1998/06/02 (2)ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA- CITY COUNCIL MINUTES,
June 2, 1998
The City Council of the City of Anaheim met in Special Session.
PRESENT:
PRESENT:
ABSENT:
PRESENT:
MAYOR: Tom Daly
COUNCIL MEMBERS: Shirley McCracken, Tom Tait, Bob Zemel (entered 2:25 p.m.)
Lou Lopez
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
CITY MANAGER: James Ruth
CITY ATTORNEY: Jack White
CITY CLERK: Leonora N. Sohl
ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER: Dave Morgan
DEPUTY CITY MANAGER: Tom Wood
FINANCE DIRECTOR: William Sweeney
RISK MANAGER: Tom Vance
Mayor Daly called the Special Meeting of June 2, 1998 to order at 2:15 P.M. for the purpose of a Budget
Workshop on the proposed 1998/99 City Budget. Special Meeting Notices were prepared and delivered
on May 29, 1998.
106: PUBLIC HEARING - CITY BUDGET: To consider the proposed 1998/99 Budget Plan.
FISCAL YEAR 1998/99 DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET WORKSHOP: City Manager, James Ruth. This
is a Public Hearing to review and adopt the City's 1998/99 Budget pursuant to City Charter Sections
1202, 1203 and 1204. The City Council has been provided the proposed budget document which has
been available since May 5, 1998 for public inspection. Following today's presentations and public
comments and questions will be heard at the 5:00 P.M. session and the Public Hearing subsequently
continued to Tuesday, June 9, 1998 at 2:00 P.M. and may, at Council's discretion, be continued to
subsequent dates but prior to July 1, 1998 and still meet Charter requirements.
He is pleased to present the proposed FY1998/99 Budget for consideration. He then briefed portions of
his transmittal letter to the Council dated May 5, 1998 contained in the City of Anaheim Budget
Document - Annual Budget 1998/99 Update (pages 4 through 7). For the third year, the Budget is a
balanced one without the requirement to use one-time monies or General Fund reserves even though the
Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) has not grown as anticipated. The proposed Budget has been
constructed based upon the five goals that the Council has identified as key to the City: (1) Ensure
Public Safety, (2) Build the Economy, (3) Enhance Neighborhoods and Community Services, (4)
Maximize Assets, (5) Maintain Infrastructure. Relative to ensuring Public Safety, the proposed budget
includes funding for six additional Police Officers.
The proposed City Budget for FY1998/99 totals $606,845,089 which represents a decrease of
$106,930,942 or approximately 15% from the adopted/adjusted budget. The proposed General Fund
budget for FY1998/99 totals $149,349,910 which represents an increase of $3,806,639 or about 2.6%
over the FY1997/98 adopted/adjusted budget. This is primarily due to a $1,831,435 increase in the
Police Department budget (mainly labor) and a $420,909 increase in the Fire Department budget as well
as increases in the Community Services budget for the new Downtown Comunity Center.
Before concluding his presentation, Mr. Ruth noted that the City's Budget Advisory Commission has
reviewed the proposed Budget and unanimously recommended it for Council consideration. He then
turned the presentation over to Bill Sweeney, Finance Director who will give an overview of the 1998/99
budget for Council consideration to be followed by departmental budget presentations.
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - CITY COUNCIL MINUTES, June 2, 1998
Mayor Daly announced that he had to leave the meeting for approximately 1/2 hour. He thereupon
turned the meeting over to Mayor Pm Tern Lopez, (2:35 p.m.)
Bill Sweeney, Finance Director. His overview presentation, supplemented by slides, briefed portions of
the material contained on pages 12 -25 of the Budget document (i.e., total City revenues and
expenditures by fund, full-time funded position comparisons, General Fund revenues, expenditures and
assumptions, a review of tax revenues - TOT, sales, business license and property tax, etc.) In
summary, he stated that the General Fund is balanced with no reliance on one-time monies or roseryes,
them is a very solid economy leading to strong recurring revenues with the only revenue source being a
liffle weak this year, the TOT. Them will be two years of fiscal constraint ahead making for a very
challenging pedod. It will be necessary to be guarded on the expense side for the next couple of years.
The long-term revenue outlook, however, is very favorable.
City Manager Ruth then introduced each department's budget presentation giving the location of each
budget in the Budget document.
The following Department Heads gave an overview of their Department's proposed budget, some
explaining their plans and objectives for the coming year and accomplishments in the past Fiscal Year.
Questions were also posed by Council Members during and at the conclusion of some of the
presentations which were answered by the respective Department Heads: (Several of the presentations
were supplemented by slides.)
Assistant City Manager, Dave Morgan - City Council and Administration - Budget Document, Pages 29 -
33. (Administration Budget includes, the City Manager's Office, Audit Division, Government and
Community Relations, Public Information, Risk Management and Fleet and Facility Maintenance).
During the presentation, Tom Wood, Deputy City Manager answered questions of the Council relating to
completion of the many construction projects especially in and around the resort area, concern over
which has been expressed by residents and visitors. Mr. Wood reported that the most significant
projects will be completed in the next 18 months with overall construction expected to be completed by
January 1,2001; Tom Vance, Risk Manager reported that relative to Workers Compensation (Anaheim's
costs being the lowest in the State), they save approximately 3.9 million dollars a year not including the
interest income. It is a comparison made of all cities in the State.
Lee Sohl, City Clerk - City Clerk's Office - Budget Document, Pages 36 and 37.
Jack White, City Attorney - City Attomey's Office - Budget Document, Pages 34 and 35.
He prefaced his presentation by noting that the Attorney's budget rapresents a 1.9% decrease from this
year's adjopted budget and further rapresents a continuing trend in budget reduction for the City
Attorney's Office over the last 10 years. It is 7.6% less than the 1989/90 budget. At the conclusion of his
presentation, Council Member Zemel asked for more exact figures on how much other departments
include in their budget(s) for major litigation affecting their departments which Mr. White guesstimated to
be approximately 1/2 million dollars.
ADJOURNMENT OF SPECIAL MEETING: Council Member Zemel moved to adjourn the Special
Meeting of June 2, 1998. Council Member McCracken seconded the motion. MOTION CARRIED.
(3:04 P.M.) (See continuation of the Budget Workshop - Regular Meeting of June 2, 1998 which was
convened at 3:04 P.M.).
LEONORA N. SOHL, CITY CLERK