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COST REVIEW AD -HOC COMMITTEE MEETING
MINUTES
March 10, 2020
Siskiyou Room
51 Winburn Way
Cost Review Ad -Hoc Committee Chair Slattery called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m.
Roll Call
Present: Shaun Moran
Mike Morris (Arrived at 3:04 p.m.)
Stefani Seffinger (Arrived at 3:13 p.m.)
Roberta Stebbins
Shane Hunter
Dennis Slattery
Jim Bachman
Pam Lucas (Arrived at 3:13 p.m.)
Absent: Mark Welch
Julie Akins
Approval of Minutes
Bachman/Hunter m/s to move approving the February 19, 2020 meeting minutes as presented.
All approved.
Loose Ends -Questions and Answers
Slattery began by noting that the presentation regarding Community Development would take
place first as there was a planning meeting taking place that same evening. The Committee did
not have any questions when asked by Slattery for Community Development.
Slattery went on to state the Committee would move on to the closing task of making
recommendations to City Council.
Slattery also thanked Fire Chief David Sheperd and Assistant City Administrator Adam Hanks for
the information provided on CERT and Economic Development (Information attached).
Kelly Madding, City Administrator presented to the Committee a presentation on the summary of
the recommendations. These recommendations were based on Committee input and staff
recommendations. (information attached).
She began by talking about PERS. She went on to note that the takeaways on this were that it
would be more expensive for the City to not provide the PERS pickup. She explained further
that the City has five different bargaining groups that have contracts. These groups made up of
City employees include Electric, Clerical, Police, and Fire. The City she added currently picks up
the employees' portion of PERS in addition to employers' portion. An option related to this she
states would be to go into bargaining and say that the City could financially no longer do this.
She added that this would be very difficult to do this and not provide compensation, as she did
not know of any City, State or other jurisdiction that do not pick up this 6% portion without doing
anything to compensated employees. Looking at making a philosophical choice for employees
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to pay their own 6% as the State and Klamath Falls did, she added actually ends up costing
more to the City in the way of contributing what you would need to employees. Madding also
discussed the question of why the City of Ashland is not like Klamath Falls to which she added
that although it did cost more to compensate employees, Klamath Falls was able to tell
constituents that their employees pay their own PERS, as noted in a conversation with the City
itself. Slattery clarified that the 6.71 % listed was the number that would have to be increased to
compensated employees the 6% employee portion of PERS. He also added that this was based
on the philosophical view that no cost savings would be cost neutral. She responded it would
not be cost neutral, but you would not gain any cost savings. Jim Bachman, Committee Member
asked what the cost association would be for the 6.71 % to which Madding responded that they
would find out. Slattery and Madding confirmed that there would be no cost savings and the City
would not gain anything by doing this. Slattery commented however that gain would be made if
the decision was made to increase pay by 2% and asked if this had been suggested. Madding
responded that she was not aware that this suggestion had been made. Slattery furthered
clarified that in order to give the 6% compensation that you would need to also give them the tax
so they would not fall under 6%. Furthermore, Madding explained that previously a suggestion
had been made that new City employees would pick up their 6%of PERS but with the recently
passed Pay Equity Law the City would be required to pay the 6.71 % because the pay has to be
equal within the Collective bargaining agreement groups. Bryn Morrison, Administrative Service
Manager noted that the 6% is a total cost 2.6 million dollars and in addition the City would incur
1.1 million dollars to make employees whole under a wage increase. Bachman clarified that the
1.1 million dollars would be part of the .71 % increase, which Morrison confirmed. The
Committee asked for further clarification on this, questioning if this was over the biennium.
Morrison further clarified that salaries proposed for the 2021-23 biennium totaled 42.6 million
dollars and if the 6% was not picked up it would go to 45.5 million but that adding in the VEBA,
FICA Medicare, and PERS with the 6% components the total at status quo would be 60 million
dollars and with no pickup this total would be the salaries, VEBA, PERS, FICA Medicare, 61.1
million. Salaries over all would increase by 2.8%, HRA VEBA would increase due to the
increase on the 6%, and PERS would increase because you must pay based on the 6% as well.
Bachman noted that these are the City expense the employee never sees.
Madding went on to say that she is only pointing out the facts, but that recommendation was
that of the Committees.
Shaun Moran, Committee member added the assumption on this information was that all City
Staff are represented, adding that over half the City staff is not represented. Madding clarified
that this was true. To which Moran said this was significant to know, also asking why there is a
requirement for the City to match, the assumption he noted was the rate has increased every
year. Madding clarified again what she had previously said about the bargaining unions
acknowledging that there is a group not under the bargaining agreement. She added that the
Committee could decide to cut this groups pay 6% as recommendation to the City Council.
Madding added that this would be an amount that Staff could return to the Committee. Slattery
stated that the next natural question would be how many employees this would count.
Madding went on to discuss Healthcare questions. She stared by looking at why being self -
insured did not work adding that the City had moved plans most recently to City County
Insurance. The plan initially mirrored that of the prior plan for employees for a time but after that
the City had to choose another existing plan through CIS. After working with the Health Benefits
Advisory Committee and staff, she selected a plan with an increased cost to employees. This
plan however she added saves the City about 1 million dollars a biennium. She also explained
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that employees had known of the cost differences between this and the self-insurance plan and
that the self-insurance plan that was beneficial to employees but did not work. She had told the
employees when she spoke with them that her goal was to put some money away to try and
normalize the cost increases that will be see with City County insurance plan moving forward.
(Information attached).
In addition to the change, Madding also presented on previous information to the Committee on
95/5 or the City picking up 95% and the employee picking up 5% of the premium. Madding
added that the Committee could recommend a different percentage and that if Council directed
Administration and HR, they would attempt change this during bargaining. Slattery added that
this was the same set up as PERS and this could be bargained.
Slattery went on to remind the Committee that no one must be defensive about putting anything
on a list and that the Committee would be populating two lists, one regarding the General Fund,
that would be mandated somewhat in the present context. And on the other side of the line he
added are items that are discretionary. He added that the decisions on PERS and healthcare
would not be made by this Committee but would be a policy change that could go on the list of
items that they wished to be looked at. He cautioned and reiterated that he did not want people
to think that this Committee had made decisions as they do not have that ability.
Moran asked Madding about some questions that he had previously sent regarding the previous
slide. The questions that Moran was referring to were those regarding deductibles for health
insurance. He further went on to say that he knew with the new plan that deductibles had
increased for 24-hour safety departments such as Fire and Police and then asked if the plan
had increased. Madding responded that it had increased but not for Fire and Police, as they do
not come off their plan into a CityCounty Insurance plan until for Police the year 2021 and Fire
the year 2022. Moran confirmed that this was then a four-year plan, to which Madding
responded that the pervious deducible was $300.00 and now is $500.00 for an individual and for
a family was $900.00 and now is $1,500. The out of pocket maximum she explained is $900.00
for an individual and is now for a preferred provider $2,500. Morrison also noted that this could
all be found in an email that was previously sent on February 28, 2020. Madding ended by
saying that the plan is saving the City money but that is costing employees more. She also
added that funds from this are the in the health insurance fund not in the general insurance
fund, with the goal being that the savings from funds be there to help offset cost which will in
turn help the City that pays 95% of the premium.
Moving on to discuss the Ambulance, Madding referred to the presentations of Chief Sheperd,
Mercy Flights, District 3, and Medford Fire and that the costs of operating the ambulance
service in the City's services area is about equal to the revenue collected form the service area.
She asked the Committee to consider these items as they are looking toward the future and
when they make a recommendation to Council. She also explained that by July 2020 the City
must send a letter as to whether the City wants to continue the ASA or does not to Jackson
County. Madding stated that to hire an outside consultant and do a forensic like audit it could
not be done by June 2020, because of the process around an RFP. She suggested that the
Committee could however recommend that an internal staff audit be done. Based on
discussions with the Jackson County Auditor on this type of work Madding explained that she
believed that the City does have the capacity to do something like this, but the question would
be if they would have enough staff and time. She added that this would not be compared to an
external audit and that could have issues. Slattery asked if there was a place in between these
two ideas, as he thought the wording of an audit was a step too strong. He explained that what
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he is looking for is someone from the outside taking the City's records and building, as well as
testing to full costs for the ambulance services but that he did not know if this had to be a
specialized consultant. He thought that this could be the current audit company used by the
City, keeping in mind that this has nothing to do with quality form the Chief, but that the decision
that is made by Council needs to be in accordance with someone who is a step back bearing in
mind that this should not be costly and time consuming. He added that this could be like
someone looking at records over the last 10 years looking at the full costs associated with
running an ambulance service including equipment, supplies, gas and insurance. He stated that
he understood that there was a trickiness in how peoples time is allotted between fire and
ambulance but that this could be put off to the side. Madding noted that this could be looked at
but that she was still concerned about the deadline in relation to when it needed to come to
council. She added that if they did do this and had Moss -Adams the current City auditor come in
and look at the records they might find one of three things, first the ambulance costs more than
the revenue that is collected, second it is the same, or third the ambulance costs less then what
is collected. She further noted that the reason she spoke to a staff audit and vetting the options
with the public was that she thought that the Council may be comfortable knowing what to do
with the ambulance service without vetting anything form the public. Slattery did not think this
was, Madding stated that this could be recommendation of the Committee and then staff could
look at the options to meet the timeline. She explained the next recommendation was continue
with the ASA for another five-year period and then in more detail look at other options on what
to do with both the ambulance and fire department. Other options she explained could be a fire
district, or an administrative merger with Fire District Five, with a variety of different models that
City could entertain that could not however be done between now and the deadline for items to
be to Council by June of this year. She stated that her main concern was the timeline involved
but that if the Committee wanted to make that recommendation between now and then that staff
could look at talking with Moss Adams to see what could be done. Slattery added that it felt like
they were painted into a corner, because it looks it cannot be done between now and June. His
thoughts were that it would not take the much time and the information does exist. He added
that someone from the outside does need to review this, so that there is not an argument as to
the quality of the numbers. If the City cannot do it any time, then it would be back to having
another 5-year contract, creating a decision that people do not like or that it would seem like the
issue was begin given up on. Madding suggested that she sees this differently and that she
looks at it as a very big decision, to which Slattery agreed, and that she also stated should not
be done in haste. Slattery clarified if you could withdraw form an ASA to which Madding
responded yes. Chief Sheperd explained that arrangements would then have to made for
services to continue.
Roberta Stebbins, Committee Member expressed that she had previously been at a job where
she had done a lot of governmental audits within small towns, fire districts, and school districts.
Much of this she added was done during a very different time but that as a previous auditor and
based on what she sees the City wanting that it is one thing to look a data that is already there
and another to look at how it has changed. These audits she stated have a heavy dependence
on departments, asking them questions because as an auditor you don't know all the
information. She added that it is not as easy as just looking at the bills and coming up yourself
with how it should be allocated. Ultimately, she added there is no total independence of picking
up numbers with the complex information needed. She ended by saying that if you just want to
look at numbers that is something that can be done internally as these numbers are what they
are and cannot be changed and that writing an RFP for something like this would be hard in this
situation. Slattery responded that the word audit is a word that is a step beyond to which
Stebbins suggested something like the word review. She also further noted that she did not see
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it changing allocations from the way they have been made, Slattery added that this was not
what he was looking for. He added that what he was looking for was an outside source to look
at what staff can provide and then say that the numbers are put together in a certain way. His
reasoning he went on to explain was that if the current numbers were used and it was seen that
cost is less than the revenue and then a decision is made the critique that would be given could
be that they had gone with their own numbers which is what he wants to get passed. Stebbins
stated that the Chief has said that he needs three more people and that this would need to be a
part of the recommendation. Slattery stated that this was moving away from the ambulance
numbers and he understands that they are being asked for more people but maybe the idea is
that they use the ambulance numbers that have come from staff in the Committee
recommendation to council. Stebbins suggested looking at how allocations have been changed
as she thought there had been dramatic changes over the last few years as this might be a
place to start. Slattery explained that this further underscore the need for external accounting so
the numbers are not argued with and that staff would then not be put in a position. Chief
Sheperd clarified to the Committee that what they are looking for is an outside party that says
that the numbers are correct and that it is not the department saying what the numbers are.
Slattery stated that from a leadership standpoint he does not want these numbers to put the
Chief in a problematic position and that he would rather not put any staff in that position.
Stebbins then went on to suggest going and talking to Moss Adams and get input from them on
if it would make sense. Slattery suggested working with Staff to do this, to which Madding stated
that this could be done.
Moran asked for clarification as to when ambulance costs are stated if this includes the supplies
and materials without personnel. Slattery responded that yes talking about personnel is going to
be very difficult. You would have to sit down with staff he explained and that some judgment
based on work duties would need to be had but there are some cost other than that including
supplies such as gas that are tracked. He went on to say that he above all he wants to make
sure that it was all represented on a timeline with side by side information. Moran stated that his
observation that as a part of the inquiry that if you look at Mercy Flights they would operate at
no cost to tax payers or to the City and if this true extrapolating out 4 to 10 years you have to
consider the future cost to the City to operate that service because the Mercy Flights portion
would always stay constant and it would always be free. He added that justice is not being given
to fact that there are extra costs and that going forward this would be a different model. The cost
impact the City he noted will never change then if the service is migrated to Mercy Flights.
Slattery commented that cost for supplies and personnel would go up, to which Moran clarified
this would be personnel as well. Slattery further responded that all revenues continue even in
five years, but this would be work that would go on beyond the Committee's time. He went on to
say that there could be recommendation to study further or stop.
Stebbins commented that she supported what Moran stated as this could relieve some
expenses. Slattery followed up saying that the only reason he disagrees with this is because it
needs to be study but requires that if for the next ten years revenues exceed expenses then the
comments would not be true. Moran noted that that would mean 12,000 calls to which Slattery
responded that the statements are in theory and would need to be study, as no one knows the
answers and gives an example of the questions that do need to be answered. To Committees
answer he also commented that there would need to be some cost projecting.
Madding went on to present again on streamlining or outsourcing. The first topic she noted had
been discussed was outsourcing payroll to which she stated that when Cities look at doing this
they look often to services that there are multiple vendors for in the private sector because if
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there are no vendor the City would be left doing the job. She added that payroll is one of these
but that there are also things like landscape services, auto maintenance and facility
maintenance. She suggested that this could be a recommendation to City Council to look at
such things, but that it should be expedited due to the possible loss of staff. The other items that
she noted that Cities do not do a good job of is looking at the full cost not just one-time costs.
Such costs would include staff time. She also added that there are lots of benefits to having
your own service people because they can respond to priorities. She added that it would be best
to look at the whole analysis not just cost because as the staff is lean and if staff are waiting
around there would be problems. Slattery commented that he would like to see this as a
recommendation to staff as there is another element of workflow documentation and at some
point, there has to work done to see what is value added or not value added including looking at
technology. One example he noted of this was using robo-calls in Utility Billing and is
technology being used to the advantage of the City. Madding stated that most staff are doing
more, Slattery responded to this that it's not sustainable. Stefani Seffinger, Committee Member
asked how these fit into recommendations of how things are done through CEAP and how this
relates to what is asked of staff. Slattery said that at some point you would need to say no.
Moran further commented to streamlining by saying that the City needs to do a deep dive into
the Information technology department, billing and possibly payroll and look at what is possibly
doable. Moran noted that the information technology department has a 7-million-dollar budget
and that there could be a series of VARS or Value -Added Sellers in the technology world that
could be looked as technology moves fast. He went on to say that knowing this makes owing
your own Information Technology Department not make very much sense, as it would be
cheaper to outsource. Slattery added that it seemed like Moran wanted to make a case for
adding this into a recommendation, to which Moran added that he wanted to recommend overall
looking at streaming. Slattery acknowledged this and stated that they would come back to it, as
the entire Committee shares this desire.
On this same topic the Committee asked if it was possible to know what costs there are related
to changing oil in a City Vehicle and other related costs to a City Vehicle in general. Madding
responded that they do keep track of these costs. The Committee further asked if they knew
what it cost to pave a block worth of asphalt, to which staff responded yes. Mike Morris,
Committee Member added then that the City would have the data to do an analysis to put the
numbers out to bid if needed. Adam Hanks, Assistant City Administrator responded that
sometimes there are also other factors involved in this as well. Madding added that in order to
know where to start you need to get a baseline of where to start, and that looking at time
tracking as this is something that the Committee has discussed before. Hanks added that there
are many times when departments like Parks are asked to do things out of their normal work,
like items helping with the Fourth of July that are not part of the work a 31d Party Vendor would
do and the City would have to find ways to catch those one off situations that are currently being
taken care of by City staff.
Madding also explained in response to Moran's comments that it would be like buying off the
shelf software and you get what you get as it is a basic product, but this is something that can
be looked at if that is the direction the Committee wants to go.
Madding ended by looking at the costs associated with Parks. Furthermore, she explained that
the reason this was not previously talked about was the City basically writes a check to Parks at
about 10 million dollars for the biennium, but the City does not have a lot of control over how the
money is spent. She added that when Council looked at essential services that Parks
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Maintenance was considered essential and recreation was a considered a value service.
Presenting the numbers, she stated that recreation is about a third of the cost during the
biennium of the money going to Parks. When looking at cutting in the City she explained that it
is important to look at Parks as part of this and if asked by the Committee to cut a certain
amount parks would have been in the equation. Moran asked how the City came up with the
number for the Parks contribution. Madding answered that it was $2.09 but during the last
biennium that was reduced to $1.89. Morris stated that he thought that the original number was
somewhere in the City Charter. To which the Committee responded, that this was not the case
commenting that with Measure 5 this was all overridden and then became a gentlemen's
agreement. Seffinger added that there was a disagreement between Parks and the Budget
Committee but ultimately the Budget Committee got to decide the amount and Parks would
decide on what it was used for.
Slattery went on to say that one of the messages he would like to go out moving forward is that
it is not just about cutting but that increase in efficiencies also needs to be looked at and that
proactive planning needs to take place, so you don't have to come in and cut things. Madding
responded that she agreed but there was also a look at the philosophy of service. She further
commented that when looking at the Recreation Department within Parks, the slide did not note
how much money is being brought in and that you could have a philosophy that recreation
would pay for itself but that she was pretty sure that it did not.
Moran asked that in addition to the 10.7 million is there still 25% of the Food and Beverage Tax
that they receive at $800,000.
Madding presented other income sources as the Marijuana tax that brings in about $100,000
that goes into the Housing Trust Fund. General Funds at $134,000 that are used to fund Social
Service Grants, the Transient Occupancy Tax that pays for Economic, Cultural, Tourism and
Sustainability Grants. Slattery added on the Economic, Cultural, Tourism and Sustainability
Grants that the funds would go into the General fund, to which Madding, and Hanks agreed and
stating that it was considered unrestricted funds. Madding explained as well that you could take
$150,000 out of the unrestricted TOT, but some grantees would not be eligible and that by
having it come from the general fund there is a broader eligibility. She added that these grants
were also not considered essential services by Council. Additionally, she noted that Community
Preparedness was also not considered essential even though it was listed high as a service by
Council. This Madding explained is basically the CERT program at $129,000. All of services
equal a total of $513,000. Slattery confirmed that there was a pretty good agreement that this is
something that would be need considered by Council as to whether they continue or they don't,
as this a policy discussion.
The last topic that Madding presented on was the topic of the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project.
She stated that previously it had been discussed if this could strictly be funded by the fee of
$3.00 on the Utility Bill and through Grants. Staff was asked what they would do with just this
money to which they provided a look at. (Information attached) It was pointed out by staff that
there are two FTE, to which looking at the numbers presented would equate to a little over 400
acres that could be burned. However, Madding explained that she did not know if this was a
staff target or a Council target, but that this target was 1,300 acres a year. Slattery asked what
they were currently burning to which Madding responded was about 400 at this time. He further
inquired as to if this was for funding or time. Madding explained that this was because of
funding, as communication had been made to this previously. Moran also asked where the
$100,000 that comes from the Water Fund and goes to AFR is at. Madding responded that it
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used to be $250,000 and what had happened was during the last budget, the former Finance
Director brought forward an increase that would yield $3.00 per $1,000 and that would increase
the money coming in to AFR by $250,000. This she explained offset the water contribution but
with no nexus for the contribution only $50,000 was brought over to make the fund whole, but
the $200,000 remains in the Water Fund. Moran responded that the thought it was a City Policy
that the money not be moved from the Water fund to the General Fund. Madding clarified that
the nexus was that AFR use to be in Water and that made sense as you were protecting the
City's Watershed, but when it became its own program within the Fire Department the thought
at the time was that it used Water Money and this would continue. However, she further noted
that it is only using $50,000 and she believes that is an appropriate nexus for this. Slattery
asked what the $50,000 a year was used for which Madding stated was for burning or a
$100,000 total for the biennium, also adding that it used to be $250,000 a year. All of this she
surmised in response to Slattery is because there is an appropriate nexus between doing
thinning and burning within the Watershed with making sure our watershed doesn't burn but
what it means is more is not being done because of budget. Slattery then asked if more was
done would there need to be a bigger surcharge, to which Madding responded yes, but that
although she would not recommend it you could take it out of the Water Fund.
Madding explained the presented grant money that AFR receives commenting that the program
is very successful at getting grants.
Recommendations to City Council
Stebbins commented that items that the Committee worked on needed to have the affordability
and that without a Finance Director the City is at a great disadvantage. She explained further
that this is important, even though the Staff currently charged with this are great, but they are
busy. She added that affordability needs numbers and these need to be attached to a Finance
Director as they could say what would work. Her recommendation she explained was that a
Finance Director be hired along with other recommendations, as this is important for everyone
involved. Slattery confirmed that there is agreement already on this and this is already in the
works.
Jim Bachman, Committee Member asked the Fire Chief how often it happens and how difficult
is it to withdraw from the ASA. Chief Sheperd responded that in his 25 years in the business it
has never happened and that is written into the ordinance as to what the details of the
withdrawal would be.
The discussion on recommendations began by discussing PERS and Healthcare for non -
collective bargaining agreement employees. Bachman agreed with Slattery that needed to be
discussed. Shane Hunter, Committee Member questioned why this was just limited to non -
collective bargaining agreement employees but acknowledged that not a lot could be done for
collective bargaining agreement employees. Slattery described this as step two in the process,
but that first you would want to look at to non -collective bargaining agreement employees so
that you could move on to make a recommendation for collective bargaining agreement
employees. Hunter also added that more than PERS and healthcare should be looked at as well
including wages related to cost of living increases and all personnel costs. Moran suggested this
in a phase in discussion. Morris stated that the issue is that the biggest part of the budget is
personnel, whether it be the overhead or something else. He added when the City says they will
cover 95% and the employee 5% there is no idea of what will be paid for, with an example of
this being as costs go up more and more will need to be paid for. He suggested a determined
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amount being established and then the rest would be paid for by employees for healthcare so
that costs would be capped. Madding explained that you can do this and that there are Cities
and counties that have done this. She added that what can happen is you can give the group
the money and they can go out and shop for their own insurance or you can give them a set
amount, but it would be a negotiation. Morris also spoke to the increase in PERS, asking if the
6% is set to keep going up. Madding replied that it is a number that goes up as a person's
salary goes up, but the 6% does not change. What changes she added was the unfunded
liability.
Slattery went on to add that he understands that personnel costs are the number one cost, but
they must mirror longer term impact. If a decision was made on to non -collective bargaining
agreement employees it would be something that could be made relatively easily and quickly,
he explained. He then went on to say that if costs need to be brought down it is not being talked
about as being optimum or great to talk about doing from a collective bargaining agreement
standpoint, as it is more complicated. Madding added that for the non -collective bargaining
agreement you must look at things like compression. Overall there was agreement that this is
something to be looked at but that some collective bargaining agreements have the right to take
things to mediation Slattery added which requires a longer -term strategy. Moran asked what the
number would be for non -collective bargaining agreement groups. Hanks responded that there
are five represented groups and then two groups non represented, one in the City and one in
Parks. The Parks group he explained is under the Parks Commission, which leave those non -
represented at 60 people. It was further noted that the Parks group is made up of about 40
people.
Moran asked about the VEBA accounts, questioning what the percentage on this was. Madding
confirmed that it was 2% and Morrison confirmed that this was on the percentage of wages, not
total compensation. Madding explained that this an inexpensive way to provide money because
they are not paying taxes on this as opposed to PERS that has roll up costs. Hunter asked if this
is something they can work with and if it could be added to the list. Morris added that in the past
VEBA had been something that was used to avoid increase during negotiations, so wages were
not increased. Slattery pointed out that this was for collective bargaining agreement groups and
asked if there was a non -collective bargaining agreement part to this. Madding clarified that the
Committee was wanting to look at the entire compensation package adding that if they were
looking at this, they should also look at how you compare with the world, as this can make you
competitive or not. Slattery added that although this a Council decision that they are giving staff
a heads up on what they are suggesting and how they want it to be study. Bachman also
clarified and discussed with staff the level of detail the Committee recommendations needed to
be. Slattery and Bachman also discussed the approach to these recommendations regarding
employee compensation.
Moran added that both the VEBA and cost of living wages were both at 2%. Madding confirmed
yes but that there are things that you don't have to pay for with VEBA and that's why it had been
used in the past to compensate in a less expensive way. He confirmed this again adding in that
the PERS would be 6.71 % as well. Hanks added that COLA's are different per bargaining
group. Bachman asked if these are a locked in CBA index, Hanks confirmed that they are all
indexed.
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Bachman/Hunter m/s a motion for Council to look closely at the total compensation package of
all employees as needed over time specifically looking at but not limited to costs related to
PERS, Healthcare COLA's and VEBA. DISCUSSION: Moran began the conversation by noting
that there may need to be more detail and Slattery suggested that it could be added to. Stebbins
added that she thought the packages were looked at closely all the time and that she thought
this was done with the eye of cost reduction. Slattery added that you want to look specifically at
PERS and Healthcare costs, because the generalized look is always looked at. He specifically
spoke to the fact that these are costs that are on the list of what is to be decided and whether or
not something can be done regarding PERS and healthcare costs for the non -collective
bargaining agreement employees. Additionally, he added that this could be used in the long
term for collective bargaining agreement employees. Bachman clarified that PERS and
healthcare need to be added and stated that he wanted to withdraw his motion, but Slattery told
him that it could be amended adding that he thought it could be more specific. Hunter stated
that he thought items such as COLA's and VEBA's should be added. Morris stated that as
contract for items like this are looked it many people state that this is what everyone else is
doing and nothing ever changes, because of expense and there ends up being not much that
can be done. He added that he did not know if this would go anywhere if presented to Council
furthermore stating that he would go the route of reducing payroll costs leaving the decision to
be made of either cutting benefits or employees. Slattery responded that is what he is trying to
avoid, as he wants management to have some place to go and this would be considered
oversight. Morris clarified that he was not talking to oversight but only trying to look at efficiency
through all options and that it comes down to the total cost of the package. Also, he stated that if
it is PERS and healthcare the City will no longer be competitive in hiring. Slattery responded
that this was on the collective bargaining agreement side and they were on the non- collective
bargaining agreement side. Stebbins suggested using the word labor costs to which Morris and
Moran also suggested payroll or personnel costs. Moran also added that this would also mean
nothing slips through the cracks. Slattery stated that the thought a broad category would be
personnel or labor costs but that specifically underneath that the Committee has talked about
PERS and healthcare, as they are issues that come up every budget cycle. He added then that
the only way after cutting these items would be to cutting people, because there would be no
way to bring costs down. Morris responded by asking what was the lowest hourly wage that was
paid in the City of Ashland. Morrison responded that it was $17.00, and Hanks added that there
also temps and seasonal that are hired. Moran questioned that if everything was being but it on
the table wouldn't everyone want to be more open. Slattery stated that he was not opposed to
putting payroll on the table but that PERS and healthcare kept specifically on the
recommendations as they have been noted in the budget process. Moran suggested wording
that would look at specific payroll costs related to PERS and healthcare, adding that it would not
limit it to further discussion. Bachman added that the motion could include that Council consider
not covering the non -collective bargaining agreement employees PERS cost. Slattery
commented that would be determining a decision. Bachman then suggested adding the wording
including but not limited to the motion. Stebbins reiterated that although PERS and healthcare
have been carved out that this would become a deterrent to say we can't do anything with these
and that to emphasis this would be a turn off but if the whole personnel service package is
looked at it would include all options. She ended by stating that there is no other way to do this
but looking at the whole package. Moran asked to this if these decisions were made by a
department or by City Council. Madding responded that it was ultimately the City Council but
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items like sick leave were made long ago. She also clarified that this was for non -collective
bargaining agreement employees. Slattery commented that he thought the reason for
recommending specific things to Council is that otherwise this will all gray out and that the
contribution of 6% is an issue with a decision that could possibly look at changing the mixture or
deductible as these are very specific items where you can do something about it. He added that
the rest of this starts to become more nebulous, he suggested moving back to the statement
"including but not limited to" as he believes the topics at hand need be dealt with explicitly.
Bachman agreed with the logic of this, Slattery commented that these items would be within the
over topic. Hunter added that if a decision like not paying for any new non -collective bargaining
employees 6% PERS then that would be just changing the compensation package, so when a
new person does come on, they know that it is packaged together. Morris asked about the new
PERS plan that new employees come onto when hired, Madding and Morrison responded that
this is OPSRP adding that are still within PERS. Slattery also added that the City is still
matching as this is still PERS. Moran clarified what the issues Slattery referred to and
suggested also adding VEBA and COLA's to this list. Slattery stated that he did not mind adding
specific things to the list so that there is a very specific direction for staff to bring forward comps.
Madding agreed it would be good to address PERS and healthcare, PERS more specifically she
added has a lot of static out there on what should be done with it and she thought that it would
be good to have this discussion to let people understand what the financial ramifications would
be for a variety of different things and consequences related to this. The motion was then read
back. Bachman suggested adding in total regarding compensation. The Committee also
discussed using personnel costs as a term within the motion. Hunter suggested that be a
streamlining motion. Unanimously carried.
Bachman motioned to recommend to Council consideration of not renewing our ASA contract.
DISCUSSION: Slattery stated that he would be more comfortable if the Committee was to say
they need to further study the ambulance service and consider a more in-depth review or
direction. Bachman also commented about whether this would include a recommendation not to
continue service to which Slattery responded that this was indicative of the review. Seffinger
questioned if there was bigger issue with the fire department and Slattery commented that they
were not tackling the bigger issue at this time, but that they were just talking ambulance
services. No second, restated as next motion.
Bachman/Hunter m/s motion to recommend to Council that the ambulance be study as a unit
of the Fire Department and provide future direction by June 30, 2020 to the letter of intent
deadline for the 5-year contract. DISCUSSION: Moran clarified that by making the motion that
the Committee would not be making a motion about renewing the bid and would not be
suggesting on what to do from there. Bachman responded that that are not making a
recommendation not to renew, and Hunter confirmed. Slattery also confirmed that this was a
base motion to also recommend a decision be made as well. He also stated that further
decisions on this could be made in a form of a new motion with more direction. Stebbins
commented that it also may be helpful based on the information that the Committee must
specify that it is the deadline date of the ASA and this is reason for the date listed, as these are
important elements. Chief Sheperd also confirmed the information regarding this. In response to
this Slattery added that moving forward information about this could be passed along.
Unanimously carried.
Hunter/Moran m/s a motion for Council to review recommended levels of response for the Fire
Department and what level of service is provided on different levels of calls.
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DISCUSSION: Bachman asked if this would be contingent on what is decided on the last
motion. Hunter responded that this would be just for the Fire Department. Seffinger stated that
she would like to know if that will affect the safety of citizens causing some not to be seen, as it
was incorrectly reported what their problem was. Slattery replied that that would be good item to
discuss with Council but that it did not be discussed with this Committee. He added that it was
noted. NO, Seffinger, Motion Carries 7-1
Bachman/Hunter m/s a motion to recommend to Council to consider removing the model of
staffing of the Fire Department with only Paramedics and look a looking at a team model of
Paramedic/EMT. DISCUSSION: Seffinger commented that she believes it lowers the level of
care. Morris responded that he believed that this was part of what Council needs to look at.
Bachman also added that he would counter this with the comments made by Doug Stewart
about the quality of care increasing. Unanimously Carried.
Slattery suggested that management and staff do a review of services with an eye toward
whether some can be outsourced or better augmented with technology. He added that as this is
an involved process it would have to be a post -Finance Director job. He also added that it was
great that Mark, the Former Finance Director was here for the two years he was, but that he
thought that it was going to be the next two years when dividends would be paid like through
this type of review. The City he noted would have to go through this process again in order to be
able to complete the job noted.
Morris added that Mark additionally had recommend that Department Heads should also be
looking at where they should save money or where they could cut costs. He added the Moran
had also stated this as well. Based on that Morris suggested that the streamlining may be added
into that. He added that he felt that there must be items that are not efficient. Slattery added to
this that Moran had previously asked if staff had to cut a certain amount of dollars where would
cuts be. Morris responded that they would have to come up with a number, and then suggested
the possibility of a percentage recommendation. Moran added that he thought that his prior
statement was too direct and that he would like to rephrase what was said to reflect the thought
of grasping at efficiencies, including cost and time efficiencies. Slattery added that this really is
about gaining efficiencies and that cost is translated so often into cutting people. He also added
that they really are not talking about cutting people but are really talking about efficiencies to get
more out of what is being done and thus creating a better budget. Morris added that he would
like this directive to be made to staff and that every operation needs to be looked at as
something that needs to be done and something that could be better done to streamline. He
also suggested that he saw this as something that as a Committee they do not know the internal
operations of and this is what Department Heads do. Stebbins agreed on this adding that this is
something that would come from within.
Moran/Morris m/s a motion to recommend to Council to direct staff to advise definitive ways
where they could streamline operations with the goal of creating a meaningful cost/benefit
review of services offered and that also creates efficiencies and reduces costs. DISCUSSION:
After hearing the motion read back the Committee discussed how hard it is to have a
percentage attached to this. Hunter noted that staff typically is always looking at this and that
staff are always trying to make their jobs less hard. Morris agreed adding thoughts he had
previously stated about AFN. He explained that when AFN went away from television service,
that no staff were lost and that this was an efficiency that never happened. Hunter commented
that although he could not confirm he had thought that there was a higher level of service on the
internet side. Slattery clarified Morris' thoughts and asked if the question was that Staff needed
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to justify things like this. Moran added that the motion could include a statement reading
definitive ways to streamline efficiencies rather than being generic. He added that he
mentioned before synergies including merging departments, as this would be apart of
streamlining. Madding then asked questions so that she was clear on what was being said, as
she thought that what was being said was looking at reducing staff. She went on to add that it
sounded like the Committee was not looking at doing more with staff and that the goal was to
reduce costs which is the majority of costs in a City is people. She went on to ask the
Committee what they thought should be done with the taxpayer's money that is not being done
now, as this would be gaining efficiencies, and this is not what is being said. Furthermore, when
the Committee is talking about efficiencies that all are doing the job that they need to do she
added. These would be jobs directed by Council and be ones that the citizens expect for the
least amount of money, Madding stated. Madding also confirmed that this is done by
departments all the time because the City is required to do more every single year regardless of
population change, an example of this she added was requirements listed by the City Auditor.
She added that this was a good recommendation and that City's should always be looking for
efficiencies, but that adding a part about that staff already look for these now. She also added
that this could be a slap, or that staff it may seem are not doing this already. Slattery agreed,
stating that part of this was reviewing Council created mandates, and that this is what should
really be looked at. These would be things like Commission and Committees he added. He then
stated that these would be questions back to staff to look at and see where they disagree with
Council, adding that a challenging government has been created in Ashland by virtue of the fact
that citizens are responded to. Seffinger stated that she thought that part of creating efficiencies
is that Council thought the CEAP Committee is going to be suggesting things like not using gas
blowers and that there are of things that the Council ask for and are added, but how is it figured
out what is essential. Slattery answered that this is not so much an evaluation of the work that
Staff is doing but an evolution of what staff has been asked to do. Moran also responded that in
previous jobs efficiency did not mean eliminating people but that he was also pushed to do
things as efficient as possible and bringing up the large budget of Information Technology and
billing as something that technology can do as well. He added that does not mean getting rid of
people, as you could through attrition and moving them and that we need to look at the value.
Moran also added that there should be a mandate to run this as efficiently as possible, not get
rid of people. Madding responded that she may have said it too strongly, but that reducing staff
is a potential consequence. Slattery added that he agreed that this all needs to be looked at and
that the reality is that the City has a general fund where everything does not fit. Slattery
suggested that the whole box be used and sent as is to Council to decide on and talk about.
Stebbins added that she liked this, and the goal was to balance to the budget. Seffinger added
that this would also look at what is least essential in what the Staff do. After hearing the motion
again, the Committee decided to take out the percentage listed and discussed the wording of
how to convey the correctly the work needed on efficiencies. Seffinger suggested looking at
adding what services are least essential. Slattery stated that they would ask all involved not to
be too sensitive regarding the terms involved. Seffinger suggested that what is being asked is to
reduce costs and that this could be done by reducing things that are not essential. Hunter
suggested leaving the efficiencies part out of the motion and to direct staff to look at a
cost/benefit analysis of the services they provide adding in the list presented to the Committee.
Moran asked if this would mean identifying all the services. Hunter stated no, but that looking at
the list more could be looked at. Seffinger suggested that the Committee may be asking them to
be less efficient if they were looking at something like processing a permit because there are
less people. Adding that although it would cost less it would not be the same as being efficient.
Slattery responded that what they would be asking for would overall be a review that looks at
lowering costs and increases efficiencies and that both sides need to be looked at being
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realistic. Hunter noted that by going to department heads you are not going to see them want to
cut staff to create efficiencies. Bachman asked Madding if these types of questions related to
efficiencies would always be asked of Department Heads going into a budget season. Madding
responded that this what happened in the last biennium. Bachman then went on to state that
this then is a question that is normally asked and that the Committee was getting into too many
details. Slattey added that he agreed but that if you waited for budget season to ask that you
could get ahead of things that need to be reviewed so that things can be refined. Bachman
thought that the motion could add the wording "in anticipation of the next budget cycle". Slattery
reminded the Committee that they are less than a year out from the next budget cycle. Moran
then asked if they envisioned that the City Councilors required that departments produce a
report and or what the thought would be. Slattery replied that he felt that what was being asked
for was bigger than the next year and that he liked the idea of this starting as this could be
something that they could meet on a regular basis in some format. He added that he does not
know how this will look but that if they try to do it all they will fail, so it would be best to be
focused. Seffinger added that the professionals at each department need to know what is critical
to do without lowering the standards of what they do. Morris asked that by asking these Staff
members what they do that do not get value out of, could they come back with a list of items.
Slattery agreed that it would be something along those lines. Seffinger also added that during
her time as a school psychologist, she could no longer do counseling because there was too
much of a role to do mandate testing. Slattery added that this is going to be hard, but it is work
that has never been done. Moran agreed adding in the business world being able to account for
time and value that time is part of your everyday. Slattery agreed to this as well, giving the
example from Stebbins of having to log time as a CPA every six minutes, but that this
mechanism does not exist but maybe should be looked at. Seffinger suggested that typically
you get a look at your day and Stebbins added that when you get in the habit of doing this it no
longer become hard. Hunter suggested that the motion having Community Development in mind
read as "Recommend to Council to produce a Cost/Benefit of mandatory and discretionary
services provided" The Committee revised the motion above after taking into account the above
discussion. Unanimously Carried.
Stebbins asked if it would be premature to make a motion to look at outsourcing services.
Slattery stated that he did not think it was and recommended that Staff look at what those are
unless the Committee wanted to name some ideas specifically. Moran suggested that this be a
sub -motion of streamlining. Morris added that a few years ago there was an audit of Parks and
this was looked at and he believed that those were supposed to happen at every department,
but he did not believe that this went any further than Parks.
Slattery suggested as well that the list mentioned in the presentation go to Council. Stebbins
thought there was more to this.
Stebbins/Moran m/s a motion to recommend to council a consideration of outsourcing services
with the goal of reducing costs. DISCUSSION: Stebbins stated that she thought that this would
be a reminder that this was supported at one time but that it may have slipped through.
Unanimously Carried.
Chief Sheperd let the Committee know that he had previously been incorrect on the ASA date
and that the county sends out a notice of interest on July 4th, the letter of intent would then need
to be back by September 7tn
The Committee moved on to discuss the possibility of a motion regarding value added services.
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Hunter/Bachman m/s A motion that the presented value-added services listed be sent to
Council. DISCUSSON: Moran suggested that there may be other value-added services not on
the list. Madding asked if Parks and recreation also needed to be added to the list. Slattery
added that this could be added separately but that list was what should be brought first and then
added to. Bachman added that five was a pretty large list to be added to. Moran added that he
would like the motion to include being open to adding more to the list. Unanimously Carried.
The Committee moved into looking at the possibility of another meeting. Madding stated that
she did not knowing what the groups preference was added that this could be presented to
Council on April 7t" as this is her last meeting otherwise the Committee would be looking at a
later meeting. Slattery noted that these items would need to also be looked at as smaller topics
as well and that April 7t" would be the target date. Madding stated that she would prepare some
backup documentation, as there was a lot of information that was presented to the Committee
and that presenting the motions would also take place. Slattery also suggested having the bulk
of work and information presented to the entire Council, as well as Council Communication.
Moran stated that he would not be opposed to getting together for another hour and half to go
over all details. Hunter, Bachman and Slattery agreed. The Committee agreed that they are only
expecting staff to have a partially finished product at the next meeting. Slattery also added that
there were a few loose ends to look at such as value-added services, including looking at AFR,
and Parks. Bachman added that he would like to also look at continuing the Committee, but that
he knows that this would have to be a recommendation to Council. Slattery suggested that a
conversation about this should be had as there will be a lot of changing and interim staff coming
up. Moran stated that he thought that this would be a great accomplishment for an off-year
Budget Committee. The Committee agreed that the next meeting would take place March 18,
2020 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Madding added that she would try to have as much done as she could
regarding the presentation. The Committee agreed they could then fine tune this.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 5:51 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Natalie Thomason
Administrative Assistant
Response from Chief Shepherd on the CERT program and possible grant funding.
The Community Emergency Response Team is a "part" of the City's overall emergency
preparedness efforts. The cost of training and maintaining membership in the program is
relatively small. The expense of the program comes in the form of our Community
Preparedness Coordinator, who is responsible for managing the program. I think when the
program first got started, (2005?), the funding for the then "CERT Coordinator" did come from
grant funds, but only on a temporary basis. After a couple of successful years, a case was
made that having CERT was worth the expense of a permanent coordinator. For several years
after, some grant funding was available for a part-time CERT assistant. When those funds
dried up, so did the assistant's position. I am not aware of a grant program that would cover
the cost of a Community Preparedness Coordinator. And as you are aware, it would be difficult
to have a full time, dedicated employee, who was dependent on grant funding to maintain their
job year after year. I do know that the coordinator routinely applies for grants to either assist
CERT or other disaster preparedness efforts for the city.
CITY OF
Memo SHLAND
TO: Citizen's Budget Committee
FROM: Adam Hanks, Assistant to the City Administrator
DATE: May 9, 2019
RE: Economic Development Program Budget — BN2019-21
The following is an overview of the Economic Development Program budget as presented in the overall
BN2019-21 City of Ashland Proposed Budget.
Funding Source
Funding for this program has been allocated by Council resolution each year since 2008 from the
unrestricted proceeds of the Transient Occupancy Tax in the General Fund. Prior to this formal
allocation, specific allocations for Economic Development activities were granted directly to the
Ashland Chamber of Commerce for specified objectives described in the allocation resolutions.
Funding Amount
Since 2008, the funding allocation for Economic Development was set at 10% of the total unrestricted
funds or $150,000 whichever was larger. In the 2017-19 biennium budgets, the budgeted funding level
peaked at $185,000 for FYI 9, which was 8% of the total unrestricted funds. It is anticipated that the
actual expenses for FY19 will not exceed $150,000 (7% of unrestricted total).
The proposed Economic Development Program budget for BN2019-21 is $182,122 and $184,787 for
each of the two fiscal years respectively (7.8% of unrestricted total)
Current and Proposed Activities Funded
STAFFING
With the exception of FY13, since 2010, the Economic Development Program has funded .25FTE of a
position (Administration staff) to develop, coordinate and implement the City's Economic Development
Strategy that was developed over a 16 month period in 2010-1 l and adopted by Council in June of 2011.
Additionally, the .25FTE is the City's representative on numerous Chamber of Commerce business
committees, a Board Member and City representative on the Southern Oregon Regional Economic
Development Inc (SOREDI) Board of Directors, the primary point of contact for all economic
development inquiries, serves as a business liaison to the City's land use development process and
assists businesses in accessing regional and state level (Business Oregon) incentive programs such as the
CITY OF ASHLAND
20 East Main Street
Ashland, Oregon 97520
www.ashland.or.us
Tel: 541-488-6002
Fax:541-488-5311
TTY: 800-735-2900
Enterprise and E-Commerce zones, Immediate Opportunity Funds and other similar programs that could
benefit our local businesses.
MATERIALS & SERVICES
Historically, the materials and services component of the program budget was limited to SOREDI
annual dues, minor travel and training and misc office supplies. In the proposed BN2019-21 budget,
internal service charges are included in materials and services consistent with the outcome and
implementation of the recently completed cost allocation plan.
TOTAL M & S = $59,680 ($38k internal service charge, $15k SOREDI dues)
PROGRAM FUNDS
The remainder of the funds and the focus of the efforts come through the programs and activities in the
program funds budget category. Some programs have remained fairly consistent over time, such as the
Festival of Lights contribution, while others change given the desired outcome and partner group
utilized.
The City has two primary economic development partners it utilizes in addition to the tasks and
programs it conducts internally. The Ashland Chamber of Commerce has played a significant role in
local economic development support and promotion over many decades, both with and without formal
funding support from the City. The Chamber has a strong membership base established that crosses
over nearly every business segment within our local economy. Program partnerships fall into three
primary categories; Outreach/Education, Events and Research & Development. A key R & D program is
the Business Retention and Expansion Survey, a tool used every 3-4 years to obtain critical and unique
data from our local businesses and is invaluable in determining what types of tools and support
businesses need. Results also inform workshop topics, data needs and follow up meetings.
The City also partners with Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development Inc (SOREDI). The
City holds a seat on its Board of Directors, participates in the development of programming that helps
attract and retain businesses within the region maintaining and expanding job opportunities for residents
of Ashland who work throughout the Rogue Valley (675 jobs created with direct SOREDI assistance in
FY17-18, see attached). SOREDI and its partner jurisdictions are currently embarking on the
development of a Regional Economic Strategy and have secured funding from jurisdictions to assist in
completing that work over the next 12-16 months.
The City of Ashland provided the initial seed funds to SOREDI for the Launch Ashland entrepreneurial
development program that has now successfully expanded into Launch Southern Oregon providing
tools, support, access to funding and educational opportunities for high growth potential start up
businesses.
See the attached proposed Economic Development Program Allocation for BN 2019-21
CITY OF ASHLAND
20 East Main Street
Ashland, Oregon 97520
www.ashland.or.us
Tel: 541-488-6002
Fax:541-488-5311
TTY: 800-735-2900
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BN19-21
FY19-20 FY20-21 BN 19-21
TOTAL
Proposed Economic Development TOT Allocation 182,122 184,787 366,909
Personal Services (.25 FTE)
47,442
48,951
96,393
Materials & Services (not including Program Funds Available)
59,680
60,836
120,516
Program Funds
75,000
75,000
150,000
TOTAL Economic Development Program 182,122
184,787
366,909
Program Funds Allocation
Proposed Chamber Programming
Outreach and Education
Video Production (Portal, Workshops, other) 3,000 3,000 6,000
Promotional materials (Portal, Living and Doing, Recruitment, etc) 15,000 15,000 30,000
Conferences/Workshops 10,000 10,000 20,000
Festival of Lights 1 15,000 1 20,000 1 35,000
Research & Development
Business Retention & Expansion Program
20,000
15,000
35,000
Portal/Economic Dashboard
2,000
2,000
4,000
Business Sector Analysis
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65,000
65,000
Chamber Programming Total
130,000
Chamber Portion of Total Program Funds
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Proposed City Programming
Employment Lands -Expansion Pre -assessments - -
Launch Ashland - Entrepreneural Program 10,000 10,000 20,000
Economic Development Strategy - Ashland Airport - -
Downtown/RR Enhancements - Flower Baskets - - -
City Programming Total 10,000 10,000 20,000
PROGRAM TOTAL 75,000 75,000 15 AO
TOT Tourism (restricted)
General Government Ope
TOTAL TOT
FY 2019-20 FY 2020-21
949,884
2,326,485
3,276,369
949,884
2,326,485
3,276,369
TOT Tourism (restricted)
Tourism Grants 574,744 574,744
Public Art
City Tourism Capital
Future Parking Supply
TOTAL TOURISM (restricted)
21,125 21,125
108,288 108,288
245,727 245,727
949,884 949,884
General Government Operations 2,326,485 2,326,485
Economic Development 182,122 184,787
Economic, Cultural, Tourism, Sustainability Grants 150,000 150,000
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