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REDUCE POLICE OVERTIME BY $1.2 MILLION • Eliminate PAL Overtime Revenue - PAL has no budget for overtime and officers should be volunteering their time to PAL not getting paid as much as $75 per hour. Reduce overtime in the Police Field Operations budget to $1.5 million. This is double the amount budgeted in 2019 and with $330,000 in expected revenue offsets to Overtime the Department can incur up to $1.8 million with no budget overrun TRANSFER $500,000 FROM THE EQUIPMENT INTERNAL SERVICE FUND TO GENERAL FUND The Equipment Maintenance Fund currently has a balance of nearly $6.0 million. This represents unused general revenue and contributions from other funds, such as the water fund, accumulated over time. The Fund should operate under a break-even approach with excess money typically going back to the General and other contributing Funds The Council should request a full presentation on the status of the Fund following the close of FY 2022. DELAY TRANSFERING $7.7 MILLION TO THE PENSION TRUST FUND UNTIL THE CalPERS BILL HAS BEEN RECEIVED CalPers lowered their discount rate to 6.8% and the City will owe CalPERS additional contributions in FY 2023. • The actual amount due to CalPERS for additional contributions has not been recognized • Council should provide authority to staff to pay the additional contributions due and then report back to the Council on any excess contribution from the general, water, and other funds. • Council is in a better position to make the best decision on the most current information for the sake of general fund services • Once the transfer of funds to the Pension Trust, the rules for transfers back are very restrictive POLICE COMMISSION STRUCTURE Structures recommended by the ACLU, Kennedy Commission, and other are based on entities where the metrics are as much as lox greater than the City of Santa Ana • Start lean and build best practices over time and then evaluate for a more permanent • structure • The goal is oversight and accountability not artificial bureaucracy • Preserve our taxes to meet the future challenges for FY 2030 • Santa Ana complaints run 40/yr. vs 500/yr. and 400/yr. in Seattle and Portland