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Memo - City Council <br />2015 Budget and Tax Levy Discussions <br />8 <br />Administration, Finance and Administrative Services, and Government Buildings to all funds <br />from the General Fund per the salary allocation as found in your budget books. These charges <br />were instituted in 2008.) <br /> <br />Expenditures <br /> <br />Public Safety is increased by $86,118 for increases in the Fire Contract ($28,173, 6.54%), <br />Sheriff’s Contract ($48,829, 4.71%), and Dispatch <br />($9,116, 15.1%). <br /> <br />Finance and Administrative Services is proposing to add <br />back in the intern positions that were cut in 2014 which is <br />0.75 FTE. TCAAP expenditures were increased for <br />Other Professional Services, Administration reduced <br />Other Professional Services by $8,000 to help offset. <br />Due to the new calculations by the LMCIT, insurance <br />costs have been adjusted based on 2014 actuals and <br />reduced by $11,000. <br /> <br />ISSUES TO CONSIDER <br /> <br />Public Safety <br />Public Safety costs are set to increase as listed above. This alone would amount to an $86,118 <br />increase in the budget or a levy increase of 2.6%. <br /> <br />Capital Reserves <br />In 2014 we made a structural change to put Park and Street maintenance items in the General <br />Fund operating budget for those departments and discontinue the transfer of $200,000 from the <br />General fund to the PIR. <br /> <br />TCAAP <br />A TCAAP Capital Fund was established and only general TCAAP expenses are being budgeted <br />in the TCAAP department – all items related to the JPA which the City is responsible for are <br />going to the TCAAP Capital Fund. <br /> <br />Finance and Administrative Services <br />In November of 2010, the Council reorganized Finance and Administration into one department <br />called Finance and Administrative Services and added the Finance Analyst (comparable to <br />adding the Associate Planner in 2014). This was done to allow additional capacity for the City <br />Administrator to delegate duties to the Finance Director and reduce the amount of backlog <br />created in the Finance department each time a new intern came onboard. The Personnel <br />Committee reviewed this proposal and recommended it to the City Council as they did the <br />Associate Planner in 2014. A copy of the Council agenda item, which outlined the change to the <br />department in 2010 with the explanation, is attached (Attachment C and D). This was authorized <br />and approved by the City Council on November 29, 2010. It should be noted that this still <br />allowed interns/student workers of 0.35 FTEs in the Finance Department and 0.5 FTEs in the