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<br /> <br /> <br />ys,/yc <br /> <br /> <br />(~;J/ <br />Roseville City Budget 2006: <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />A. On-going operations of the Roseville city government are funded primarily <br />by user and license fees as well as assessments; property taxes; special purpose <br />grants and state aid; and investment earnings on savings. Respectively, the <br />approximate amounts of revenue raised in each category are as follows: Fees and <br />Assessments: $15 million; Taxes: $10 m.; Grants and Aid: $2 m.; and Investment <br />Earnings: $1.5 million. <br />Thus, most of the revenue we take in is not from taxes, but from utility <br />fees for service, fees for other services (such as P&R), and licenses. <br /> <br />B. The $10 m. in City property taxes primarily supports operations in the Police <br />Department ($4.5 million in taxes), the Streets Division ($2 m.), the Fire <br />Department ($1.7 million), and the Parks and Recreation Department ($1.7). (The <br />difference between this sub-total of $9.9 m. and $10 m. is the amount of money <br />spent for internal support of these tax-supported functions, such as payroll, <br />accounting, and HR costs.) <br />Thus, cutting such things as our utility opera tions costs or our license <br />center costs or our planning department costs or our cablecasting costs for <br />government channel 16 - all of which are funded entirely with fees - has <br />no impact on city taxes. If you want to cut taxes, you need to cut PD, FD, <br />P&R, or Streets. <br /> <br />City Budget Issues <br /> <br />Practical Ouestions: <br />1. Whether the Council should spend City Reserves to balance the budget? <br />2. Whether the Council should cut City Employees' COLA to balance the <br />budget? <br />3. Whether the Council should delay replacing scheduled Capital i.tems to <br />balance the bhdget? ., <br /> <br />Broader Ouestions: <br />4. What is our vision for the City? In considering our vision for the City... <br /> <br />a. What services do we value the most? What services do we value <br />less or not at all? <br /> <br />b. What outcomes are we trying to achieve? What outcomes are we <br />trying to avoid? What are we trying to maintain? <br /> <br />c. How much taxation is too much? How much is too little? How <br />much is just right? <br /> <br />d. How do Roseville city government taxes compare with similar <br />cities? How do the incomes of Roseville residents and businesses <br />compare with those in similar cities? <br /> <br />-- <br />