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A
Good
afternoon
and
welcome
to
the
beginning
of
this
year's
budget
hearing
budget
hearings
process,
we
begin
with
the
2022
budget
proposal
overview
and
policy
discussion
and
with
that
I'm
going
gonna
turn
it
over
to
our
budget
director
bill
urbanic
as
well
as
michael
sterling.
B
Good
morning,
everybody
or
afternoon
I'm
bill
benneck,
I'm
city
council's
budget
director,
and
I
have
a
presentation
here
for
our
2022
budget
proposal
from
mayor
peduto
and
I
will
share
my
screen
here
that
moving.
B
Okay,
I'm
joined
today,
I'm
joining
virtually
obviously
well
with
budget
manager
mike
strelik
from
the
council
budget
office
who's
in
chambers
due
to
circumstances
beyond
my
control.
I
need
to
do
this
remotely
from
home
today
and
we'll
start
off
with
that
2022
proposal.
B
It's
650
million
dollars
in
revenue
and
613
million
dollars
in
expenditures.
Expenditures
have
increased
by
25
million
dollars
over
2021.
budgetarily
there's
room
for
900
police
officers
and
500
000
is
dedicated
for
recruits
this
year.
We'll
talk
about
the
pension.
B
The
padua
administration
has
stuck
with
the
ordinance
and
53
million
dollar
mmo
26.7
million
dollars
in
parking
an
additional
9.8
million
dollars,
19.8
million
dollars
in
the
mmo
plus
that
actually
equals
the
arc,
plus
a
little
more,
which
gives
us
cash
flow
in
the
pension,
allowing
the
investment
and
principal
to
stay
harmless,
which,
as
long
as
we
have
a
positive
market,
we'll
continue
to
make
gains
in
the
pension
which
is
important
for
us
with
our
funding
levels.
B
There's
also
a
9
million
dollar
transfer
from
the
fund
balance
to
pay
go
capital.
It
allows
us
a
little
more
flexibility
in
dealing
with
some
of
our
capital
issues
that
may
not
be
bond
eligible,
there's
also
room
for
a
60
million
dollar
bond
issue
for
the
capital
budget
to
be
funded
this
year.
There's
also
the
total
capital
budget,
which
michael
talked
about
in
a
little
bit,
is
158.6
million
dollars,
and
I'm
gonna
make
this
try
to
keep
this
quick
and
show
you
where
I'm
going
with
presentation
this
year.
B
It's
a
recurring
theme
year
after
year,
but
I'm
gonna
focus
a
little
more
on
this
200
657
million
dollar
revenue
budget,
of
which
approximately
48
million
dollars
are
american
rescue
plan
act,
funds
that
makes
up
seven
percent
of
our
budget.
That's
the
budget
shortfall
that
we
had
have
for
this
year
and
if
you
look
at
it
in
in
this
manner,
you're
talking
about
potential
structural
deficit.
B
If
we
didn't
have
that
additional
funds
coming
in
from
the
federal
government,
if
you
take
a
look
at
our
revenues
as
they're
coming
in
I've,
compared
them
to
the
2020
plan,
the
pre-pandemic
plan
five-year
plan
we
had
and
our
projections
for
2022
in
that
year,
real
estate
taxes
are
approximately
four
million
dollars
less
than
what
we
had
anticipated
in
that
five-year
plan.
B
Bright
spot
is
the
earned
income
tax,
which
is
actually
about
two
million
dollars
more,
so
people
that
live
in
the
city
that
pay
taxes
their
earned
income
tax,
regardless
of
whether
they're
working
from
home
as
long
as
they're
working
for
a
company
anywhere
here
in
the
region,
they
will
pay
that
tax
to
us
and
that
is
performing
well.
Unfortunately,
a
lot
of
people
are
working
from
home
for
some
of
the
larger
businesses
and,
as
a
result,
the
payroll
preparation
tax
is
much
lower
than
it
normally
would
be.
B
A
lot
of
the
larger
companies
have
folks
working
from
home
a
lot
of
folks
hadn't
and
haven't
yet
returned
to
the
office,
but
hopefully
that
changes
the
other
area
where
we're
severely
underfunded
part
is
parking
tax.
Of
course,
when
you
know
people
come
into
the
office
day
to
day,
you
have
fewer
parking
receipts,
as
well
as
with
a
lot
of
our
amusement
tax
things.
As
you
see
the
amusement
tax,
a
little
further
down:
2.5
million
dollar
deficit
over
that
2022
plan
or
2020
plan.
That
will
continue.
B
Hopefully,
as
we
have
events
as
the
pandemic
eases
as
cobit
begins
to
to
fade,
we'll
see,
increases
there.
Along
with
that
is
the
facility
usage
fee
licenses
and
permits.
I
kind
of
was
hoping
would
be
a
little
bit
better
because
there
had
been
a
lot
of
work
done,
but
apparently
not
larger
scale.
Projects
anticipated
for
this
phone,
this
lecture,
and
then
you
see
the
other
ones,
charging
services
forfeits
and
funds
and
four
fixtures.
Of
course,
you're.
Not
writing
as
many
tickets
and
such
intergovernmental
revenue
as
well
is
down
1.2
million
dollars.
B
The
other
bright
spot
for
20
projected
for
2022
is
the
d
transfer
tax,
which
is
open
over
performing,
which
is
nice,
but
we
can't
depend
on
that
to
last
forever.
B
That
one
particular
one
is
is
something
that
will
go
with
the
real
estate
trends,
so
we're
hot
market
right
now
in
pittsburgh,
things
are
selling.
We
even
have
some
transfers
of
larger
properties,
larger
commercial
buildings-
that's
helping
us
there's
some
of
that
anticipating
this
next
year.
So
that's
looking
good
right
now.
B
So
if
you
look
at
the
very
bottom,
the
total
loss
revenue
here,
though,
is
30.8
million
dollars,
and
now,
if
I
can
go
to
my
next
slide,
next
slides
expenditures,
as
you
can
see,
this
is
the
divide
out
of
expenditures.
Public
safety,
35
percent-
that's
grown.
It
was
last
year
that
was
31
general
governments
at
12,
dpw
pensions
is
at
17
and
if
you
notice
the
excuse
me
here,
I'm
going
to
go
to
the
previous
one.
B
The
debt
service
is
at
10,
which
is
good
that
keeps
us
there,
but
that's
going
to
grow
in
the
outdoors
as
we
continue
to
write
debt
out
benefits
stays
at
fif,
approximately
15,
so
some
of
the
things
we're
doing
good
at
on
the
expenditure
end,
but
some
of
the
things
we
will
continue
to
see
costs
rise
and
that's
where
some
of
those
concerns
go
the
operating
departments.
B
If
you
look
and
compare
that
same
comparison,
so
we
have
some
apples
to
apples
because
last
year
was
sort
of
a
by
the
last
two
years.
The
pandemic
budget
has
has
been
an
anomaly.
The
operating
departments
are
up,
five
hundred
ten
thousand
dollars.
B
Pension
and
opeb
is
up
2.7
health
benefits,
11
million
dollars,
comp
359
000
and
debt
service
up
3.5
million
dollars,
and
you
see
that
in
that
plan
that
we
have
now,
but
you
also
see
this
here,
and
that
is
18.6
million
dollars
that
were
transfers
to
departments
that
had
previously
been
in
departments.
So,
if
you
look
at
this
realistically,
this
year's
2022
budget-
and
you
add
the
18
million
dollar
reduction
here.
That's
now
transfers
and
you
add
the
30
million
dollar
loss
of
revenue.
B
You
come
up
with
the
48
million
dollars
were
being
subsidized
this
year
from
the
arc
of
funds
in
the
operating
budget.
B
So
here's
that
outlook
again
broken
down
and
you
see
we
were
projecting
a
44
million
dollar
operating
result
to
begin
to
bring
the
fund
balance
up
to
where
it
needs
to
be.
We
should
and
try
to
be
around
15.
We
never
want
to
go
lower
than
10
percent.
B
That
I
had
spoken
about
before
now
I'll
go
on
to
the
five-year
plan
here,
because
here's
where
the
concern
begins
to
happen-
and
it
happens
with
on
the
revenue
side
and
if
you
I'll,
just
point
that
out
real
quick,
the
rest
of
it.
You
guys
know
the
the
story
on
on
the
five-year
plan.
But
if
you
begin
to
look
at
the
revenues
out
here,
you
see
this
where
we're
subsidized
by
the
art
funds
in.
B
2021
we
were
2022,
we
were
again
2023
2024
and
then
you
see
in
2025
when
the
our
funds
go
away,
the
the
revenue
dropped
significantly
and
not
so
with
the
expenditures.
The
expenditures
keep
keep
moving
forward
here
and
that's
where
we
start
to
get
into
trouble.
B
So
what
my
concern
is-
and
you
know
talk
about
it
again
later-
is
the
the
revenue
and
expenditures
being
able
to
meet,
as
well
as
the
accuracy
of
of
some
of
the
revenue
numbers
that
we
have
because
of
the
pandemic,
and
because
of
some
of
the
economic
changes
that
we've
seen
and
habits
and
patterns
and
such
just
like
with
the
real
estate
people
working
from
home.
Will
these
numbers
come
back?
Will
the
numbers
come
back
for
amusement
tax?
B
Will
the
numbers
come
back
for
real
estate
and
will
the
numbers
come
back,
particularly
with
with
payroll
preparation
tax,
which
is
some
things
we
may
have
to
close
the
gap
on
later
on?
So
we'll
come
back
to
this
in
a
bit
next,
I'd
like
to
hand
that,
over
to
mike
who's
in
chambers.
C
There
it
is
thanks
bill,
so
on
this
slide,
it's
the
the
total
2022
capital
budget
and
the
six-year
capital
improvement
plan,
see
it's
158
million
dollars
next
year.
If
you
go
to
the
next
slide,
you
can
see
what
that
looks
like
compared
to
prior
years.
So
bill
was
here
in
03.04
when
we
didn't
have
a
capital
budget.
I
was
came
on
in
08
when
the
entire
capital
budget
is
about
the
same
as
what
we're
going
to
spend
this
year
in
street
resurfacing.
C
Some
of
you
were
here
in
2011
when
we
again
had
no
capital
budget,
so
this
year,
2021
2022,
probably
2023
when
the
infrastructure
bill
trickles
down
a
local
level.
It's
the
highest
in
total
dollar
amount
that
this
city
has
ever
seen,
but
I
would
caution
not
to
get
used
to
it.
The
days
of
16
million
street
paving
budgets
and
nine
ten
million
dollars
to
the
ura
is
is
not
sustainable.
C
So
it's
great
news
now,
but
in
a
couple
years
that
that
money-
just
like
the
operating
budget
when
the
federal
dollars
drop
off
we're
going
to
see
a
reduction
in
in
what
we
can
see
in
the
capital
budget,
including
if
you
go
to
the
next
slide,
the
cdbg
dollars
it's
my
favorite
chart
because
it
shows
a
drop
since
it
came
in.
We
have
gotten
a
slight
increase.
It
was
down
to
about
13
million
dollars,
anticipating
14
this
year,
14.2
last
year,
but
that
money,
if
it
stays
at
14
million.
C
If
you
go
to
the
next
slide
remind
council
that
there's
voting
on
the
operating
budget
in
the
capital
budget
there's
a
number
of
dollars
that
live
not
necessarily
off
book,
because
they're
included
in
our
financial
system
and
reported,
but
you're
not
voting
on
these
dollars
today
with
the
well
you're
voting
on
the
stop
the
violence
trust
fund.
So
one
of
these
70
trust
funds,
you'll
you'll,
be
approving
in
the
coming
coming
weeks.
C
That's
the
capital
and
the
trust
funds,
but
if
you
go
to
the
next
slide,
you
know
I'm
guilty
of
looking
at
at
things
in
a
silo:
the
operating
budget,
the
capital
budget,
the
trust
funds,
but
there's
programs
that
of
course,
go
across
all
budgets
like
affordable
housing,
a
topic
of
conversational
last
few
years,
there's
money
in
the
operating
there's
money
in
capital
budget,
there's
money,
the
federal
arp
dollars
that
council
approved
this
year
for
the
the
2022
years,
and
that's
just
the
the
city
money.
B
I
promised
you
the
red
and
blue
lines,
red
being
the
expenditures
and
blue
being
the
revenues.
B
B
B
Of
course,
we
all
know
that,
as
we
voted
as
you
guys
voted
last
year
on
defunding
the
the
city,
if,
as
an
emergency
contingency
plan,
thank
god,
we
got
revenue
to
make
that
go
away,
but
as
we
move
into
the
future,
we
need
to
look
at
different
alternatives.
Now.
This
is
just
an
old
slide
from
several
years
ago,
when
we
had
some
problems,
but
all
these
things
are
still
and
still
should
be
considered
at
on
the
table.
B
You
have
a
little
bit
of
time
to
be
able
to
implement
these
things.
B
Most
of
them
have
to
go
on
on
the
state
end
and
they
all
need
to
be
looked
at,
but
at
some
point
in
time,
if
those
revenues
do
not
succeed
in
producing
the
amount
of
money
to
be
able
to
stay
up
with
our
expenditures,
these
things
may
be
necessary
to
to
consider,
but
I
would
say
the
bigger
issues
and
one
of
the
things
that
everybody
always
says:
oh
got
to
do
that
at
the
state.
B
Well,
there's
an
opportunity,
as
we
go
into
the
next
few
years
with
the
new
mayor
and
with
the
with
the
council,
to
talk
to
the
state
to
look
at
the
some
of
these
different
issues
and
and
revenue
sources
and
see
what
would
be
palatable
both
for
changing
on
the
state
as
well
palatable
to
the
residents
locally.
Here
and
finish
up.
B
B
We
still
have
that
uncertain
future
of
revenue
sources
returning
and
sustaining
the
amounts
needed
to
catch
up
to
the
inevitable
increase
in
expenditures
just
like
every
business.
The
city
needs
to
continue
to
seek
out
new
sources
of
revenue
and
hence
collection
methods
and,
of
course,
reduce
expenditures
for
efficiencies
where
possible.
B
I
want
to
take
the
opportunity
to
thank
the
peduto
administration,
especially
their
budget
team,
for
their
work
over
the
past
eight
years,
that's
from
scott
kunka
to
sam
ashbaugh,
prosciutti
and
now,
of
course,
kevin
paulus,
all
of
which
were
dedicated
the
city
all
which
were
very
professional
and
as
well
as
the
folks
that
they
they
have
backing
them
up
as
well,
too,
and
there's
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
good
people.
In
the
background.
B
I
hope
that
as
many
of
these
folks
are
able
to
stay
and
keep
our
city
fiscally
secure
as
they
have
in
the
past,
along
with
our
council,
who
has
also
been
extremely
fiscally
responsible.
A
Thank
you
director
before
discussion.
I
just
want
to
remind
all
members
that
the
actual
hearings
themselves
will
begin
tomorrow,
starting
at
1
30
with
the
office
of
management
and
budget
and
then
again
on
thursday,
at
10
am
with
the
department
of
public
safety.
Is
there
any
comments
from
members
council
president.
D
I
just
want
to
thank
you
for
chairing
the
finance
and
law
committee
and
for
the
work
that
you
do.
You
do
an
amazing
job,
but
I
also
want
to
thank
everyone.
All
the
council
members,
the
budget
office,
the
camera.
I
don't
think
the
public
realizes
everything
that
goes
into
this
these
meetings.
We
have
the
imp
department
working
late
and
and
doing
all
the
things
that
they
do.
We
have
our
sergeant-at-arms
our
clerk's
office
and
obviously
our
own
budget
office
doing
a
lot
of
work,
but
it's
a
good
collaboration
between
us
and
the
administration.