PREPARED BY: ARTURO E. CASTILLO DATE OF MEETING: 12/9/2024
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CONSIDER ADOPTING A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN PABLO (1) ACCEPTING THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE ENHANCEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS BY NBS GOVERNMENT FINANCE GROUP; AND (2) AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND THE FY 2023-25 CITY COUNCIL PRIORITY WORKPLAN WITH PROPOSED POLICY AMENDMENT NO. 10, UNDER MAJOR POLICY GOAL: FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FISCAL DIVERSIFICATION, EXPANDING EXISTING POLICY 405: EXPLORE AND SUSTAIN NEW REVENUE ENHANCEMENTS TO THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS
This item is not directly related to a specific policy within the FY 2023-25 City Council Priority Workplan adopted May 1, 2023 but is provided to increase local government operational transparency.
CEQA Compliance Statement
This proposed action is not a project as defined by CEQA.
BACKGROUND
In December 2023, the City's municipal advisor, PFM, made a presentation to City Council reviewing the multi-year financial planning model results. In that analysis an annual revenue shortfall of approximately $4 Million was identified due primarily to flattening casino revenues and increasing personnel costs. In January 2024, results of the City's annual community survey, completed by the City's polling firm SRI, were presented to City Council. Among the findings from the polling were specific revenue measures and services concerns where community support was high.
The City engaged NBS, a consulting firm focused on assisting local government agencies with revenue solutions, in September 2024 to integrate the findings from the financial planning model and polling results into actionable revenue solutions for the City. NBS has prepared the attached presentation that recaps the prior studies, provides background on local government revenue options and makes recomme...
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