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2023/2024 Biennial Budget Outreach Overview <br />Draft April 5, 2022 <br />Goals of the Budget Outreach Effort <br />• Provide Tukwila residents and businesses and other stakeholders the opportunity to <br />share with the Mayor and Council their priorities for the 2023/2024 biennial budget. <br />• Engage the community on why the City budget is important, how it works and how it <br />reflects the overall values of Tukwila. <br />• Educate the community about the realities and constraints facing the City, including the <br />fact that while revenues have come back to 2019 levels, expenses remain at 2022 levels. <br />• Lift up community -driven ideas for developing a balanced budget that align with the <br />City's adopted strategic plan and emergent priorities. <br />• Maintain focus on accessibility and equity by ensuring information is disseminated in a <br />way that the community can digest, is translated into the top four languages and the <br />outreach activities target a broad sector of the community. <br />Tactics <br />Presentation — develop a presentation covering the budget basics, realities of the revenue and <br />expenditure forecasts, and three questions asked in the survey and at every event: <br />• If you had to reduce services, what would you cut and why? <br />• What would you move around, if anything? <br />• If you had additional revenue, what services would you add? <br />Video—turn the above-mentioned presentation into a narrated video in English, Spanish, <br />Vietnamese and Somali. <br />Website — develop a website that includes the videos and link to survey. <br />Online Survey — Develop an online survey that allows people to "move funds" around in <br />departments, while locking down some funds so that departments can't be eliminated <br />altogether. As an example, the City will always need financial services, so while the Finance <br />Department could be eliminated the City would still need to fund those functions in the <br />budget.. Staff envisions an online survey that can "lock down" a certain amount of funds so <br />that survey participants can remove some funds to pay for other things but are required to <br />leave funds to pay for required services. <br />Council -led Town Hall — Hybrid town hall style meeting in the Council Chambers where staff <br />would present the presentation above and the Council can hear directly from members of the <br />public on their priorities. <br />11 <br />