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Community Services: Director of Community Services Susan Adrade-Wax gave a presentation on the core services and components of the department's budget and whose mission is to create communities through people, programs and parks. Unique to their department is that they provide the oversight and maintenance contracts for L&L districts and provide staff support for various advisory groups and external organizations. She discussed programs, facilities and services provided to the public, described personnel allocations and reductions, volunteerism, and partnerships. Community Development: Director of Community Development Brian Dolan gave a presentation on the Community Development Department and its many responsibilities and activities. He presented the department's organizational chart, described core services of each division, key statistics, personnel allocations, reduction challenges, current and upcoming projects. Economic Development: Director of Economic Development Pamela Ott stated that the department's purpose is to promote a positive business climate. She described department functions, staffing levels, core services, work in supporting over 4,000 businesses in town, and to fill over 12 million square feet of commercial space, 2.2 million square feet of retail space and 2.7 million square feet of industrial space. She noted current vacancy rates are 17% (office), 10% (retail) and 7% (industrial) and are declining. She cited Pleasanton's tremendous job center which has over 51,000 jobs and discussed reductions of FTE to 5 positions from 6.8 positions. The department reduced $51,000 from personnel and operational efficiencies, and she concluded by discussing the 23-member Economic Vitality Committee and initiatives and strategies for economic development. Finance: Director of Finance Emily Wagner gave an overview of the responsibilities of the Finance Department, stating that approximately 69% of their budget is personnel and 31% materials, supplies and services which cover payment to Alameda County for collection of the City's property taxes. She reported 14.3% in employee reductions and relocations to other departments and said they were able to increase resources made available to utility customers and generation of business license revenue. She reviewed concentrations of work in the department, reallocation of duties for her position, streamlining efforts, and the potential to relocate dog licensing work. Future work efforts include review and update of development impact fees and long-term financial analysis of revenues and expenditures to determine fiscal sustainability in approaching build-out. Mayor Hosterman announced that remaining department presentations along with the Capital Improvement Program will be heard June 21. The Council adjourned the workshop at 10:20 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Karen Diaz City Clerk City Council Minutes Page 5 of 5 June 7, 2011