Hi, as the City council and leadership collaborate to prepare the FY26 budget, I wish to encourage and support your efforts towards developing lasting solutions to close the City's budget gaps -- simply cutting services and cutting staffing is not a sufficient or long term solution. Closer management and control of known overspending areas, and also more efforts into collecting revenue due, and in developing new revenue sources -- ALL are needed.
Let’s break the cycle of deficits by tackling the main causes of overspending. I urge for city council to:
1. Create an action plan to fully comply with all city auditor recommendations on overtime management by June 30, 2026.
2. Create an action plan to implement full civilianization of all previously approved positions by June 30, 2026, so officers can be freed up for crime prevention instead of doing administrative functions and accruing more overtime.
• The City should also immediately implement the special revenue project for the landlord tax audit.
Don’t balance the budget on the sacrifice of workers by prolonging the problem.
Implement these commonsense solutions now.
Thank you.
Hi, as the City council and leadership collaborate to prepare the FY26 budget, I wish to encourage and support your efforts towards developing lasting solutions to close the City's budget gaps -- simply cutting services and cutting staffing is not a sufficient or long term solution. Closer management and control of known overspending areas, and also more efforts into collecting revenue due, and in developing new revenue sources -- ALL are needed.
Let’s break the cycle of deficits by tackling the main causes of overspending. I urge for city council to:
1. Create an action plan to fully comply with all city auditor recommendations on overtime management by June 30, 2026.
2. Create an action plan to implement full civilianization of all previously approved positions by June 30, 2026, so officers can be freed up for crime prevention instead of doing administrative functions and accruing more overtime.
• The City should also immediately implement the special revenue project for the landlord tax audit.
Don’t balance the budget on the sacrifice of workers by prolonging the problem.
Implement these commonsense solutions now.
Thank you.