1A Proposed 2009 Budget Overview

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Memo City Council 2009 Budget Preliminary Overview 2 ■ Annual pay adjustments. (The proposed budget reflects a 3% $36,096 increase in pay schedules). The annual pay adjustments also include scheduled pay steps. ■ Group Insurance contribution increase. The proposed expenditures $17,599 reflect a$24 per month increase in the City's contribution toward employee health insurance and other benefit options in the cafeteria benefit plan. ($672 per month,per employee) ■ Additional costs related to expanding the Recreation Programmer $13,600 Position from part-time to full-time (see attached memo). This impacts the Recreation and Street Department. ■ Mayor and Council salaries are increased effective 1/1/2009 per $12,500 resolution adopted by the City Council in September 2007. ■ Newsletter"Arden Notes" increased costs have not been finalized $2,000 at this point—currently increased the budget by$2,000, however estimates show this could increase by$5,000 ■ Engineering fees were decreased by 50%in the administration ($25,000) budget, however this needs to have further analysis as we look at our joint powers agreement with Roseville and workloads. ■ Contract Policing costs have increased 6.2% over 2008. This $50,225 increase mainly reflects a full year of the patrol power shift deputy position, which was funded for half of the year for 2008, and the purchase of a new traffic car. ■ Contracted Fire Service costs. The budget reflects a 9.1% increase $28,251 in costs for contracted fire service. This increase is due mainly to the proposed addition of a Deputy Fire Chief position. ■ Motor fuels expenditures in the Street and Park Departments are $4,050 proposed to increase by a total of 27%to reflect actual fuel costs. ■ Maintenance materials in the Street and Park Department are $11,525 proposed to reflect the increase in Roadmix and Sand/Salt. ■ An intern has been included in the Fiancne and Support Services $3000 department. The cost of the intern can be offset by a matching grant from the MGFOA. The total impact to the General Fund budget would be approximately$3,000.