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STAFF REPORT JULY 1, 1993 PAGE THREE • • A budgeted new patrol officer($37,375) for the Police Department is the reason that 1994 expenditures are 7.50% above 1993 budgeted amounts. A secondary issue is the need to increase the hours of the Clerk-Typist from 25 to 30 hours per week at a cost of $4,196 annually. The Police Chief requested an annual contribution of $17,000 for the Youth Service Bureau, however, staff rejected this since Council deleted this from the 1992 and 1993 Budgets.. --- -- • An issue in Central Services is whether the Sick Leave For Fitness Program should be continued. This program allows employees to use accumulated sick leave to offset the cost of their membership at a health or exercise facility; to a maximum of $75 per month. Amounts paid are in addition to salary and fringe benefit costs. The estimated cost of this popular employee benefit is $8,000 per year. • The Maintenance Garage budget has an increase of 17.43% for 1994. The amounts budgeted are an attempt to budget realistically the actual expenses incurred over the past three years during which actual expenditures exceeded budgeted amounts for repairs to the City's vehicles and equipment. It is extremely difficult to budget for this Department as repairs necessitated by breakdowns is impossible to predict • An issue in the Street Department is expenditures for street lighting. The street light utility is scheduled to sunset per the enabling ordinance at year end 1993. Estimated street lighting expenditures of $61,873 would have to be added to the Street Department's 1994 budget should the utility not be reenacted for 1994 and future years. • The Parks & Recreation Director believes that the 1993 budget's allocation of the Program Supervisor's salary and fringe benefits of 80% Recreation Activity Fund - 20% General Fund has required pricing of recreation programs beyond that which the market will support. The Director proposes that the Recreation budget of the General Fund pay 30% for 1994. The additional cost to the General Fund is $4,228. • Expenses for repairs, due to breakdowns of equipment, and vandalism, in City parks and for Parks maintenance equipment is impossible to accurately predict. The 1994 Parks budget is an attempt to make allowance for these expenditures, based upon actual expenditures during the past three years.