BUDGET 102CONTRIBUTING YOUR VISION TO THE SPENDING THAT IMPACTS OUR DAILY LIVES.

RECAP OF BUDGET 101• The budget is a series of tough decisions.• Priorities are set by city staff, councilmembers

& the mayor.• These decisions about where our money goes

may make one neighborhood seem nicer than the other.

• We must be our own neighborhood advocates.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NEIGHBORHOOD ADVOCATES

• Armed with the right information you can win projects for your community!• Uninformed your neighborhood risks losing valuable resources.

OUR CITY EXPENSES

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING

General Planning

Community Plans & Community Planning Groups

Infrastructure Committee

THE PROCESS

• Asset owning department and divisions

• City Council • Disability Services• CIPRAC (Sr. Level CIP

Officials)• Community Residents

• Mayor • City Council• Asset owning

department and divisions

• Financial Management Department (FM)

• Development Services Department

• Mayor• City Council • Financial

Management Department

• City Council • Asset owning

department and divisions

• Public Works-Engineering & Capital Projects (E&CP) Department

• Development• Services Department• Comptroller’s Office

Requires ongoing monitoring.

#1 #2 #3 #4

#1 HOW ARE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS IDENTIFIED?

• Policy and direction from the Mayor and City Council. • Legal requirements or mandates. • Long- and mid-range plans. • Unfunded needs lists. • Condition assessments and asset management systems. • Staff assessments based on repair and maintenance

records, observations, and experience. • City Council priorities and requests. • Public input through Council Members, planning or

advisory committees, and/or budget hearings.

#2 IDENTIFYING FUNDS

Development Impact Fee (DIF) Facilities Benefit Assessment (FBA)

• Older Areas (eg. Logan, City Heights)

• Takes longer to fund a project

• Newer Areas (eg. Carmel Valley)• Developer builds all the resources

and hands them over to the city• Once complete maintenance for

the project comes from the General fund

#3 BUDGETING FOR CIP IN FY 2016

• AUG – Sep Education and outreach to the public via the CPC.

• OCT – Nov Community Planning Groups develop requests for CIP projects and submit

• NOV – Jan Task Force, Proposals, Confirmation of Funds, Revise & Review

• JAN – March Financial Management works with asset-owning departments and prepares Proposed Budget.

• APR 15 - Mayor releases Proposed Budget to the Public.

•MAY - Public Budget Hearings, City Council Recommendations, Mayor’s Revised Budget

• JUN - City Council reviews final changes and approves budget.

• JUL 1 – New Fiscal Year Begins!

#4 IMPLEMENTATION & MONITORING

Project Initiation Project

Initiation Planning/Pre-DesignPlanning/Pre-Design DesignDesign Construction

Bid & AwardConstruction Bid & Award ConstructionConstruction Post-

ConstructionPost-

Construction

HOW DO I MAKE MY PROJECT A PRIORITY?

IdentifyIdentifyGet on the Priority

List

Get on the Priority

List

Petition for

Funding

Petition for

Funding

Continue to

Advocate

Continue to

Advocate

Nail Down Implementation

(Timeline)

Nail Down Implementation

(Timeline)

ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE BUDGET…ADVOCATE FOR SERVICES & PROJECTS

• Give input to the Community Planning Groups.

• Contact your Councilmembers & the Mayor• Visit, email, call, Facebook/Tweet, etc.

• Attend budget hearings. • Consider joining the Community Budget

Alliance through your local non-profit.

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questions:• Samer Naji, snaji@onlineCPI.org• (619) 584-5744 x 60

• Join our email l ist to get budget updates.

• Visit OnlineCPI.org to read up on this important topic.

• LIKE us on Facebook at /CommunityBudgetAll iance

• Follow us on Twitter @OnlineCPI• Contact us to get involved or ask

questions:• Samer Naji, snaji@onlineCPI.org• (619) 584-5744 x 60