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 33 increment dollars that will be distributed to the City's "boomerang funds" as a result of this restructuring. Increase Billboard Revenues: The City's Planning & Building Division believes that the City will receive $950,000 in FY20I3-14 and $475,000 in FY2014-15 from billboard advertising. The negotiations underlying these revenues are ongoing; 6) Are there any entities that could be eligible to pay a business license tax or transient occupancy tax that are not currently paying those taxes? If so, please identify those entities and estimate how much additional revenue could be generated for the city. The Administration does not exempt businesses from paying business license tax or transient occupancy tax who are required to pay such taxes under the City's tax ordinance. In addition, State Law prohibits taxing certain types of businesses (such as financial institutions and non-profit enterprises). The City's ordinances that establish these taxes do contain exemptions and changing these ordinances would require approval of the electorate. The City does have a "Business Tax and Sales Tax Incentive Program" which was created in October 2009 to attract medium and large employers to the City. As these attraction programs are design to attract business to the City that would otherwise not locate here, their elimination would reduce rather than augment City revenues. More information on these programs is available on the economic development website: http://www2.oaklandnet.eom/Govcmment/o/CitvAdministration/d/EconomicDevelop ment/index.htm. Public Safety—Police 1) Of the 47 positions identified in the 2008 Informational report on positions that could be civilianized in the Police Department: a. How many of these positions still exist? Have or are any of these positions slated for civilianization? If so, what is the timeframe? What costs are involved with these transitions? Is there overlap here regarding the pending transition from Internal Affairs to the Civilian Police Review Board? While all of the 47 positions still exist, none of the 47 swom positions have been supplemented with civilian classifications. However, it should be noted that the additional Police Evidence Technicians identified in the policy tradeoffs in the Proposed Budget are among the 47 swom positions that were identified for civilianization in the 2008 report. As context, in the last 6 years, it had been the City's general practice to eliminate positions (not to add positions). For example, in this timeframe, 720 FTE positions were eliminated from the Budget. Specifically, swom officers were reduced by 27% from 837 to 611 FTEs and civilian positions were reduced by 34% from 394 to 261 FTEs.