FY2021-22 Budget Process and Amendments
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:35 am
Colleagues,
As we prepare for budget adoption next week (11th-13th, if needed), here is how I would anticipate managing the process during our meeting, subject to the will of the Council:
- Please post draft budget amendments to the message board on this thread and submit to Bard Sinclair in the Budget Office by close of business today (8/6) to allow colleagues, staff, and the public to review. Amendments posted later will still be eligible for consideration. [Note that later filed amendments and directions (riders) may be considered after consideration of those filed by today; and Staff indicates that later filed amendments possibly may be left out of any summary roll-up prepared by staff.] Please use the standard form that was distributed by the Budget office last week for your amendments.
- The meeting will begin with a presentation by City staff on any updates to the initial City Manager proposal based on their professional recommendations. This will be the base motion.
- Time will then be given for every council member to lay out their proposed amendments and budget riders.
- We will then discuss on the dais the various proposals, concepts and priorities.
- It would be helpful if staff’s roll-up summary separated revenue/source proposals from spending proposals, and if spending proposals could be grouped by SD23 priorities as above (as done before).
- We will then consider amendments or concepts for increasing revenue levels, including taxes and fees, as well as other revenue adjustments to establish a preliminary amount of one-time and on-going funding available for Council spending priorities.
- Then we will consider amendments and divide the question on any amendment that seeks to both find new monies and to spend those monies (to the degree that any revenue sourcing was not already handled, above). In other words, Council may accept an amendment that finds or frees up revenue and choose to spend that revenue differently than how it was proposed to be spent.
- S
As we prepare for budget adoption next week (11th-13th, if needed), here is how I would anticipate managing the process during our meeting, subject to the will of the Council:
- Please post draft budget amendments to the message board on this thread and submit to Bard Sinclair in the Budget Office by close of business today (8/6) to allow colleagues, staff, and the public to review. Amendments posted later will still be eligible for consideration. [Note that later filed amendments and directions (riders) may be considered after consideration of those filed by today; and Staff indicates that later filed amendments possibly may be left out of any summary roll-up prepared by staff.] Please use the standard form that was distributed by the Budget office last week for your amendments.
- The meeting will begin with a presentation by City staff on any updates to the initial City Manager proposal based on their professional recommendations. This will be the base motion.
- Time will then be given for every council member to lay out their proposed amendments and budget riders.
- We will then discuss on the dais the various proposals, concepts and priorities.
- It would be helpful if staff’s roll-up summary separated revenue/source proposals from spending proposals, and if spending proposals could be grouped by SD23 priorities as above (as done before).
- We will then consider amendments or concepts for increasing revenue levels, including taxes and fees, as well as other revenue adjustments to establish a preliminary amount of one-time and on-going funding available for Council spending priorities.
- Then we will consider amendments and divide the question on any amendment that seeks to both find new monies and to spend those monies (to the degree that any revenue sourcing was not already handled, above). In other words, Council may accept an amendment that finds or frees up revenue and choose to spend that revenue differently than how it was proposed to be spent.
- S