On April 27, 2026, the Annapolis Finance Committee held a special meeting to review the Fiscal Year 2027 budgets for the Department of Central Services (DCS), the Annapolis Police Department (APD), and the Office of Human Resources (HR). The meeting began at 8:32 AM and adjourned at 11:53 PM after three presentations, detailed questioning, and a postponed fund transfer.
2026. At this time, we'll start with a roll call. Honorable man O'Neal present. Otherman Thorpe, present. And I am here. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as written? So moved. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Is uh motion carries. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from our last meeting? Settlement. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. With that, Mr. Flanner, it's all you. Ms. Jackson, would you put time on the clock? Excellent. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here before you once again as we were just chatting. Um the first time I sat here was a year ago, two weeks in uh at the city of Annapolis. So it's a great feeling to be here speaking to the first budget that I've created after a little over a year with the city. Um I've watched all the budget hearings prior to this one, and I noticed central services came up a lot. Really looking forward to clarifying your questions and help uh kind of detangle what's centralized, what's getting decentralized. Um, and with that, uh, have our slideshow ready to go for you all, and we will jump right in. So, for starters, if I could just speak broadly about our accomplishments. A big thing that I'm proud of in our first year as a new city department is laying the foundation that a new city department can be built upon. And I, you know, when I look at these accomplishments at face value, I think, well, that that's really nothing overly um overwhelming as it is, but uh to kind of set the stage for you. Um, when I started with the city, we had six vacant positions, which was about 33% of my department. Uh we've been working, and by we, I mean I've been working very hard uh to fill all of those positions, and we've been successful in doing so. In fact, our new fleet manager and our fleet analyst, our final round of interviews for those positions are this Thursday, they will be starting hopefully next month. So filling um the gaps on our workforce was a big goal of mine right out of the gate, and um we have done that, and we now once uh we hire our last two positions. We won't have any vacancies in our department, which uh puts us in a good position to ask you all for extra positions, which we will fill right away. Uh two other things that we're very, very proud of. We moved our entire office into one new work site. We were spread out in six different buildings. I had an office over in Hudson Street. Uh the department wasn't together as a department. And so in September of last year, we all consolidated into 25 Shaw Street, got everybody moved, and we now occupy the first floor of that building, and we're working on a CIP project at that building right now with plans to bring finance over, hopefully in the next year. And then lastly, um, a lot of process, a lot of workflow, a lot of reviewing, analyzing, and kind of improving the work we do each and every day. And uh that last bullet, I know it lists several several accomplishments, but big things to hit on. Um talking to the other departments to determine our roles and responsibilities and what Central Services uh manages versus what DPW manages versus what Wreck and Park manages was a multi-month effort, but really helped us work more productively together. Additionally, um, we're modernizing how we bill other departments for fleet in fiscal year 27, and I'm happy to describe more of that to you. And then we've been looking at our most critical facility work orders in repairing those and reducing our procurement timelines wherever we can. Moving on to our performance measures.