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CITY COUNCIL POLICY STATEMENT 85 FISCAL 1985-1986 Approved June 24, 1985 1. Budget must give due consideration to all estimated increases in tax base, reflect the anticipated fund balance at beginning of 1985-1986 fiscal year, and the effect of all other tax and service sources of revenue. Then constraint of expenditures to fall within the available income parameters. We should avoid any raise in property tax. This guideline should set the tenor of the budget process. 2. The City Manager should move forward to implement recommendations of the LWFW Management surveYi starting with image. Progress in imple- mentation is mandatory. 3. City Manager must review staff, in toto, with regard to necessity, productivity, attitude and logistic creativity. Any negative indications should be dealt with at once. Do we have the best people available? That should be the bottom line question. 4. The City Manager must review all his obligations to Council as dictated by Charter, operational necessity, and common sense. He must include in this consideration all the caveats that are in the Charter. He should report to Council at this fiscal year's end. 5. The City Manager should review, critically, all budget requests as to need and benefits, both long and short term. However, he must make known all requests to Council. No request should be arbitrarily denied without Council's knowledge. 6. The City Manager should continue and expand the policy of requiring new construction to pay for itself through Capital Recovery Fees. Impact on streets, parks, the library, etc. need to be addressed and methods for recovery should be investigated and brought to Council for dis- CUSSlon. 7. The City Manager should propose to Council (after examining costs, methods, and feasibility) a plan for the implementation of tax relief in the form of homestead and Old-Age exemptions. 8. The City Manager should continue to plan to maximize the expertise of Planning, Engineering, Public Works, Personnel and Finance to minimize fees paid to consultants and engineers. A cost-effectiveness analysis should be made to determine how much "in-house" work should be done. If certain expertise is not available should we acquire it? This should be the bottom line question. 9. The City Hanager should give Council a written report on his assessment of the state of the City government and action required, in his opinion to remedy the deficiencies. 10. The City Manager must cause methods to be set up to monitor and/or apprise sources of State and Federal funds that may be available for all purposes. Careful consideration must be given to the area of funds for social services. Stringent analysis of the needs of these agencles should be made as well.