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Public Hearing Fiscal Year 2007-08 City Budget June 4, 2007 In preparing the budget for the general fund, staff focused on resolving the dilemma of meeting the demands for services that exceed revenues. The general fund projected budget deficit is $13.4 million. The budget responds to that challenge through a balanced approach of stabilizing expenditures and using unexpended fund balance. For fiscal year 2007-08 the City will add a total of twenty-eight positions to the budget. Nineteen of these are public safety positions which include three firefighters, eleven police officers, one police sergeant, one police investigative specialist, one Police Athletic Activities League assistant director and two information services related positions. The City is also upgrading five part-time civil service 30 hour/week positions to full-time status, adding twelve full-time positions consisting of eight administrative, two building maintenance, two sanitation and traffic operations related positions and eliminating eight full-time vacant positions throughout the City. The proposed resolution amends prior resolutions by adding classification titles and 6-step salary rate ranges; market parity adjustments to twenty positions; addition of a part-time classifications with salary ranges; and the designation of four new classification titles which include Administrative Chief/Fire Marshal, Community Preservation Coordinator, Deputy Building Official/New Construction and Redevelopment Program Manager with a 15-step salary range. FISCAL IMPACT with approval of the proposed budget, $510,508,839 will be appropriated to the City's various funds, departments, programs and enterprise activities. Of that amount $230,842,275 will be appropriated to the various general fund operating departments, including redevelopment agency pass-throughs of $3,464,355. APPROVED AS TO FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS: Francisco Gutierrez Executive Director Finance & Management Services Agency 75A-2