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Meeting Minutes - Final
Friday, April 28, 2017
9:00 AM
Budget Workshop
Council Chambers
City Council Workshop
Mayor Jerry Weiers
Vice Mayor Ian Hugh
Councilmember Jamie Aidama
Councilmember Joyce Clark
Councilmember Ray Malnar
Councilmember Lauren Tolmachofif
Councilmember Bart Turner
City Council Workshop Meeting Minutes - Final April 28, 2017
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
Present 6 - Mayor Jerry Weiers, Vice Mayor Ian Hugh, Councilmember Jamie Aldama,
Councilmember Joyce Clark, Councilmember Lauren Tolmachoff, and
Councilmember Bart Turner
Absent 1 - Councilmember Ray Malnar
[Councilmember Malnar arrived after the meeting had begun.]
Also present were Kevin Phelps, City Manager; Michael Bailey, City Attorney; and Julie
K. Bower, City Clerk.
WORKSHOP SESSION
1. 17-162 FY17-18 BUDGET WORKSHOP
Staff Contact and Presenter: Vicki Rios, Director, Budget and Finance
Staff Presenter: Tom Duensing, Assistant City Manager
Staff Presenter: Terri Canada, Budget Administrator
Ms. Rios provided information on the changes in response times due to the low acuity
units in the Fire Department. She also discussed EMS incident response projects for
advanced life support and basic life support calls.
Councilmember Turner asked if the low acuity units had reduced response time for
Station 151.
Chief Garrison said that was correct. The total decrease in response time for Station 151
was just over one minute. He explained the low acuity units had also had a great effect
on the response times of the other units.
Councilmember Turner said the low acuity units were getting the firefighters to the calls
quicker.
Chief Garrison said running the low acuity units helped put the appropriate unit on the call
and allowed the closest unit to that emergency to service the customers.
Ms. Rios provided an overview of cost allocations. She discussed project chargebacks
and how those charges related to a specific function or area.
Councilmember Clark wanted further explanation for the IT project chargebacks and
indirect staff and administrative charges.
Ms. Rios said the IT project chargebacks were for new software implementation or new
information technology projects. If the software was specific to a certain department, it
would be budgeted in the IT budget, but charged back and would show up in that
department's budget. She said some projects were charged to multiple areas.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked for an explanation of the large increases for technology
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charges and the lower technology replacement budget.
Ms. Rios said that would be explained further in the presentation
Ms. Rios said a portion of the indirect charges costs could be charged to the enterprise
funds.
Councilmember Clark asked if indirect staff and administrative charges were charged to
the enterprise fund exclusively.
Ms. Rios said the expenses were also charged to other funds, such as the transportation
sales tax fund and HURF. The charges had increased by approximately $300,000
because there were employees in the Finance Department who were being directly
charged to the enterprise funds. It was reflected in this year's budget that the employees
did work for other funds and not just that particular fund.
Councilmember Turner understood why the employees working across several funds
needed to be allocated appropriately. He asked why the funds were not being allocated
appropriately in other departments, as well.
Mr. Duensing explained that IT expenditures were budgeted as an internal service
function. It was a good practice to allocate those costs based on some sort of
methodology throughout the organization. He said if there was cash within the internal
service funds, it might not be necessary to allocate the total budget adopted, because
the allocation could be reduced if there was cash in the fund. It was a completely
separate operation within the City, but was a way to allocate the cost.
Mr. Duensing said it would assist in determining the true costs in each area. If an
internal service cost was going up because of an allocation change methodology or there
was cash in the fund which offset what was needed to allocate, the budgets were
adjusted up or down. If there was a doubling of the technology charge, the departments
did not have to go back and cut services or cut operating budgets. He said some costs
were incurred in the general fund and costs could be re -classed within the general fund.
Mr. Duensing said internal services funds and allocating those funds was a GFOA best
practice.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked why there was more than a 26% increase in the
amount of money being collected.
Councilmember Clark asked if staff could note on a new line item the reason for the
change when accounting changes were made in the future.
Councilmember Turner understood if the formula changed, the individual departments
were held harmless for that change from one budget year to the next. He asked if
individual department had any control over that charge, and if there was anything the
departments could do to reduce the charge.
Mr. Duensing said if charges were reduced, departments could not use the funds for
anything else. If the charges were increased, the departments did not have to decrease
their operating expenses to cover the charges. It was just a way to allocate the cost of
an internal service function to the appropriate areas to determine the estimated cost of
providing the services.
Councilmember Turner asked if a department felt its allocation was higher than it should
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be compared to other departments, was there anything the department could do about
that. He also asked if a department wanted to reduce its allocation for the upcoming
year, was there anything the department could do internally to reduce the amount of IT it
was using to do that.
Mr. Duensing said the costs were dependent on the appropriation within the IT budget. If
that appropriation went down, then costs could be reduced. The driver of the total costs
was the appropriation within the internal service functions and if there was any cash in
there that could offset the charges that were being incurred.
Ms. Rios said there were three charges allocated from the internal service fund for IT,
which included technology charges, technology projects and telephones. Technology
projects were like capital projects and frequently took more than one year to complete.
In FY15 and FY16, there had been some cash that had accumulated in the IT fund and
not as much had to be allocated in charges to the individual departments because of the
available cash. The cash had now been used and the charges for FY 18 were higher than
in previous years.
Councilmember Clark asked if the charges were calculated per device or per person
within the department.
Ms. Rios said the charges were calculated per device.
Councilmember Clark asked why carryover was already showing in the IT budget when
other departments wouldn't have the carryover figures until the end of the budget process.
Ms. Rios said carryover wasn't permitted in other department budgets. It was allowed in
the IT budget for technology projects, which were treated similarly to a capital project.
Carryover had been calculated for all of the CIP projects, including the technology
projects fund.
Councilmember Clark asked why staff was highlighting carryover in the budget when
carryover in other departments had not been provided.
Ms. Rios said it was treated similarly to a CIP as these were multi-year projects and staff
had the opportunity to calculate the carryover for this department. She said the CIP
carryover was not ready at the time staff did the draft CIP, but it was ready now.
Ms. Rios said there were questions from the prior workshop about CDL costs. She said
the cost of a CDL was $75 and a specialized exam was required every two years. She
said the cost of the program was approximately $10,800 per year due to the number of
CDL -licensed employees. She said those costs were not covered under the employee's
medical insurance plan.
Councilmember Aldama asked if the Arizona Department of Transportation required the
certifications.
Ms. Rios said that was correct.
Councilmember Aldama asked why the City paid $10,800 instead of having the employee
pay for the exam.
Mr. Brown said the benefit to the City was that the exams were very consistent in the
way they were handled. He said the physicals were specific and detailed for CDL
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certification and were required by federal and state law. There might not be doctors
available to do the types of exams under the City's medical benefits plan. He said
providing the exams for employees and keeping the standards consistent, gave the City
less risk from an industrial standpoint.
Councilmember Aldama said a medical doctor could provide the same exact exam and it
would save $10,800.
Mr. Brown said using one provider provided a level of consistency and had been
recommended by the City's Risk Manager. Using several doctors would provide a level of
risk which might be an issue.
Councilmember Aldama said the Arizona Department of Transportation required a
specific, detailed CDL certification, which did not vary by doctor's offices. He said the
consistency was there and already set by ADOT. He said while the amount was not very
high, it was still $10,000 and staff might feel more comfortable going to their own doctor.
He suggested staff look at the policy.
Councilmember Turner asked if employees were allowed a free physical exam and how
often that was provided.
Mr. Brown said employees did receive standard annual physicals that were 100% covered
as part of preventative health care.
Councilmember Turner agreed with Councilmember Aldama and asked if staff could look
into employees using their own annual physicals to obtain their CDL certification, rather
than the City spending $10,000 to provide the service.
Mr. Brown would work with the risk manager and Blue Cross to look into it. He said the
concern on the risk management side was providing consistency in the exams and
reducing the level of risk.
Mayor Weiers said the City had to protect drivers and the public. He asked if the City
could use the doctors that worked with the firefighters to perform the evaluations.
Mr. Brown said staff could look into the program to see if efficiencies could be found in
the process. He said the current program also might avoid doctor shopping that could
occur.
Councilmember Clark agreed with Councilmember Aldama and wanted to know what
other processes were funded through Risk Management.
Councilmember Aldama agreed with Mayor Weiers' comments regarding the safety for
the driver and for the public. ADOT wouldn't provide for regular doctors doing the exams if
it didn't think the exams would be consistent.
Mayor Weiers had to have an FAA -approved doctor examine him for his pilot's license.
His regular doctor could not do the exam. He said they were all on the same page and
wanted to make sure there was consistency with less expense.
Mr. Phelps asked if Council was looking at a way to reduce costs to the City and transfer
the cost of the CDL certification to the employee or was it about managing the program
and the City continuing to fund the cost.
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Councilmember Aldama said the questions were how to save costs and change the
policy so employees had the opportunity to go to their own medical doctor. ADOT put
out a list of qualified examiners that met the federal standards. He said staff might want
to get employee input.
Councilmember Turner said it was about saving $10,800 if the CDL certification belonged
to the employee. The expense would not be transferred to the employee if it was
something that was covered by insurance. He said it was not more expensive for the
employee, but was a cost savings for the taxpayer.
Mayor Weiers asked if firefighters were required to have a CDL.
Mr. Brown said firefighters were not required to have a CDL.
Mayor Weiers asked if staff could find out how other cities handled the issue and if there
was a chance the City would lose employees due to the potential burden.
Mr. Brown said staff would check with other cities. The ultimate goal was to protect
employees and Glendale citizens and protect the City from risk.
Ms. Rios said another question that came up at a prior workshop was about the cost of
the 13.5 position that were being added to the budget. She provided a slide showing the
costs for the positions added to the general fund, the enterprise/HURF fund and the
positions added for bed tax and Risk Management.
Ms. Rios provided the Budget and Finance mission statement. She said programs and
functions for the Budget and Finance department included customer service, tax and
licensing, accounting services, materials management, budget and research and finance
administration.
Ms. Rios said approved supplementals for FY17 included a contract administrator.
Elizabeth Fernandez, the Contract Administrator, said one of her first priorities was
working on audit findings and meeting with community partners on the larger agreements.
She was working with Public Works on an inventory of the public assets and scheduling
inspections regularly. She was also working with AEG on their capital improvement plan,
which would come before Council in a few weeks. She would continue to focus on
contract compliance and documentation.
Councilmember Aldama asked if the asset management included the Arena and
Camelback Ranch.
Ms. Fernandez said Public Works had finished Camelback Ranch and she would
continue to work with them on the inspections. She was working on a plan for the Arena
and the Renaissance Hotel on the Exhibit Hall and the Conference Center later this year..
Councilmember Aldama asked if the report would be brought to the Council.
Ms. Fernandez said it would.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked if the capital needs at Camelback Ranch were being
looked at.
Ms. Fernandez said that was correct.
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Councilmember Turner asked if Ms. Fernandez would be working on providing Council
more detail regarding the specifics of the Camelback Ranch contract and some of the
other larger contracts.
Ms. Fernandez was assisting with some contracts regarding performance, but as far as
legal obligations, she deferred to the City Attorney's Office.
Councilmember Aldama asked if the asset management for Camelback Ranch included
assessing the condition of capital assets the City paid for and determining if those assets
had reached the end of their useful life.
Ms. Fernandez said an asset tagging of the facility had been completed and it had yet to
be determined how that would roll out to a capital improvement plan and inspections.
Councilmember Aldama asked if just the fixed assets had been completed.
Ms. Fernandez said that was correct.
Councilmember Aldama asked if Ms. Fernandez was creating a process to identify the
full life of those assets, such as the scoreboard.
Ms. Fernandez said it was a new project she would be working on beginning this year.
Ms. Rios said Ms. Fernandez was not the expert in the life or condition of the assets but
was putting the processes and procedures in place. She said Ms. Fernandez was
working with Public Works who were knowledgeable about replacement schedules.
Mr. Phelps said there was an internal project to strengthen the asset management
system. The system should know when was the right time to replace assets.
Councilmember Tolmachoff said that was important, but the Council approved a contract
administrator to help it understand the complicated contracts and what the obligations
were.
Mr. Bailey said Councilmember Tolmachoff was right, but staff needed to know what the
alignment was of the projects that Ms. Fernandez had been working on. It was easy to
read a contractual provision and understand what it said, but it was more difficult to tell
the story behind that provision. He said understanding that would help the Council better
understand how to fix the contractual problems.
Councilmember Aldama asked if that was what Ms. Fernandez was working on.
Mr. Bailey said Ms. Fernandez was part of an internal group that was trying to
accomplish that.
Councilmember Tolmachoff said the City's responsibility was not for maintenance, but
was for capital. She wanted to know if someone was making sure the proper
maintenance was being done. She hoped that was part of the scope of what was
happening in that position.
Councilmember Aldama asked how many sole source vendors and contracts the City
had.
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Ms. Rios said that information could be provided to Council as well as the number of
vendors that had been approved over a period of time but wasn't sure if the contracts still
existed. She would provide as much information as possible.
Ms. Rios said the only change requested in the FY 18 budget was moving some funding
for external audit services.
Councilmember Clark said the Budget and Finance Department had a decrease from
FY16 to FY17 of 71% and asked if Arena events and the AZSTA stadium tax appeared
somewhere else in the budget.
Ms. Rios said that budget was moved out of the Finance Department and moved into the
non -departmental budget.
Councilmember Clark said the Budget and Finance Department had seen a 6.2%
increase for the year.
Ms. Rios said the non -departmental budget was for items not related to a particular
department, such as unemployment/long term disability insurance, TPT administration
fees, arena management and City membership dues.
Councilmember Clark asked why three line items were created under professional and
contractual in the section.
Ms. Rios explained the items were separated out so it was easier to remember what
each of the items were. She said the $5.6 million was the arena management
agreement, the $4.5 million was the AZSTA sales tax rebate, and the $3 million was the
Arizona Cardinals settlement.
Councilmember Clark asked about the $50,000 line item
Ms. Rios said the $50,000 was for miscellaneous consulting fees for any initiative that
might come up during the year.
Councilmember Clark asked about the six line items for memberships and subscriptions.
Ms. Rios said those line items included membership to the Maricopa Association of
Governments, subscription to Westmarc, National League of Cities and League of
Arizona Cities and Towns.
Councilmember Clark said the items called "obsolete inventory expenses" and "inventory
adjustment" had been zeroed out. She asked if the items were somewhere else in the
budget.
Ms. Rios said those were charges that occurred in one particular year but there was no
budget for them now.
Councilmember Clark asked what the IT project chargeback of $354,000 was for.
Ms. Rios said that was the total of all of the general fund projects and the primary project
in that chargeback was for records management software for the Clerk's office.
Councilmember Clark asked if that was for the City Clerk's Office.
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Ms. Rios said that was correct
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked for more detail of the $3.4 million AZSTA sales tax
rebate.
Ms. Rios said under the agreement with AZSTA, the City was contractually obligated to
rebate all sales tax that was collected within the stadium and surrounding area, back to
AZSTA. She said the amount was $3.4 million last year, but usually ran higher than that.
The estimate for next year was about $4.5 million and was only the general fund portion
of that sales tax. The City retained the transportation and safety sales tax.
Mr. Duensing said if the revenue budget for the sales tax revenue increased and they had
to rebate more, it had zero impact on the general fund. He explained they City did have
to budget for it because a check had to be written and staff had to budget on the revenue
side, as well.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked if was because of the development agreement.
Mr. Duensing said it was because of the original development agreement, which stated
any non -dedicated sales tax generated in the building and around the building were
rebated to AZSTA.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked if there was an expiration date to the rebate.
Mr. Bailey said the reimbursement ran in perpetuity with the existence of the stadium.
Councilmember Turner asked if the sales tax rebate in the agreement was related to
parking, land purchases and external improvements in the agreement.
Mr. Bailey said that was correct.
Councilmember Malnar suggested supporting the Veteran's Success Center at Luke Air
Force Base in the amount of $70,000, which had not yet been budgeted. He provided
several options for funding the contribution in the FY 18 budget such as a delay in hiring
several staff positions and in-kind donations in the amount of $10,000, which would leave
a balance due of $17,000. Councilmember Malnar asked the Police and Fire
Departments to come up with the balance of the funds by delaying some new item or
employee. He believed the City could fund the contribution and asked Council for its
input.
Councilmember Aldama was unable to speak about the item because he was employed
with the Maricopa County Community College District and recused himself from
discussion of the item.
Councilmember Tolmachoff thought it was a good idea but didn't support postponing
hiring of the Council office staff member due to the office being so short-staffed. She said
Council might be able to find some funds to address the issue as it moved through the
budget process.
Councilmember Clark supported the City funding the Veterans Support Center at some
level, as well as other valley cities contributing to the endowment fund. She also wanted
assurance the Center was seeking grant funding opportunities and corporate
sponsorships to fund the Center.
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Mayor Weiers assured the Council that no stone had been unturned regarding alternative
funding.
Councilmember Clark liked the concept, but was not sure what the amount should be.
She said the Council had been short-staffed for a long time and did not agree with
postponing hiring a staff person for four months.
Mayor Weiers liked the concept of supporting veterans, but had questions about exactly
what was trying to be accomplished. Many service members transitioning out of the
military at Luke Air Force Base might not be Glendale residents and would want to go
back to their home states. He would like more information about the program and wanted
to make sure that any veteran had access to all the services. In-kind donations could
include Gus the Bus providing transportation. He was not sure if there was consensus
right at the moment to move forward on the item.
Councilmember Turner said it was a worthy endeavor and he liked Councilmember
Malnar's ideas about how to provide funding. He would like to see a placeholder in the
budget.
Mr. Phelps said staff would do that. There was a need to develop an agreement with the
organization and bring the item back to Council for a more detailed discussion and
approval.
Ms. Rios said one additional item under non -department budget was a request from
Westmarc for an increase to the City's contribution.
Mr. Stoddard said the City participated in Westmarc on a sponsorship level and currently
provided a $6,000 membership gold -level donation. He said Glendale was asked to move
to the premier partner level, which was a $10,000 donation. The benefits of moving from a
gold to a premier partner level included a free Best of the West table, which was a $1,700
benefit. He said the Westmarc offices had relocated from Peoria to a Westgate location.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked if Ms. Hoffman was present.
Mr. Stoddard said she was not present.
Councilmember Aldama would have preferred to see the request in a workshop.
Mayor Weiers said Council would like to put a placeholder in the budget for now and hear
the item at a workshop and hear from Ms. Hoffman.
Mr. Stoddard said a placeholder would be inserted for the platinum level membership and
the item scheduled for a workshop.
Ms. Rios introduced Mr. Strunk for the Public Facility, Recreation and Special Events
budget.
Councilmember Aldama said not all parks were maintained equally in the City. He asked
how the cost of $2,500 per acre for park maintenance was calculated.
Mr. Strunk said that figure came from the parks maintenance budget divided into the
number of park acres in the City. He said some parks were maintained differently based
on the amenities.
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Councilmember Aldama asked if it was a cost per standard and not a cost per data
figure.
Mr. Strunk said it was one of many indicators used to budget the department costs.
Councilmember Aldama asked if the actual cost to maintain the parks would be the same
$2,500 figure.
Mr. Strunk did not have that specific information but could provide information regarding
water use and hourly records.
Councilmember Aldama said some community centers were operated by nonprofit
operators and others, such as Foothills Recreation Center, operated with City staff. He
said it looked like staff was favoring one center over the others. He said although. it was
great to have nonprofit partners, they were not looking at things equally.
Councilmember Turner asked if the $2,500 cost per acre for maintenance was below the
national standard. He also wanted to know if that standard was the same for all parks
across the country or if it was broken down by regions of the country.
Mr. Strunk said the national standard was $2,731 per acre. He was not sure if that figure
was reflective of what was spent in other valley cities.
Councilmember Turner wanted to know if that national standard was broken down by
regions as there might be regional variations of what the cost would be.
Councilmember Turner asked how many park acres they were talking about.
Mr. Strunk said the City had 2,100 park acres.
Councilmember Aldama asked if the $5 million in the budget was for park maintenance or
did that figure have other costs combined with it.
Mr. Strunk said that was the figure used for the cost per acre and said it was used to
budget.
Mr. Strunk said about 350,000 people attended the six special events hosted by the City.
This was broken down to about $19 per person that was spent in the downtown festivals.
Staff felt comfortable it would meet revenue and sponsorship goals for the year. He said
they had over $300,000 in earned media for the large, high-profile events.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked about shifting the focus to citywide advertising, rather
than just focusing on the downtown area, and asked if there was any data on where they
were getting the best return on the advertising dollar.
Mr. Strunk said CVB staff had requested to hire On Advertising, who would assist in
getting those metrics. They needed to be able to show how much of a return on
investment was received for every dollar spent. Council should start receiving reports on
a monthly basis.
Councilmember Aldama agreed the focus needed to be on all businesses in Glendale but
said the downtown dynamics were much different than other areas of the City. He asked
if there was going to be a different matrix on the downtown businesses.
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Mr. Phelps said this was part of a shift in strategy to address the more unique nature of
the merchants. He said the CVB would have different metrics coming in and a new
merchant's manager would be able to focus specific priorities to the core downtown area.
Councilmember Clark said Mr. Phelps' comments about the CVB were correct. It was
not the CVB's mission to promote only the downtown but to promote the entire city.
Mr. Strunk clarified that the ad placements would be citywide and not just downtown. He
said the metrics received from On Advertising would show what they were talking about.
Mr. Phelps said the 10% rate in convention bookings was a very aggressive number. He
said they were doing well in the occupancy rate and the daily rate and would put the City
in the position of attracting hotel developers.
Councilmember Clark said another issue was who they promoted in downtown and asked
if the CVB was addressing the issue of promoting businesses that were not usually
included in promotional advertising.
Mr. Strunk said the CVB was always open to partnering with any of the downtown
merchants. They looked to the resources available so they didn't limit the creation and
support of events in that fashion.
Councilmember Clark understood when a group of merchants came to the City with an
idea for a downtown event, the City was going to cooperate. She was talking about
promoting everyone, not just a select group of merchants. It was important to be
inclusive rather than exclusive with the merchants.
Mr.Strunk said there was a membership component to the CVB.
Councilmember Turner said there didn't seem to be anything in the budget documents
that discussed the CVB in detail.
Mr. Phelps said the Councilmembers were discussing economic development strategies,
the CVB and special events. He was scheduling a more detailed presentation about
these areas after the summer break.
Councilmember Tolmachoff said the membership aspect of the CVB was a problem and
she did not support it. The $30,000 in membership created an exclusive club for a
taxpayer endeavor and created promotional responsibilities outside of Glendale. The
money would be better spent by taking the bed tax and focusing on Glendale and
breaking up the exclusive club. She said the memberships should stop on July 1st.
Councilmember Turner also had concerns about the memberships. He said although
$30,000 was the target, $8,000 was the actual figure. The budget for the CVB was
$700,000 and the community feedback was that the small membership was driving the
focus. He would rather see figures that were number -based and would like to see
current figures as well as the target figures. Councilmember Turner said the focus
seemed to be on visitors and not enough on tourists, conventions and conferences.
Mr. Strunk said they would translate the percentages into actual numbers and would
come back with a more detailed discussion about the CVB.
Councilmember Aldama agreed with ending the membership and asked who tracked that
data and what did members get out of the membership. He said another reason to end
the membership requirement was that many businesses could not afford to be a member
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and might feel left out. There were many great events that were held downtown and he
would like to see all the businesses have an opportunity to partner with the CVB .
Councilmember Aldama asked the CVB to start partnering with local businesses across
the board.
Councilmember Aldama had read Ms. Zomok's title as being CEO. He asked what was
her correct title.
Mr. Strunk said Lorraine Zomok was the Administrator of the CVB.
Councilmember Aldama had seen Ms. Zomok's title listed as CEO in publications and
wanted to make it clear that CEO was not a title that the City currently had.
Councilmember Clark said the Council was looking for a philosophical change regarding
how the CVB operated, what its goals were and how well it served the entire merchant
community in downtown and other parts of the City.
Ms. Zomok said at the time the membership fee was implemented, it was best practice
for CVBs to have a membership component. She said the membership fees were
approved by the Council and they generated revenue. The CVB had been around since
October of 2000 when the downtown area was the driving force for the CVB because there
was no sports and entertainment district at that time.
Ms. Zomok said the CVB has had a very aggressive advertising campaign for the past
couple of years and was not just advertising downtown. It was a destination branding
organization and promoted Glendale as a whole.
Councilmember Turner said the Visitor Center was targeted toward the tourist. He asked
what was being done to market the CVB.
Ms. Zomok said they had met with the city manager who had put them on a new
strategic plan for global sales, or putting heads in beds, which included conferences,
meetings and events.
Councilmember Turner asked how many heads in beds, conferences and events were
being held.
Ms. Zomok said about 18% of business was conferences and related events, with the
rest being leisure travel. She said their major focus was global sales and increasing hotel
traffic to Glendale. The 65% increase was directly related to the relationships they were
building and advertising.
Mr. Strunk said Parks and Recreation had received a total of $205,000 in supplemental
requests, which included a parks maintenance increase for landscaping maintenance,
recreation administration and special events, and wi-fi access at the community and
recreation centers. He said they were asking for money budgeted to change a
contractual position for a national sales manager to a permanent FTE. The funds for the
position would come out of Tohono O'odham funds that were negotiated to be used for
the CVB. They would also move a digital content program employee up using the same
funds.
Mr. Strunk said there was fund balance in the CVB bed tax and they would like to start a
pilot program where an organization would receive a monetary award if it could prove it
was putting heads in beds.
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Councilmember Tolmachoff said the CVB had a $240,000 marketing budget and about
$105,000 was going to be dedicated to the contract with On Advertising, which would free
people up for other work. She was confused why they would need to hire someone for
digital content when they were freeing up staff time with the On Advertising contract. She
did not support bringing in another staff person. She asked how trade show and travel
dollars were tracked and what the City was getting by attending the events.
Mr. Strunk said regarding the On Advertising question, there was approximately
$300,000 to spend down. He said $200,000 was earmarked for the CVB and the balance
of expenditures would occur in the Parks and Recreation Division, Civic Center and for
special events. Staff was going to work with On Advertising to develop a singular
message. He said the travel budget was in one of the professional and contractual line
items.
Ms. Zomok said the travel budget was out of the 1.6% bed tax and was absorbed into the
professional and contractual.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked where that could be found in the budget book. She
watched the last meeting and thought the CVBs contribution amount was $105,000 for
the On Advertising contract. She said that the contract was supposed to free up staff
time and asked why didn't they devote that staff time to the digital content position they
were asking for.
Ms. Zomok said that position was already at the CVB, but it was a contractual position
and they were asking for that position to have FTE status.
Mr. Strunk said currently the position that oversaw the function that On Advertising was
going to provide worked up to 60 hours a week and was responsible for placing and
overseeing the ads. The digital content position was not at the same level. He provided
the page number in the budget book where the professional and contractual information
was located and said that figure included all the media components as well as travel
expenses.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked if the marketing budget was included.
Mr. Strunk said that was where the marketing budget would come from.
Councilmember Tolmachoff said that left about $116,000 for travel and trade shows.
Mr. Strunk said there were other programs and services that used the funds.
Ms. Zomok said that overall number reflected the branding, marketing and promotion they
did, which included research, data reports, advertising, travel and operation of the
Visitor's Center and CVB.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked how much of that budget was used for travel and trade
shows.
Ms. Zomok said approximately 10% of that budget.
Councilmember Clark said the digital content program manager and the pilot program are
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all related to the future discussion of the CVB, and suggested granting the items
placeholder status and delay a final decision until the workshop discussion about the
CVB.
Councilmember Turner asked if the actual budget for the CVB was about $700,000, and
asked if the rest of the money was accounted for on a different page.
Councilmember Turner asked how many employees worked at the CVB.
Mr. Strunk said there were 4 FTE positions total and 1.5 of those positions were being
requested in the budget process.
Councilmember Clark asked if the figures for convention, media and parking division had
moved to some other location in the budget book.
Mr. Strunk said he would have to work with the budget team to find out where those
figures went.
Councilmember Clark said she would like to know where those figures went. She asked
for further explanation for two line items, Parks and Recreation Administration and
Recreation Administration and Events.
Mr. Strunk said, during the reorganization, the department component was erroneously
placed into a different budget division. He said it was always in the budget, but was
incorrectly assigned to a different department.
Councilmember Clark asked about Recreation Administration and Events.
Mr. Strunk said it had always been in the department. He explained with the department
reorganization, there was Parks Administration and Parks Facilities, the title represented
the recreation side of the management team.
Councilmember Clark asked if it was necessary to have two sets of administration staff
for Parks and Recreation.
Mr. Strunk said the intent was to be able to track by area of function
Councilmember Clark was not sure that was a good use of taxpayer dollars and said she
would have further discussion with Mr. Strunk.
Councilmember Aldama said there had been several different dollar amounts for the CVB
and asked if there could be a detail page dedicated to the CVB.
Ms. Rios said she would work with staff to present .the information differently. Moving the
items around impacted their ability to compare items from year to year. It was something
they would continue to review.
Councilmember Aldama said it would make it much easier for the public, as well. He
asked what role the CVB played in a fundraiser for the Treasure House and wanted to
know why the CVB was hosting the Leadership West Conference and how it benefited
the City.
Mr. Strunk said the CVB worked with an advisory group which provided feedback and one
of the group members wanted to help a local nonprofit. It was really being driven out of
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the University of Phoenix Stadium community outreach and was something that the focus
group wanted to pursue. He said it would be held at the University of Phoenix Stadium
and there was no staffing, money or anything that the taxpayers were paying for.
Councilmember Aldama would like to hear about the Leadership West event but didn't
understand how the CVB played a role in the events. He asked if the CVB had always
intended to play a role in those types of events.
Ms. Zomok said it was an initiative that came out of the hotel and venue advisory
committee. The committee saw the camaraderie in Glendale for giving and wanted to find
a bigger way to do that. She said no City dollars were involved in the event and they were
lending promotional assistance to the City in the summer. An increase in hotel
reservations was anticipated with the event. It was a good thing to do with major partners
in the west valley and it would drive business to the stadium at a very hot time of year.
She said Leadership West looked to align with the City and they have worked with them
for many years.
Councilmember Aldama said there was a cost to the event in staff time. He asked how
they tracked the data that they might get more heads in beds by participating in this type
of event.
Ms. Zomok said they would look at hotel occupancy figures at the end of the month, as
well as through the west valley package they were putting together.
Councilmember Aldama asked if there would be a discounted rate for being a part of that
event.
Ms. Zomok said there would
Councilmember Turner said the parks maintenance budget had increased in the last
couple of years, but it was still lower than the national standard. If the budget was
increased up to the national standard, it might solve many of the park maintenance
problems. He wanted to get more money into the parks maintenance budget and be
prepared to cover any unforeseen expenses.
Mr. Strunk said they did receive about $480,000 in additional water money about 4 or 5
years ago. He said many of the costs were locked in, but they would continue to work
with the City Manager's Office.
Councilmember Aldama said the homeless population had increased in the downtown
area over the last several months. He asked staff to look into getting HUD matching
funds, as well as a dedicated budget program to address homelessness.
Councilmember Clark said Councilmember Aldama's comments should be the subject of
a Council item of special interest. She did not think it was appropriate for direction to be
given for it to be looked into, until the item had been introduced to the entire Council and
Council give further direction on the issue.
Councilmember Aldama agreed, but said there were two other items that were discussed
today that did not have to go through a Council item of special interest process to request
funding for programs. He said those items were the veteran's initiative and the parks and
recreation item from Councilmember Turner. He said all items should be routed through
the same process.
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Councilmember Clark thought Councilmember Malnar's item and the other item would be
brought back to a future workshop for discussion and assumed Councilmember Aldama's
item would come back for future workshop discussion as well.
Councilmember Aldama asked Mayor Weiers for direction on how the items would be
handled.
Mayor Weiers said if Council was discussing a budget item and it needed more
clarification, it would come back for more discussion. He said Councilmember Aldama's
item was not part of the budget discussion but it was an issue that needed further
discussion.
Councilmember Aldama agreed and said both the homeless item and the veteran's item
would be Council items of special interest and he was agreeable to that, but he would like
to get clarification.
Mr. Phelps had understood that Council would like to have staff look for a placeholder in
the budget that would fund the first year of Councilmember Malnar's item. He also heard
the same for the Westmarc item. If Council directed staff to try and come up with
resources, they would need to make sure there was general consensus. He said
Councilmember Aldama's item was a little different because he did not have a specific
amount. Mr. Phelps was not sure about Councilmember Turner's item and asked for
clarification.
Councilmember Aldama was not prepared to give a dollar amount because he had not
done that much research. He asked if there was consensus for his request.
Mayor Weiers asked if there was consensus to move the homelessness issue to a
workshop. There was consensus to move the item to a workshop.
Councilmember Turner posed the question of putting more money into parks
maintenance. He had asked staff to come up with more money and threw out a figure of
$100,000.
Mr. Phelps said staff could identify $100,000, but asked for direction on where cuts might
have to take place to offset that amount, if revenue assumptions should be increased in
the model, or program elimination or reduction. He said those were policy decisions that
needed to come from Council, unless Council requested staff to make the decisions.
Councilmember Tolmachoff said staff was proposing to change to a new vender and there
would be an increase in costs. She said the vendor might also be held to a higher
standard. She suggested giving the new vender an opportunity to see if it could do a
better job.
Mr. Strunk said department was very specific in its level of expectation when the bid was
awarded, but the current vendor was not performing to staff's expectations. He said the
new vendor would fill the requirements of the specifications. He said there was money in
the existing budget and suggested moving forward with the new contract to see how the
new vendor performed.
Mayor Weiers said they could review the issue in six months and provide a supplemental
at that time, if necessary.
Mr. Friedman presented the Economic Development budget. He said FY17 approved
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supplementals included a one-time request for potential participation with ACA and/or
GPEC in a Visiting CEO Forum, as well as ongoing trade show participation and
professional education for a Certified Economic Developer credential.
Mr. Friedman said FY18 requested supplementals included a request for a downtown
manager to assist in creating a vibrant city center as well as a diverse, cohesive and
unified strategic plan for Historic Downtown Glendale.
Councilmember Clark asked how the department was spending the $124,000 budgeted
for membership and subscriptions.
Mr. Friedman said $104,000 was for the annual GPEC membership.
Councilmember Clark asked if that was charged to the Economic Development
Department.
Mr. Friedman said it was. He said there was also a $20,000 membership with the
Glendale Chamber of Commerce.
Councilmember Malnar liked the idea of a downtown manager and said it would be a
great opportunity to grow downtown Glendale.
Mr. Stoddard presented the said this was his department's first full fiscal year after being
reorganized last July. He said his department has two divisions, Public Affairs
Administration and the Cable Communications Division. He also spoke about the
reductions for FY18 in the operating budget.
Councilmember Clark asked why the Media Center Operations budget had been zeroed
out and asked what happened to the funding for the Glendale Connection.
Mr. Stoddard presented the Public Affairs budget. He said with the department's
reorganization, the Glendale Connection item had been consolidated into Community
Activities.
Councilmember Clark asked why there were two separate Communications line items.
Ms. Rios explained that was internal movement of funds.
Mr. Duensing said he was presenting the Mayor's budget and the Council budget. He
said they were requesting one additional FTE in the Council office and restoring the
Mayor's funding for his FTEs. He said the one FTE request would bring the total FTEs in
the Council Office to 6 employees. He said they were working through the process to
see how those positions would be structured.
Mr. Duensing said it was their intent to include $10,000 assistance for the volunteer
program in the Neighborhood Services. He requested continuation of the funding for that
program.
Councilmember Clark asked if there were currently five FTEs in the Council Office.
Mr. Duensing said that was correct.
Councilmember Clark asked if the communications project manager position was filled
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Mr. Duensing said the communications project manager position had been filled.
Ms. Sliva said that position had been filled.
Councilmember Clark asked if the five positions had all been filled.
Mr. Duensing said there was currently one position on loan, so Council was receiving
support but not all of the positions had been filed.
Councilmember Clark asked what the Council office was receiving for the $28,044
technology charge, per device.
Mr. Duensing said there were five FTEs and it was an allocation of the technology that
they had.
Councilmember Clark asked what difference it made if they had five people in the office if
the charges were made per device.
Mr. Duensing said he misspoke and it was devices.
Councilmember Clark said that was what she was interested in knowing. She said it
seemed like an exorbitant amount of money for the devices the Council Office had and
used.
Ms. Rios said staff could get the detail regarding the number of devices, what those
devices were and the charges.
Mayor Weiers recessed the meeting for lunch
Mayor Weiers resumed the meeting.
Mr. Murphy presented the IT Department budget. He said there were four funds in the
department, which included the information and technology fund, telephone fund,
technology replacement fund and technology projects fund. He said 3 FTEs were
approved in FY17 for the IT Department. Those positions included an IT Manager, an IT
Project Manager (Information Security Officer), as well as a Data Architect.
Councilmember Clark asked how many departments in the City now employed their own
IT support.
Mr. Murphy asked for clarification of the question.
Councilmember Clark said she was asking about departments paying for outside support
for software that was specific to their department.
Mr. Murphy said, generally, if there was a technical issue, IT staff would get on the phone
with the software company for support. He said there were other applications where the
City paid for support and staff would call the vendor directly to discuss an issue or
problem they were having.
Councilmember Clark asked if training was provided to each employee who would be
using a particular software and where that training was located in the budget documents.
Mr. Murphy said IT did not have a budget area for training.
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Ms. Rios said the City used a train the trainer type of business model and the in-house
subject matter experts would train the new employee. She said if additional training was
needed, a department might use its local travel money to attend local training in that
software.
Councilmember Clark asked about several line items and asked if those items had been
moved somewhere else in the budget.
Ms. Rios said some of the items in technology replacement were not actual
replacements, so they were moved to another section of the budget.
Councilmember Clark asked about several other items that had been zeroed out.
Mr. Murphy said those items were in the project equipment fund and there were no
equipment items specified in those projects.
Ms. Rios said if there was a budget for the project, but it included warranties or line
supplies, it was charged there. She said the budget was not there, but some of the
project costs were broken down further. She said the total amount of the project did not
change, but the total distribution between the line items might have changed.
Councilmember Clark asked how many devices the Council Office technology fund
supported and what were they getting for that amount.
Mr. Murphy said there might be a misunderstanding about what that amount covered. He
said IT tracked devices for every department. He said software, switches, routers and
firewalls, maintenance costs and software costs were included in the fee.
Councilmember Clark asked how much Microsoft Office cost.
Mr. Murphy said the City had an agreement with Microsoft Office, which was renewed
every three years. He said the cost was about $500,000 per year.
Councilmember Clark said the Council Office IT costs paid for their share of the cost of
Microsoft Office and any equipment and maintenance that made their equipment run.
Mr. Murphy said that was correct.
Mr. Duensing said the charges for IT were allocated both on FTEs and devices. He said
the Council Office had 20 devices, divided between the 11 FTEs. He said operating costs
were based on the number of FTEs throughout the City and the technology replacement
was based on devices maintained in each area.
Councilmember Turner would like to see a higher goal of customer satisfaction than 80%.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked about how the technology costs were spread out to the
departments.
Ms. Rios said telephones were also allocated out. She said technology projects were
allocated differently. Some projects might only be allocated to one department.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked how technology charges were divided per employee.
Councilmember Tolmachoff said she was confused as to why the amounts were so much
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higher this year than last year.
Ms. Rios said last year they had available fund balance in the IT fund so departments
were not charged as much. This year, there was no available fund balance, so the
departments were charged the entire amount in technology charges. She also explained
there were additional costs such as FTEs that made the costs higher.
Councilmember Tolmachoff said there were several pieces of equipment she did not use.
She asked if those devices should be turned back in to IT.
Mr. Murphy said IT sent out an asset inventory report every year and requested
departments return equipment they were not using.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked if there was a cost .savings to the department if it
turned in unused equipment.
Mr. Murphy said those items would come off the inventory report and would eventually
reflect in the allocation.
Councilmember Aldama asked if laptops and desktop computer were included in
technology replacement.
Mr. Murphy said that was correct.
Councilmember Aldama asked if the warranties for that equipment expired while it was on
the shelf or while it was in use.
Mr. Murphy said they focused the purchases so as soon as those items came in, they
could be used, because the warranty clock started right away.
Councilmember Aldama wanted everyone to know that the warranty for equipment began
the day of purchase.
Mr. Murphy said they knew how many devices were due to be replaced and how many
could be replaced. IT scheduled purchases to coincide with those dates so equipment
would be installed in less than a week from the day it was received.
Mr. Murphy told Councilmember Turner that the highest customer service rating was the
goal for his staff. He said those were just the initial metrics, but they wanted to achieve
the highest rating possible for the services provided.
Ms. Handlong introduced the City Manager's Office budget. She said the budget was
over $800,000 and had 5 FTEs. The budget had decreased 8% due to office
restructuring.
Mr. Phelps provided information on the core projects and initiatives that the City
Manager's office handled. He said they were working through the strategic initiatives
process, What Works Cities, an Open Data program as well as developing a LEAN
Academy. They were also looking at their asset management system and trying to
refine the depth of that program.
Mr. Duensing said they were adopting the balanced scorecard strategic planning
process. He said measures drove performance in organizations, and they needed to
measure progress. They were trying to make those measures more performance-based.
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Councilmember Clark highlighted that the City Manager's Department had deliberately
decreased its budget by 8.15%. The department was setting a standard and sending a
signal to other departments.
Councilmember Clark said the cell phone charges were gone.
Ms. Handlong provided information where those charges could be found.
Ms. Bower presented the City Clerk's Office budget. She said the FY17 approved
supplementals included a request for funds to conduct the 2016 election and transfer of a
senior management assistant to the City Clerk's Office.
Ms. Bower said the FY18 supplemental requests included funding for enterprise content
management software. The cost included software and software support, installation,
documentation and training, project management services, vendor hosting and cloud
storage and conversion of 3.5 million existing records. There would be very little impact
on the IT department because the system would be hosted in the cloud.
Ms. Bower provided information on the cost savings for the system. With the return on
investment in staff time savings, the system would pay for itself in about 7 years. She
said it would increase efficiency and improve transparency for the public.
Councilmember Malnar liked the statistics presented that the new system would pay for
itself in 7 years. He said it provided the citizens with assurances that the City was
making good investments. He supported implementing the new system.
Mr. Johnson presented the Water Services budget. He said in 2017, 3 FTEs were added
to Water Services and 2 of those employees were already funded through the water
sewer fund. He said there were 4 water treatment plants, 2 wastewater reclamation
plants, and the City was an owner in the 91st Avenue wastewater treatment plant owned
by Phoenix.
Councilmember Aldama asked how many of the water meters were read remotely.
Mr. Johnson said 2,000 of the meters were read automatically and those were placed in
the most unsafe areas of the City or where the meters were hard to access.
Councilmember Aldama asked how many total water meters were there in the City.
Mr. Johnson said there were 62,000 meters.
Councilmember Aldama asked if there were any plans of going to automatic meter
reading in residential areas and asked if that would require a reduction in staff.
Mr. Johnson said the department had started looking at that, but was focused on the
return on investment. It would cost millions of dollars to move to a fully automatic
system.
Councilmember Aldama asked if there was also a risk management component to that
process.
Mr. Johnson said that -was correct. His employees faced danger every day.
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Councilmember Aldama appreciated the men and women who did that job every day.
Mr. Johnson said the FY18 operating budget requested supplementals included $184,000
for overtime and employee -related costs, which had increased due to a change in the
holiday policy.
Councilmember Clark asked why the professional development budget had doubled.
Mr. Johnson said the state now required renewal fees for state certification licenses.
Councilmember Clark asked why the bank fees had been reduced.
Ms. Rios said reductions had been made in bank fees due to a change to the type of fee
and how the City was classified with the bank.
Councilmember Clark said the budget item equipment less than $5,000 per unit had
doubled and asked what types of equipment the department obtained.
Mr. Johnson said various items of office and safety equipment needed to be replaced.
Councilmember Clark said chemical costs were down for the Arrowhead Water Retention
Division.
Mr. Johnson said they had been doing their homework and were saving money on a new
contract. A centralized process control manager had been holding down the costs for the
items.
Councilmember Clark asked what the big expense was at WAWRF for building
maintenance and repair.
Mr. Johnson said the costs included routine maintenance and HVAC work, plumbing
work and fire suppression improvements.
Councilmember Clark said the customer service in the field budget had gone down and
asked if that reflected the loss of a customer service position. She asked why they
reduced the effectiveness of their customer service in the field. Was the budget decrease
attributed to the loss of a position.
Mr. Johnson said the FTEs had not changed, but they had been rotating personnel and
getting them on board. He said they hired temporaries to do that and there was a lesser
cost for that.
Councilmember Clark asked what caused the big increase in the water distribution
division.
Mr. Johnson said they had merged the meter maintenance group with the water
distribution group to make sure they all were meeting the requirements for their job
descriptions.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked about the IT project chargeback.
Mr. Johnson said they were replacing some of their SCADA remote equipment.
Councilmember Tolmachoff asked if that was being charged by IT.
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Ms. Rios said it was an IT project that was budgeted in the IT budget, but was related to
SCADA and specific to the Water Services Department, so it was being charged back to
Water Services.
Mr. Friedline presented the Public Works budget. He said the Public Works department
was made up of three divisions and the largest cost was the operating budget, which
included contract services. He said the pavement management program was a 5 to
7 -year project and staff would move as quickly as possible to improve the streets.
Mr. Beard discussed the Engineering division of Public Works. He said approved
supplementals for FY17 included a recruitment for a FTE. The FY18 request included 7
FTEs, including two engineer positions which were not built into the FY18 budget. He
said an engineering project manager would also be added as well as a real estate
coordinator consultant.
Ms. Woytenko said the Field Operations FY17 budget supplementals included one FTE
to increase reliability and reduce the contract. They were able to get the person on board
quickly and there was approximately a $35,000 savings in hiring the position.
Ms. Woytenko said they were asking for recycling containers in the FY18 budget to
replace containers that were worn, cracked and broken. She said they were also asking
for an account specialist lead to assist with the new scale at the landfill. The position
would cut the wait time significantly.
Mr. Ebersole said Transportation budget supplementals for FY 17 included a
transportation planner who was taking over a large amount of work that was generally
outsourced. He said two service workers and a dump truck were also brought on board
which was assisting with the pavement management program and in-house concrete
repair projects, which saved money for the City.
Mr. Ebersole said FY18 supplementals included 1 FTE as a signs and markings
supervisor, who would assist with implementing striping and sign installation programs.
Councilmember Clark asked with all the new pavement projects, wouldn't a crewmember
be more beneficial than hiring a supervisor.
Mr. Ebersole said it was a working supervisor position.
Mr. Ebersole said a tractor was being purchased, which would be a cost savings for the
City. He explained the audit fees were for the GO audit which was done every three
years. There were costs for the fixed -route contract, traffic mitigation operational budget
increase, and radios and tablets for street crews.
Councilmember Aldama asked for an explanation why the City could not advertise on
some of the signs.
Mr. Ebersole said the dynamic message signs were purchased with federal funds and
they were restricted on what could be put on the signs. He said the messages had to be
traffic -related.
Councilmember Aldama hoped the viewing public understood why the City could not
advertise on the signs.
Councilmember Clark asked about the decrease in the Fiesta Bowl Division professional
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and contractual expenses.
Mr. Ebersole said that item was for the Final Four fees and costs.
Councilmember Clark asked why it was under Fiesta Bowl.
Mr. Ebersole said that was the general fund budget it was allocated to.
Councilmember Clark said that was the account the Fiesta Bowl and Final Four was
under.
Councilmember Clark asked about the increase in the budget for the Transportation
Operations Division.
Mr. Ebersole said that was contract obligations regarding the agreement for parking. He
said it used to be in the stadium operations fund and had been moved to the arena fund.
Councilmember Clark requested better explanations for the items.
Councilmember Clark asked about graffiti removal and graffiti removal right-of-way division
charges. She said one was funded by the general fund and the other was funded by
HURF. She said there was no change in the budget allocation for either one, but she had
heard graffiti had been increasing. She asked if there was any provision to increase the
amount should it be necessary.
Mr. Ebersole said the graffiti removal had been on track and they were not forecasting
additional needs. Graffiti incidents fluctuated between 10,000 and 13,000 per year.
Councilmember Clark asked if the HURF-funded traffic studies division handled speed
humps.
Mr. Ebersole said that was correct.
Councilmember Clark asked how many speed hump requests were they able to complete
during a fiscal year.
Mr. Ebersole said there were several speed humps designated for replacement to the new
style. He said he did not know how many they were going to complete this year.
Councilmember Clark asked if there was a waiting list for new speed humps and how
many were they able to fulfill each year.
Mr. Ebersole said they could take as many requests that might come in. He said for
each request, they had to perform a study, perform community outreach, go through the
petition process and see if speed humps were warranted.
Councilmember Clark asked if they had a waiting list.
Mr. Ebersole said they did not have a waiting list.
Councilmember Clark asked if they had received any requests for speed humps in the
past fiscal year.
Mr. Ebersole said yes.
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Councilmember Clark asked if those requests were fulfilled within the fiscal year
Mr. Ebersole said the studies were fulfilled.
Councilmember Clark asked if the physical work was completed, as well.
Mr. Ebersole said it was more complicated than that, and just because a speed hump
was requested did not mean a speed hump would go in because it might not be
warranted. He said once a request was received, a study had to be conducted to identify
the speed of the vehicles, the congestion and count of the vehicles, and if the request
met that criteria, a petition process was done.
Councilmember Clark asked if any speed humps were installed as a result of the
completion of any studies.
Mr. Beard said 26 speed humps were installed that were on a previous waiting list.
Councilmember Clark asked if there was a waiting list right now.
Mr. Ebersole was not aware of the waiting list and thought all requests had been fulfilled.
Councilmember Clark asked what was in the transportation mitigation division budget.
Mr. Ebersole said traffic mitigation worked with the general engineering consultant to do
counts after receiving resident requests for speed humps.
Councilmember Clark said that was all under the traffic studies division right now.
Mr. Ebersole said in the mitigation division, they had an engineering consultant that
would help them with studies so they could move forward with programs such as the
flashing yellow intersections.
Councilmember Clark asked what else was being done in the department.
Mr. Ebersole said there were traffic counts.
Councilmember Clark said they were not doing traffic counts for the speed humps as
those were being done under the traffic studies division.
Ms. Rios said the traffic studies information Councilmember Clark was referring to had
already been moved into the traffic mitigation division.
Councilmember Clark said that clarified her question.
Ms. Rios said that concluded the departmental presentations. She said staff would
follow-up on several items, including the CIP, and would wrap up at the next meeting.
Mayor Weiers thanked everyone for attending and adjourned the budget workshop
meeting.
ADJOURNMENT
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City Council adjourned at 3:27 p.m.
I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and correct
copy of the minutes of the meeting of the Glendale City Council
of Glendale, Arizona, held on the 28h day of April, 2017. 1
further certify that the meeting was duly called and held and
that a quorum was present.
Dated this la �a y of 2017.
JU14W Bower, MMC, City Clerk
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