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City of San Leandro <br />City Council <br />Meeting Date: May 15, 2023 <br />Agenda Number: 11.a. <br />Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />File Number: 23-218 <br />File Type: Staff Report <br />Adopt a Resolution Approving the City’s Gann Appropriation Limit for 2023-2024 <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff recommends the City of San Leandro City Council approve a resolution establishing the <br />City’s Gann Appropriation Limit for 2023-2024 . Staff completed calculations required for <br />determining the appropriation limit at $310,026,805. Budget appropriations subject to the <br />2023-2024 appropriation limitation total $121,609,700. This is $188,417,105 below the new <br />appropriation limit. <br />BACKGROUND <br />In 1979, California voters passed Proposition 4 limiting governmental expenditures and taxation. <br />Statutes clarifying provisions of the proposition are codified in Article XIIIB of the California <br />Constitution. This article is known as the Gann Limit. <br />Because the Gann Limit constrained local governments effectively responding to demands of <br />rapid growth in California, a legislative-business-labor coalition drafted and supported <br />Proposition 111, adopted in 1990. Proposition 111 allows flexibility in a growing economy, while <br />retaining limits on government spending. While the law sets limits on spending and taxation, it <br />does allow for increases on the appropriation limit based on both population and personal <br />income growth. <br />For 2023-2024, the state Department of Finance Per Capita Personal Income growth rate was <br />higher than Alameda County’s Non-Residential Property Assessed Valuation rate (0.02%). The <br />county’s population rate (-0.47%) was more advantageous to the City than the City’s population <br />change rate. <br />ANALYSIS <br />Concurrent with Proposition 4, Cal. Government Code Section 7910 requires each local agency <br />to establish the appropriations limit by the beginning of each fiscal year. <br />For 2023-2024, staff used the county population rate change of (-0.47%) multiplied by the <br />Non-Resident Change Factor percentage of 4.44% to calculate the Gann Appropriation Limit <br />factor of 1.0395. The 2022-2023 Appropriation Limit of $298,248,575 multiplied by the <br />adjustment factor of 1.04 produces the 2023-2024 Appropriation Limit of $310,026,805. <br />The City Council resolution authorizes the new Gann Appropriation Limit for the upcoming fiscal <br />year. City revenues subject to the limitation (“Proceeds of Taxes”) exclude self-supporting funds, <br />capital improvement funds, capital outlay grant funds, and specific exclusions such as Gas Tax <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 5/10/2023