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IREPORT ,o Redevelopment Agency Board March 25, 2002 Subject Downtown Plan Implementation Recommendation That the Agency Board review and approve the following changes to the 2001-2002 Agency budget. These proposals directly implement Council priorities discussed at the January 26, 2002 meeting. Staff recommends that you appropriate the additional funds necessary to accomplish these items from unappropriated fund balances. The recommended Redevelopment Agency actions are: 1. Create the regular position of Downtown Development Manager (DDM) benchmarked to the position of Community Development Services Supervisor (approving and adding one new FTE position funded by the Redevelopment Agency). 2. Appropriate an additional $275,000 ($200,000 to fund 807-6641-50, $75,000 to fund 806-66410-50) to provide sufficient funds to prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Downtown Plan and the Housing Element. These proposals implement Council priorities in the following ways: Downtown Development Manager One of your highest priorities (#5) was to "create an implementation plan for the Downtown Plan". Staff will be bringing other proposals relating to this as part of the 2002-03 budget but we consider the creation of the staff resource to implement the Plan as the essential first step. The Downtown Development Manager will be the staff person charged with implementing the plan and will be entirely dedicated to dealing with the Downtown. One of the clearest expressions of commitment to implementing a plan is dedicating resources to the effort. Could we use existing staff to accomplish this? We could try, but it would probably not be adequate: · Existing staff already have large workloads and staff does not recommend having the implementation of this Downtown Plan as simply one Of dozens of competing priorities on someone's existing work agenda.