City council to discuss the budget live on the internet
From the Woodland Record:
Tonight, as the City of Woodland emerges into the 21st Century, there will be only one major agenda item for council members to discuss:
F.1. Receive Report on FY 2009-10 Operating Budget and Ten Year Financial Plan; Review Budget Options; Provide Input and Direction.
The short-listed, but undoubtedly voluminous meeting will be broadcast live via an internet Web cast. According to the city's announcement on their Web site, "The webcast is a prototype and while extensive testng has been performed and no issues are expected, Murphy's Law should not surprise anyone."
Click here to view the meeting that starts at 6 pm.
In the staff report prepared for tonight's meeting, city manager Mark Deven stated, "The net impact of the strategies and revised estimates described herein on the general fund is total reductions of $5,493,647. Factoring in the revised property tax estimate, the reduction target to balance the fiscal year 2010 general fund budget is $6,796,187."
The "strategies described herein" include massive cuts intended to reduce general fund expenditures to $38,240,091. Other proposed operating expenditures for fiscal year 2010 include: Water Enterprise Fund - $12,075,514; Sewer Enterprise Fund - $12,796,798; Transportation Program - $2,570,848; and Redevelopment Agency – $1,377,916.
Among the departments taking big hits is the Parks and Recreation Department. An anonymous message delivered to the Woodland Record stated, "The Parks and Recreation Department is now losing 17 full-time employees. Somebody needs to tell the City Council that this is unacceptable."
The hand-written note was accompanied by an inter-office memo dated May 18 to Deven from Dan Gentry, director of the department. Gentry is one of six in the department taking the Golden Handshake opportunity provided by the city. (A total of twelve city employees are retiring through this method, including the assistant city manager Barry Munowitch.)
Click here to download the May 18 inter-office memo called "Budget Impact Memo" (494kb PDF).
Read more at the Woodland Record.
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4 comments:
In response to the anon comment to the Woodland Record "The Parks and Recreation Department is now losing 17 full-time employees"
1. How many is acceptable to lose?
2. What did the 17 positions make up?
3. Are they being shifted to other depts?
4:08
1. I don't know, but I must say the Golden Handshakes are interesting
2. Click on the link to the memo
3. Refer to the memo and the staff report
About time they their meetings online. Well done.
Thank you for cutting back. We are broke and know the City is too.
To me this looks like the Parks and Rec. memo is to stir up rage from the Seniors as it hits them the hardest. Also, whats up with delaying Grafetti removal? Get the gang bangers to remove it.
City and County cuts need to be done and made, and all of us need to tighten the purse strings and tuffen up.
How the City can help us is cutting our home water and sewer costs and the additional cost for recycling containers. We CANT afford it and it is being FORCED on us.
Didn't the Downtowners or Freeman Park Comission do the 4th of July?
Also, didn't parks and rec rent for some un-godly amount of rent, space from the Weisman building, you know the land the City gave the to the developer for $5.00. That was a WASTE of money.
There are no cuts proposed that we cannot live with out. Good for the Council for doing this.
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