Thursday evening at the special open board meeting we discussed
next year’s budgeting requirements. This is very early in the process but in
this meeting Tracy (G.M.) brought forth the list of expenditures the department
heads requested for the next fiscal year as well as other projections on
reserves and his thoughts.
This turned into a fairly long meeting as we scrutinized many of
the requests and several were scrapped for next year due to funding concerns.
We must prioritize even though some of the dropped items would have been nice.
There was a fair amount of disagreement on some of the proposals but this is
one thing of many I like about this board, we can disagree, sometimes heatedly,
but when it is over we all walk away with no hard feelings. Everyone in that
meeting had the best interests of Candlewick in mind and we all know it. You
win some and lose some.
One thing that was definitely agreed upon is moving forward with
lake remediation. It will not be cheap but as the centerpiece of our community
we MUST have an attractive, usable lake. I’ll keep you in the loop as this
develops.
Ken Dillenburg