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Community Services Budget Highlights
CHALLENGES
1. Energy Costs and Energy Consumption
2. Continue to Provide Quality Services to
a Growing Community
3. Growth in Service Demands for Solid
Waste Management
4. Revenues
5. Efficiency and Effectiveness to control
costs
6. Organizational Plan Implementation
7. Service Level Adjustments Options
Community Services Budget Highlights
CHALLENGE
Energy Costs and Energy Consumption
RESPONSE
1. Honeywell Project Completed and
monitoring underway.
2. Optimization Study of Magna Operations
3. Analysis of shift to Spot Market for
electricity and time shifting consumption
4. Rodan load shifting program for Magna
5. Corporate Energy Reduction Team
Community Services Budget Highlights
CHALLENGE
Continue to Provide Quality Service Levels
to a growing Community
RESPONSE
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Tender for contractor to maintain Regional
boulevards so staff can concentrate on parks
(proposed budget under growth category)
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Review park areas for naturalization with
public input
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Optimize facility utilization (see service level
options)
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Winter Maintenance Review
recommendations
Community Services Budget Highlights
CHALLENGE
Growth in Service Demands in Solid Waste
Management including Participation
Rates/Cost for SSO and Yard Waste
RESPONSE
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Renewed Promotion of Composting Bins
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Report on Options for bag limits for
garbage in January
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Higher emphasis on enforcement of Bag
Limits
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Optimize 3 stream collection system on
trails to reduce costs
Community Services Budget Highlights
CHALLENGE
Revenue
RESPONSE
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Service Pricing Policy for sports facilities in year 2
of 5 year plan and Non Resident Fees Policy
implemented
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User Fee increase totaled 12% over 2008 forecasts
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Rationalize revenue projections for RAS and Facility
rentals with historical averages.
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Recreation & Culture stretch target for ice rentals
($90,000).
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Increase Eng. Fees for developers from 2 to 2.75%
of cost of subdivision services.
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Charge additional Eng. Fees for developments
exceeding normal completion timeframes.
Community Services Budget Highlights
CHALLENGE
Efficiency and Effectiveness to control costs
RESPONSE
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Staff call out and overtime policies
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Sidewalk Snowplowing shift to regular
hours service (generally 7:00 am)
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Operations Center Project Manager inhouse secondment
Community Services Budget Highlights
CHALLENGE
Organizational Plan Efficiency
Implementation
RESPONSE
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One Layer of Management eliminated
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Centralized Capital Projects Team created
and Manager to be hired early in 2009
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Financing for Engineering Services
rationalized between Capital project
financing and Developer fees
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Plan being implemented within existing
Community Services Budget
Community Services Budget Highlights
Service Levels Options
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Close Community Centre to public and provide
minimum maintenance (Net Savings $30,000)
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RJT Complex open at 3 pm on Tues. and Thurs.
from Sept. to June. Where possible programs
shifted (Net Savings $58,000)
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RJT Complex open at 4 pm on every weekday from
September to June. Where possible Programs
shifted to other facilities (Net Savings $145,000)
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Close Rogers Wading Pool (Net Savings $19,000)
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Close Lions Rink (Net Savings $67,000)
Note: Details and Impact Assessment available