Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

°o^!K^^^^v''''' 2813 HAY 17 AM9:l»8 CITY OF OAKLAND AGENDA REPORT TO: DEANNA J. SANTANA FROM: Donna Hom CITY ADMINISTRATOR Budget Director SUBJECT: Supplemental Report to FY 2013-15 DATE: May 15, 2013 Proposed Policy Budget Related to Negotiated Settlement Agreement Remedial Action Plan and Associate Costs City Administrator Approval RECOMMENDATION (a) Presentation and the City Council receipt of two Federal Court Orders that set expenditures for salaries and operating expenditures to support the Office of the Compliance Director at an amount totaling $1,486,110 (Attachment A); (b) Presentation and City Council receipt of the related funding strategy to implement the Remedial Action Plan as transmitted to the Federal Court by Compliance Director Thomas Frazier in an amount of $1,825,000 for the initial compliance effort and an additional discretionary $1,000,000 set aside for anticipated expenditures. Note: This Remedial Action Plan ("Plan") (Attachment B) is a mandatory expenditure for the FY 2013-15 Policy Budget. The Plan was issued on May 1, 2013, after the finalization of the Mayor and City Administrator's FY 2013-15 Proposed Policy Budget on April 17, 2013, and is hereby incorporated as part of the proposed budget action. (c) City Council approval of $368,500 in necessary expenditures to implement the short-term crime fighting efforts (Attachment C), as submitted by Strategic Policy Partners (SPP) firm, which is discretionary but on focus with improving investigations and reducing homicides, burglaries, and robberies. OUTCOME This supplemental report advances newly available information that staff had noted was missing from the FY 2013-15 Proposed Policy Budget and becomes part of the FY 2013-2015 Proposed Policy Budget for adoption. Specifically, the two Federal Court Orders and the Remedial Action Plan funding is mandatory and the expenditures to implement the short-term crime fighting efforts is necessary, but entirely at the discretion of the City Council to approve. The recommended set aside in the amount of $ 1,000,000 is also discretionary but consistent with the Compliance Director's strong suggestion to set aside dollars for future expenditures. Funds to cover these expenditures are taken from the City's General Purpose Fund Reserve— Item: 5 City Council May 23, 2013