2010-11-03 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. O’HARA: Well that’s good because as I understand it, the allocation to each of the departments that comes out of the 50 to 60 percent of the revenues that come into property taxes. Is it by a percentage basis, more or less? MS. SAKO: It’s on a as need basis. Obviously the highest percentage of General Fund goes to Public Safety, Police, Fire, Prosecutors, and then the special fund, the special revenue funds such as sewer and solid waste can request subsidy assistance from the General Fund during the budget process. MS. O’HARA: So it, is that the case that a particular percentage is directed at say, Department of Environmental Management or Solid Waste? MS. SAKO: Right. We don’t have preset percentages. It’s as needed basis how they justify their budget. MS. NICHOLSON: Did any of you want to respond to the question that Gloria had? The open ended question. MR. SITKO: Outside of an improvement in the economy if you can arrange that. MR. TAKABA: You’re expecting revenues to go down? MR. SITKO: I’m unfortunately expecting it. I do know there going to be going down at leas two percent. I unfortunately have to wait till the end of the year before I can set what the assessed evaluation is going to be for the upcoming fiscal year. If I could see that far in advance I would probably even not be working here. But at this point I’m predicting about 8%. MR. TAKABA: 8%? This year was 5%? MR. SITKO: No, we went down 10% this year. MS. NICHOLSON: Well if you have any other comments that you think of after you’ve left, we would be happy to receive them. You can communicate through Kathy’s Office. So, if anything comes to mind and thought, I should have mentioned this, we would be more than anxious to hear what you have to say. So, thank you all for coming and speaking to us this morning and leaving us a little bit more informed about things and some more provocative questions for us to ponder. Thank you so much. Would you like to take a quick break? MS. O’HARA: I just wanted the chair to understand that I can’t stay much pass 12. Sorry. BREAK – 11:25 – 11:30 MS. NICHOLSON: Okay, we’re missing Bill, but I think we could probably go ahead and move ahead, because Eileen has to leave around noon. So we want to speed through this and not have a meeting like our last one that Kathy missed. Okay, so we 24