />he did not understand the connection with the golf course, because that plan showed <br />how to fund it. Ms. Brungardt said that she “was not the fastest kid on the block when it <br />came to understanding funding streams, but this point was never clarified in my mind.” <br />Mr. Wagner agreed that this was not brought to the Council. He remembered that there <br />were four plans at one point and then the next he heard, there was one plan that was <br />really never fully explained to Council. Mr. Ollendorff suggested that he should go back <br />and read the plan more fully, because all the details are there. Council didn’t agree with <br />it. Mr. Wagner said that there were four different plans to fund it. What came out of the <br />Park Commission was one, and he had heard that the other three were suppressed and <br />not even discussed. Mr. Ollendorff said that this is what he has been trying to say. All <br />the plans we brought you had funding plans attached. He didn’t feel that it was his fault <br />when people say that they don’t understand the funding. The material must be read or <br />you need to come to me for further clarification. <br /> <br />Mr. Wagner brought the point up again about the Mayor instructing the Council that they <br />were not discussing funding when voting on it that evening. Mayor Adams reiterated <br />that Mr. Wagner didn’t hear what he said. The question that was being dealt with was a) <br />Do you want to do a Ruth Park master plan? B) Do you want to create that driving, <br />teaching facility that would generate the revenue to build that master plan? The only <br />Page 3 <br /> <br />