The City Council will be meeting over the next several weeks to review the 2019 budget. The 2019 budget shows Citywide Appropriations of 52.7 million dollars (see chart below). The Education Budget has remained relatively flat the last five years at approximately 10.5 million. The 2019 budget has a 29% increase in Community Service Organization (CSO) spending from 2015 to 2019. Events funding has nearly tripled from $136,050 in 2018 to a requested $378,123 for 2019. The City has a surplus of $9,433,166 above operations and that is available for reserves or capital projects. Despite the surplus, the 2019