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 23 PW provides encampment clean up as part of its overall Illegal Dumping Units. The total cost of this work is $4.8M and encampment requests represent approximately 280 calls out of 18,000 overall calls. This represents 1.56% of calls and thus would translate into a cost to PW of approximately $75,000 per year. The Department of Human Services (DHS) provides coordination through its existing staff and estimates this cost to be 0.50 FTE of a Program Analyst II or approximately $91,000 per year. OPD support is provided on an as-needed and/or as-available basis and as such, associated costs cannot be readily determined. The Neighborhood Services Division has been involved in recent discussions, however costs associated would be difficult to ascertain at this time. DHS, PW and OPD collaborated on a proposal for encampment abatement that also included dedicated OPD follow up enforcement to address homeless individuals returning to the sites . and dollars for structural mitigation where advisable. However, funding has not yet been identified for these components. 10) The Proposed Budget estimates the cost to restore service for the purposes of mitigating illegal dumping to be approximately $1,000,000. What would it cost to fund adequate public education, outreach and effective enforcement to further reduce illegal dumping? Are there some careful cuts and/or consolidations that can be made within the Public Works Agency to free up funds to better deal with illegal dumping? A public education and outreach program on illegal dumping would require 1.0 FTE Program Analyst 11 to lead the program and 2.0 FTE Student Trainees to attend community meetings. In addition, it would require Graphics Contracts for development of concept and funding to purchase media placement (e.g. Billboards and Bus/BART Placards, electronic advertising, print media advertising, and/or PSAs). Estimated costs of these resources are noted in the table below: FY13-14 FY14-15 1.0 FTE Program Analyst II $118,607 $121,280 2.0 FTE Student Trainee $79,020 $79,082 Graphics Contract ' $50,000 $50,000 Media Buy $100,000 $100,000 TOTAL $347,627 $350,362 Please note that costs associated with OPD enforcement are unknown depending on the level of enforcement desired and the resources available. The 1720 Comprehensive Clean-up Fund is the lone source of funding for Street Sweeping, Illegal Dumping removal. Homeless Encampment cleanup. Cutting and Cleaning of weeds. Park litter removal and Graffiti Abatement programs. The Proposed Budget adds two FTE for Graffiti Abatement and funding for the Operation Dignity Contract in DHS so that Homeless outreach can be continued. In order to "free up funds" for outreach, public