City of San Pablo
Future City-Initiated Funding Mechanisms for Youth
Programs and/or Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure (REVISED)
City Council Review
April 4, 2022
Future City-Initiated Funding Mechanisms for Youth Programs and/or Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure FY 2021-23 Council Priority Workplan: (Reso. No. #2020-137; 11/02/20) ❖ Major Policy Goal: Build a Healthy Community
Policy #100.19: Explore feasibility of developing a new college preparatory and workforce development program with analysis of future City-initiated funding mechanisms for eligible San Pablo students. 2021 Year-End Annual City Survey Results: (Presented at City Council Meeting on February 7, 2022) FIGURE 15: Two (2) Funding Mechanisms were reviewed and resulted in the ranking of future City- initiated funding mechanisms in the following sequential order (with exception of Rank #3), as follows:
• Rank #1: Youth-Oriented College Preparatory, Workforce Development & Scholarship Program • Rank #2: Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure
_________________________________________________________________________________ • Rank #3: Pay slightly higher garbage rates to provide additional trash removal services* (*Note: Rank #3 proposed measure is not viable as a potential local tax measure at this time)
Figure 15
San Pablo Community Survey
Year-end December 2021
Question 15.0: When considering asking San Pablo residents to support any funding mechanism intended to enhance the quality of life for all local residents, difficult choices must be made by City officials. Three new funding measures are presently under consideration. Please tell me your priority (1st, 2nd, 3rd) for these mechanisms
Authorize a funding mechanism to develop
Youth-oriented College
Preparatory, Workforce
Development & Scholarship
Program
Support modest increase in City’s sales tax to
build infrastructure for
Municipal Broadband
Pay slightly higher garbage rates
to provide additional trash
removal services
Support for…
Rank-order for
Three Funding Mechanisms
Top + Second Priority
37 19
48 14
48 24
0 20 40 60 80 100
Percent
72 67
51 Future City-Initiated Funding Mechanisms for Youth Programs and/or Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure Previous City Council Action: Future Funding Mechanisms Resolution #2016-139 (03/14/16) MARCH 14, 2016 CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
❖ Authorize the City Council to accept the summary findings and results of the 2016 Annual Community Survey from SRI, Inc.; and
❖ Authorize the City Manager to proceed with prioritization and planning for the following possible City-initiated potential funding mechanisms for further policy consideration and evaluation by the City Council in sequential order, as follows:
• Rank #1: Municipal Broadband Fiber Optic Project Funding Mechanism (O&M Annual Costs) • Rank #2: Measure Q Sales Tax Measure Funding Mechanism (Extension beyond 2022) • Rank #3: Childhood Obesity Prevention Funding Mechanism Note: As a result of this prioritization of potential local funding mechanisms by adopted Resolution, Rank #1 and #3 potential funding measures noted above were later determined by the City Council not to be viable local tax measures for the local electorate at that time. However, Rank #2 potential funding measure resulted in the Measure Q Sales Tax Extension (Measure S) which was successfully adopted by 79.19% local voter support on the City municipal ballot on November 3, 2020.
Future City-Initiated Funding Mechanisms for Youth Programs and/or Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure CITY CONCERN: FUTURE STATE-WIDE RESTRICTIONS ON FUTURE LOCAL FUNDING MEASURES State-wide Ballot Initiative: The Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act (State Initiative No. #AG21-0042A1) Filed with State Attorney General’s Office in December 2021.
Petition/Signature Deadline: April 29, 2022 to qualify for November 2022 State-wide ballot. If passed by voters state-wide, the initiative could impact the ability of local cities in funding local tax measures, as follows:
• Impose a new CA Constitutional Amendment on all government proposed tax initiatives requiring a 2/3rds voting threshold; and
• Lower annual state and local revenues, potentially substantially lower, depending on future actions of the Legislature, local governing bodies, voters, and the courts; and • Impacts nearly $1.5B in local government revenues collectively for local cities and counties; and • Taxes adopted after Jan. 1, 2022, that do not comply with the new rules, are void unless reenacted; and • New taxes can be imposed only for a specific time period. • League of CA Cities (Cal-Cities) State-wide Coalition is OPPOSED to this initiative ❖ MARCH 7, 2022 CITY COUNCIL ACTION: 5-0 VOTE; UNANIMOUSLY OPPOSSED (CC Reso. No. #2022-036)
Future City-Initiated Funding Mechanisms for Youth Programs and/or Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure BFLSC Recommendation to the City Council: (Recommendation Approved 03/10/22) Authorize the City Council to accept the summary findings and results of the 2021 Annual Community Survey from SRI, Inc. (Completed/; Received on 02/07/21); and ❖ Authorize the City Manager to present to the City Council for its consideration information about the prioritization and planning for the following possible City-initiated funding mechanisms in sequential order, as follows:
NEXT STEPS TO INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
1. Prepare a City Council Resolution for formal consideration to approve ranking on future funding mechanisms identified under Figure 15 from the 2021 Annual City Survey; and
• Rank #1: Youth-Oriented College Preparatory, Workforce Development & Scholarship Program • Rank #2: Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure
2. CMO work in partnership with community outreach consultant, Strategy Research Institute, Inc. (SRI) to commission additional surveys to determine threshold to pay, actual mechanism for tax measure, timeline for measure on local City municipal ballot, use of FY 2022-23 GF budget resources, etc.
Future City-Initiated Funding Mechanisms for Youth Programs and/or Municipal Broadband/Fiber Infrastructure QUESTIONS?