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A
B
Good
afternoon
everyone,
my
name,
is
Peter
McDevitt
I'm
City
council's
budget
director
and
I'm
joined
by
my
deputy
director
Ria
price.
We
have
a
presentation
prepared
to
review
mayor
gainey's
budget
proposals.
I
want
to
start
off
by
thanking
a
few
people.
First
I
wanted
to
thank
our
predecessors,
biller
Bannock
and
Mike
strellick,
who
kind
of
set
the
table
for
us
and
outlined
the
role
of
the
Council
budget
office
is
has
in
this
process.
B
It's
also
I'd
also
like
to
thank
mayor
Gainey
and
his
administration,
and
the
team
and
OMB
Ree
and
I
both
worked
in
that
office
on
the
other
side
of
the
floor
for
a
number
of
years.
I'm
an
effort
goes
into
the
preparation
of
both
of
these
budgets
and
we
really
appreciate
all
that
work.
Lastly,
I'd
really
like
to
thank
city
council
for
putting
their
faith
in
Ria
and
I
and
giving
us
this
opportunity
to
help
Shepherd
these
budgets
through
the
end
of
the
year.
B
And
with
that,
the
city's
operating
in
capital
budgets
work
as
our
primary
policy
documents.
They
outline
how
we
intend
to
invest
in
the
city
to
achieve
the
policy
goals.
These
are
the
three
priorities
that
mayor
Gainey
outlined
in
his
budget
presentation
back
at
the
end
of
September.
B
And
here's
our
agenda
for
this
afternoon
as
we
examine
those
priorities
and
we
reviewed
the
2023
operating
budget
and
how
the
Imp,
how
that
impacts
and
changes
it
has
on
the
city's
Workforce
and
then
we'll
go
over
the
capital
budget
before
wrapping
up
things.
On
a
high
note,
by
going
over
the
issues
and
challenges
that
the
city
is
facing,
with
our
budgets.
B
So
the
2023
operating
budget
is
658.4
million
dollars,
which
is
a
seven
percent
increase
from
the
2022.
Most
importantly,
the
mayor's
budget
meets
the
legal
requirements
that
it's
balanced.
It
has
a
fund
balance
ratio
at
or
above
10
percent,
and
it
has
less
than
12
percent
of
Debt
Service
ratio.
B
B
It
has
upgraded
in-vehicle
cameras
for
police,
which
is
actually
going
to
help
improve
the
city's
I.T
Network
I've
been
told
more
than
once
that
the
city's
network
has
crashed
due
to
employees
trying
to
review
videos
from
that
system.
That's
in
place,
so
just
improving
that
system
will
help
the
city's
overall
I.T
infrastructure
Network.
There's
a
new
Swift
water
rescue
equipment
to
be
included
in
the
budget,
as
well
as
a
new
comprehensive
plan
for
city
planning.
B
A
new
investigator
position
has
been
added
to
the
Department
of
Human,
Resources
and
civil
services
to
focus
on
allegations
of
discrimination,
harassment
and
retaliation,
and
lastly,
new
teams
have
been
organized
and
Domi
to
focus
on
the
bridge,
maintenance
and
reconstruction
projects,
a
team
to
focus
on
Landslide
and
slope
issues
which
may
recall
from
the
mayor's
address
yesterday.
He
spoke
about
Pittsburgh,
unique
topography
and
his
vulnerability
to
landslides
and,
finally,
a
team
to
focus
on
traffic
and
mobility
issues.
B
Next,
the
2023
operating
budget
speaks
to
creating
welcoming
communities
by
increasing
the
number
of
inspectors
to
monitor
vacant
properties
and
respond
to
blight,
in
addition
to
adding
staff
to
improve
litter
enforcement.
The
budget
also
includes
new
disparity
study
to
update
the
and
expand
the
city's
goals
for
for
minority
and
women-owned
businesses,
inclusion
and
City
contracts.
As
the
mayor
mentioned
yesterday
and
I
believe,
it's
worth
repeating,
these
haven't
been
updated
in
years.
So
that's
a
big
thing
included
in
this
year's
budget.
B
No,
it
also
has
a
new
testing
system
for
firefighters
that
will
be
implemented
to
help
remove
gender
barriers
from
qualification
and,
lastly,
the
special
events
and
park
rangers
will
be
re-located
from
the
Department
of
Public
Safety
and
will
now
work
within
the
department
of
Parks
and
Recreation.
B
The
budget
includes
an
increase
to
the
Housing
Opportunity
fund
and
the
recreation
or
the
creation
of
a
real
estate
unit
to
manage,
buying
and
selling
City
properties,
there's
expanded
capacity
in
City,
Planning
and
Zoning
and
pli
to
help
speed
up
planning
and
permitting
reviews.
The
budget
also
calls
for
the
addition
of
talent
recruiters
to
help
find
diverse
candidates
to
fill
city
jobs,
there's
a
new
position
in
Parks
and
Recreation
to
help
focus
on
Youth
Sports,
which
personally
I
like
to
see
I.
B
Think
a
lot
of
you
know
that
my
first
experience
working
in
local
government
was
at
Ross
Township,
Recreation
Department
as
a
supervisor
in
their
youth
summer.
Camp
programs,
when
I
was
in
college,
so
see
the
city
investing
in
in
the
youth
through
Parks
and
Recreation.
And
lastly,
the
operating
budget
calls
for
additional
environmental
services
staff
to
improve,
refuse
collection
and
now
I'm,
going
to
turn
it
over
to
Rita
to
talk
about
the
five-year
forecast
and
go
over
some
of
the
technical
aspects
of
the
budget.
C
C
C
C
C
Now
we'll
move
on
to
revenues
focusing
on
2023
budget
revenues,
the
projected
revenues
for
2023
are
close
to
686
and
a
half
million
dollars.
These
Revenue
projections
have
been
certified
have
been
reviewed
by
Finance,
OMB,
Council
budget
and
the
controller.
The
controller
has
certified
these
Revenue
projections.
C
C
The
smaller
Pie
shows
the
composition
of
tax
revenues
by
percentages.
The
table
on
the
upper
right
of
the
slide
shows
our
top
six
revenues
with
the
real
estate
tax.
Making
up.
23
percent
of
the
total
next
comes:
earned
income
tax,
followed
by
the
payroll,
prep
tax,
deed
transfer,
parking
tax
and
then
arpa.
C
C
Now
we'll
move
on
to
expenditures
which
total
658.4
million
dollars
in
2023..
On
this
slide,
you
see
the
five-year
expenditures
by
departments
and
I'll.
Just
note.
A
few
key
departmental
changes,
you'll
see
city
clerk
has
been
been
renamed
Council.
As
a
body.
C
You
won't
see
budgets
for
the
office
of
equity
office
of
immigrant
and
Refugee
Affairs,
3-1-1
and
Communications
teams,
because
they've
all
moved
to
the
mayor's
office
budget
in
the
Department
of
Law
there's
been
the
creation
of
a
real
estate
unit
in
the
department
of
human
resource
resources
and
civil
service.
There
are
additional
Talent
recruiters
in
City
Planning
there.
As
the
director
mentioned,
there
have
been
expansions
in
zoning
and
development
and
strategic
planning
staffs
in
ply.
They
plan
to
fully
Implement
One-Stop,
permitting
in
public
safety
admin.
C
There's
the
creation
of
the
office
of
film
and
event
management
in
EMS.
There
are
an
additional
six
paramedics
in
public
works.
There's
been
a
creation
of
an
inspections,
team
training
and
development
team
and
expansions
in
Winter
operations,
litter
enforcement
and
seasonal
workers.
And
finally,
in
Domi
there
was
the
creation
of
bridge
maintenance,
Bridges
and
structures
and
walls
and
slopes
teams,
as
well
as
an
expansion
of
traffic
signals
and
traffic
calming
and
complete
streets
teams.
C
C
This
slide
shows
the
2023
expenditures
visually
with
Personnel
related
expenses,
that
salaries
and
benefits
making
up
nearly
three
quarters
of
the
operating
budget
or
487
million
dollars.
Debt
Service
is
the
next
biggest
category
with
10
percent.
All
other
categories
make
up
the
remaining
16
of
the
operating
budget.
C
Now
budgeted
under
the
employee
benefits
category
pension
contributions
make
up
17
of
the
operating
budget
or
a
little
over
111
million
dollars.
This
chart
shows
the
makeup
of
our
pension
contributions,
including
our
minimum
Municipal
obligations,
the
26.8
million
dollars
from
the
parking
tax
and
additional
contributions,
totaling
20
million
dollars.
C
Now,
I'm
going
to
move
on
to
the
workforce
since,
as
we
mentioned,
employee
salaries
and
benefits,
make
up
three
quarters
of
our
budget.
The
total
number
of
ftes
in
the
2023
operating
budget
is
3554
positions.
This
includes
3322
General,
funded
positions,
226
trust,
funded
positions
and
six
Grant
funded
positions.
C
C
This
slide
gives
a
bit
more
information
regarding
our
budgeted
Workforce.
As
you
can
see
from
the
pie,
Public
Safety
makes
up
60
of
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
Workforce,
and
of
that
we
have
nine.
We
have
a
budget
for
900
police
officers,
667
firefighters,
211
paramedics,
16
animal
controllers
and
80
school
crossing
guards.
C
Public
Works
and
Domi
make
up
22
of
the
workforce
as
far
as
salary
increases,
those
are
determined
by
bargaining
units
and
most
employees
are
receiving
a
three
percent
increase
per
their
respective
CBA.
However,
non
non-union
employees
are
to
receive
two
percent
salary
increases.
C
C
Healthcare
is
another
large
operating
expense
and
66
million
dollars
has
been
budgeted
for
health
care,
with
40.6
million
dollars
for
active
employees
and
25,
and
a
half
million
dollars
for
retirees.
Although
premiums
are
increasing
anywhere
between
five
to
ten
percent
over
the
22
2022
premiums,
and
that
depends
on
the
category
of
employee,
so
there's
Municipal,
Police
and
Fire.
C
First,
we
have
to
stop
the
violence
trust
fund,
which
includes
funding
for
19,
community
health
and
safety,
employees
and
13
community
services
and
violence
prevention,
employees,
the
office
of
community
health
and
safety
includes
five
million
dollars
for
the
agh
diversion
program
and
in
Council,
as
a
body
formally
the
office
of
the
city
clerk.
We
have
a
community
health
and
human
services
policy
manager.
C
And
here
we
just
wanted
to
outline
some
of
our
largest
trust
funds,
focusing
on
the
ones
with
positions
funded
by
those
special
revenues.
So,
like
I,
said,
you'll
see
some
of
the
major
trust
funds,
the
2022
budget,
the
2023
budget
and
then
the
number
of
ftes.
B
All
right,
so,
let's
look
at
some
of
the
highlights
of
the
capital
budget.
Anybody
who's
driven
on
city
streets
recently
will
be
very
happy
to
see
that
there's
expanded
investment
in
Paving
in
the
2023
capital
budget.
You
might
remember,
just
yesterday,
Council
passed
finally
passed
a
resolution
to
move
four
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
Paving,
so
we
know
that
that
is
sorely
needed.
There's
also
additional
funding
for
traffic
common
projects,
which
I
know,
is
something
that
Council
offices
receives
calls
about
constantly.
So
more
funding
for
that.
B
There's
also
funding
for
continued
rehab
of
ball
fields,
healthy,
active
living,
centers
and
recreation
centers,
the
replacement
of
outdated
self-contained
breathing
apparatuses
for
Public
Safety.
Just
yesterday,
Council
gave
approval
to
enter
in
a
grant
agreement
with
FEMA
to
receive
1.7
million
dollars.
For
that
there's
also
upgrades
to
all
first
responder
radios.
This
was
necessary
because
the
system
that
they
work
off
of
will
be
obsolete
soon.
B
So
we
don't
really
have
a
choice
in
not
funding
that
there's
also
the
replacement
of
chilling
units
for
the
Shanley
Park
Ice,
Rink
replacement
and
upgrades
for
Park
maintenance
equipment
and
increased
funding
for
Condemned
property
remediation,
which
I
can
tell
you
from
my
time
in
OMB,
was
something
that
pli
was
pleading
for
constantly
just
like
landslides.
B
You
can't
always
predict
when
something
catastrophic
is
going
to
happen
to
a
building
right
in
the
middle
of
Butler
Street
or
right
in
the
middle
of
East,
Carson
Street
and
emergency
demolition
is
required,
so
I
think
director
kinter
will
be
very
happy
and
her
staff
to
see
that
there's
more
funding
for
that.
B
So
let's
talk
a
little
bit
about
how
capital
budget
proposals
are
received
and
reviews
in
accordance
with
city
code,
chapter
218
proposals
are
scored
by
the
capital
program
facilitation
facilitation
committee,
which
is
currently
made
up
of
six
individuals.
There's
two
members
from
Council,
which
is
myself
and
councilman
Lavelle,
there's
one
member
from
the
controller's
office,
and
there
are
three
individuals
from
The
Office
of
Management
budget,
two
of
those
three
carry
halfway
in
their
scores,
so
there's
there's
five
total
scores
that
can
be
applied.
B
All
the
proposals
are
scored
by
the
criteria
criteria.
That's
shown
here.
It's
also
outlined
in
chapter
218
in
city
code
and
then
those
recommendations
based
on
the
scores
are
presented
to
the
mayor,
who
takes
them
into
consideration
for
his
capital
budget.
B
So
this
is
an
important
slide.
I
think,
because
it's
important
to
note
that
council
is
not
just
considering
the
expenditures
for
2023.
you'll
be
approving
a
six-year
Capital
Improvement
plan.
Many
of
the
projects
that
are
included
in
2023
capital
budget
will
dictate
the
expenditures
in
the
capital
budgets
over
the
next
few
years.
For
example
in
the
2023-2023
budget,
it
may
fund
deliverables
for
design
of
Park
reconstruction
project,
so
that
would
likely
be
followed
by
funding
for
construction
of
that
design
in
2024
and
possibly
2025
Capital
budgets.
B
So,
to
take
that
example,
one
step
further:
here's
a
snapshot
of
the
2023
capital
budget.
You
can
see
the
mayor
proposed
8.6
million
dollars
for
Park
reconstruction
projects
in
2023,
but
this
also
shows
that
he's
proposing
it
a
little
a
little
over
11
million
dollars
for
Parker
construction
projects
in
2024,
another
10
million
in
2025
and
and
so
on.
From
there.
B
And
this
was
pulled
from
the
very
next
page
in
in
the
capital
budget.
This
is
a
good
example
of
the
different
stages
that
the
projects
we're
funding
can
be
in.
Some
of
these
projects
are
in
the
initial
planning
phase,
which
will
potentially
lead
to
funding
for
design
in
future
years,
which
would
then
lead
to
funding
for
construction.
B
It
doesn't
all
happen
in
one
year.
The
city
doesn't
have
the
capacity
to
fund
projects
that
way
or
complete
them
in
their
entirety
in
one
year,
so
it
makes
sense
to
spread
them
out
over
the
few
years,
and
it
also
gives
you
an
opportunity
to
take
your
time
in
the
process
and
make
sure
you're
getting
what
you
want.
It
reminds
me
of
my
favorite
Stephen
Sondheim
lyric,
in
the
musical
into
the
woods
when
Cinderella
says,
how
can
you
know
what
you
want
till
you
get?
B
What
you
want,
and
you
see
if
you
like
it
so
by
taking
our
time
going
through,
that
planning
phase
to
make
sure
we're
getting
what
we
want
and
then
through
the
design
phase
and
knowing
how
much
it
will
cost
through
construction.
We're
getting
to
to
take
our
time
with
it
and
parsing
out
those
projects
to
make
sure
that
we
can
make
any
adjustments
necessary
to
make
sure
that
we're
getting.
What
we
want.
B
So
this
is
a
different
look
at
the
2023
funding
for
the
capital
Improvement
plan.
Again
Council
will
be
passing
a
six-year
plan
when
they
pass
the
capital
budget.
When
the
2022
capital
budget
was
passed,
it
include
over
39
million
dollars
in
bond
funding
for
2023.,
which
is
two-thirds
of
the
bond
funding
for
2023.,
so
that
meant
there
was
only
about
21
million
dollars
available
for
new
projects
in
the
2023
budget.
B
B
B
We
wanted
to
pay
homage
to
Mike
strellick
with
this
slide.
This
was
a
favorite
of
his
here,
we're
showing
the
historical
funding
for
the
city
that
the
city
received
in
Community
Development
block
grants.
The
graph
with
the
blue
slide
shows
the
actual
dollar
amount
that
the
city
has
received
over
the
years
and
the
graph
of
the
Orange
Line
shows
those
dollar
amounts,
as
they
were
impacted
by
inflation.
B
So
not
only
are
we
receiving
less
funding
from
the
federal
government,
it's
also
worthless
than
it
used
to
be
because
of
inflation,
and
the
cdbg
dollars
have
gotten
lessened
or
more
and
more
restrictive
on
how
they
can
be
spent
so
less
money
and
making
it
harder
to
spend-
and
here
is
a
quick
visual
breakdown
of
how
the
2023
capital
projects
are
spread
throughout
the
city.
B
B
That's
been
allocated
in
the
capital
budget
to
the
Ura
for
the
home
investment
partnership
program
in
Housing
Development
a
little
there's,
a
million
dollars
in
2023
arpa
funding
that
will
go
to
the
Pittsburgh
Land
Bank
and
12,
and
a
half
million
dollars
will
come
out
of
the
operating
budget
for
the
Housing
Opportunity
fund
and
housing
assistance.
B
Oh,
there
was
a
cable
cast
agenda
about
arpa
funding.
A
few
weeks
ago.
We
just
discussed
how
most
of
the
arpa
funding
will
go
towards
the
operating
budget,
and
you
can
see
there's
a
50,
almost
50
million
dollars
going
towards
the
operating
budget
this
year
with
the
capital
budgets
and
notable
changes.
There's
four
million
dollars
for
po,
the
demolition
to
pli,
there's
4.4
million
for
Paving
that
we
talked
about
and
three
million
dollars
has
been
moved
from
the
land
bank
to
go
towards
food
Justice
initiatives.
C
It
also
shows
the
fund
balance
as
a
percentage
of
expenditures.
As
mentioned
earlier,
the
city's
policy
is
to
maintain
a
minimum
of
10
percent
of
expenditures
each
year.
The
city
is
projected
to
reach
a
high
of
18.3
percent
at
the
end
of
this
fiscal
year
and
reach
a
low
of
10.2
percent
at
the
end
of
2026..
C
the
numbers
from
2015
to
2022
are
estimates
taken
from
the
operating
budgets
from
those
years
you'll
notice
that,
even
though,
in
some
years
the
fund
balances
are
very
similar,
the
percentage
is
very
different.
For
example,
2015
and
2020
had
similar
fund
balances
of
64
million
dollars.
However,
the
percentage
differs
12.7
percent
in
2015
compared
to
11
in
2022..
C
C
But
the
city
should
establish
a
formal
fund
balance
policy
that
requires
unassigned
fund
balance,
to
mean
to
be
maintained
above
a
specific
threshold,
with
the
long-term
goal
of
eventually
raising
that
threshold
to
the
recommended
16.7
percent,
because
the
city
is
still
recovering
from
the
pandemic.
We're
probably
not
in
a
position
yet
to
raise
it
to
that
limit
of
16.7
percent.
C
As
mentioned
in
the
ACT
47
rescission
report,
the
gfoa
recommend
recommends
a
minimum
of
no
less
than
two
months
of
regular
general
fund
operating
revenues
or
expenditures
or
16.7
percent.
It
also
states
that
one-time
revenues
or
expenditures
should
be
excluded
and
recurring
transfers
should
be
included.
C
So
on
that
note,
I
just
wanted
to
point
out
how
the
city
has
shown
its
five-year
forecast
for
many
years.
You
can
see
that
there
is
an
entire
section
of
transfers
that
is
shown
after
expenditures.
Like
I
said.
The
city
began
this
practice
many
years
ago,
but
in
the
beginning
there
was
only
one
transfer
to
to
funpago
capital
projects,
and
it
didn't
have
much
of
an
impact
on
the
budget.
C
C
So,
while
the
city's
practice
of
calculating
the
fund
balance
as
a
percentage
of
expenditures
before
operating
transfers
is
not
necessarily
wrong.
This
is
something
that
we
might
want
to
change
at
some
point
in
the
future.
We
may
want
to
revise
the
fund
balance
policy
as
a
percentage
of
expenditures
to
a
percentage
of
expenditures
and
outgoing
transfers.
B
So
inflation
is
cooling,
but
it's
still
high
Americans
are
still
seeing
High
higher
wages,
but
inflation
is
causing
the
largest
pay
cut
for
Americans.
In
the
past
25
years,
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
employees
are
falling
even
further
behind
the
Atlanta
fed
tracks
wage
growth
and
shows
wage
growth
at
6.4
percent
compared
to
the
two
or
three
percent
raises
that
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
employees
are
receiving,
and
this
slide
just
kind
of
shows
you
a
lot
of
different
areas.
B
I
don't
have
to
go
through
each
of
them
line
by
line,
but
it
just
gives
you
an
idea
of
things
have
cost
more
over
the
last
12
months
and
a
lot
of
city
employees
non-union
employees
are
receiving
a
two
percent
wage
increase
from
this
year.
Next.
B
So,
lastly,
some
other
challenges
that
we
see
is
that
with
art,
without
the
arpa
bailout,
we
would
be
in
a
very
poor
position
and
those
dollars
go
away
in
a
few
years.
B
We
need
to
be
very
mindful
of
the
spending
how
we
spend
money
now
and
how
that's
going
to
affect
us
over
the
next
couple
of
years.
B
There's
also
some
ongoing
lawsuits
relating
to
some
of
the
specific
taxes
and
fees
they
were
mentioned
earlier,
but,
namely
the
common
level
ratio
lawsuit
about
the
real
estate
taxes
and
the
facility
usage
fee
or
job
tax,
as
some
people
call
it.
So
we
need
to
to
wait
and
see
how
those
play
out
before
we
can
fully
understand
our
position
going
forward.
B
Those
also
the
administration
is
currently
negotiating
with
the
police
Union
for
a
new
CBA,
which
is
not
only
going
to
affect
the
police
budget,
but
it
also
affects
the
Stop,
the
Violence
trust
fund,
because
that
is
directly
tied
to
the
police
budget.
B
And
lastly,
this
is
a
point
that
I
think
is
worth
repeating.
We
just
talked
about
it
a
lot,
but
the
city's
fund
balance
minimum
is
at
10
percent
is
low
compared
to
the
government,
Finance
Officers
Association
recommended
recommendation
of
16.7
percent
or
two
out
of
12
months.
Our
fund
balance
over
the
next
years
is
going
to
get
really
tight
and
it's
incredibly
important
to
be
very
diligent
and
keep
an
eye
on
that,
and
with
that,
that's
all
we
have
for
today.
B
We're
really
looking
forward
to
getting
the
Council
budget
hearings
kicked
off
tomorrow
and
thank
you
all
for
this
opportunity.
Thank
you.
A
The
four
turned
it
over
to
members
for
questions
comments,
concerns
I,
just
want
to
point
out
that
it
was
put
out
in
the
last
slide
that
the
non-union
employees
are
only
getting
in
this
proposed
budget,
only
getting
a
two
percent
increase,
whereas
of
historically
they
would
have
received.
The
three
percent
increase
and
I've
asked
the
budget
office
to.
Please
run
the
numbers
to
look
at
what
it
would
cost
to
give
them.
The
three
percent
increase
that
I
believe
they
rightfully
deserve.
A
So
I've
asked
them
to
look
into
that,
and
it's
also
worth
noting
that
if
you
look
at
the
trajectory
of
our
fund
balance
and
the
proposed
budget,
if
we
were
in
the
we
would
not
have
been
able
to
withstand
the
pandemic
if
we
allowed
the
fund
balance
to
continue
in
the
current
projected
Direction.
D
D
I
do
want
to
say
you
pointed
out
some
in
some
areas
of
concern
for
us
and
so
I
think
that's
those
are
some
conversations
we'll
have
with
the
administration
and
they
seem
to
be
willing
to
work
with
us
on
on
some
of
those
concerns.
Thank
you.
E
I
just
wanted
to
thank
you,
of
course,
and
also
I'm
gonna
to
clear.
You
know,
make
sure
I
understand,
I,
think
the
point
you've
made
on
several
slides
here
but
I
just
want
to
say
it
in
my
own
words,
so
the
fund
balance
I
think
it's
you
know
you
we're
talking
about
it
in
percentage,
but
I
think
what
you
mentioned
in
passing
is
that
the
gfoa,
which
is
the
government,
tell
me
Finance.
E
Right,
okay,
so
this
kind
of
like
National
Organization,
it's
like
how
to
have
a
healthy
budget
in
your
city
recommended
16.7
percent,
because
that's
two
months
operating
right,
and
so
it's
not
really
a
rainy
day
funds.
In
a
sense,
it's
really
like
a
cash
flow
emergency
fund
right
so
that
you
know
so
that
you
can
keep
cutting
those
paychecks
and
keeping
the
lights
on
and
keeping
the
city
running
right
and
so
that
we
are
below
a
two-month
Reserve.
E
Cash
flow
balance
is
concerning
and
then
I
think
I
also
caught
on
your
slides
they're,
not
numbered
that
the
gfoa
says
that
the
recurring
transfers
should
be
included
in
your
denominator.
That's
correct
and
we
aren't.
C
Well,
the
recurring
transfers
are
included
in
the
overall
fund
balance
the
dollar
number,
but
whenever
that
percentage
is
calculated,
that
is
based
on
just
expenditures,
not
expenditures
and
those
transfers
right.
E
E
The
city
might
not
have
the
receivables
it's
expecting,
and
so
we
have
a
fund
balance.
So
we
can
make
our
our
payables
so
I
just
wanted
to
say
in
my
own
words,
make
sure
that
I
got
your
nodding
heads
that
I
was
saying
it
right.
I.
B
Would
like
to
point
out-
and
Ria
mentioned
this,
and
it's
worth
repeating.
This
is
not
something
new
that
was
just
done
in
this
year's
budget.
This
is
how
it's
always
been
done
but
like,
as
she
also
said,
there's
more
and
more
of
those
transfers
that
go
out
so
like
as
we
keep
adding
those
on
it.
Just
kind
of
affects
it.
A
little
bit
more
yeah.
E
Exactly
and
so
you
know-
and
some
of
them
have
been
public
referendums
like
the
parts
tax
right,
but
other
ones
have
been
really.
You
know
councils
very
deliberative,
thoughtful
long
process
like
the
transfers
into
the
Housing
Opportunity
fund,
more
recent
stuff,
the
violence
funds
that
we
have
committed
to
making
those
annual
transfers,
and
so
those
are
the
ones
that.
D
F
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
Mr
chair,
thank
you
to
our
Council
budget
office
for
putting
this
together.
It's
incredibly
helpful,
both
the
charts
and
the
graphs
and
the
numbers
that
you
put
together
and
the
call
outs
to
the
high
level
really
appreciate
this
in
the
I'm.
F
Looking
at
the
five-year
forecast,
I'm
looking
at
the
balanced
Five-Year,
Plan
and
I
understand
that
when
our
arpa
dollars
are
fully
expended
and
the
jump
between
20,
25
and
2026
until
our
our
debt
service
is
retired
from
at
47
in
2027.,
there's
going
to
be
that
that
year
in
2026,
that
is
going
to
be
potentially
painful,
especially
if
we
continue
to
get
challenged
in
court
with
various
taxes,
as
we
are
with
the
facilities
facility.
F
C
So
that
year,
the
operating
transfer
is
the
only
way
that
we're
going
to
be
able
to
make
them
is
by
dipping
into
the
fund
balance,
because
the
the
operating
result
for
that
one
year
is
like
around
five
million
dollars.
I
believe
so,
and
there's
I
can't
remember
the
exact
amount
of
the
the
transfers
out
here.
It
may
be
around
30
million
dollars,
so
that's
a
wide
Gap.
C
So
on
the
one
on
one
of
the
last
slides,
where
I
showed
the
fund
balance,
if
we
showed
the
transfers
as
operating
expenditures,
if
you'll
look
at
the
operating
results,
line,
You'll
see
three
years
that
show
fairly
large
negative
operating
results.
C
So,
and
in
that
case
you
have
to
dip
into
the
fund
balance
so,
and
that
is
why
the
percentage
you
know
will
change,
will
Flex.
F
C
Probably
wouldn't
want
to
borrow
in
that
case
because
that's
what
the
the
fund
balance
is
for
is
to
cover
years
like
that,
but
I
mean
we
still
want
to
maintain
a
healthy
fund
balance.
F
H
Thank
you,
Peter
Ria.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
You
know
what
I
like
about
your
report.
Is
it's
simple
and
easy
for
me
to
understand,
so
thank
you
for
the
work
you
put
into.
It
did
a
great
job
at
your
your
first.
Obviously
just
a
couple
questions
the
the
emergency
demo.
It
was
470
000.
Is
that
right,
there's.
H
B
I
would
recommend
directing
like
asking
director
kinter.
She
would,
she
would
know
for
sure,
but
my
understanding
is
yes.
If
there's
an
emergency
like
if
Public
Safety
goes
out
there
and
says
this
building
needs
to
come
down
now,
the
the
city
will
pay
for
it
to
be
demolished.
B
H
Well,
I'm
glad
to
hear
that
I
was
I,
know
councilman
LaBelle's
always
advocating
for
more.
D
H
In
demo
too,
so
so
that's
that's
welcoming
to
me.
The
247
million
dollar
I
think
it
was
a
figure
that
that
we
will
be
paying
up
until
what.
C
I
forget
what
year?
Well,
we
have
a
total
of
1
one
over
one
billion
dollars
in
existence
in
existing
debt,
but
oh
interest
yeah.
It
was
like
around
237.
Some
million
dollars
in
interest
is.
C
We
do
refinance
whenever
it's
appropriate
I.
B
B
H
So,
and
let
me
just
give
you
I
just
want
your
opinion
on
this
I
mean
I.
I
I
didn't
go
over
every
line
item
as
far
as
the
mayor's
budget
goes
as
of
yet,
but
to
me
and
I'm
sure
this
reflects
the
arbor
morning,
but
it
seems
It's
top
heavy
for
the
next
two
or
one
or
two
years
and
then,
like
all
the
funding
for
everything
else,
just
seems
to
tail
off
that
basically
I
don't
say
nothing,
but
it.
B
Gets
really
thick
is
that,
right,
speaking
to
a
councilwoman
strasberger
was
talking
about
in
2026,
we
only
have
a
three
million
dollar
transfer
to
pay
go
like
which
this
year
alone,
we
gave
4
million
for
demo.
So
like
that's
what
they
usually
need
and
arpa
is
not
going
to
be
there
in
2026.
So
you
know
they
asked
for
four
million
dollars
in
in
demo
and
we
only
have
three
million
pay
go
total
and
we
still
need
to
fund
the
ELA
for
all
the
fleet
that
the
city
drives.
B
So
we
use
Pago
for
most
of
that,
except
for
police
vehicles
which
use
operating
money
on,
but
three
million
dollars
does
not
get
you
very
far
in
Pay
good
funding.
C
I
just
want
to
point
out,
though,
that
if
revenues
do
outperform,
those
numbers
will
change,
so
they
will
add
more
money
for
Pago.
In
that.
C
H
Crossed
but
yeah
I'm
certain
categories,
I
I,
don't
see
the
parking
tax
coming
back
to
what
it
was.
You
know
obviously
real
estate's
going
to
continue
to
go
up
so
yeah.
It
just
seems
odd
and
I
can't
remember
the
former
Administration
as
to
like
did
it
fall
off
dramatically,
but
it
just
seemed
like
this.
H
B
Not
the
city
is
not
alone
in
this,
it
is,
is
not
something
that
this
Administration
did
or
really
the
last
interim
Administration.
They
didn't
cause
it
either.
It's
just
something
that
we
all
have
to
deal
with
and
we
were
lucky
enough
to
have
the
arpa
funding,
but
we
just
need
to
keep
in
mind
that
it
it's
going
to
be
gone
at
some
point
and
we
need
to
prepare
for
that
now.
G
G
Is
there
a
kind
of
like
a
reasoning
section
or
a
synopsis
as
to
you
know
everything
that
you're
flagging?
As
to
you
know
what
the
administration
has
I
gave
reasons
for
doing
like
if
I
mean
there's
got
to
be
a
parent
to
to
them
that
it's
it's
down
to
10
percent
I.
B
Or
above
so
they
are
meeting
that
requirement.
So
it's
just
and
I'm
sure
that
they're
paying
very
close
attention
to
that
too.
They're.
Not
just
glossing
over
that.
That's
a
very
low
fund
balance
I'm
I'm
sure
that
they're
they're
planning
diligently
for
that
for
whenever
that
time
comes
to
have
a
action.
C
And
one
other
thing
that
I
would
also
like
to
add
is
that
those
figures
change
a
lot
the
fund
balance
and
we
never
fully
expend
what
was
budgeted
in
expenditures.
That
is
just
the
way
that
the
operating
budget
goes
and
so
usually
and
revenues
usually
outperform
what
is
budgeted
as
well.
So
usually,
the
fund
balance
typically
does
build
more
than
was
projected
in
the
five-year
forecast.
So
I
just
wanted
to
mention
that.
G
And
then
also
you
I
had
known
this,
but
you
brought
up
about
the
the
two
percent
and
what
is
maybe
I
missed
the
graph
it
has
there
been
like
how
long
have
we
been
going
with
three
percent
yeah,
three
percent?
Actually,
the
average
was
six
percent
last
year
across
the
you
know
across
every
everywhere,
but
we're
talking
about
two
percent
for
non-union.
C
I
believe,
for
the
past
few
years
everybody
was
getting
three
percent
increases
and
I,
don't
know
how
it's
been
for
the
past
few
years,
but
in
my
prior
stint
with
the
city,
there
was
an
unofficial
policy
that
non-union
employees,
their
salary
increases,
matched.
What
was
in
the
ask
me
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