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 36 agencies to provide immediate supplemental patrol services, subject lo their agreement to provide continued services. This earmark is to provide immediate high visibility in key areas throughout the City, in order to assist with crime suppression, investigation and Operation Ceasefire. As such, this earmark provides an immediate solution due to the shortage of staffing available in OPD. The MOU with the CHP for Crime Suppression Assistance was approved by the City Council on May 7, 2013. CHP will provide high visibility patrols in selected focused enforcement areas up to four nights per week for a period of 90 days from May 10, 2013 to August 8, 2013, with one option to renew for 90 days. 6) If current monthly police office attrition continues at 4.5 per month, how can the Proposed Budget achieve a sustained staffing level of 697? What other actions, incentives, and therefore costs will accrue to tackle attrition and recruitment and or lateral transfers of officers? The Proposed Budget creates 697 budgeted swom positions. Where salary savings exist through attrition, those funds can be used for future academies in the event that staffing levels fall well behind authorized strength during the budget cycle. Several options to bring staffing levels up to the authorized levels using salary savings (budget neutral) could include: • Holding a lateral academy; • Holding an additional police academy; • Holding an academy for post academy graduates; or • Moving up the start date of academies that have already been approved. The Former Police Chief was conducting research in developing a retention plan for OPD. More information will be coming from the Department in the next months. 7) What are the fixed and variable costs of running another academy during the budget cycle? Are there economies of scale and possible reductions in spending if there are concurrent or nearly concurrent academies and is there an impact upon service delivery when or if an additional academy is ran? If so, what is the impact of overtime, less officers on patrol; reduced investigations, and the like? The City's costs related to police academies are documented in the March 2013 information memorandum on Police Officer Academy Costs. Please see below link: (http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakcal/groups/citvadministrator/documents/memorandum/oak 040265.pdf) The City's costs related to police academies are documented in the information memorandum on Police Officer Academy Costs. As the memorandum notes, there are few economies of scale in mnning multiple academies in close succession. The goal of mnning multiple academies would be to accelerate the hiring of police officers.