MANAGEMENT PARTNERS, INC. (2011 Budget Analysis)

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Mr. David Ream Page 10 Client Contact: Ms. Patti Bisharat, Interim Assistant City Manager 915 1 Street, 5th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 916-801-4858 City and County of San Francisco, Municipal Executives' Association The San Francisco Municipal Executives' Association (SFMEA) is an organization of the government's senior executive, created under the City/County Charter. In fiscal year 2008-09, the SFMEA reached an agreement with the City and County to complete "a transparent and rigorous examination of the issues which make the budget process in San Francisco so challenging" to identify potential solutions. SFMEA selected Management Partners to conduct a review of San Francisco's annual budget process and compare the government's budgeting and financial planning processes with other large municipalities and consolidated city and county governments in the United States. The final report, released in December 2008, was entitled A Call for Policy Based Budgeting in an Era of Diminishing Resources and Expanded Needs. The report recommends a comprehensive reform of the budgeting process. The San Francisco Chronicle called the plan "wide-ranging, comprehensive, nonpartisan and entirely logical". The report provided the basis for a proposed Charter amendment which would create an Office of Management and Budget, with a director serving ten-year terms; mandate a two-year budgetary cycle; and require the city to adopt a five-year financial plan. Client Contact: Ms. Rebecca Rhine, Executive Director 870 Market Street, Room 460 San Francisco, CA 94102-3011 415-989-7244 Port of Sacramento Management Partners was retained to provide interim management services to the Port District, which was contemplating bankruptcy. This assignment resulted in a complete restructuring of operations and governance for the Yolo Port District. Management Partners worked with elected officials and executive management with the County of Sacramento, the County of Yolo, the City of Sacramento and the City of West Sacramento to broker an effective compromise that gave the City of West Sacramento more control over port operations and an incentive to see the port prosper. An operations agreement with the Port of Oakland has resulted in a much more stable financial situation and the Port of Sacramento is no longer threatened with insolvency. Client Contacts: Mr. Mike McGowan, County Supervisor County of Yolo 500 Jefferson Boulevard, Building A West Sacramento, CA 95691 916-375-6440 Mr. Toby Ross, City Manager City of West Sacramento 1110 West Capitol Avenue West Sacramento, CA 95691 916-617-4500