Jovan Grogan
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first heard Sep 2023
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So the focus of this budget is tranche one, that $100 million.
The box on the right, upper right there, Capital Project Delivery, includes significant funding for our utilities, our electric, sewer, water utilities funded primarily by rate payers and necessary for the needs of our utilities.
Allocates dedicated funding primarily around our transportation projects.
We get a significant portion of funding from our gas tax, Measure B, SB 1, dedicated sources.
And then select a number of projects out of our general fund capital projects reserve.
This has historically been the funding source for capital projects, so this budget continues that in areas of projects where there is no alternative funding source.
At the bottom right box here, fiscal sustainability and planning for the future, as the city manager mentioned, this forecast in this budget includes addressing the structural deficit.
And good news from a long-term perspective, but also just a cautionary note, it doesn't include all the costs that
As a growing city, as there are multiple competing needs identified through various stakeholders and our council priority setting session doesn't include funding for everything that's needed in our city, but significant progress from a fiscal long-term standpoint.
The budget includes a new infrastructure replacement capital fund or a sinking fund.
The recommendation in the budget is 3% of our general fund expenses and I'll talk about through the Q&A, I know there was some feedback on how we can increase that potentially to a 5% level.
I'll talk about opportunities to do that.
Then the last bullet on the right there, restoration of frozen positions.
These are a handful of positions across all city departments through the COVID pandemic that were unfunded.
With the funding in this budget, it sets aside dollars to have a separate process to restore those positions.
And then the bottom left box here around organizational effectiveness and city services includes a $2 million allocation for council priorities.
There are upcoming priority setting sessions in May and July, and so this allocation is acknowledgement of potential investments necessary through that process.
And it also recommends a number of position changes related to organizational reviews in a couple departments.
That's been a process that was started about a year and a half ago and continuing through several departments.
And so we do have some augmentations to the budget around those reviews.
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