Blue Ribbon Committee Recommendations Report · Budget Balancing Recommendations from the Blue...
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May 18, 2010
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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
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• 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
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• $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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• BRC recommends investments in:
- Community Master Planning - $500,000
- Community Engagement - $50,000
• Funding new investments would require
employee concessions
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• 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
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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
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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
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4) Provide direction to staff regarding the BRC recommended
initiatives:
- Youth crime and gang violence reduction
- Prosperity
- Organizational effectiveness