Transcript Committee on Public Safety Funding/Planning/Sustainability

Committee on Public Safety
Funding/Planning/Sustainability
City of Saginaw
Darnell Earley, ICMA-CM, MPA
City Manager
Timothy Morales
Deputy City Manager/CFO
Phil Ludos
Assistant City Manager/Public Safety
April 09, 2012
Committee
D/Sgt. Brent VanderHaar, COAM Leadership Representative
Sgt. Michael East, COAM Membership Representative
Off. Doug Wortley, POAM Leadership Representative
Off. LaMar Kashat, POAM Membership Representative
Cap. Thomas Raines, IAFF Leadership Representative
Fire. Mike Gray, IAFF Membership Representative
Jimmie Greene, Public Representative
Bishop Cistone, Public Representaive
Herb Spence, Business Representative
Bob Vandeventer, Business Representative
John Kunitzer, Business Representative
Carol Cottrell, Former Mayor
Mike Thomas, County Prosecutor
Hon. Terry Clark, District Court Judge
Committee, (cont’d)
Bill Scharffe, Neighborhood Association Representative
Larry Campbell, Neighborhood Association Representative
Dennis Browning, Council Representative
Introduction
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In 2007, the City Council authorized an outside
independent consulting firm (the International
City/County Management Association/ICMA) to
examine the delivery of public safety (police/fire)
services in the city. Study cost was paid by grant
sponsoring agency.
Also, in 2010 the public consulting firm Plante & Moran
was enlisted to examine all city service delivery systems
except fire.
The purpose for these studies was to gain the objective,
independent analysis from a third party review to form
the basis for necessary reforms to existing services,
based upon the city’s continuing decline in revenues
and increasing costs.
Goals of the Committee
• Review the budget and organizational structures
and financing issues of police and fire departments
based upon the studies, conducted.
• After conducting its own fact-finding, reviewing
data, and considering public safety models, make a
recommendation on a public safety model to the
city manager and city council without a reduction in
the quality of police/fire services.
• Make a determination whether a more cost
efficient method of service delivery could be
implemented. Status quo operations are not
sustainable.
Goals of the Committee, (cont’d)
• Meet no more than (5) five times from April of 2012 to
September of 2012.
• Have recommendations available for implementation no
later than the end of first quarter Fiscal Year 2013.
• Explore all options relative to providing excellent, cost
effective, managerially efficient and sustainable public
safety services.
• Examine specifically the high cost of funding police/fire
pensions.
• Get community buy-in for reforming public safety
services due to rising costs and declining revenues.
City of Saginaw
Community Public Safety - Police & Fire
Source: FY 2011 Audit
Fiscal Year 2011 Actual
General Fund Revenue
General Fund Expenditures:
Community Public Safety Police
Community Public Safety Fire
Transfer to Public Safety Millage
Total General Fund Allocation to CPS
Percent of Total General Fund
Public Safety Millage Fund Revenues
Public Safety Fund Expenditures:
CPS Police
CPS Fire
Total Public Safety Fund
$33,318,277
13,592,406 *Includes subsidies to police grants
9,101,445
1,171,748
23,865,599
72%
2,951,153
2,316,460
1,806,441
$4,122,901
Public Safety Fund
Revenues Under Expenditures (GF Subsidy) (1,171,748) *This is the transfer amount noted
Total Police (GF & PSF)
15,908,866
Total Fire (GF & PSF)
10,907,886
Combined General Fund
& Public Safety Fund
Compared to Total General Fund
$26,816,752
80.5%
Deliverables
• Sustainable, cost effective and efficient
public safety operation.
• Cross trained police officers that figure into
the fire suppression and organizational
operations.
• Identify opportunities for regional
collaboration based upon reforms.
• Agree on a reform measure for public
safety that strengthens the argument for
revisiting and eliminating the 1979 tax
caps.
Next Steps
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Committee organizational meeting- By April 18, 2012
Review consultant studies before first committee
meeting. Update studies as may be necessary.
Arrange visits or teleconferences with leadership of
other cities that have successfully integrated police and
fire services to some degree for fact-finding purposes.
Design public information strategy for keeping the
charge, progress or other pertinent issues regarding the
work of the committee in front of the public.
Questions?