A majority of the City Council favors a plan that would restructure the CERT program, putting it under the city's emergency management function. That would free up a fire captain to restore structure-fire operations at the station.

• The City Council likely will do away with free parking during evening hours and Saturdays to generate an estimated $300,000 in additional revenue. An estimated $50,000 of that would go toward the additional parking enforcement the changes would require.

• Tuesday night's work session ended with the City Council having about $75,000 in one-time money and nearly $48,000 in ongoing funds to spend.

However, that does not include the estimated $600,000 the council likely will need to find in the budget to cover the increased cost of fuel.

By state law, the City Council must adopt the budget by June 22.

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