The City Manager has released his Recommended Budget and Resource Allocation for FY 2013/14, for your reading pleasure. Sunnyvale uses 2-year budgets with an accompanying 20-year forecast. The budget consists of an operating component (the budget needed to maintain the smooth functioning of ongoing city operations) and a capital expenditure component (the budget needed to replace all of the city’s capital expenses – buildings, major equipment, and so on). So we stagger the budgets, putting out a two-year operating budget one year, and a two-year capital budget the next. The lines are sometimes blurred when circumstances encourage changes to an ongoing 2-year budget, so it isn’t uncommon to see changes to the operating budget in a capital budget and vice versa. This year’s budget is a capital expenditures budget.
FollowPretty full agenda on Tuesday. We start with a closed session for the six-month performance review of the City Attorney.
We then have the general meeting, which has three special orders of the day and a presentation. One recognizes Municipal Clerks Week (which I believe means we’ll be honoring City Clerk Kathleen Franco Simmons). One recognizes Foster Care Month. And the third is a great event – Public Safety Awards. This recognizes both officers and citizens who perform extraordinary tasks towards Sunnyvale public safety.
KPIX is reporting that the Florida legislature adjourned without addressing necessary steps to complete the work for Florida’s bid for Superbowl 50, leaving Santa Clara as the last one standing for that Superbowl.
An article in San Jose Inside reports on the performance problems that Rural Metro, the county’s ambulance provider is experiencing. Most noteworthy in the article is that the biggest performance lapses are occurring in Sunnyvale. The County Board of Supervisors is reportedly considering replacing Rural Metro as the County’s ambulance provider.
Another long night.
We started the evening with a joint closed session between the Redevelopment Successor Agency and the City Council (which happen to be the same people). I can’t say much, but the public disclosure was: Direction to initiate litigation, if necessary, has been given, and the action, defendants and other particulars shall, once formally commenced, be disclosed to any person upon inquiry, unless doing so would jeopardize our ability to effectuate service or negatively impact any settlement negotiations. Take from that what you will.