TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Steve S. Charelian, Finance Director
Libby Bretthauer, Financial Services Manager
Julie Bondarchuk, Financial Controller
Marcelo Serrano, Budget & Financial Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Conduct Public Hearing and Consideration of Resolutions Adopting the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Operating Budget and the Gann Appropriations Limit (Finance Director Charelian).
(Estimated Time: 15 Mins.)
A) CONDUCT PUBLIC HEARING
B) ADOPT RESOLUTION NOS. 23-0067 AND 23-0068
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council: (1) Conduct a public hearing; (2) Adopt Resolution No. 23-0067 adopting the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-2024 Operating Budget and authorizing the City Manager to take certain personnel-related actions; and (3) and Adopt Resolution No. 23-0068 establishing the Gann appropriation limit for FY 2023-2024.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
With the passage of Resolution No. 23-0067, the FY 2023-2024 Budget will be adopted, as modified, for the fiscal year commencing on July 1, 2023.
The FY 2023-2024 Budget includes revenues of $180,042,732 and expenditures totaling $188,627,452 across all funds. The General Fund is structurally balanced with revenues of $93,300,981 and expenditures of $92,825,964 resulting in a projected year-end surplus of $475,017. The FY 2023-2024 Budget, as amended for budget adoption, projects a General Fund balance of $26.6 million on June 30, 2024, after transfers to and from other funds. Within this total fund balance, the City's Financial Policy reserve is 20% of operating expenditures, or $18.6 million in FY 2023-2024, which is greater than the Government Finance Officers' Association (GFOA) recommendation of "no less than two months (17%) of regular general fund operating revenues or regular general fund operating expenditures." Additionally, the City Council has set aside $4.0 milli...
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