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6.A. - Page 65 of 114 <br />processes and significantly expanding the scope of business development impact fees it <br />assesses. 523 <br />San Bruno is also currently engaged in a process to identify potential revenue enhancement <br />ballot measures, including a 2 percent increase in its transient occupancy tax (commonly <br />referred to as a "hotel tax") that could yield annual additional revenues of approximately <br />$0.55 million and an increase of a quarter -cent or half -cent to its sales tax that could yield <br />annual additional revenues of approximately $2 million at the quarter -cent rate and $4 <br />million at the half -cent rate. The City has to option of putting these two possible measures <br />on the ballot in either November 2019 or 2020.524 <br />Pension Obligation Bonds — San Bruno <br />In January 2013, San Bruno issued pension obligation bonds in the principal amount of <br />$13.18 million525 which mature in FY 2026-27.526 The City paid $1.18 million on the <br />bonds in FY 2017-18527 and will pay approximately the same amount in FY 2018-19.528 <br />From FY 2019-20 through FY 2026-27 when the bonds are fully paid off, the City will <br />make average annual payments on the bonds of approximately $0.883 million. 529 <br />General Fund Reserves — San Bruno <br />As of June 30, 2018, San Bruno had a general fund reserve of $11.25 million .5'0 The City <br />projects that this reserve will increase to $12.09 million as of June 30, 20 19,53 1 and to <br />$12.77 million as of June 30, 2020.532 The City's goal is to maintain this reserve of at least <br />25 percent of general fund expenditures and City policy requires that the balance not fall <br />below 15 percent of general fund operating expenditures except upon a declaration of <br />emergency.533 The June 30, 2018 general fund reserve balance was 25.9 percent of the <br />$43.4 million in FY 2017-18 general fund expenditures.534 <br />523 Grand Jury interview. <br />521 San Bruno, Presentation Slides for City Council Meeting on February 19, 2019 re: Revenue Enhancements City <br />Council Study Session, p. 27. <br />525 San Bruno, Adopted 2018-19 Operating and Capital Budget, p. 436. <br />526 Grand Jury interview. San Bruno, Adopted Fiscal Year 2016-17 Operating and Capital Budget, p. K-4. <br />527 San Bruno, Adopted Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2017-18 and Adopted Capital Improvement Program for <br />Fiscal Years 2017-18 Through 2021-22, p. 194. <br />528 The amount San Bruno paid in FY 2017-18 was $1,177,481 and the amount it will pay on the bonds in FY 2018-19 <br />is $1,179,931. San Bruno, Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Year Ended June 30, 2018, p. 64. <br />529 San Bruno, Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Year Ended June 30, 2018, p. 64. <br />530 mid., p. 72. <br />531 San Bruno, Adopted 2018-19 Operating and Capital Budget, p. 5 of Citywide Summary of Funds. <br />532 San Bruno, Proposed FY 2019-20 Operating and Capital Budget, p. 5 of Citywide Summary of Funds. <br />533 San Bruno, Adopted 2018-19 Operating and Capital Budget, p. C13. <br />531 San Bruno, Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Year Ended June 30, 2018, p. 30. <br />2018-2019 San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury 58 <br />