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Pasadena City Council Set to Approve 2017 Budget Appropriations of $835.9 Million on Monday

Published on Monday, June 27, 2016 | 4:15 am
 

The Pasadena City Council is expected on Monday night to approve the City’s revised Fiscal Year 2017 budget recommendation submitted by Interim City Manager Steve Mermell.

The total budget appropriations for 2017 would be $835.9 million, which includes an operating budget of $714.2 million, Capital Improvement Programs appropriations of $64.6 million, and appropriations of $57.1 million for the city’s three operating companies: the Rose Bowl Operating Company, Pasadena Center Operating Company and Pasadena Community Access Corporation.

Up for decision Monday is a recommendation for the City Council to close the continuing public hearing heard since the budget was originally submitted last May 9 and adopt a resolution to pass the operating budget, with some recommended changes, along with a second recommendation to adopt a resolution that sets the amount to be transferred from the Light and Power Fund to the General Fund for 2017.

The City’s General Fund, considered the most important fund in that it provides for most basic city services, is recommended to be at $237.8 million, primarily composed of enhancements in the water, power and building services funds where corresponding revenues are available to offset the increases. The General Fund includes outlays for public safety, public works, arts and culture, parks and recreation.

The operating budget projects total city revenues over $868.6 million.

Since May 9, five joint meetings have been conducted by the City Council and its Finance Committee, all of them open public hearings, where the operating budget for each city department and affiliated agency was reviewed and discussed, and many questions and requests for information were posed by the City Council during the budget hearings.

Now incorporated into the budget for adoption are a few changes recommended by Interim City Manager Steve Mermell, resulting from all the budget reviews and considerations over the past several months.

These include the addition of 10 unfunded police officer FTEs (full-time equivalents) to the Pasadena Police Department, an additional $50,000 in General Fund to the Department of Planning and Community Development for a community-based organization to assist with minimum wage outreach, an additional $95,000 from the Cultural Trust Fund for the Rotating Art project, and the creation of one FTE or full-time position for Villa Parke by combining the existing 63 and 70 FTEs.

The rotating arts funds were unintentionally omitted from the Recommended Operating Budget and are necessary to provide replacement art for the upcoming rotation of the program.

On the recommendation to adopt a resolution for transferring part of the Light and Power Fund to the General Fund, the city’s Finance Department estimates the amount at $17,936,226, equivalent to 10 percent of the projected Annual Gross Electric Retail Income of $179,362,260 for 2017.

By law, the City Council is obligated to pass the budget before July 1.

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