Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

Deanna J. Santana, City Administrator Subject: Proposed FY 13-15 Proposed Policy Budget Date: April 25, 2013 Page 9 communication is required for credit card transactions, programming, and meter service/repairs. Annual costs would be approximately $200,000. Staff has benchmarked other cities that have implemented comparable technology to gauge the impact of new meters on revenue. Oakland currently collects roughly $2 in citation revenue per $1 of meter fee revenue. Most cities have experienced an increase in meter fees, and decrease in citation revenue due to users having the ability to pay in a more convenient way (via credit/debit cards). For instance, Berkeley has seen fees increase by 29% while citation revenue has fallen 18%. San Francisco has seen citations fall by 14% arid increased meter fee revenue by 15%. The City estimates that citation revenue will fall 20% per meter installed, arid meter fee revenue will increase by 15% per installed meter. Given that the City collects more in citations than in meter fees, this will be a net decrease in revenue compared to present values. However, the convenience that smart meters provide individuals by diversifying the types of payments accepted does have a positive economic impact to those surrounding businesses by attracting more individuals to destination areas. Also, it should be noted that if the City does not replace its meters, staff still expects to see a decline in revenues from current values because of the occurrence of vandalism and an inability to cite parkers and non-fiinctioning meters. Public Safety 1) Can the Administration provide information about the 2008 PERF Study on Civilianization Recommendations? In 2008, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) prepared an information report that detailed the steps the City has taken to civilianize positions within the Department (Attachment B). In this report, the Department conducted an analysis of sworn positions suitable for civilianization and identified 47 potential positions, including 4 Sergeants positions in ' Communications, civilianizing much of internal affairs and establishing civilian administrafive positions in Training and in the Technology Unit. None of the positions identified in the 2008 report have been civilianized: Civilian staff have generally decreased over the past 6 years (34% reduction) as the trend has been to eliminate civilian positions in order to preserve sworn positions, when possible. The following additional civilian positions that were not in OPD's 2008 through 2012 budgets, are included in the 2013-15 Proposed Policy Budget: • 20 Police Services Technicians II (PSTII): These civilian positions will work in the field and will perform functions, such as taking police reports and responding to non-injury traffic collisions. This will free up the time of sworn officers to respond to calls for emergency service. • The Civilianization of the Office of the Inspector General: The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is currently managed by a Captain of Police, and is staffed by a mixture of sworn and professional staff The OIG will move out of the Police Department, and will be managed and staffed solely by civilian staff Item: City Council April 30, 2013