Balanced Budget
Working Group
LONG TERM FINANCIAL POLICY AUDIT
SUBCOMMIT TEE
JUNE 12, 2025
ALAN ALTON
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Mission
Work collaboratively,
transparently, and objectively
to correct the City’s General
Fund structural deficit, and
create long-term fiscal
sustainability
2 Working Group Structure
3 Working Group created by City Manager
Size of Group at City Manager Discretion
Representatives from Labor, Community and City Staff
(Finance, Executive Staff, City Manager’s Office)
Application Process
Expenditure
Analysis
4 Expenditure
Growth – labor,
pensions,
services and
supplies,
utilities
Growth of FTEs
by Department
Changes in
department
share of General
Fund
Programs added
or changed over
last 10 years
•InRESPONSE,
Homeless Funding,
others
Revenue
Analysis
5 Sales Tax
• Reauthorize half-cent general sales
tax (Measure Q)
• Increase to one cent
Other Taxes or Fees
• UUT modernization
• Fees for service
Timing and other factors
Potential
Recommendations
6 Efficiencies within departments or
organization
Equitable approaches to budget reductions
Process improvements
Engagement with stakeholders
7 Questions
and
Discussion