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PROPOSED REDUCTIONS 3/4/2010 2010 Budget

Staffing Salary Benefits 35% total tax% tax $ utility % utility $


City Engineer - eliminate 105,660.00 36,981.00 142,641.00 30% 42,792.30 70% 99,848.70
PW Director - Hold 112,296.00 39,303.60 151,599.60 70% 106,119.72 30% 45,479.88
Deputy Police Chief - eliminate 110,952.00 38,833.20 149,785.20 100% 149,785.20 0% -
Lieutenant - eliminate 85,000.00 29,750.00 114,750.00 100% 114,750.00 0% -
Captain - add (90,000.00) (31,500.00) (121,500.00) 100% (121,500.00) 0% -
IT Director - eliminate ** 118,320.00 41,412.00 159,732.00 70% 111,812.40 30% 47,919.60
IT Manager - add (107,568.00) (37,648.80) (145,216.80) 70% (101,651.76) 30% (43,565.04)
HR Administrator - hold 87,336.00 30,567.60 117,903.60 80% 94,322.88 20% 23,580.72
Water Resources Program Mgr 83,352.00 29,173.20 112,525.20 10% 11,252.52 90% 101,272.68
505,348.00 176,871.80 682,219.80 407,683.26 274,536.54
** reduction includes 4% deferred comp not paid to managers 80,000.00 80% schedules
23,625.00 defer shoreline assoc
tax 511,308.26
Community Services Contracts
HHHS 7,481.00
Housing Fund Transfer from Gen Fund 150,000.00
Public Art (20,000.00)
KEDA 5,000.00
ABC/BILT 1,350.00
BIDA 5,000.00
BITV (actual savings) 49,859.00
198,690.00
Professional Services
Outside Legal Services 50,000.00
2030 Consultants 48,300.00
Planning Commission support 8,000.00
Crystal Reports 13,000.00
Budget Printing/Graphics 5,500.00
124,800.00
Intergovernmental
Knotweed Eradication 10,000.00
Fire Prevention 73,075.00
83,075.00
Proposed Public Works
Gravel Road Grading 50,000.00
City Hall Landscaping 35,000.00
85,000.00
Proposed IT
Replace phone line service provider 12,000.00
Undefined reductions 10,000.00
22,000.00
Summary of proposed cuts
total tax supported labor 511,308.26
total Community Services 198,690.00
total PCD prof svcs 124,800.00
total Intergovernmental 83,075.00
total PW 85,000.00
total IT 22,000.00
Total tax supported cuts 1,024,873.26
SUMMARY
total tax supported cuts 1,024,873.26
total utility supported labor 274,536.54
$ 1,299,409.80
Special City Council Budget Workshop
March 3, 2010

Motions

1. Motion: to eliminate the position of deputy police chief.

By: Councilmember Hytopoulos


Second: Councilmember Franz
Carried: 6-0

2. Motion: that administration will take the deputy planning director, the city engineer and the public works
director and come back to council with a proposal for how the work from those 3 positions could be done in two
positions.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Peters
Carried: 6-0

3. Motion: to eliminate a lieutenant position in the police department.

By: Councilmember Hytopoulos


Second: Councilmember Lester
Carried: 6-0

4. Motion: to create a captain position in the police department.

By: Councilmember Hytopoulos


Second: Councilmember Brackett
Carried: 6-0

5. Motion: to consolidate the IT department with Finance and covert the director position in IT to a manager
position and ask administration to bring forward proposed cuts up to 10% that would result in the efficiencies
and the reduction in costs of running the IT department under finance; but give the administration the flexibility
about which department is the best to house IT under.

By: Councilmember Franz


Second: Councilmember Hytopoulos
Carried: 5-1 (Councilmember Peters)

6. Motion: to eliminate the 12.5 FTE’s which are currently vacant and unfunded.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Brackett
Carried: 6-0

7. Motion: to request administration to achieve 80K in salary reductions thru voluntary or collectively bargained
means while preserving 100% benefit coverage for volunteers or effected employees.
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By: Councilmember Peters
Second: Councilmember Hytopoulos
Carried: 5-1 (Councilmember Brackett)

8. Motion: to accept the cost savings of deferring the hiring of a shoreline associate (starting date) until April 1 or
after.

By: Councilmember Franz


Second: Councilmember Lester
Carried: 6-0

9. Motion: that administration is directed to seek to have BITV use PEG dollars for wireless audio equipment
improvement in the chamber.

By: Councilmember Peters


Second: Councilmember Brackett
Carried: 6-0

10. Motion: to accept the recommendations under the PCD professional services; (2030 consultants, planning
commission support and budget printing graphics reductions.

By: Councilmember Franz


Second: Councilmember Brackett
Carried: 6-0

11. Motion: to reducing the fire prevention line item by $73,075.00.

By: Councilmember Franz


Second: Councilmember Lester
Carried: 6-0

12. Motion: to reduce the public works budget by 50K for gravel road grading and 35K for city hall landscaping.

By: Councilmember Franz


Second: Councilmember Brackett
Carried: 6-0

13. Motion: that the Crystal Reports consulting budget be reduced from 25K to 12K.

By: Councilmember Peters


Second: Councilmember Franz
Carried: 6-0

14. Motion: to reduce the current General Government budget by 12K for replacement of phone line service
provider.

By: Councilmember Franz


Second: Councilmember Brackett
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Carried: 6-0

15. Motion: to reduce the line item outside legal services, excluding the portion for collective bargaining, to 100K.

By: Councilmember Franz


Second: Councilmember Lester
Carried: 5-1 (Councilmember Peters)

16. Motion: that the budget for HHHS human service element implementation be reduced by 5.88% ($7481.00) as
suggested by the HHHS organization.

By: Councilmember Peters


Second: Councilmember Franz

Amended Motion: …and to ask the administration to work with BIAHC and HHHS and come back to the council
with a proposal to discuss the feasibility of moving some or all of their administrative operations in to city hall by
May 1.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Franz
Carried: 6-0

17. Motion: that the budget amount of 100K that was designated for the housing trust fund for the annual grant
cycle be eliminated in 2010.

By: Councilmember Peters


Second: Councilmember Franz
Carried: 6-0

18. Motion: that the 46K amount for support of permitting for the Ferncliff project be reduced to 23K to reflect the
latest estimate of the timing of the project.

By: Councilmember Peters


Second: Councilmember Lester
Carried: 6-0

19. Motion: to have the 23K for the Ferncliff permit fees to be funded thru the Housing Trust Fund.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Lester
Carried: 5-1 (Councilmember Peters)

20. Motion: to suspend inflows to the arts fund until we come up with a fix; we increase the outflows by the
amount need to fix the problem the organization is facing; and restrict them to previously encumbered funds
and set up a task force or working group to bring forward a proposal for making sure that when there is a
restricted fund, all the other fixes that are need are completed. A proposal will be brought to the council by July
1.

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By: Mayor Scales
Second: Councilmember Peters
Carried: 5-1

21. Motion: to reduce the amount for the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance membership from gold to silver
and reduce the amount from $7,500 by $5,000 to $2,500 and to move this line item out of community services
contracts section of the budget and into the intergovernmental.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Hytopoulos
Carried: 5-1 (Councilmember Peters)

22. Motion: to transfer the Westsound Wildlife Shelter line item from the community services contracts to general
government.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Hytopoulos
Carried: 6-0

23. Motion: to delete line item for ABC/Land Trust environmental conference in the amount of $1,350.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Peters
Carried: 5-0 (Councilmember Hytopoulos recused herself)

24. Motion: to reduce the Bainbridge Island Downtown Association budget from $29,500 by $5,000 to $24,500 and
the $5,000 is for the $4,000 operation subsidy and the $1000 concierge tour.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Hytopoulos
Carried 4-2

25. Motion: Mayor Scales moved for the Chamber of Commerce to remove the $6,000 line item for the tourism
kiosk. Councilmember Bracket seconded the motion. The motion failed 2-4.

By: Mayor Scales


Second: Councilmember Brackett
Failed: 2-4

26. Motion: [Affordable Housing Fund] to not transfer the additional $50,000 this year.
By: Councilmember Hytopoulos
Second: Councilmember Peters
Carried: 6-0

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