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Finance Committee Meeting Highlights of April 21, 2015
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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO
CITY COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE
April 21, 2015
5:00 P.M.
San Leandro City Hall
835 East 14th Street
San Leandro, California
(Sister Cities Gallery)
1. CALL TO ORDER
Meeting was called to order at 5:00 PM
1.A. Attendance
Committee Members: Pauline Cutter, Mayor; Jim Prola, Vice Mayor; Benny Lee, Council Member
City Staff Present: Chris Zapata, City Manager; Richard D. Pio Roda, City Attorney; David Baum, Finance Director; Keith Cooke, Engineering & Transportation Director; Will Fuentes, Assistant Finance Director; Mary Ann Perini, Budget Compliance Manager; Jeff Kay, Community Development
Public Present: Michael Gregory; David Johnson, SLCC; Corina Lopez; Matt MaLoon, IBEW Local 595
1.B. Announcements
Will Fuentes is the newest addition to the Finance Department and has accepted the position of Assistant Finance Director coming from Union City after spending 17 years as a Financial Manager. Will has obtained a Bachelor Degree along with a Master Degree from Notre Dame.
2. DISCUSSION ITEMS
2.A. Discussion Regarding Community Workforce Agreement
· $1,000,000 cost threshold has been agreed upon
· Committee is comfortable with the current drafting of the Core Worker Provisions as written.
· Implementation - Monitoring and tracking local hire and apprenticeship programs
Discussion regarding approval for a $100,000 budget where funds will be used to work on implementation and publication of the Workforce Agreement
Comment was made regarding using developer fees to help pay for extra cost of implementing the Workforce Agreement.
An example of Hayward Library was used in regard to their implementation of a Workforce Agreement where they utilize local hire.
2.B. Measure HH Oversight Committee Update
David Baum reached out to current members of Measure Z Committee to confirm willingness to continue participating in Measure HH Committee. Confirmation was received from three out of four members. Geraldine Mellen, David Grodin and Sarah Galvin have confirmed as members. Esther Collier is expected to also remain the fourth member of committee.
Timing for completing the annual report for Measure HH would be sometime in August once the Fiscal Year 14-15 financial statements have been completed.
2.C. Unfunded Liability Review
Two years ago, there was a significant effort by City Staff to bring attention to unfunded liabilities that relate to post employment benefit obligations. Budget documents state it is about $158 million. New accounting requirements in place (GASB 67 & 68) require more transparency in terms of how information is provided.
Chris Zapata suggested selling some assets as a means to pay unfunded liabilities.
2.D. Biennial Budget Update
Discussion regarding how Engineering uses a process in which they review several miles of sewer pipelines and x-ray the system every 10 years to identify failures. Funds from this budget get used to make repairs.
David Baum mentioned that the Council had approved a $350,000 contract with Engineering firm RMC to analyze the infrastructure of the delivery system to the plant.
Mayor Pauline Cutter stated that the hillsides and roadways are deteriorating and are in need of repair. The City can spend a little now as a preventative measure in order to avoid major problems later when there might not be enough funds in the budget to cover larger repairs.
3. PUBLIC COMMENTS
Comments from Corina Lopez regarding PG&E coming by to do a safety check on the Fourth of July.
Corina suggested ways of increasing the parking situation as well as suggesting that all City departments seek grants to enhance city appeal.
4. COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS
Comments regarding economic growth and repairing the pot holes on the roadways.
Comments regarding wasted funds on street cleaning due to parked cars not moving.
Discussion regarding ticketing parked cars not moving on street cleaning days which would help generate revenue for the City.
5. ADJOURN
Meeting was adjourned at 6:07 PM