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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO MEMORANDUM DATE: April 21, 2009 TO: Steve Hollister, City Manager FROM: Perry Carter, Interim Finance Director Ik— SUBJECT: Summary of Council Comments from March 23, 2009 Council Budget Work Session for 2009-10 Proposed General Fund Budget Attached for your review is a summary of City Council comments regarding the proposed General Fund 2009-10 budget. A detailed proposed General Fund budget for 2009-10 was presented to Council on March 23, 2009 at a Council Work Session. At that Work Session, staff presented general information for both revenues and expenditures for the General Fund. In addition, Department Heads presented budget reduction information for their respective departments and responded to questions from Council. At the conclusions of the Work Session, the City Manager reviewed the Council's comments and indicated that a summary of Council comments would be submitted to the Council Finance Committee. The Finance Committee's next regularly scheduled meeting is April 21, 2009. Consequently, staff is requesting that the Finance Committee review the attached schedule and provide staff with any final instructions for the preparation of the 2009-10 proposed budget. As required by City Charter, staff must present to the City Council a proposed budget for the next year (2009- 10) by May 22. At that time a public hearing(s) may be held with adoption of the budget scheduled for June of 2009. The attached schedule indicates those programs/services for which there appeared to be consensus support from Council to add back to the budget. The cost of these programs/services is also included. Further, the Council indicated that it was supportive of funding the cost for the reinstated programs/services by a transfers of funds from the City's Self Insurance Fund. The schedule also includes programs/services discussed by Council but for which no action was indicated.