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<br /> . . I . - <br /> Councilman Claire advised that the Council had had three budget study sessions. <br /> He explained that Proposition 13 prevented municipalities from raising revenues <br /> - through general taxes. He said the Council would look at several ways to meet the <br /> projected deficit and the Council may decide on decreasing services. Councilman <br /> Claire said the Council had looked at and given tentative approval to bringing the <br /> City's code coIlection fees up to the 1994 level which wiIl help decrease the <br /> deficit in the second year. <br /> Mayor Hartnett said the Ordinance was for the upcoming Fiscal Year only, and <br /> the Motion was for the second Fiscal Year. Mayor Hartnett said for the second <br /> Fiscal Year budget Council had directed staff to "come back with specific <br /> recommendation on the increase of building fees, and also....a specific proposal <br /> regarding the storm run-off, NPDES fee." <br /> Councilman Ruskin said that the increased code fees proposal was "a well <br /> considered strategy about which we spent considerable time. It wasn't a hastily <br /> drawn strategy....(The strategy would) raise the building code fees in order to <br /> ensure that the costs of administering those programs were met by the revenues, as <br /> weIl as bring those fees up to the 1994 recommended fees by the building codes <br /> committee." <br /> Councilman Leipzig said that "taxes whether they are for sewer, for building <br /> - fees, or their taxes, the people of Redwood City have to pay them, so I think I am <br /> justified in my statement, we haven't looked at a reduction of costs, we have <br /> looked at an increase in taxes." <br /> ITERATION OF THE MOTION: <br /> MIS: CLAIREIHOW ARD. TITLE READ. <br /> AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY ADOPTING THE FINAL <br /> BUDGET OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, <br /> 1996 - JUNE 30, 1997; PROVIDING FOR THE APPROPRIATION AND <br /> EXPENDITURE OF ALL SUMS SET FORTH IN SAID BUDGET; PROVIDING FOR <br /> EMERGENCY EXPENDITURES, TRANSFERS, ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS, <br /> CANCELLATIONS AND REAPPROPRIATIONS OF EXISTING APPROPRIA- <br /> TIONS; ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT <br /> NO. 1-64 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 1996 - JUNE 30, 1997; MAKING <br /> PROVISIONS FOR INTERIM EXPENDITURES AS OF JULY 1, 1996; AND <br /> REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 2098, AND ALL ORDINANCES AND <br /> RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; (1st reading) <br /> - ------------------------------------------------------_____n______---------------------------------------------n_---__---------------------- <br /> REGULAR MEETING JULY 1, 1996 <br /> MINUTES PAGE 10 <br /> MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 <br /> page No. 352 <br />