Transcript Department Name - Pasadena, California

Planning and Community Development
Department
FY 2015 Operating Budget
June 2, 2014
Planning and Community Development
FY 2015 Sources and Uses
• FY 2015 Sources - $12.968 million
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General Fund - $7.199 million
Building Services Fund- $5.279 million
Capital Public Art Fund- $0.166 million
Downtown Cultural Trust Fund- $0.324 million
• FY 2015 Uses - $12.968 million
> Personnel - $9.120 million
> Services/Supplies - $2.038 million
> IS charges - $1.810 million
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Planning and Community Development
Budget History By Division or Major Budget Area
FY 2013
Actual
FY 2014
Revised
FY 2015
Recommended
Administration
$1.002 million
$1.552 million
$1.620 million
Cultural Affairs
$0.828 million
$0.852 million
$0.855 million
Planning
$4.116 million
$5.030 million
$5.345 million
Building & Safety
$3.674 million
$4.754 million
$5.148 million
*Code Compliance
$1.614 million
$0
$0
Division
*Code Compliance no longer a separate Division. Functions reassigned to Building and Safety and Planning.
Total
$11.234 million
$12.188 million
$12.968 million
FTEs
70.75
74.75
76.75
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Planning and Community Development
Significant Changes From FY 2014 Budget
• General Fund and Building Fund:
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Reduction of $383,000 to the General Fund from position and organizational changes, cuts in
contract services and materials and supplies.
$200,000 of this General Fund savings from long range planning work that will be funded
through the Building Fund (General Plan Maintenance Fee) and no longer from the General
Fund.
$500,000 is proposed from the Building Fund (General Plan Maintenance Fee) for FY 2015
($200,000 for the General Plan Update and $300,000 for the long range planning work
program).
$400,000 in additional Contract Services are proposed from the Building Fund to supplement
building permit related plan check and inspection services to respond to the increase in permit
activity.
The Building Fund is projected to have a surplus of approximately $2.7 million dollars at the
beginning of FY 2015. This is a dramatic turnaround from the fund deficit of $2.8 million in FY
2011.
• Personnel: Net +2.0 FTE’s
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Through organizational changes, 2.0 vacant FTE’s were eliminated and replaced with 4.0 new
FTE’s.
Staffing resources will provide for continued long range planning work, implementing changes to
the Development Review Process, and in-house plan check for smaller projects.
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Planning and Community Development
FY 2015 Key Issues and Strategies
Key Work Program Components
> FY 2015 Long Range Work Program:
 Certify the General Plan EIR and adopt the Land Use and Mobility Elements.
 Complete Transit Oriented Development revisions.
 Complete code amendment for Recycling Centers.
 Complete the Housing Element implementation process.
 Complete the Lincoln Avenue Corridor Parking Study.
 Complete the Climate Action Plan.
 Updates to the Zoning Code, Specific Plans and the Design Guidelines delayed
and become a multi-year effort (up to 10 years) as funding becomes available.
> Develop and adopt new Environmental Administrative Procedures
and local CEQA Guidelines.
> Implement the recently adopted Public Art Master Plan
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Planning and Community Development
FY 2015 Key Issues and Strategies
Key Work Program Components
> Development Review Process Improvements:
 Complete the Interdepartmental Review Team (IRT) strategic plan that identifies
changes to the process.
 Improve customer service through an expanded use of technology (hand held
devices for field positions, updating the department website etc.).
 Implement regular monitoring and reporting on meeting turnaround times for plan
check and entitlement processing.
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