HomeMy WebLinkAboutSupplemental Suggestions/Comments Received from Robert Goldberg 06/03/2019Gloria Harper
From:
Robert Goldberg <rgoldberg@live.com>
Sent:
Monday, lune 03, 2019 10:54 AM
To:
Sandra Massa-Lavitt; Mike Varipapa; Thomas Moore; Schelly Sustarsic; Joe Kalmick; Jill
Ingram; Vikki Beatley; Steve Myrter; Patrick Gallegos; Joe Miller, Tim Kelsey
Cc:
Gloria Harper, Community Media Corporation; Jeannette Andruss; Bruce Bennett; Jerry
Moreland; Joyce Ross Parque; Elizbeth Kane
Subject:
Suggestions for Increasing Budget Surplus by a Half Million $$
Attachments:
Budget.Possible Savings Ideas.xls; Budget Savings Ideas.pdf
Dear Council and Staff,
In response to the Mayor Moore's desire to increase the budget surplus by an additional million dollars, I have
put together the attached listing of ideas that would get us half way there ($515,850).
These include non-critical cuts to discretionary spending, adding in transfers into the General Fund from other
funds that have been done in the past, and line -item budgeting of the anticipated increased jail revenue.
Staff's requests for a full-time mechanic and additional parking aides did not "make the cut," but all existing
vacancies and previously unfunded positions can be filled.
The largest departmental reduction is $112,500 to the City Council. Cuts to the operational budgets of all
other departments combined is only $159,000, plus an additional savings of $35,000 if we no longer mail out
the quarterly Recreation Guide. Increased "Transfers In" from other funds can replace about $133,000 in
proposed General Fund spending. The new jail contract with the US Marshals Service should easily generate
about $77,000.
Thank you all in advance for your consideration,
Robert Goldberg
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