The Mobile City Council, now one member short, finally has data to discuss the issue that has dominated city politics for the last year: annexation.

On Monday, the city council held a Committee of the Whole meeting to discuss the results of a validation study from PFM Group Consulting, LLC, that looked at the city’s financial analysis of annexation. Representatives from PFM were on hand to discuss the results of the study.

The consultants reiterated at the meeting that, even in the scenario where revenue from the annexed areas grew at a slower rate than expenditures, revenue would still exceed expenses by $105.7 million over ten years and $14.6 million in the tenth year after annexation—the last year in the city’s financial analysis.

In addition, the consultants warned against what city officials have been warning against for months—that not annexing could mean potential loss of revenue in the future if the unincorporated territory becomes part of another municipality or residents form their own.

But what was most discussed was what was missing from the study: a look at how the city’s demographics would change with any annexation attempt. Under the resolution passed by the city council that mandated the study, PFM said it looked at the U.S. Census Bureau demographic data provided by the city and ensured it was accurate but did not analyze the changes to the city’s voting age population or racial demographics.