Committee on Public Safety FundingPlanningSustainability City of Saginaw

Committee on Public Safety Funding/Planning/Sustainability City of Saginaw Darnell Earley, ICMA-CM, MPA City Manager Timothy Morales Deputy City Manager/CFO Phil Ludos Assistant City Manager/Public Safety April 09, 2012

Committee D/Sgt. Brent Vander. Haar, COAM Leadership Representative Sgt. Michael East, COAM Membership Representative Off. Doug Wortley, POAM Leadership Representative Off. La. Mar Kashat, POAM Membership Representative Cap. Thomas Raines, IAFF Leadership Representative Fire. Mike Gray, IAFF Membership Representative Jimmie Greene, Public Representative Bishop Cistone, Public Representaive Herb Spence, Business Representative Bob Vandeventer, Business Representative John Kunitzer, Business Representative Carol Cottrell, Former Mayor Mike Thomas, County Prosecutor Hon. Terry Clark, District Court Judge

Committee, (cont’d) Bill Scharffe, Neighborhood Association Representative Larry Campbell, Neighborhood Association Representative Dennis Browning, Council Representative

Introduction • • • In 2007, the City Council authorized an outside independent consulting firm (the International City/County Management Association/ICMA) to examine the delivery of public safety (police/fire) services in the city. Study cost was paid by grant sponsoring agency. Also, in 2010 the public consulting firm Plante & Moran was enlisted to examine all city service delivery systems except fire. The purpose for these studies was to gain the objective, independent analysis from a third party review to form the basis for necessary reforms to existing services, based upon the city’s continuing decline in revenues and increasing costs.

Goals of the Committee • Review the budget and organizational structures and financing issues of police and fire departments based upon the studies, conducted. • After conducting its own fact-finding, reviewing data, and considering public safety models, make a recommendation on a public safety model to the city manager and city council without a reduction in the quality of police/fire services. • Make a determination whether a more cost efficient method of service delivery could be implemented. Status quo operations are not sustainable.

Goals of the Committee, (cont’d) • Meet no more than (5) five times from April of 2012 to September of 2012. • Have recommendations available for implementation no later than the end of first quarter Fiscal Year 2013. • Explore all options relative to providing excellent, cost effective, managerially efficient and sustainable public safety services. • Examine specifically the high cost of funding police/fire pensions. • Get community buy-in for reforming public safety services due to rising costs and declining revenues.

City of Saginaw Community Public Safety - Police & Fire Source: FY 2011 Audit Fiscal Year 2011 Actual General Fund Revenue General Fund Expenditures: Community Public Safety Police Community Public Safety Fire Transfer to Public Safety Millage Total General Fund Allocation to CPS Percent of Total General Fund Public Safety Millage Fund Revenues Public Safety Fund Expenditures: CPS Police CPS Fire Total Public Safety Fund $33, 318, 277 13, 592, 406 *Includes subsidies to police grants 9, 101, 445 1, 171, 748 23, 865, 599 72% 2, 951, 153 2, 316, 460 1, 806, 441 $4, 122, 901 Public Safety Fund Revenues Under Expenditures (GF Subsidy) (1, 171, 748) *This is the transfer amount noted Total Police (GF & PSF) 15, 908, 866 Total Fire (GF & PSF) 10, 907, 886 Combined General Fund & Public Safety Fund Compared to Total General Fund $26, 816, 752 80. 5%

Deliverables • Sustainable, cost effective and efficient public safety operation. • Cross trained police officers that figure into the fire suppression and organizational operations. • Identify opportunities for regional collaboration based upon reforms. • Agree on a reform measure for public safety that strengthens the argument for revisiting and eliminating the 1979 tax caps.

Next Steps • • Committee organizational meeting- By April 18, 2012 Review consultant studies before first committee meeting. Update studies as may be necessary. Arrange visits or teleconferences with leadership of other cities that have successfully integrated police and fire services to some degree for fact-finding purposes. Design public information strategy for keeping the charge, progress or other pertinent issues regarding the work of the committee in front of the public.

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