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With analysis looming, city manager recommends cuts
Anticipating that the city will be advised to make cuts to its general fund, City Manager Mark Brandenburger asked department heads to prepare how 3 percent could be cut from their budgets immediately and how between 5 and 10 percent could be cut in 2009.
With that data, which will be part of another blog, the city management created a list of ways to cut expenses and raise revenue for the 2009 budget. Read the recommendations here: recommendations.pdf
No action is expected on the recommendations tonight as City Council receives a briefing on the Decosimo report, an analysis of its general fund. Council members are asked to rate each suggestions as either “1-implement,” “2-implement only if necessary” and “3-implement as a last resort.”
The recommendations to cut expenses run the gamut, from closing TV Hamilton to save $130,000 a year to laying off 12 sworn police officers to selling the leaf collection vacuum trucks.
The recommendations to increase revenue are just as diverse. Among them are operating a city impound lot, refinancing the debt of One Renaissance Center and increasing municipal income tax by .1 percent.
Brandenburger said he wants time for the information to sink in and it is likely that council will revisit these recommendations at its June 11 meeting.
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