Budget and Audit Committee Meeting Summary - June 6, 2017
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Budget and Audit Committee Meeting Summary - June 6, 2017
The Budget and Audit Committee convened on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at 2:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chamber. The meeting lasted approximately 11 minutes and covered two consent calendar items and one major discussion item: the adoption of the FY2017/18 Operating Budget and 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Program.
Consent Calendar
- Item 1: Approved the Budget and Audit Committee Meeting Minutes dated May 4, 2017. Motion passed 3-0 (Member Jennings abstained due to absence at the prior meeting).
- Item 2: Accepted the City Auditor's Activity Report for the 3rd Quarter of Fiscal Year 2016/17 and forwarded it to the City Council for final approval. Approved unanimously as part of the consent calendar.
Discussion Items
- Item 3: Adoption of the FY2017/18 Operating Budget and 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Program – Staff presented a summary of changes since the proposed budget, including:
- Funding for mayor and city council priorities as discussed at the May 23 workshop.
- Committing the remaining $6.6 million from year-end resources for affordable housing, neighborhood services, and beacon schools, with specific program details to be brought back to the full council.
- A recommendation to move $400,000 for youth engagement funding from operating budgets to a multi-year operating project to allow better tracking of metrics and avoid year-end spending concerns.
- Councilmember Schenirer noted that metrics for youth programming will be developed as part of the strategic youth development plan expected early next year. The Independent Budget Analyst prepared a memo responding to Schenirer's prior accountability questions, which will be included in the budget adoption report.
- Councilmember Ashby requested direction to the city manager and police department to return with a plan for increasing ShotSpotter and additional pods in the highest risk communities. The request was accepted.
Key Outcomes
- The committee passed a motion (4-0) to forward the FY2017/18 Operating Budget and 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Program to the full City Council for final approval on June 13, 2017.
- The committee directed staff to include the Independent Budget Analyst's memo on metrics with the council report.
- The committee directed the city manager to bring back a plan for expanding ShotSpotter and additional pods in high-risk communities.
- No public testimony was offered, and no additional committee comments were made.
Meeting Transcript
Sure. Good afternoon. The city's council's budget and audit committee will come to order. Let's uh call the role to establish a quorum, please. We'll start with Member Ashby. Shener. Jennings. And Mayor Steinberg. I am here. I know Councilmember Rashby is here, and soon we'll be here in a few moments. We do have three items here on the agenda. Two are on a consent calendar, the budget and audit committee meeting minutes, which I know are controversial. And the city auditors activity report for the third quarter. Are there any questions on items on the consent calendar? Moved by Councilmember Shener, second by Councilmember Jennings, Vice Mayor Jennings. I actually need to abstain. You weren't here. Okay, well then I'll second the motion. But then you don't have enough to have enough to pass, but why don't we do this? Let's call the roll and then we'll put the measure on call, as we used to say in the legislature. We don't do that here, do we? No. Did you see the look on my face? There she is. Let's do this again. That was a tried and true. Tried and true method. Put it on call. Yeah. No one talking about? Yeah. Councilmember Ashby will be recorded as here at present. We'll give you a second to get settled. We were just discussing uh the consent calendar. See if you had any questions on the consent calendar. She's good. Councilmember Ashby's good. So I think we can now say all in favor of the consent calendar, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, abstain. Abstain because Councilmember Jennings wasn't uh present at the last meeting. So that will pass three to nothing. We now move to the one uh discussion item, which is uh the small matter of the budget. And as I understand it, this the purpose of to the today's committee meeting is to just sort of take stock one more time before we go to the full city council on the 13th of June for final adoption of the budget. Come on up. As I understand it, the staff is uh briefed Councilmember Shaneer on how it intends to address the accountability questions that he raised back on the 23rd of May, and the answers to those questions will be presented on the 13th at the full budget, correct? Correct. Okay. Did I just take your report? Yeah, go ahead.
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