5.0. SR 08-31-1998 - Laserfiche WebLink

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1999 Budget Memo August 31, 1998 Page 6 previously reviewed with the City Council in May. The police department still needs about $58,000 worth of expenditures to update their communication/computer systems. (The Council has already authorized approximately $12,000 in expenditures.) This approval by the City Council is needed before the end of the year, and a source of funds for this expenditure has yet to be identified. Finally, there are some organizational changes in some budgets that should be noted...The data processing budget has been eliminated and the data processing requests from individual departments are within their own budget...As previously noted, the liquor store transfer for part of the City Hall debt has been eliminated from both the expenditures and the revenue sections of the budget. This shows up in the government building budget. Also, the government building's budget has changed whereby now we have a full time employee rather than contracted services, the police cleaning services are now out of this budget, and the budget title has been more correctly relabled to be a City Hall Maintenance budget...The City Council Contingency budget contains fewer dollars for additional employees as, in 1999, most of the additional employees are expected to be approved when the budget is adopted. In the past, there has always been some uncertainty as to if the employees would be hired and when. Therefore, money for the positions were in the contingency fund. Most of the 1999 positions will be reviewed with the departmental budgets. 1999 BUDGET GAP At this point, budget requests have only been received and compiled. The budget requests have not been reduced based on available revenues and whether or not the request is a minimum requirement or a "nice to have" request. Last year personal services went up $348,150 in the budget. The personal services increase in 1999 is expected to be more than last year as most of the employee additions have been moved out of the contingency fund and into each departmental budget. Additionally, last year there was a slightly higher number of additional employees hired and position changes than what we typically experience, and these actions are reflected in the 1999 figures. At this time, the 1999 personal services is projected to increase somewhere between $475,000 and $500,000. This personal services situation highlights the need for the city to add the additional $280,000 in tax revenue which is available within the levy limit law. If this tax revenue is added to the current projection of plus $178,500,