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City of Roseville — 2013 Budget Letter of Transmittal December 3, 201 To the Mayor and City Council, Enclosed is the 2013 City Budget as prepared by City Staff, in accordance with City Council direction. The 2013 Budget culminates nearly two years' worth of planning, evaluation, and input from the City Council, advisory commissions, citizens and staff. Great effort has been taken to ensure that the City's core services are funded in a manner that preserves the greatest value to the cornrnumft . In addition steps have been taken to account for the changing trends and impacts that will affect both neat year's and future year's budgets. For 2013, the City continued its priority -based budgeting approach that is designed to better equate service levels with spending decisions. This process was also designed to reflect employee time spent analyses and give greater transparency on where financial resources are allocated. In addition, it ensures that the programs and services that were more highly desired by the community receive sufficient funding. This process included over a dozen public meetings held for the purposes of soliciting input and to gauge citizen reaction to proposed service offerings - a specific objective outlined in the City's Irngine Roseville 202 (H U025) long -term visioning process. For 2013, the City projects a stabilization of city revenues including interest earnings and other non -tax revenues that support the City's Police, Fire, Public Works, and Parks & Recreation functions. Some of these revenue sources had been stagnant or intermittent during the past few years. A significant property tax levy increase was enacted to fund added debt service costs associated with bonds that were issued to finance the construction of a new fire station and a parks renewal program. Small tax levy increases were also enacted to strengthen the City's equipment replacement programs, and to address rising operational costs. Despite this increase, Roseville residents will still pay less for city services than most peer cities. Despite an overall strengthening in the City's financial condition, the City expects to face a. number of financial challenges for 2013 and beyond. They include: Maintaining a competitive employee compensation and benefit package Continuing to strengthen the City's asset replacement funding mechanisms er Establishing on -going funding to implement the recommendations set forth in the Imagine Roseville 2025 process All of these impacts have been on -going for the past several years. Each of these impacts is addressed in greater detail below.