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Illustrative Effects of Service Reductions <br /> The table below illustrates the types and magnitude of program reductions and eliminations or funding <br /> shifts which would be required if a strategy of service reductions alone were employed to correct the <br /> structural deficiency between Road Fund revenues and expenditures and eliminate the $2 million <br /> projected annual deficit. This list is in no way intended to represent a prioritized list of the specific <br /> services which would be eliminated in a reduction situation but merely provides examples of the types of <br /> service level changes which would be required in order to achieve expenditure reductions of this <br /> magnitude. Attachment B contains additional narrative detail about the service implications of the <br /> example service reductions described in the following table. <br /> Examples of the Types and Magnitude of Service Projected Net Savings Number of FTEs <br /> Impacts in a $2 Million Expenditure Reduction in FY06 Dollars Affected <br /> Street Trees Program — Moving the funding for l��S <br /> Street Tree Program from the Road Fund to the <br /> General Fund or reducing the level of service (dY / $808,000 9 FTE <br /> Residential Street Lighting - Turn off street lights <br /> along residential streets $357,000 .5 FTE <br /> Arterial and Collector Street Lighting — Turning <br /> off street lights along arterial and collector systems $331,000 .5 FTE <br /> Street Median Maintenance, Major Arterials — <br /> Eliminate median maintenance along major arterials $215,000 2.5 FTE <br /> Street Median Maintenance, Major Collectors and <br /> Arterials — Eliminate median maintenance along _ <br /> major collectors and minor arterials streets / $104,000/ 1 FTE <br /> Non - regulatory Signs — Eliminate non - regulatory <br /> sign fabrication, installation and maintenance, $78,000 1 FTE <br /> including street name signs <br /> Special Projects and Studies — Loss of capacity to <br /> manage any special studies that did not come with <br /> dedicated funding $74,000 .5 FTE <br /> Street Median Maintenance, Neighborhood <br /> Collectors — Eliminate median maintenance for <br /> neighborhood collector streets, residential medians $42,000 .5 FTE <br /> and traffic calming planters <br /> Neighborhood Transportation Program — Reduced <br /> capacity to conduct field investigations or technical <br /> analysis related to neighborhood traffic issues; <br /> reduced funding for traffic calming $25,000 .5 FTE <br /> Totals for Illustrative Service Impacts $2,034,000 16 FTE <br /> Potential Alternative Revenue Options <br /> As an alternative to implementing the types of service reductions described above, council could consider <br /> the implementation of one or more alternative revenue options, such as those that follow: <br /> • Street Light Maintenance Districts — This concept would involve the formation of assessment <br /> districts within which each property owner would be assessed an annual fee (non - property tax) for <br /> street lighting services in proportion to the benefit to that property. The revenue would be <br /> dedicated to paying the cost of maintaining light fixtures, replacing fixtures and parts, and utilities. <br /> 3 <br />