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<br />Attachment 2 <br /> <br />8A <br />Page 23 <br /> <br />City of Redwood City <br />FY 2009-2010 Budget Amendments - September 2009 <br />Detail of Recommended ProJ!rammatic ChanJ!es <br /> <br />GENERAL FUND <br /> <br />Police <br /> <br />Employee Costs <br />Supplies and Services <br />Internal Services <br />Capital Allocations <br /> <br />(646,317) <br />(110,590) <br />(56,718) <br /> <br />Total: <br /> <br />(813,625) <br /> <br />Percentage of Reductions: <br /> <br />-3.4% <br /> <br />Employee Reductions in FTE <br />Vacant <br />Filled <br />Total <br /> <br />1.00 <br />4.00 <br />5.00 <br /> <br />Description of Proposed Reduction <br />The Department's reductions include 3.0 FTE Community Service Officer positions, 1.0 FTE School <br />Resource Police Officer, and 1.0 FTE Juvenile Detective. A variety of supplies and services are cut <br />including $35,000 in funds dedicated to background investigations. The internal service reductions <br />reflect a reduction in the truck fleet primarily used by Community Service Officers. <br /> <br />Service Level Impacts <br />Community Service Officers (eso's) relieve Police Officers of attending to low level and non-urgent law <br />enforcement duties so that the officers may focus on proactive patrol and give appropriate time and <br />attention to serious criminal matters. Community Service Officers also attend to traffic related <br />problems, often directing traffic, facilitating the removal of abandoned vehicles and taking property <br />and minor injury traffic accident reports. Much of the work Community Service Officers provide would <br />require Police Officers to suspend their activities to attend to work historically performed by <br />Community Service Officers. We may consider no longer providing some of the services typically <br />completed by CSOs. The loss of these positions will primarily burden day shift police officers by <br />increasing their work load considerably and diminish their ability to perform core law enforcement <br />duties. <br /> <br />Our Juvenile Detective is a sworn Police Officer who works closely with San Mateo County Child <br />Protective Services, Juvenile Probation and the schools to coordinate efforts to ensure that crimes <br />involving juveniles are properly investigated, and that we divert children away from the criminal justice <br />system whenever we believe such a move will benefit the youth without endangering the public. The <br />Juvenile Detective provides an expertise in juvenile related matters that is very valuable. He also <br />provides a continuity that allows our philosophy concerning diverting youth to continue. Much of the <br />work load will be pushed to the non-sworn Juvenile Specialist, who does not have the benefit of the <br />knowledge and training of a sworn police officer. Furthermore, the Juvenile Specialist does not have <br />the power of arrest that a Juvenile Detective does. Moreover, the Juvenile Specialist will now have to <br /> <br />13 <br />