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Motions
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.
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.
6. Motion: to eliminate the 12.5 FTE’s which are currently vacant and unfunded.
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.
9. Motion: that administration is directed to seek to have BITV use PEG dollars for wireless audio equipment
improvement in the chamber.
10. Motion: to accept the recommendations under the PCD professional services; (2030 consultants, planning
commission support and budget printing graphics reductions.
12. Motion: to reduce the public works budget by 50K for gravel road grading and 35K for city hall landscaping.
13. Motion: that the Crystal Reports consulting budget be reduced from 25K to 12K.
14. Motion: to reduce the current General Government budget by 12K for replacement of phone line service
provider.
15. Motion: to reduce the line item outside legal services, excluding the portion for collective bargaining, to 100K.
16. Motion: that the budget for HHHS human service element implementation be reduced by 5.88% ($7481.00) as
suggested by the HHHS organization.
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.
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.
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.
19. Motion: to have the 23K for the Ferncliff permit fees to be funded thru the Housing Trust Fund.
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
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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.
22. Motion: to transfer the Westsound Wildlife Shelter line item from the community services contracts to general
government.
23. Motion: to delete line item for ABC/Land Trust environmental conference in the amount of $1,350.
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.
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.
26. Motion: [Affordable Housing Fund] to not transfer the additional $50,000 this year.
By: Councilmember Hytopoulos
Second: Councilmember Peters
Carried: 6-0