75A - BUDGET FY 2010- 2011 - EXHIBIT

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will continue to demonstrate its commitment to help neighborhood and school environments support improved health and healthy youth development. • The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park has improved its ability to attract greater attendance because of the recent opening of a major new exhibit, the Tierra de las Pampas. The public is learning how giant anteaters, rheas, and guanacos live in the grasslands, their natural habitats. In addition, starting in July, the free Santa Ana resident's day will be switching from the first Tuesday of the month to the third Sunday of the month. Ensure Long Term Financial Stability To ensure Santa Ana's long term financial stability, staff will continue to implement a plan to address the General Fund deficit, using a combination of expenditure controls while we continue to work towards improving the City's revenue base. • Organizational changes have been implemented to improve efficiency and shift emphasis to core functions. As an example, the mobile field booking van, mobile field booking services and transport services by Correctional Officers will provide support for Patrol, Investigations, and Traffic by relieving police officers of booking, transport, and hospital guard duties thus increasing the manpower available for direct enforcement. • To enhance revenue, the Jail bed capacity was increased from 480 to 532. As a result, Jail housing revenues have been increased to the point that the Jail operation is almost fully funded through contracts. • Budget reductions to Parks, Recreation and Community Services were done in such a way to prevent having to close down any centers, libraries, or the zoo and to make sure that the ability to maintain the parks green and clean was not compromised. The consolidation of Parks and Recreation with Library Services has been effective in developing a more comprehensive plan that has enabled the use of staff more efficiently. • The creation of four Park Maintenance Inspector positions will provide improved contract administration and inspection to enhance the effectiveness of park landscape maintenance contracts on all park sites, at the Santa Ana Zoo and along the City's bike trails. These positions also will prevent the layoff of two full -time park maintenance workers and the rehire of two part time park maintenance workers that were previously laid off as we move from being a direct service provider to full contracting of park maintenance. We recently completed contracting out the remaining park sites and Civic Center maintenance. The previously contracted park sites, bike trails, and custodial maintenance will be renewed in FY 2010 -2011. Privatizing park maintenance will save the City's General Fund approximately $800,000 more per year, while providing comparable or better service. We have already seen a vast improvement in the maintenance quality of our parks. -10-