Public comment against the city manager increase were directed at a loss of transparency in that the expenditures would only be found in the lengthy enumeration of claims, councilman Jim Ernest stated he wanted to leave “non-budgeted” limits at $25,000 to which the city manager Jim Lindley responded that all non-budgeted expenditures had to come before the council, presumably on the consent calendar. Lindley went further to say, “this is not taxpayer money, this is developer money”.