• Taxes too high (5)
• Real estate taxes (2)
• Declining tax revenues
• Sustainability of revenue base
• Use of estate tax dollars to lower taxes
• Tax budget - stable?
• Increasing taxes but decreasing serviced from the City
• Keeping revenue in place with increasing costs
• Tax levels - income and property

• Water issues - maintenance of aquifer, how does NCR property impact?
• Safety of groundwater supply - more frequent monitoring
• Updating of the water system
• Quality of City water, hardness and mineral damage to plumbing
• Maintain and improve an appropriate sewer system
• Recycling - keeping citizens aware of all the changes in collection and how it is all thrown together
• Street maintenance - walk up Ridgeway. Good services for young professionals, families
• Maintaining the great services
• Aging physical plant, water, sewer
• Estimating water bills instead of charging actual fees
• Programs for seniors
• Addressing streetscape and infrastructure
• Snow removal on side streets hard because people park on both sides of the street and that makes the street narrower

• Development of Sugar Camp (4)
• Finding an adaptive reuse for Sugar Camp
• Moves for expansion - Sugar Camp for example
• Development of NCR lands
• Land locked (annexations) Sugar Camp
• Don’t lose opportunity for gaining Sugar Camp facility for recreation and meetings, but not at the expense of schools
• Sports facility/complex - Sugar Camp community center
• NCR playing field
• Need more park space - Sugar Camp

• Maintain the high quality of the schools (7)
• Increasing school costs - as it affects residents on fixed incomes (or decreased incomes due to increasing health care)
• Increasing student population in public schools and the result on facilities
• Lack of room to expand schools and community services
• Increasing population of students with learning disabilities
• No room for expansion in school enrollment (large additions might help but for how long)