Budget Public Hearings

A Special Meeting was held on Thursday, May 26th, kicking off the first of what will be a few budget hearings for the City's 2011-12 budget.  City Manager Clay Holstine started off the evening stating that he hopes this year's budget to be the start of where the traditonal way of doing budgeting is turned on its head.  Specifically, he spoke of moving the City's budgeting process to be more outcome or values-based.  Stuart Schillinger, Administrative Services Director for the City of Brisbane, gave a Powerpoint presentation which included:

• An overview of the City's values (Involved, Informed, Fiscally-Conservative, Environmentally-Progressive, Safe, and Caring)
• Where cost-savings were realized amongst the departments, whether through employees leaving through attrition or creative ways they thought to do their jobs differently with no impact to the community
• Forecasted revenues and expenditures of the City, and
• A four-year financial forecast 

Afterwards, Stuart walked the Councilmembers through the various sections of the budget.  Starting on June 6th, departments will be presenting their 2011-12 budgets to the City Council.  Fire, Police, and Parks & Recreation will be presenting their budgets on June 6th, with the rest of the departments - Community Development, Marina, Aquatics, Public Works, City Manager, Administrative Services, City Clerk, and City Attorney - presenting their budgets on June 13th.  Budget hearings will be taking place in the Community Meeting Room located at City Hall - 50 Park Place - starting at 7:30pm.  You can also tune in on Ch. 27 and via the City's website, where the meeting will be streaming live, as well as replayed on subsequent days.  Check the Brisbane Ch. 27 broadcast schedule for details.  For any budget-related questions, please contact Stuart Schillinger at (415) 508-2151 or schillinger@ci.brisbane.ca.us.