MAY 2011
DATE: 19 May (Thurs)
ACTIVITY: City Council workshop study session and public hearing to review/adopt budget (4:30 p.m., City Hall Council Chambers)
RESPONSIBILITY: Special City Council Meeting
DATE: 26 May (Thurs)
ACTIVITY: City Council workshop study session and public hearing to review/adopt budget (4:30 p.m., City Hall Council Chambers)
RESPONSIBILITY: Special City Council Meeting (if budget not adopted on May 19)
NOTE: Scheduled dates for City Council budget introduction, review and public hearings are tentative and are subject to change.
Source:
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
FISCAL YEAR 2011/2012
BUDGET CALENDAR
ADDENDUM:
CARMEL‐BY‐THE‐SEA
DRAFT BUDGET QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
FISCAL YEARS 2010/2011 THROUGH 2012/2013
CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
CALIFORNIA
ADOPTED BUDGET
FISCAL YEAR 2010/11 AND ESTIMATED THROUGH 2012/13
3 comments:
Whether it is the interim city administrator or the permanent city administrator, the city needs a professional to examine the city's departments and costs and develop a balanced budget. The city administrator's Q & A worksheet did not adequately answer many questions. For example, he did not answer why the city needs 21 police officers. The police departement has been off the table for too long and we need an administrator who looks at every department and determines what is really needed in our community compared to what we have. I believe by cutting the police department by attrition to a smaller number of officers and corresponding smaller fraction of the annual budget Carmelites would not see a negative impact on service. The bottom line is the community needs to have a competent, professional city administrator manage the budget, not the micromanaging mayor and city council.
Another reason for a professional city administrator to actually do the budget is to end the silly notion that the community can only accomplish projects if grant funds are obtained. We should commit general fund revenue to community projects by putting revenues in a reserve fund for the particular project and when enough funds have accrued in the designated reserve fund, go through the public review process, put the project out to bid, select the contractor, and get the project done.
To realize its' capital goals, the CUSD had to pass a bond, which it easily did in 2005 when the money was still flowing. It seems to me that a capital projects bond, plus grants and private fundraising, plus general revenue- all of these might be required to get the larger projects done, especially in the current economic environment.
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