Fiscal Year 2013-2015 Special Budget Meeting

HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL Subject; Proposed FY 13-15 Proposed Policy Budget Date: June 12, 2013 Page 7 1) With respect to the enforcement of Illegal Dumping and Graffiti, is this work that civilian staff can do? At this time, !staff is working to explore what options exist with respect to enforcement of illegal dumping and graffiti. Staff respectfully requests time to gather the appropriate staff to research best practices and come back to the City Council in the fall to report out on findings and potential options for the City Council to consider. Code Enforcement 1) In the Proposed Budget, Code Enforcement's FTEs are being reduced but Code Enforcement's revenues are being projected to substantially increase. Why are the revenues being projected to substantially increase when the staff assigned to generating that revenue is being decreased? The current fund balance in the Development Service Fund (2415) is negative by $2.0 million. The proposed budget has a budgeted surplus of $32,767 in FY13-I4 and $905,587 in FY14-15, and that could be used toward paying back the negative fund balance (debt). The Proposed Budget, as presented in the published document, is by program. Our focus in this budget cycle is to. balance the department budget by the overall fund 2415. Each of the programs in fund 2415 (i.e.. Code Enforcement, Development Permit Inspection) is not necessarily balanced or cost covering; the overall fund 2415 is, however, balanced. Another reason for a decrease in FTEs for Code Enforcement is because we moved Code Enforcement staff to the Permit Counter to provide higher priority services. Respectfully submitted, bL DONNA HOM Budget Director Attachments: Attachment A:) Add/Delete Positions since Adoption of FY 2012-1S Attachment B: Management Letter from External Auditor Attachment C: Repayment Schedule for Funds # 1100 and 4100