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Legal Services Analysis and Report City of San Leandro <br />February 2013 Municipal Resource Group <br /> <br /> <br /> 7 <br />II. JURISDICTIONAL BENCHMARK SURVEY <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br /> The purpose of benchmarking comparable jurisdictions is to provide information on <br />City Attorney budgets, staffing levels and responsibilities, to correlate with San Leandro’s <br />legal services, and to inform this Report’s analysis of in‐house legal services. The City has <br />identified seven jurisdictions in Alameda County that are used for comparable labor <br />compensation purposes, including the cities of Alameda, Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward, <br />Livermore, Pleasanton and Union City. The City indicated that these cities should be <br />surveyed for the benchmark City Attorney analysis. In addition, the cities of Pittsburg and <br />Richmond were identified by the City to be included in the analysis. <br /> Appendix A provides detailed statistical data, including population, full time <br />equivalent employees (FTE), General Fund budget, operating fund budgets, City services <br />and City Attorney Office responsibilities in each of the nine cities surveyed. <br /> This Chapter provides a summary of the statistical data for each city. This data is <br />important because population, FTE, City services and City budgets tend to be factors related <br />to the need and demand for legal services. <br /> Generally, the statistical data for the nine benchmark cities exceeds the comparable <br />San Leandro data. For example, the nine benchmark cities’ average population (105,367), <br />FTE (657), General Fund budgets ($106 million) and operating budgets ($158 million) <br />exceed the San Leandro population (86,053), FTE (406), General Fund budget ($76 million) <br />and operating budget ($119 million). These variances need to be taken into consideration <br />when comparing City Attorney budgets and staffing. <br />There are differences in the services provided among and by the nine benchmark <br />cities, as compared to San Leandro. For example, while San Leandro contracts for Fire <br />services, five of the cities have Fire Departments, two share Fire services through a joint <br />powers agreement, and two do not have Fire Department responsibilities. Berkeley has the <br />greatest array of services, including health and human services, police review and a housing <br />authority, among other services, yet it does not provide the wastewater treatment services <br />that are provided by San Leandro. Union City has the least array of services, and does not <br />provide library, sewer, wastewater treatment, marina or golf services. All of the cities <br />provide Police services in‐house; none of the cities contract for Police services.