Committee on Public Safety Funding/Planning/Sustainability

City of SaginawDarnell Earley, ICMA-CM, MPA

City ManagerTimothy Morales

Deputy City Manager/CFOPhil Ludos

Assistant City Manager/Public Safety

April 09, 2012

CommitteeD/Sgt. Brent VanderHaar, COAM Leadership Representative

Sgt. Michael East, COAM Membership RepresentativeOff. Doug Wortley, POAM Leadership Representative

Off. LaMar Kashat, POAM Membership RepresentativeCap. Thomas Raines, IAFF Leadership Representative

Fire. Mike Gray, IAFF Membership RepresentativeJimmie Greene, Public RepresentativeBishop Cistone, Public Representaive

Herb Spence, Business RepresentativeBob Vandeventer, Business Representative

John Kunitzer, Business RepresentativeCarol Cottrell, Former Mayor

Mike Thomas, County ProsecutorHon. Terry Clark, District Court Judge

Committee, (cont’d)Bill Scharffe, Neighborhood Association Representative

Larry Campbell, Neighborhood Association RepresentativeDennis Browning, Council Representative

Introduction• In 2007, the City Council authorized an outside

independent consulting firm (the International City/County Management Association/ICMA) to examine the delivery of public safety (police/fire) services in the city. Study cost was paid by grant sponsoring agency.

• Also, in 2010 the public consulting firm Plante & Moran was enlisted to examine all city service delivery systems except fire.

• The purpose for these studies was to gain the objective, independent analysis from a third party review to form the basis for necessary reforms to existing services, based upon the city’s continuing decline in revenues and increasing costs.

Goals of the Committee• Review the budget and organizational structures

and financing issues of police and fire departments based upon the studies, conducted.

• After conducting its own fact-finding, reviewing data, and considering public safety models, make a recommendation on a public safety model to the city manager and city council without a reduction in the quality of police/fire services.

• Make a determination whether a more cost efficient method of service delivery could be implemented. Status quo operations are not sustainable.

Goals of the Committee, (cont’d)

• Meet no more than (5) five times from April of 2012 to September of 2012.

• Have recommendations available for implementation no later than the end of first quarter Fiscal Year 2013.

• Explore all options relative to providing excellent, cost effective, managerially efficient and sustainable public safety services.

• Examine specifically the high cost of funding police/fire pensions.

• Get community buy-in for reforming public safety services due to rising costs and declining revenues.

City of SaginawCommunity Public Safety - Police & FireSource: FY 2011 AuditFiscal Year 2011 ActualGeneral Fund Revenue $33,318,277 General Fund Expenditures: Community Public Safety Police 13,592,406 *Includes subsidies to police grants Community Public Safety Fire 9,101,445 Transfer to Public Safety Millage 1,171,748 Total General Fund Allocation to CPS 23,865,599 Percent of Total General Fund 72%Public Safety Millage Fund Revenues 2,951,153 Public Safety Fund Expenditures: CPS Police 2,316,460 CPS Fire 1,806,441 Total Public Safety Fund $4,122,901

Public Safety Fund Revenues Under Expenditures (GF Subsidy) (1,171,748) *This is the transfer amount noted Total Police (GF & PSF) 15,908,866 Total Fire (GF & PSF) 10,907,886

Combined General Fund& Public Safety Fund $26,816,752 Compared to Total General Fund 80.5%

Deliverables• Sustainable, cost effective and efficient

public safety operation.• Cross trained police officers that figure into

the fire suppression and organizational operations.

• Identify opportunities for regional collaboration based upon reforms.

• Agree on a reform measure for public safety that strengthens the argument for revisiting and eliminating the 1979 tax caps.

Next Steps• Committee organizational meeting- By April 18, 2012• Review consultant studies before first committee

meeting. Update studies as may be necessary.• Arrange visits or teleconferences with leadership of

other cities that have successfully integrated police and fire services to some degree for fact-finding purposes.

• Design public information strategy for keeping the charge, progress or other pertinent issues regarding the work of the committee in front of the public.

Questions?