2008 Unallotment: $0
2009 Unallotment: $160,258
2010 Unallotment: $369,775

The City of Sartell has reduced expenditures by 7% to cope with its 2010 aid cuts. This included cuts in areas such as public safety, street maintenance, and park and recreation programs among others. As a result of the cuts, 2 positions have been vacant since mid-2008, and the city did not fill 1.5 additional positions budgeted for in 2009. This has left the city with 1.5 less police department personnel than budgeted. Capital equipment purchases have been delayed, as have capital improvement projects, such as street reconstruction, which has been pushed back from 2010 to at least 2015. The city has implemented a wage freeze for non-union employees, and negotiations for unions are still pending for 2010. Furthermore, the city is looking to gain any efficiencies possible, such as going to paperless agenda packets, not catching non-dangerous animals after hours, reducing training budgets, and reducing publication costs by using website publication options. On the revenue side, the city’s levy will increase by 3% in 2010, and the city increased almost all user fees to meet inflation.