19F - CITY MANAGER BUDGET UPDATE

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City Manager's Budget Stabilization Plan Weekly Update October 3, 2011 Page 2 Restructuring/Service Reductions • 1 am completing my one-on-one meetings with department heads to review their operations and mission-critical services. Service reductions and restructuring proposals by departments will be gathered by October 1, 2011. Revenue Enhancements • City is tracking closely the League of California Cities lawsuit against the State for taking the VLF revenue in the last budget. This was a $1.2 million hit to Santa Ana. • A community survey will soon be released to gather information on a possible revenue enhancement. • City is investigating uniform application of sanitation fee to hotels, which could generate approximately $200,000-$300,000. • Paramedic subscription fee program has been re-marketed to capture lost revenues. Expenditure Controls • All non-mission critical consumable goods and capital purchases have been eliminated or limited. • City is looking to recover costs/expenses from the current Civic Center Authority contract with our government partners. • The City's financial consultant, Dave Millican, was at City Hall three days this past week reviewing the City's financial systems and evaluating the City's revenue and expenditure projections. Public Communications • Article on City's budget deficit is on front page of the Web with links to the Management Partners Report and Budget Stabilization Plan. • I will be attending six community meetings in the next month to update residents on the status of the budget. • Another newsletter to all employees will be sent out thanking employees for their budget suggestions on the employee portal. 19F-2