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Zn fairness, it should be pointed out that many in the state have been concerned about this process from the beginning. As you will see in the financial poxrion of this memo, the state potentially stands to lose a great deal of revenue that is normally granted them when regular citations are used. ~Ie are requesting that the Council review all of this information, and give direction to staff on whether or not we should proceed with the administrative citation process. ~nancia~ lrnp~c ~1'e l~now of few specifics on the financial impact of this process for several reasons. First, the state has not announced the costs of the new citation yet. we used to pay $4,500 per printed batch of regular traffic citations, I would expect that the cast might be in that area, ~1'e no longer pay for citation printing since we went paperless. That option is nat available far these citations} There will be a small amount of staff time to enter the tickets into our police database and to have finance track, collect, and disseminate the f~a.e money. I do not believe that these costs will be very signif cant. The model resolutions, forms, and letters are all available to us at no charge from the League. The revenue stream is very difficult to estimate due to the limited number of offenses these citations can be used for. If an estimate could be made, ~ would suggest that we might issue Sod of these citations each year to start. That would generate $10,00 of supplemental revenue for the police department, and $10,000 for the city budget, we would subtract from there the costs of the tickets and the hearing officer. Normally, a $~Z5 speeding ticket would generate ~2C in fine revenue for the city. Based on the same number of tickets ~500~, we would see $3,000 in fine revenue for the city, or $7,000 less than the administrative citations. Taping out $4,500 in tickets costs and an estimated $1,000 a yea~.• in hearing officer costs and the revenue gained is almost the same regardless of which choice the Council makes. Zt should be painted out, however, that if more violations are added to the allowable offenses next year, the ability to gain more revenue from the administrative fines is greatly increased. Factually, if we could use these for all moving violations except far the serious driving offenses ~Dw~}, we could see a 40% increase in fine revenue each year. Last year we issued over 3,000 citations, which is additional revenue of X48,000 in the future if we will be allowed to eventually use these citations for all offenses. tachr~~m~s ~ Memo from Michelle Masica. Fine j ournal Office of the State Auditor Statement of Position S:~Cnuncil~Policc~20~~~Admin ~'isles,dac