Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL Subject: Proposed FY 13-15 Proposed Policy Budget Date: May 13,2013 Page 20 Estimated Costs of the RPP Program Parking Enforcement - Police Department $ 930,000 (permit issuance, appeals, customer service) Parking Citation Assistance Center - Revenue $ 108,990 (permit issuance, appeals, customer service) Transportation Services Division - Public Works $ 78,850 (PR, evaluation, legislation) Traffic Maintenance Division -Public Works $ 4,725 (sign installation, replacement, maintenance) Total Cost $ 1,122,565 Average Permit Revenue to be Cost Covering $ 108.87 Needed Increase In Average per Permit Cost $ 90.13 4) Regarding illegal dumping, what is the current average time to respond to resident complaints? Under the proposed budget, what will be done to strengthen response to illegal dumping? The average response time to illegal dumping calls in Oakland has slowed due to staff resources. Based on the current FY 2012-13 data, 72% of customer service requests are responded to by Public Works (PW) staff within three (3) business days. Prior to the dissolution of the Redevelopment Agency which eliminated 5.00 PTE's in Febmary 2012 and the end of the Waste Management Settlement Agreement in the Illegal Dumping Unit, Public Works response rate was 94% within 3 business days. In addition, equipment shortages due to the aging fleet have also impacted service response times. At the current rate, it is projected that there will be an increase from 13,080 customer service requests in FY 2011-12 to 18,000 projected for the current fiscal year. The estimated 38% increase in service requests will further impact response times. The Proposed Budget does provide an illegal dumping mitigation proposal listed in the Policy Tradeoffs & Service Buybacks portion of the proposed budget that can be considered by the City Council, if there is a desire to do so, (see page A-3 of the Proposed Budget) 5) With respect to the items titled Illegal Dumping and Litter Mitigation under the Policy Tradeoffs & Service Buybacks section in the Proposed Budget, it looks like these cuts were made in the recent past. Are there further cuts proposed in the Proposed Budget? The Policy Tradeoffs and Service Buybacks section of the proposed budget includes lists of key City services that were reduced or excluded in the proposed budget. The section on Cuts for Possible Restoration generally lists services that were proposed for reduction in FY 2013-15, whereas the section on Policy Tradeoffs generally covers services that have been left unfunded due to State or federal influence or reduced over multiple years. These two groups are not entirely mutually exclusive. To clarify, the illegal dumping and litter mitigation service levels in