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Public Hearing to the Proposed FY19-20 Budget <br />June 4, 2019 <br />Page 3 <br />$20,776,910 for the Parks, Recreation & Community Services Agency; $5,310,850 for Library <br />Services; and $3,076,650 for Youth Services funded by Cannabis revenue. <br />Measure X Spending <br />The City's voters approved a 1.5% local sales tax rate via Measure X on the November 2018 <br />ballot. Based upon analysis from the City's sales tax consultant, staff expects Measure X to <br />generate $60 million of annual General Fund revenue. Although Measure X is a general-purpose <br />revenue with no restrictions, the City Council has expressed a desire to budget for services cited <br />in the ballot language. <br />City of Santa Ana, Santa Ana Neighborhood Safety, Homeless Prevention and <br />Essential City Services Enhancement Measure — `To maintain effective 9-1-1 <br />response; retaining firefighters and police officers; addressing homelessness, <br />fixing streets; maintaining parks, youth and senior services, and unrestricted <br />general revenue purposes, shall the sales tax be increased one and one half (1.5) <br />cents until 2029 providing approximately $60 million dollars annually, then reduced <br />to one (1) cent providing approximately $40 million dollars annually, until 2039, <br />requiring annual audits, citizens oversight and for Santa Ana use only?" <br />The proposed FY19-20 budget includes the following new allocations in alignment with Measure <br />X ballot language. <br />Recruiting & Retaining Police Officers <br />8,407,885 <br />Police Department Recruiting (Human Resources) <br />79,125 <br />Additional Traffic Collision Investigators <br />229,712 <br />Additional Police Overtime <br />2,000,000 <br />Homeless Cleaning Team Contractual & Vehicles <br />321,000 <br />Improve Park Maintenance <br />2,136,400 <br />Parks Tree Replacement & OtherSupply <br />442,000 <br />Additional Park & Recreation Staffing <br />1,589,940 <br />New Allocations <br />$15,206,062 <br />The City Council also approved a Vehicle Incentive Program (rebates of the Measure X tax) with <br />an expected cost of $1,725,000. <br />Cannabis Public Benefit Fund <br />In December 2018, City Council adopted Ordinance NS-2959 establishing a Cannabis Public <br />Benefit Fund, requiring one-third of retail and commercial cannabis tax revenue to be set -aside <br />for Enforcement Services and one-third to be set -aside for Youth Services. FY19-20 estimated <br />revenue for retail and commercial cannabis tax revenue is $9.23 million, and the two-thirds set - <br />aside is $6.15 million. A summary of the proposed FY19-20 budget for the Cannabis Public <br />Benefit Fund follows. <br />75A-1-3 <br />