Budget Committee January 09, 2023   1/9/2023

At this time I'll ask the clerk to call the roll to verify the presence of a quorum.

Vita.

Present.

Goodman.

Present.

Chuktay?

Present.

Chair Koski?

Present.

There are nine members present.

Welcome.

And so at that point, departments will, if they do not have the discretionary budget to manage these increases via promotion and reclassification, they can ask for additional spending through the budget process.

1.5.5 Overtime.

Just to make sure that the finance department knows about all grant applications that are moving forward at the city.

I don't know if Chair Koski, when we're doing questions, because there's a couple of us in stack and you've moved ahead of one that I had and I know Council Member Payne is in queue.

Yes, I thought I'd let her get through it, but if you guys want to go back, how many more pages do you have here?

Let's see, we're on 4.5.1.

Yeah, so if we can just get through, then we'll go back to pain and then you, that's right?

Thank you.

Okay, go ahead.

We're just adding this bit about the timing around reprogramming and year-end closeout so that it aligns with requirements from the federal government.

And let's see, in queue we have Councilmember Payne, and I know he wants to go back to 1.5 for your slides there.

I'm just wondering if you could help me kind of think through that.

and then we that's that is the feedback loop that will get put in do we need to increase overtime and that has happened with the fire department the last couple of years where there has been you know unforeseen circumstances around COVID or around their class getting started late because of COVID and all that stuff and we have you know said okay you've overspent your budget the last couple years there's no mystery it's because of overtime spending let's take a look at your at your budgets moving forward so just as a kind of clarifying follow-up you're saying you know

what we ought to do is kind of look at the reality of how much FTE capacity is impacted by something like COVID and we should actually be in our annual budgeting process increasing the total FTE count for that department to avoid overtime or like how should we best consider absorbing those uncertain things but ensuring that we don't lose services.

That's kind of the question that we're in right now because of the unprecedented times.

Next, we have Councilmember Wanze.

how this could play out in practice or, you know, preferences around that.

But that sounds good to me.

And next we have customer beta.

Will this come before the Council as updates are made and how often?

can absolutely discuss them and answer questions as needed.

Thank you.

I am not seeing any further questions, so I will move approval of the financial policies and ask the clerk to call the roll.

Councilmember Payne?

Aye.

Goodman?

Aye.

Chiktai?

Aye.

Vice President Palmisano?

Aye.

Chair Koski?

Aye.

There are 10 ayes.

Thank you everyone.