5.1 2010 Budget CommentsCITY OF SALINA
REQUEST FOR CITY COMMISSION ACTION DATE TIME
08/03/2009
AGENDA SECTION ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT: APPROVED FOR
NO: 5 AGENDA:
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
ITEM
NO. 1
BY:
BY: Rod Franz
Page 1
ITEM:
Take comments on the 2010 Budget proposal.
BACKGROUND:
This is time set aside to hear comments on the 2010 budget proposal. This is an informal hearing,
designed to afford citizens additional opportunity to comment prior to the formally scheduled hearing.
The formal budget proposal is available on the City’s website at www.salina-ks.gov or can be obtained
by contacting the City Clerk’s office. The budget proposal contemplates total expenditures of
$69,792,104. This will require a tax levy of 27.396 mills, compared to last year’s levy of 25.886 mills,
despite no growth in General Fund budgets.
The increase in mill levy is made necessary by a number of things:
1. The loss of personal property value by exemption of Business equipment from the tax rolls,
2. Addition of a fourth route on the CityGo public transit system,
3. Amounts required to retire previously issued bonds for our capital improvement program,
4. Increased tax delinquency rates,
5. Loss in Investment Income,
6. No growth in sales taxes.
Partially offsetting these pressures is a decline in the price of fuel compared to last year, as well as a
reduction in anticipated overtime expense.
The budget proposal continues, for a second year, no cost of living adjustment for City employees,
and further freezes all salaries (eliminates merit considerations).
There are a number of other changes. These can best be reviewed in the City Manager’s transmittal
letter, located at the beginning of the budget proposal.
The formal budget hearing is scheduled for Augus t 10, 2009, and formal adoption is scheduled for
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August 17.
FISCAL NOTE:
None
CONFORMANCE WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN:
NA
COMMISSION ACTION:
Receive any comments that might be made.