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8.A. - Page 16 of 104 3) Reimagine public services in light of evolving community needs and limited financial resources. The Revised Budget provides funding for responding to immediate community needs and restoring community vitality. Many activities to advance these goals are underway and are described further below. It also begins the multi-year work to reimagine City services to ensure the City's financial sustainability while meeting community needs. The Revised Budget relies upon holding open vacancies and reducing expenditures throughout the City organization while selectively investing in new approaches. This allows the City to match ongoing revenues and expenditures, and to enable new service models to emerge. Additionally, the Revised Budget incorporates the City Council's affirmation in August of three top priorities: housing, transportation, and children and youth. These priorities have been interwoven throughout our recovery strategy and the Revised Budget. The Revised Budget is also informed by longstanding concerns which have special urgency at this time: racial equity and climate change. In the wake of the losses of fellow Americans like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, our nation has been called to reckon with a legacy of racial inequity and social injustice. Following significant engagement and study over the last several months, the Revised Budget commits staff and operating resources to developing an Equity Workplan and examining diversity and equity in our organization and our community, in alignment with the City Council's decision to add equity as a Foundational Guiding Principle in the City's Strategic Plan. In the same time period, climate change has wrought record-breaking hurricanes in the east, tornados and derechos across the Midwest, and unprecedented wildfires throughout the West. Since the beginning of this year, more than 8,400 wildfires have burned over 4 million acres in California, resulting in 31 statewide fatalities and the destruction of more than 9,200 structures. In addition to managing our own Fire Department's role in the fire response, we recognize that sustainability and climate stewardship must continue to be policy priorities for the City. Staff have continuously adapted and integrated these priorities into the framework of the Three R's, and the Revised Budget provides funding for climate adaptation initiatives. A brief summation of work to advance the Three R's follows. Respond Redwood City has committed more than $4.5 million responding to the COVID-19 crisis — in staff time, purchases and direct aid to residents. This includes over $1.72 million in FY 2019-20 overtime, supplies and service expenses and $313,809 to date in similar FY 2020-21 expenses. We have received $535,581 in CARES Act funding for FY 2019-20 expenses, and we anticipate receiving another $535,582 over the next three months for a total of $1,071,163 in federal CARES Act assistance passed through the State of California. We continue to document expenditures with the hope that additional funding may emerge from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or that funding for state and local governments might be included in a future federal stimulus bill. In addition to emergency response and ensuring continuity of City operations through the pandemic, City staff have risen to the occasion to help our community thrive now and emerge more quickly from COVID-19. With the urgent need to reduce the spread of this disease and avoid overwhelming our BUDGET MESSAGE 3%5