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Oshkosh
DATE: August 5, 2019
TO: Long Range Finance Committee Members
FROM: Russ Van Gompel, Interim Finance Director
RE: Debt Management Policy
Attached are two schedules presented to City Council as part of the 2020 Budget
Workshop #1. 1 will bring a copy of the spreadsheet to display at the Committee
meeting and will be able to demonstrate various options (amounts borrowed or taken on
and changes to the Equalized Value) and the impact on the Percentage of Debt Limit
Used.
The third attachment is a revision to the Debt Analysis completed on August 2, 2019,
which illustrates the revised 2019 estimated equalized value from the Department of
Revenue and an assumed increase in the equalized value. It is also adjusted to
illustrate a potential borrowing in 2020 of$16,000,000, a potential of borrowing
$12,400,000 in 2021 and 2022, and a placeholder of borrowing $15,000,000 thereafter.
Attachment number 4 is a Debt Comparison that compares municipal debt per capita,
illustrated by the bars and the scale on the left for Oshkosh and eight other communities
automatically selected by the Wisconsin Public Policy Forum. The picture also includes
where the community is at in terms of the percentage of debt limit to the State
maximum. This data is from 2017 which is the most recent data collected from
information provided to the State of Wisconsin.
Finally to initiate a conversation, I am including a copy of the Debt Management Policy
for the City of Eau Claire. Eau Claire is a Wisconsin City similar to Oshkosh and a
community that I have experience working for.
Finance Department
City Hall,215 Church Avenue P.O.Box 1130 Oshkosh,WI 54903-1130 920.236.5005 ruttp://www.ci.osrukosru.wi.us