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REPORT: Bound, Proposed Redwood City Budget 1998-2000 (Available in the Finance Department and the City Clerk Department.) City Manager Everett described the three proposed Budget Sessions, and explained that the proposed Budgets were a reflection of Council direction over the past year including the priorities the Council identified at the workshop in January. City Manager Everett advised that the Council had already approved Memoranda of Understanding with most of the labor organizations in the City, and the amount of the contracts represented approximately 70% of the General Fund. He said those decisions "fashioned this budget." City Manager Everett said that people seeing this budget for the first time might think the Council is seeing it for the first time as well, but "that's misleading." He said, "for most things, not everything, but for most things, the vast majority of things in that document, you have (provided) direction." City Manager Everett said most of the major increases in this fiscal year budget as compared to FY 1997/98, "are MOUs, the Police Department staffing, the Fire Department, both the Paramedic program and the new Fire Station, and the Parks, both the (Redwood Shores) Community Center and Lido landscaping." City Manager Everett said these proposed increases represented the end of a long Council process. He said that during this Budget Study Session the Council could review its priorities and make sure they were included in the proposed Budget for FY 1998/99 and 1999/2000 or make adjustments. City Manager Everett said that Department Heads and their staff tried very hard to fashion their budgets to reflect the Council's priorities and directions. City Manager Everett used an overhead to describe the number of projects and policies that had been approved by Councils beginning in 1995 through this spring that were now budgeted for FY 1998/99 and 1999/2000. Some of these projects are: the Redwood Shores Community Center; many Memoranda of Understanding with all the labor organizations; the new Redwood Shores Fire Station and Maintenance Center; Stulsaft and Stafford Park renovations; the Policing Study which will result in new officers this year; the Paramedic program; the direction to move up Maddux Park renovation; the Woodside Road Widening Project; Community Development Block Grants, a federal program, and the Human Services Financial Assistance program from General Fund monies; the Capital Improvement Project program review and direction; and the sewer and water Ordinance. City Manager Everett said the directions from the Council had been specific and numerous and were incorporated in the proposed Budget. He said the proposed Budget was the culmination of a long process, and the Budget was the largest policy document that the Council can use to secure policies and direction for the City. B. Introduction and Budget Overview - Brian Ponty, Director of Finance and Financial Planning BUDGET STUDY SESSION MINUTE BOOK NO. 57 JUNE29,1998 MINUTES Page No. 006 PAGE 2