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REPORT TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
Professional Services Budgeting in the Planning Department
March 26, 2002
Patricia L. Temple
644 -3228
Receive and file report. Direct staff to return, if necessary by the end of
the current fiscal year, with any budget amendment that requires City
Council approval.
The Profession and Technical Services budget (2710 -8080) for Fiscal Year 2001 -02 was approved
by City Council with a total appropriation of $240,000. At the time it was established, this amount
was designed to cover the cost of the General Plan Update Visioning Program ($200,000), and
general departmental professional services ($40,000). At the time the budget was approved, there
was some discussion about needing to increase this budget, when the costs of the General Plan
Update within this fiscal year were better known.
Discussion
We are now two- thirds through the fiscal year, and are now able to predict the Professional Services
costs that will either be spent or encumbered this year, as follows:
Professional Service
Projected cos
Moore, Iacofano, Goltsman, Inc. (MIG), the City's consultant for the
General Plan Update Visioning Process encumbered
$226,500
EIP Associates, the City's consultant for the General Plan Update, to allow
for participation in the Visioning Process encumbered
$33,035
Kenny the Printer, for printing and mailing of three city-wide newsletters
as part of the Visioning Process at $25,000 Mr newsletter
$75,000
Miscellaneous Visioning Costs (pens, paper, balloons, banners, signs,
flowers etc.
$5,000
General Plan Update Economic Stud encumbered )
$115,8 0
Traffic Model Update Lo be encumbered
$127,955
Contract Planners staff augmentation to sustain current workload
$50,000
Real Estate Appraiser to update the current park fee which was last updated
in 1991
$15,000
TOTAL
$648,330
At the present time, it is anticipated that there will be sufficient appropriation savings in the General
Fund to cover any shortfall in this budget account. Council Policy F -2 allows the City Manager to
reprogram appropriations within an individual fund to cover insufficient appropriations in an
individual department. If, however, there are not sufficient appropriations to cover this shortfall
within the General Fund by year -end, a formal budget amendment, appropriating General Fund
Reserves to cover these expenditures, will be presented to the City Council for approval.
DENNIS C. DANNER
Administrative Services Director
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PATRICIA L. TEMPLE
Planning Director
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