Adoption of Resolutions Approving and Adopting the City of Alameda Operating and Capital Budget for Fiscal Years 2019-20 and 2020-21 and Approving and Adopting the Successor Agency to the Community Improvement Commission Budget for FY 2019-20 and 2020-21; [City Council AND SACIC] Adoption of Resolution Amending the Salary Schedule and Approving Workforce Changes for Fiscal Years 2019-20 and 2020-21; [City Council] and Adoption of Resolution Amending the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Salary Schedule. [City Council] (Finance 2410)
Amending the salary schedule and approving workforce changes for the fiscal year and adoption of resolution. Amending the International Association of Firefighters Salary Schedule. Thank you. And who's present is that, Miss Adair? Yes. Come on up and introduce yourself, please. Thank you. All right. Good evening, Madam Mere, members of the council. I'm Melina Dyer. I'm finance director for the city. And today, where you actually get to see me several times. So hopefully. You never get enough of. That for. Thank you. I appreciate that. To start with, this is our biannual cycle, which means we have undertaken a bigger load than normally when we do it as a mid-cycle budget. And I would like to with that thank all of the department finance department staff as well as all the department heads and their staff in assisting to complete this budget, in assisting with the budget process. With that, as you remember, we have had two budget sessions in May. And with that, to kind of reiterate, the budget was put together in keeping in mind the city council key priorities that are listed on this slide. So first of all, preparing the city of Alameda for the future, protecting our core services. And as you remember, when we did go over each individual department, that's what we did keep in mind, supporting enhanced livability and quality of life. As we know, all of our citizens are very happy and proud to be in Alameda for exactly those reasons encouraging economic development across the island and of course, ensuring effective and efficient operations. We will go over some budget overview items and quick just a summary. As I mentioned earlier, we did have two budget workshops in May, May 15th and May 16th. It was open to the public city manager incorporated all of the suggestions that were made of most of the suggestions that were made by council and members of the public into the budget. And with that, we had to make some revisions. If you remember, we had to we'll let you know upfront that we had some doubling up on some of the expenses related to capital. We didn't fix that. With that, the grand total citywide expenditures are $332.5 million in year one and $267.3 million in year two. Again, primarily the decrease between year one and year two attributed to capital projects. And just as an example, we had about $20 million that we appropriated the 20 plus for base reuse operations from the sales proceeds. The biggest fund, the most discretionary money that comes to the city is from the general fund. The expenditures in year one in general fund are a little over $100 million, and it grows to about $103 million in year two. One of the things to mention is that by the end of the two year budget cycle, our available fund balance within the general fund stays at 25%, which is currently the policy that council has in place just as a heads up. But I'm going to repeat that and remind you later the individual slides that we present with the additional dollar amounts are on top of what the baseline budget is already. And once we get to those slides, I will point out what that actually means. Okay. Thank you. In looking at to start with citywide, obviously we always look at the general fund budget. However, we are approving the budget for the entire city. And as we do that, I wanted to make sure that the council members as well as members of the public, could see what exactly it's going to look like for us in terms of a trend on the revenues by department citywide as well as the expenditures by departments citywide. It will kind of give you an idea as to where we have been, where we're going. Again, a lot of the times, large fluctuations in expenditures are related to capital. And you will see that even though within the general fund, the largest departments, as everyone usually points out, is fire and police. But other departments actually do have funding sources outside of general fund. And when you look at them, public works in this case has the biggest component. To zero out now into the general fund budget. This provides you with a tabular presentation of what our two year budget will look like, but it also gives you a comparative with what we have projected for 1819 at and this was presented to you at midyear as well as actual expenditures and revenues for the General Fund for fiscal year 1718. Now those numbers are audited. So that's usually is our start. And to remind 1819 is not over yet and therefore those numbers are still a projection. They will change as we go through close the books. And once usually once we close the books, we do a presentation for you and you will be able to see the audited numbers. As you can see is ending from balance. We expect it to be a $26.2 million, 25% by the year or two of the budget. Just as a reminder, we do calculate the fund balance based on ongoing expenditures as well as transfers out. In many cases, when we do one time expenditures such as contributions to our OPEB and pension reserves, we do exclude those just because otherwise it's going to be a spike on what we need. And those are onetime costs that we exclude intentionally. General fund revenues. This actually provides you with a little bit longer trend. We go back to 1617, but it kind of gives you an idea as to where our general fund revenues are going in. Generally, we expect them to stay somewhat flat, to continue to grow, but not at a high pace as we did in 0809 or right after the recession. Our general fund expenditure again graphical presentation here again trend over a seven year period. This gives you a quick summary in graphical way to see where we've been and where we going in terms of our five year forecast for the general fund. As you can see, we project that 1920 and 2021. These are the years under budget, a currently a breaking even. And as a matter of fact, we do add very small amount to the fund balance. However, we do project a deficit going forward after that. And as we have always said, we do not allow to adopt a budget with a deficit. And every year at mid-cycle and again when we do put together biannual budget, we make sure we balance the budget and we'll look at revenues, we'll look at expenditures, all the available resources for us to make sure that the budget is balanced by the time it's presented to you. Okay. So this is going to be a little bit more detail and hopefully a little more familiar than what you have seen during the budget presentation. Again, as a reminder, the numbers you will see are in addition to the baseline budget. So just remember if we increasing by a certain amount, the department may already have certain dollars allocated and this would be on top. We'll start with the police department. And just to let you know, I will be able to present it to you, answer some of the questions. But if you have anything in greater detail and more information that you'd like, we do have the department heads present here and their staff, so they'll be able to answer them. There are three items that were allocated for the police department. One of them is their catering service program. This is their dispatch program and they're currently using one. However, it's not providing sufficient resources for them to retrieve information and provide information to a report out there for general fund is contributing half a million dollars to what? Towards the replacement of the system. We also assume, as you know, some salary savings within the police department, and that does not necessarily mean that we are eliminating the positions. This is strictly that in talking to the department, their expectation, how quickly can they fill the positions and what they are able to do? So the projection in this case is that they will probably with attrition, people retiring, trying to hire new people, they will probably have about five positions open and about $1.2 million in year one equates to. We also are renewing our friends of Alameda animal shelter contract that increases in year one and then it drops a little bit in year two because we have some onetime costs that we're adding in year one. That's with police department. Do you have any questions? Okay. Moving on to fire with the fire department, the allocation and request was for six additional firefighters as a means to assist with general fund paying for this additional personnel department applied for a grant , a safer grant to assist with paying for them. Now, this would also be for an additional ambulance unit. With that, in actually a next slide, you will see in addition to our fleet, a new ambulance unit to be purchased because this particular save for grant is going to require a match. We are including in our two year budget, an estimated match amount. Even though the grant is over a three year period. But we're doing a contribution over to two years and it's approximately $1.3 million in total, which equates about half and half in each year, 650,000 additional personnel cost to assist with administrative duties of the training division . As I mentioned, the addition of a new ambulance to the fleet expected to cost about $400,000. There's also conversations were about recruiting new personnel, including women, into the fire department. And for that, there's additional costs proposed for fire station. Improvements. And a feasibility study for a new fire station. A sorry, looking at fire station number five. Previously, we expected General Fund would be paying for it. However, there was a question and it was addressed. We did look into it and base. We use fund because it's really close to that area is covering the cost of the feasibility study. Question. So I was recently in Sacramento actually with Councilmember O.D. we attended the Governor's Summit on Emergency Preparedness Management. And one of the pieces of information we came away with is that some cities, notably San Francisco, are using their emergency operations center for what they consider a crisis of their time. And they actually do. They provide homeless services out of the EOC. But the point was made to all 400, some of us from who were there from all over the state that you really want to look at using your facilities for more than just one use. So my question would be if this feasibility study could also look at not just a new fire station, but how we know what other services a fire station, especially out at Alameda Point, might provide. I believe this feasibility study is actually for an existing fire station five that's out there and ability to, I'm assuming, bring it back to life because it was closed at one point. But I could probably defer to the fire team to see what exactly they were going to look into. When I think that it was, I think that it was to look at that, but also the possibility of other locations and moving a station. And it's not that I need approval from the fire chief. What I'm asking for and actually it would be staff direction, is that I think we just want to maximize our dollars. For instance, our current EOC cost a lot of money. And I just want to make sure that the city has lots of needs, just like every city does. And so the more that our facilities can do, you know, multi-tasking, the better. So I'm just asking if that's something that can be explored. And I'm sure it can be. And of course, the power to us here to speak to that, but also is a reminder original dollar amount that was put in for a feasibility study was 78,000. So because there were some additional requests to look into other items such as relocation of what it could be used for, additional 20,000 was added and it was increased to 98. But I understand that. And if we had to juggle dollars around, my suggestion would be under the $60,000 a year for the next two fiscal years for recruitment of fire personnel. I might go with 60,000 for the first year and see what sort of results that yields if we needed to find more money. I think there's always ways to find some flexibility in a budget, but I'm just just asking for a little more flexibility looking at this. So, Chief. Mayor, if I could answer your first question. So as our finance director stated, the amount for the feasibility study was increased after further conversations with the manager to not only look at what would it take to reopen Fire Station five to make it a. Resize building, but also if we relocated it what would those Cosby to somewhere else and I mean a point we are working. With our community volunteer partner right now. We had a former building that was an adjunct training center out there. And we're looking to bring homeless services out there in that building. So I think what you're requesting will probably come to fruition way outside the parameters of this study here. So that's not to say that the facility that we currently have could have sections of it used for those purposes. But we're working hand-in-hand with community development on another option, another. Site out there for those services for the homeless. It's great. I hadn't heard about that yet, but nonetheless, I think there's a lot of different ways to look at facilities and I think I see my colleague Councilmember A Yes. Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I just wanted to just put another finer point on that. I think the call of action that that we received there was that we should use our EOC, which is the mayor pointed out, was a very expensive building for collective action and not treated just as a bunker that's used during emergencies and that we can use it for smaller, long term crises. And homeless was one of the ones that came up in San Francisco. So, you know, we have a city assets I think we should use to serve the city and not sure if it's something in this budget discussion. But I do think it's something that I know I'm interested in seeing us do and hopefully I know there'll be a consensus at some point with my colleagues. Yeah, I just think a budget is a good budget. Time is a good time to look at these things. And the point that was being made in Sacramento and don't worry, San Francisco was in the minority when they asked for a show of hands of how many people are doing other things with their EOC is very few hands went up. But the point they were making is we need to look at these emergencies. I don't need to tell the fire chief, but fire season is now year round storms, floods, what have you. And so cities have to be prepared and yet we have a finite amount of resources. So we've got to make what we have do double and sometimes triple duty. But will. Well, let's stay in communication about that. Great. Thanks, any of you. Sorry, but to your. Point, you know, last week we had somewhat of an emergency. And I know we we had the library open. I mean, the EOC would have. Yeah, yeah. So yeah. That would have been a perfect opportunity to use the EOC as. We and we had a discussion about in November, there was there were the campfires and the air quality down here was so bad that we were distributing breathing masks. With 2020 hindsight, that would have been a great time to activate the EOC. We certainly had Deputy Chief Assistant Chief Zon back in the basement of City Hall helping organize, but we weren't at the umpteen million dollar EOC. But going forward, that's the sort of thing I'd like to look at. Thank you for that. No. Okay. Anyone else? Any comments? Councilmember Vela okay, good. Thank you chief. And mrsdurff please continue. I just wanted to also give a shout out to our city clerk because I can hear myself very well. So. So thank you. Okay. Moving on to the library. We're adding to personnel over two year period, one per one position in year one for the school reserve services and also library technician for computer lab in year two. It's important, I think, for our library to be open and also work with schools. So a handsome position was very important and had a priority for our library director. In addition, there are some capital expenditures installing led energy efficient lighting in the library. Those costs were approved and added in year one. I do understand. I apologize. I wasn't actually here for the rest of the budget hearings in May for personal reasons, but I do understand there was a request to increase the library collection and add some dollars to that. And so with that comment, we are adding some dollars to the budget that is presented to you tonight. Are there any questions on the library? Just a quick comment. I just think this is money so well spent. I know I'm not an objective observer because I co-chair the campaign to build the library, but it just does my heart good to see all the uses of the library, including last night I stopped in at a clinic for renters. That center like aisle came over and did in the library conference room. So keep up the good work. Anyone else? Questions? That wasn't really a question. I could frame it as a question, but go ahead. Don't you agree? Okay. All right. Next, we will talk about information technology department. A couple of big items over a two period, two year period. The largest one is enterprise resource planning system. Again, just as a reminder, the city council did approve in the prior two year budget funding. However, what was requested two years ago was actually a greater amount and at the time their approval only happened for a portion of it. So this particular cycle includes the additional amount. And as we know, more information costs did go up and warehouse. Asked for an additional amount here. With that, also, our I.T. Department is asking for an analyst, a programmer, analyst. This person is definitely going to be a big help with implementation of the new ERP. However, it's going to share its time with other projects within the city and one of them is a gas contract. That's all for information technology. Do you have any questions on that? Any questions? Anyone. Okay. Hearing that. Please proceed. Okay. The next department is human resources and there is a small change. All we're doing is an upgrade. Upgrading an existing position to a little higher position to really recognize the complexity of work. The deputy position is doing and the need within the city for a complexity of work required. So all it is is an upgrade from in the Lisbon position to a senior creature that is and I'm not sure if you have questions, but I will move forward. So yeah, they're not sure if they had questions. But Councilmember Vela, do let us know if there's anything you'd like to ask, Mr. Leiter. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. All right. Moving on to finance department. We are asking you specifically speaking for myself here for an additional position of management analyst. If you remember back in April, we presented to you our financial statements and other reports from the auditors. One of the bigger issues was issues with our procurement policy as well as how we do procurement in the city. So this position, even though it may not be 100% focus on that, but it would be probably a primary focus to make sure that our procurement policies up to date process is up to date and making sure we're actually following the policies either that are currently in place or the ones we're going to put in place. Okay. Moving on to Non-Departmental. There was a request for funding 4th of July parade and our police department has contributed previously certain time of the year to support the 4th of July parade. This year, we actually adding dollars in that support for you in the security staffing. And it's for the next two years, $50,000 each. In addition, hearing what the public was saying, as well as council's sentiment about climate action plan, we've increased the year one contingency was, I believe, $145,000 originally, and it was increased to 305. In addition, we've added a contingency related to the same item in year two. Previously there was none, so that was in response to the public and the council. Okay. Are there any questions on finance and on department? Sorry. I will go back if need be. Here? None. I'm going to move on to recreation and parks. There are several items that are being added in the recreation department. In first case, it's the personnel. We adding a gardener position in year two and our position would be 100% general fund funded. As you know, we've added a number of acres of parkland and we do need staff to actually maintain it. In year one, we do add a position, but that position will be funded half and half with the general fund money as well as Marina Village. So there's parklands that are outside of our regular general fund park areas that need maintenance as well because we increasing minimum minimum wage within the city and the department requested to provide additional funding. As you know, we do support recreation fund and in this case they do have a lot of part time personnel. And since minimum wage is going up, that's going to affect them. Some contractual services increases as well as small tools. Again, with the Climate Action Plan, we are trying to go green and with that we are changing the gas powered tools into being more electric. So again, in support. Some capital improvements that are being done with the department by the department would do in park maintenance and improvements. We have reduced the park maintenance improvement in year one in actually allocated funding, that same funding to the playground replacements and then added on the playground replacement $250,000 in year two. Previously there was no allocation for that. So I have a question here about the that first item, the reduction of the year one, park maintenance and improvements to 175,000 in that would result in deferred maintenance, greening, drainage, irrigation, field lighting and improvements, fencing, building. Those all seem like important things. I thought to ask was when we heard the budget presented at the workshops that we wanted to make sure that right. This is the second item that the the playgrounds were complied with current ADA and all safety standards. And then there is a possibility of a playground at Jackson Park that was being studied. But I certainly didn't mean that we would take away from maintaining and improving our parks. So does someone want to help me understand? Yes. City Manager. Mr. Lovett, I can. So and this is something that you can consider further tonight. So the initial recommendation in the budget back in May was 250 in park maintenance improvements. That's to 50 above what we've done in the past. So the 250 and both year one and year two were requests by by the rec and parks and that were in my recommended budget because of the Jackson Park. Well, for them, no playground equipment was in year. No. So based on the the discussion at the May meeting, we did. So what I had recommended was 75,000 come from the park and maintenance to the playground equipment for year one, but that an additional 250,000 go in year two. So the two there was 250,000 in year two, but there was just a transfer, meaning year one. You can reconsider that for a year one. Well, and I would probably ask Ms. Wooldridge, the Recreation Parks Director, because I don't want a multi I mean micromanage your work, but I always worry when I hear the term deferred maintenance because sometimes the maintenance we defer ends up costing us more. So was there any thought to taking the 175 and the 250 and splitting that amount equally? Or tell us if you you know, how you feel about these numbers. Right? So in terms of splitting them equally, it actually goes into a capital improvement fund. And so we expend as much as we can within the first year and our strategic about how we do that. So we can certainly equalize it out into what the I can't do the math that for graphs on of my head but equalize them. But it would essentially ultimately result in relatively the same level of of amount of projects that are completed. Okay. So you're not concerned that you would be deferring? I mean, when I say grading drainage, irrigation, I mean. I would say I'm I'm happy that we're going above and beyond where we're at now. As the city manager mentioned, both the 175 and the 250 is above what we're currently doing and so will bring us to a better level than we're currently at. Yes. I just want to clarify the details are as I remember, it's to talk about things that we're trying to correct that were deferred maintenance. Yes. So this is to improve on past deferred maintenance. Okay. So I want to make sure less deferred. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So I just want to make sure that it's. Not creating deferred maintenance. Yes. Addressing deferred maintenance is to try to create improvements to pass deferred. Okay. And I wanted to make sure everyone was clear. All right. And you feel that you've got sufficient? Well, you. Know, there's always more projects to do. So it's it's the council's prerogative if you choose to bring that back to 250 in the first year, it really was an effort to address the community interest that came for Jackson Park. Understood. Anybody else want to weigh in on this councilmember decided. Previously recently I went on our website is check for the minutes from the meeting and at this point the I believe the minutes for the budget workshops are not available. So in looking at the tapes which are available, I do. You believe that what is written here when it comes to park maintenance and the playground is exactly what if we all remember? Our city manager gave an incredible summary of the way in which funds would be allocated based upon the input from the community and council members. So so I recognize the fact that, you know, when you originally the park maintenance for year one was $250,000. That was the original request. But by the same token, the background that they gave was that compared to what was done before, it was completely whole new, completely new money. So. So in an effort to address the need for Jackson Park, then I recognize that. Okay, well, you know, the money has to come from somewhere. So that was a compromise that the city manager made in reacting to the concerns. What I really was excited about, though, was the year to $250,000 for the playground replacement, because that was to me, that was, you know, what we were really. Well, what was interesting was what interested me the most. On a final note, yes, indeed. In the last budget workshops, there was one exhibit that that identified all the deferred maintenance at every park. So that was a valuable insight as to why we are making headway in terms of allocating money that was not allocated before. We have a lot more work to be done. But I think in order to address that systematically, there's there's other kind of budget related issues that we're at some point in time we'll have to tackle. So if I could just ask for your consideration, would it make sense to flip the two allocations and spend the most money in year one rather than let the deferred maintenance get another year older? But again, you I mean, it's the same amounts, but rather than sort of ease into it. You so you're requesting that your one park minutes be to 15 year to 175. Flip it just that you know we're addressing deferred maintenance and sometimes you save money by catching it earlier rather than later. But counsel, what is what do you all think? And I just kind of also wanted to let you know. Is that you. Can well know you can make a decision now if you want to change it up. But just remember, you always have an opportunity to look at it at midyear and again at mid-cycle if you want to either give directions to make sure, maybe include potentially additional items that relate to either park maintenance or playground replacement. But you can do it now. But just remember, you do have other opportunities as well. So I just want to make sure you remember that. Yeah, I appreciate that. But then I would also argue that deferred maintenance is going to be that much older or older, more deferred by by mid-year. Councilmember Odie. Yeah, real quick. Yeah, I think my colleagues recap of, of the last meeting was correct because I pulled up the old slide and of these four items I think the city manager proposed 965 and that's what this one has in year one. And then he proposed to 50 in year two and then we bumped that up to 500. But I thought I read maybe it was this morning that we had a big sale in Alameda, a big real estate sale, marina village. Right. So I wonder, I mean, that'll come in a kind of a miniature true upright. So if I have heard about that, we do not have the money yet. For that in this year, or is it going to be in next year? So the cash will not come in now, but we will recognize the revenue in this year, 18, 19. I mean, that might be an option where we we can take a look at that since it's one time money that we didn't budget for. It might be something this could be a priority when we when we review that or we could do today. I mean, it doesn't really matter to me, but. I'd like to at least prioritize. I don't see any concern if the council wants to flip the 215 to 175. I think that would be the I don't see any financial concerns for the city in doing that in a. Two year budget. Right. So over the course of two years, it's the same same amount. It's just that we would be spending more sooner to address deferred maintenance. Correct. That. So reasonable. Okay. I think. Malia, any thoughts? I'm Estella. Sorry. I think that that sounds reasonable. Flipping the numbers. Flipping the numbers. Okay, so if we could do that. Okay. So where were we? Mastic Senior Center. Yes. Yes. Another large improvement we're doing to a master senior center, h HVAC system, variety of sources that are being allocated to do that work and total, it's going to cost a little over half a million dollars. And we have domestic senior center itself making contribution as well as general fund and as well as within CAP funds, we had some dollars that haven't been spent within other projects that closed. And so we're using some funding sources from that. And original money came from the general fund for those particular projects. Another one that you've heard more information earlier about is Aquatic Facility, where allocating $150,000 to do a concept, design and more for staff to start funding a fundraising campaign. Any items or notes otherwise? And we'll move on to the next department. Go ahead. K public works a similar situation. The department is requiring some more complex work that needs to be done. As a matter of fact. Just to point out on some of them is to we did have a single audit finding in terms of how quickly we ask for reimbursement requests. And in this particular case, there are some positions here that will assist with that to make sure that we file reimbursements on time and get the money timely into the city. So with that, there are some upgrades that are requested by the department, a little more complex work and therefore need a different position to make it appropriate for classification. In addition, in the Fleet Fund, we're asking for some equipment. This is a lift column lift to service vehicles within the city, and that's $75,000 moving on additional capital projects that are being funded. Again, as a reminder, this is in addition to what will already have a baseline budget. We're allocating funds to urban forest lagoon maintenance that comes from general fund alone. So urban forest is actually been increased to 250,000 out of general fund and some other funds are contributing some additional funding to for that purpose. Streetlights we at the baseline contribute 300,000. This is an additional 300,000 in year one and 560,000 additional in year two. Add some additional money into this traffic calming project as well as in a second year addressing the sea level rise and claiming it was part of the Climate Action Plan. If you wish for the Veterans Court Project and Central Avenue Large Project General Fund is making a $748,000 contribution for that. Any question to. Just quickly. Say during the budget workshop, we had incredible discussion about the urban forest. And I and I appreciate that, you know, the amount the incremental amount that we're looking at is above what we originally looking at in the May workshop. Again, reflecting the fact that, you know, this was a concern of residents as well as council members. And after all, we are Alameda which is I believe Spanish for grove a popular trees. So so it's nice to see, you know, more new incremental dollars directed towards that urban forest. And as the city manager had indicated last time that, you know, for the first time this is coming out also from the general fund budget, kind of as an indication of, you know, how serious this we are taking the trees. Thank you. Thank you. And you know. That was a question. That was a question. Yeah. You're learning. Would that be a yes? Yeah. Yes. Moving on to community development. We adding a position in year two that's been approved. Again, this is to assist departments with more accounting and analysis type of items. We're upgrading a position to a development manager from management analyst. And I do understand this was a discussion point for the Alameda Point or Base Reuse Fund where we're setting aside about $2 million for the big whites. I do understand that there was a request once the contract is done in specific work, that will come back to council to make sure that you agree with what the staff is proposing to do with those buildings. Okay. Are there any questions on community development before I move on? Okay. Planning, building and transportation. This is our newly created department. A couple of personnel changes, upgrades to the positions. I do want to make sure that a public and city council is aware that these particular positions are funded with permit fees. So they are outside of general fund completely and the funding is provided from the fees that they generate. In this case, counseling technician to Administrative Services Coordinator. We are creating, since this is a new department, the re titled department head title, which is director of planning, building and transportation as well as we reallocated i.t system as analyst a position previously resided in i.t. It has been 100% moved over into the planning, building and transportation. With the new department. In talking to our new department head, the building official position is being eliminated and actually combined potentially with an assistant director position. We're also doing some upgrades to planning manager to a city planner. And we are we've added a position at MIT Psych midyear. And so with that and changes in the positions as we have here. The department also requested a new vehicle. So a question here. You know, my mantra about replacing vehicles is this new vehicle and electric vehicle. I would expect for the type of work that it's done in talking between fleet manager and also the department, it should be okay to have it as an electric vehicle. I don't want to speak for the department head in this particular case, but it would be evaluated for themselves. Since we're going to be looking at the climate action from. Our department's point of view. Electric Works is really about whether the fleet manager and the city's vehicle. Purchasing policy maintenance. Fuel, you know, being able to keep it running. One of the issues from a planning a building perspective, it absolutely works for the daily inspections, no question. Our issue is just something that we've been talking to the fleet managers about is in the event of a major emergency, our inspectors are going to be out as part of the recovery response. We want to make sure. That vehicle. Is usable. So as a driver of an EVA, I just say keep him charge to the maximum at all. And thank you for that advice. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Thomas. That was Andrew Thomas. On that note, I just wanted to also say that during the budget presentation, during the study sessions, fleet was addressed as well in the list of vehicles for replacement was provided. One of the things that came out of that is that I believe it was city managers request to public works and fleets specifically to evaluate the fleet for the entire city, for all the replacements that we need to do and determine what are the appropriate vehicle use as well as a right size the vehicles for the city. So I'm pretty certain that that would be included as part of that discussion. The question from Vice Mayor Knox, we. I'm going to save this for the end. But might my recommendation or my recollection of that conversation is that there would actually be a fleet policy that would be coming back to the council based on that. Is that right? A part of that. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Go ahead, Ms.. Mr. Duke. And so moving on to our last department in this case is Housing Department. We have some what I would call a projects there, not necessarily capital projects for the city. We do utilize contract contractual services in this case because we do work with the Alameda Housing Authority and outside parties as well. So but in terms of type of project, it is it is a capital project. And so in this case, we are requesting a department requested to set aside a money, 900,000 in year one in 700,000 year to related to housing, affordable housing units, projects. Okay with that. That's the end of specific department presentations, unless you have questions. And if not, the next steps for us either provide hear from you. We do have one change. I do understand that. But there are several resolutions for you to approve in order to for us to move on with the budget and have it available on July 1st. Thank you. All right. So council and we do have well, we have some public speakers. So does anyone have any further clarifying questions before we go to public speakers? Vice Mayor and Oxley. I'm not. I may have missed something, but the fleet replacement, which was a big part of and $7 million in the first year, wasn't a part of this presentation that I saw, the $7 million. So what we did on the fleet is we have given discretion to the fleet management to look at the two years of the fleet and to try to manage those as best as possible. We also reduce for future fleet by 10% and ask them to come back in the fleet policy and address that and then we could address that at mid-cycle. Okay. So currently we're not. Moving forward with an additional cost. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Is that? I just wanted to make sure I understood what you meant by not moving with additional costs. So the Council is being asked to appropriate the funding for it. However, for the new vehicles, for the replacement of the vehicles. However, as you mentioned before, that replacement happens unless it's an emergency and we need something as soon as possible. The policy will be looked at first and then the evaluation of the fleet will happen, but at least it will have sufficient time when it does happen that it goes back to our fleet manager in order to purchase those vehicles. He will already have the appropriations for the budget in terms of budget. So my question for the city manager is when do you anticipate bringing the fleet policy back to us? And we haven't fully discussed it out, but I'm hoping to have it this fall. So not before this summer, but not before later. We don't have much. And the council goes on. We go dark in the month of August. So we were planning on having some of the vehicles probably start to be purchased, but they would only be the critical vehicles which have already have funding in the vehicle fund because if you I don't know if you remember or not, but there is a little over 5 million already in the vehicle fund. And we added, I want to say 1.6, which has been reduced by that 10%, if I remember. The charges out of general fund have been. So what we've done is we've created rates for the full fleet. We determined here's the listing of the vehicles when they were purchased, when they were supposed to be due for replacement based on the current policy, of course. But with that, the charges were allocated for all of those vehicles to all the programs in the city, specifically for General Fund. We reduced the contributions by 10% to further evaluate the fleet and come back if need be. And I understand that. I appreciate the explanation, but my point is simply that I do not want the city moving forward purchasing vehicles unless it is a, you know, a critical situation until we've had a chance to look at this policy, because I just want us to be consistent across all avenues. We're about to look at the Climate Action Resiliency Plan. So we shouldn't, because when we buy a vehicle, it's not just for a year or two, it has a life. So does that sound doable? Mr. City Manager I believe that's doable. The only other exception is as long as it's compliant with the climate action like electric vehicles, that would be compliant, I would think would also fit into that. I would think so. Any council members want to weigh in. I have a question. Okay. Okay. So then we have a question from a vice mayor. Not quite. So the during the workshop we did, we spent a good chunk of time talking about the internal service funds, but it's not in the. It was not in your budget presentation tonight is things we were. But to prove. It. That's true. Asking us to prove it? Yes. You will be approving as part of our overall budget. So I guess I'm having a hard time finding that in the budget. Can you direct me to where those funds are since they weren't called out in the presentation as additional? Well, if you want to look at them specifically, then. They? On the attachment, the exhibit that was provided, which I believe titled Budget Summary. It's budget summary. There's an attachment called citywide budget, all fund summary. So that provides a full summary of the funds. And if you want to look at internal service funds specifically, it's on the second page and it's fund numbers that start with seven or seven hundreds webpage numbers. Ambassador, do they have pages? Hmm. Well, maybe not. Including the first cover. But it would be page. It'd be page 11 of 70, I. Believe it says exhibit two Budget Summary. And you see page 11. I think it's on page 11 of seven. 1111. Is 70. Online. But yes, that's a revenue sense. So 11 of 70 if you're scrolling through 20. I look on page 12, Councilmember Brody says in your hard copy. Maybe on the hard copy, I believe it's number 12 if you actually do count on pages. Okay. So. I'll look I'll look forward to it. Okay. I have a question. Question from Councilmember De Soto. In your budget presentation, which is this item right here. Okay. Thank you. I'm sure she can multitask, but we will let her get back to the microphone. In your budget presentation, this item right here, what kind of struck me was on the slide that general fund budget 20 1920 2020 dash 2021. If we just look at the expenditures on the operations and forget about the pension OPEB reserve line, is this the first. Time. That that we will be adopting a general fund expenditure budget that crosses the $100 million threshold? I yes, I believe you're right. Well, yes and no. Original budget. Yes. However, in 1718, with some additional appropriations that happened during the year, including the large contribution to pension and OPEB, it did surpass the $100 million. But in terms of operations, though, where we. Correct. So I mean that's that's a pretty significant threshold that that that that we're crossing. So I just want to quickly say also to the finance department and all the department heads who put together in the residence ought to take the time to take a look at it, because there are there's really very handsome charts and discussions regarding the assets that are the city of Alameda manages and owns. And it's all in in here. And it's fun to read colorful graphics, nice snappy summaries of how many roads we manage, how many trees we have, the different zones that where trees are going to be trimmed. And when you look at the capital improvement summary, there's also a capital improvement fund by capital improvement fund, discrete disc discussions, but also fortunately kind of a who the responsible staff member is. I really like that that that was really nice. So residents I hope if you're watching this, if you get a chance to go online and check out both the CIP budget summary and the general fund or the operation fund, it's really nice. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Finance Chairman, and our new city manager, Eric Levitt, who really hit the ground running. He's been here not quite three months, two months. And. And he and finance produced this amazing budget. So good work, team Alameda. Okay. If there's no further clarifying questions we have. How many? Just two. Okay. Let's hear our public speakers. Thank you. The first one is Misha Tom, and the second is JJ Navarro. And you each have 3 minutes to speak. Perfect. I will not use. Well, maybe I will. Maybe I'm just like the echo of my voice. I thank you for having me. And thank you for all doing the civic and public work you do. And I have just come to advocate for the Jackson Park playground. It sounds like it's made. Smooth sailing through the waters. But as a parent of a three year old, an eight month old who lives in the Jackson Park neighborhood, it's very exciting the prospect of having another playground and using that space more with a broader civic purpose. And I think that that's really all I wanted to say. So thank you so much. Thank you. And our next speaker is J.J. Navarro. Hello. Great to be here. And thank you for your service to the city of Alameda. I'm here with my neighbor, Misha, and we were very excited to see Jackson Park up on the slides today. I was here with you a month ago to voice my support, and I listened online to the discussion that followed and was really encouraged to hear that you echoed a lot of the same sentiments of why we're trying to get this done. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I really look forward to continue to be a part of this process. Thank you for your remarks. Thank you both. Okay. So that's all of our public speakers. So I'm going to close public comment. So council our task tonight is to, um. We've got some resolutions to approve. There is. Not a good time for the iPad to freeze. You should put something in the budget. No, just kidding. Okay, so we have resolutions, too. Well, we need to adopt the operating and capital budget for fiscal year 2019 and 2020 19 to 2020 and 2022, 2021. And we also have the board. To approve an adopt the successor agency to the Community Improvement Commission budget for fiscal year 20 1920 and 20 2021. Adopt a resolution approving workforce changes and adopt a resolution amending the International Association of Firefighters Salary Schedule, all of which was encompassed in the the report. The presentation that we had. But I believe we need to take our resolution separately. Correct. Really? Together. Together? No. Yes. Separately. Separately. Yeah. We the the when there's a tie, the city attorney prevails. Okay. So for the resolution approving in adopting the operating and capital budget for fiscal years 2019 to 2020 and 2022 2021, do I have a motion, a question? We make sure comments are. Well, can we get a motion in motion? Okay, I have a motion. I have a second from Councilmember Vela. They will have discussion. Councilmember O.D. I'll be brief because I know we had three, two or three days worth of this back in May. So I also want to echo my colleague's comments. Appreciate the hard work of the city manager. It was like the first couple of weeks. That was one of the first things he did and it really was an amazing budget. It reflects our priorities and I think. ILLEANA You went over them, so I'm not going to repeat them. And I appreciate the work of you and your team as well as all of the department heads and putting this together. It's a budget I think we can be proud of. I'll be proud to support it. And I just want to appreciate everything you guys did to to get us to this point. Any other decision based on the next wave. So I plan to support this, and I just want to make that clarifying comment that this includes the flipping of the since. I believe this is the the when that that our motion includes the flip of to 50 and 175 for the parks. So I want to I just want to thank the city staff. I know that a lot of work went into this, especially since we had an interim city manager for a lot of this. And our staff, finance staff is short staffed, so there's no way to undersell or oversell the huge lift that was done in creating this . And I very much appreciate the document. I think it's something that we can all be proud of. Thank you. And I'll just slip in an extra thank to our finance director, Lena Adair. Some Mrs. Dear actually grew up in Siberia. And during this process, when she was just immersed in all this, her grandparent died in Siberia and she had to leave and go. She chose to leave and go back for the services. And that was a lot of personal stress on her. And somehow and she's a mother of two young children, but a beautiful job, Ms.. Adair, your usual stellar work product. So anything further or shall we take a vote? That's what. Rock Hall. Council members decide. Yes. Not quite. Yes. Yes. Yes, mayor. Yes. That carries my life. All right. Thank you. So that resolution passes unanimously, and then we move on to. A move approving the in adopting a budget for the fiscal year 1920 and 2021 for the Community Improvement Commission of the City of Alameda. Perfect. Do I have a second? Okay. Okay. It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing, then roll call. Vote. Councilman or commissioner stateside? Yes. Not quite. Yes. Yes. Yes. As the Ashcraft? Yes. That also carries by five votes unanimously. Thank you. Okay. Next, we have a resolution amending the salary schedule and approving workforce changes in fiscal year 2019 to 2020 and 2022 2021. To have a motion. So moved. By the vice mayor, seconded by. Second. By Councilmember Odie. A voice vote. Roll call vote, please. Councilmember say. Says yes. Next fight. Yes. Odie. Yes. Yeah. Mayor as he Ashcraft. Yes. That carries unanimously by far. Right. All right, let's see if we can make it for for our last resolution is amending the International Association of Firefighters Salaries Schedule. I do have a motion. So moved. It's been moved by the vice mayor, who's been seconded by Councilmember Vela, all of our rockhopper councilors. They said yes. Not quite. Yes. Yes. Yes. There is the Ashcroft. Yes. That carries unanimously by five eyes. Perfect. Good work, everybody. Okay, so then we. Are during this. James, we adjourn this meeting and I am going to give us a ten minute break and then we will come back. And here I am, six C. That's exactly right. Okay, everyone, 10 minutes. We will be back at eight. Okay. 855. Don't be late. Right. If you seats, please, we are going to drive you. Oh, okay. Our recess is over and we are going to move on to item six. See this public hearing to establish the proposition for appropriations limit for fiscal year 20 1920 and to consider adoption of resolution establishing the appropriations limit for fiscal year 1920.