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May 18, 2010

Identified Budget Gap (12,360,000)

RecommendationsEstimated Savings(Additional Costs)

Vendor Renegotiations

Staff Identified Revenue Enhancements

Utilize COPS Grant

Restructuring & Consolidation of Government

Negotiate reduction of paid health benefits

Negotiate fair concessions by police bargaining unit

Negotiate additional and fairly distributed reductions by all employees Council Benefits

Additional cost cuts and efficiencies

Total Budget Reductions and New Revenue $14,210,000

Restore 3 Recreation Centers, new pool, maintain Sherwood Hall/Community Center

Restore code enforcement, portion of park maintenance

Investment into planning, funding community outreach/communications

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4Budget Balancing Recommendations from the Blue Ribbon Committee-May 18, 2010

• Renegotiate garbage contract with BFI

• New Revenue $1.2 million

• BFI will provide the following services:

- Street sweeping

- Graffiti abatement

- Code Enforcement Officer

- On-call bulky waste pick-up

- CNG garbage trucks

• City Council consideration - June 1, 2010


• May 11, 2010 City Council approved fee increase

• CPI plus no more than 25% - $75,000/annual

• Fire Business Inspections - $267,400/annual

• 5% Building Permit Fees - $250,000/annual

• Fire Mitigations (Equipment) Fee - $300,000/annual

• General Plan Up-date Fee - $72,700/annual


• $12.3 million budget shortfall cannot be

balanced without reductions in the police

department (43% of the budget)

• Eliminate 5 vacant police officer positions

• Utilize COPS grant to retain 9 police officers

• Budget saving $1.4 million

• Staff recommends obtaining approval from the

COPS office


• Consolidate City departments, Boards, Commissions

and Committees for greater efficiency

• City has eliminated 41.5 positions, identified 83.5

positions to be eliminated and reorganized 5 city

departments

• Authorize staff to engage an organizational expert

and return to City Council in 30 days with a schedule

for implementation


• BRC recommends:

1) reduced health benefits

2) fair concessions by Police

3) additional fairly distributed reductions by

all employee groups

• Staff has initiated concession discussion with

PMA and POA

• Concessions must be made by mutual

agreement because contracts are all closed at

this time


• BRC recommends most of the service

reductions included in the $9.8 million budget

balancing "framework" approved by City

Council on March 2, 2010

• BRC recommends some restorations in crime

prevention services and new investments in

community master planning and

communications

• Funding restorations/new investments require

employee concessions


• BRC "preserves high priority services by

leveraging City and community resources"

• RFPs have been distributed to lease-out:

- Community Center/Sherwood Hall

- Municipal Pool

- Three Recreation Centers

• Full restoration of City facilities ($1million)

requires employee concessions


• BFI to fund one of the three Code Enforcement

Officers identified in the reduction "framework"

• Restoration of 50% of park maintenance

($770,000) requires employee concessions


• BRC recommends investments in:

- Community Master Planning - $500,000

- Community Engagement - $50,000

• Funding new investments would require

employee concessions


• Staff supports the concepts embodied in the

BRC's proposed resolution, inclusive of the

following initiatives:

- Youth crime and gang violence reduction

- Prosperity

- Organizational effectiveness


It is recommended that the City Council:

1) Receive the Blue Ribbon Committee's draft Report and

Resolution for consideration

2) Direct staff to engage an organizational expert and return to

City Council in 30 days with a schedule to implement the BRC's

recommendations to restructure and consolidate City

departments, Boards, Commissions and Committees


3) Direct staff to incorporate, subject to negotiations with

represented bargaining units and other required processes,

certain budget balancing recommendations as presented by

the Blue Ribbon Committee on April 27th, as feasible, into the

FY 2010-11 budget including:

- Vendor renegotiations (BFI)

- Utilize COPS grant

- March 2, 2010 approved budget balancing "framework"

- Lease-out City facilities

- Restructure and consolidation of government

- Employee concessions

- **Restoration of Code Enforcement/Park Maintenance

- ** Investment into Planning/Community Outreach

** Subject to savings achieve from negotiations/consolidations


4) Provide direction to staff regarding the BRC recommended

initiatives:

- Youth crime and gang violence reduction

- Prosperity

- Organizational effectiveness

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