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<br /> . . , . . <br /> - Disseminate Community Policing information to the public; <br /> -- <br /> - Provide an update to the Council Public Safety Committee regarding the proposals for a <br /> fire station in the Redwood Shores neighborhood; <br /> - Provide an update to the Council Public Safety Committee regarding the contract with <br /> South County Fire; <br /> - Provide information to the Council Public Safety Committee regarding Paramedics; <br /> - Provide further information to Council regarding Code Enforcement; <br /> 2) Dealing with Long Term Budget issues/How to accomplish Council priorities with limited <br /> resources. <br /> REPORT: Five Year Financial Picture, January II, 1996, Director of Financial Planning. <br /> City Manager Everett provided the history of budget processes in Redwood City and <br /> their conservative nature that served the City well. City Manager Everett advised that <br /> projections showing negative balances never come to pass because the Council must take <br /> and does take action to prevent deficit budgets. He added that the projections offered for <br /> i the long term budgets are based on assumptions that the Council can accept or change. <br /> ! <br /> ---- City Manager Everett stated that it was clear the Council would have to increase revenues <br /> and/or decrease expenses to bring the out-year budgets into balance. <br /> Finance Director Ponty presented overheads and described the assumptions underlying <br /> the long term budget projections as described in the aforementioned Report. Director <br /> Ponty and City Manager Everett described the projected deficits in the out-years and the <br /> Council decisions that will impact them: increased expenses for the Redwood Shores <br /> school/community center and the new parks; the new Red Morton Center including <br /> equipment, maintenance and staffing, loss of interest after C.1.P. program completed; loss <br /> of General Fund subsidy ITom risk management pool; increased sewer expenses due to <br /> NPDES, a federally mandated program; no savings ITom police consolidations; lower <br /> construction revenues after build-out; and projected inflation rates and rise in revenues and <br /> expenditures. <br /> Council Members expressed their support for a fire station in the Redwood Shores <br /> neighborhood; participation in maintenance of playing fields; perhaps increased Park and <br /> Recreation revenues, on some level, with the knowledge that some young people are <br /> having trouble paying Little League fees right now; emphasis on increased volunteerism; <br /> revisiting NPDES funding; and reconsidering C.1.P. priorities and total C.1.P. budget. <br /> '--- <br /> MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Redwood City Council Special Workshop Minutes <br /> Page No. 017 January 13, 1996 <br /> Page 8 <br />