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Mayor and City Council Budget Memo September 4, 1996 2 The proposed personnel for 1997 that needs to be discussed by the City Council includes the following: Mechanic- $38,000 · Seasonal PT Park Ranger- $2,500 · Seasonal PT Park Maintenance - $4,500 · Additional PT Fire Inspection Hours - $5,000 · Changing Police Office Service Worker (OSW) from PT to FT- $12,000 · Police Services- $56,500 · PT Administrative OSW- $10,000 These positions, and two other full time positions, are noted in my 8/26/96 budget memo to the Council. As the Council knows, just because new personnel are funded through the contingency fund and these positions are being considered, all new positions need further review and approval by the Council at a future date. Nonetheless, if the aforementioned positions are approved by the City Council, this equals $128,500 in annual (1997) expenses. Combined with the contingency expense of wage increases for the non-union general fund employees, which is estimated at $46,000, the Council is left with a very small amount of money for true contingency expenditures. However, the Council can obtain more flexibility in contingency expenses if, for example, the mechanic is hired during the summer and the change in status of the Police OSW does not take place until the summer. Even with using this delayed hiring approach to provide more flexibility for the City Council, it would be very desirable if the Council contingency fund could be increased in the 1997 budget. We currently have a budget gap of $75,400 between the proposed expenditures and the available revenues. This is based on a NTC growth of approximately 12 percent and a 3 percent increase in the city tax rate. The following list of possible budget adjustments is offered for your review. This list is fairly short because staff already made a number of adjustments in the revenues and expenditures in order to achieve the $75,400 gap that we are now evaluating. · Add $25,000 in revenues for school liaison services and requests continued school participation in this program for the third officer which serves as the secondary DARE officer. · Add $5,000 in street reserve transfers. · Add $5,000 in liquor store transfers. · Cut $11,500 from the Planning budget by delaying the hiring of the Planning intern that is scheduled for 1996; but which has not been approved by the Council. The entire 1997 salary for this position is in the Planning budget and we could save $11,500 in this budget by delaying the hiring of this employee until June, 1997. · Cut $2,300 from the City Council budget by changing the City Newsletter from 6 times a year to 4 times a year.