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Option 2 -General Fund Expense and Fleet Reductions <br /> General Fund Recommended Budget $313,000 Reduction Impact of Budgets Greater than 1% <br /> 21 - Office of City Mgr. $3,020 $484 N/A <br /> 44 -Central Services $12,205 $1,958 N/A <br /> 52 -Fire & Emer. Serv. $524,745 $84,177 4 Pumpers or 4 Telesquirts or 3 Aerials <br /> 53 -Planning & Dev. $12,432 $1,994 N/A <br /> 56 -Police $1,074,480 $172,363 10 Patrol Cars <br /> 57 - LRCS $54,396 $8,726 Bookmobile & 1 - 15 Passenger Van <br /> 58 -Public Works $269,904 r $43.297 4-Svd. Dump Trucks <br /> Total $1,951,182 $313,000 Approximately 19 to 20 Fleet Vehicle Reductions <br /> The Fleet Budget is composed of three major categories: personnel, parts, and fuel. Three options available for <br /> reducing Fleet expenses and the Fleet budget are: (1) reduce Fleet staff, or (2) reduce parts expenses, or (3) reduce <br /> fuel expenses. These three options directly correlate to the size of the vehicle fleet and the services provided to <br /> customers. Therefore, using fleet reductions to lower expenses will also coincide with Fleet staff reductions, and <br /> will also eliminate associated fuel and parts expenses. <br /> Option 2 -General Fund Fleet Budget Reductions <br /> Fleet Budget Fleet Target Reductions Reduction Impacts <br /> Labor $162,760 (3) FTE <br /> Parts $78,250 <br /> Fuel $71,990 <br /> Total $313,000 <br /> SUMMARY <br /> Since FY98, departmental actual expenses for services were subsidized by reducing Fleet's balance available. FY03 <br /> marked the first rate increase since then due to Fleet's balance available falling below acceptable city limits. <br /> Historically, the City's fleet has increased by 38 surplus and 87 new additions since FY98 without an increase to the <br /> Fleet budget or rates. These expenses were also subsidized by Fleet's balance available because the fleet rates and <br /> budget were held constant until FY03. Since Fleet's balance available can no longer support these expenses, a <br /> <br /> reduction in the fleet size or a rate increase to adequately fund departmental fleet expenses is necessary. Fleet rates <br /> must equal fleet expenses, and fleet expenses must equal the fleet budget. Therefore, only two options are available <br /> <br /> to resolve this problem. <br /> 1. Reprioritize funding to cover the actual costs needed to service the General Fund fleet. <br /> 2. Reduce the fleet size with associated. expenses to meet the shortfall. <br /> <br />