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BUDGET SUMMARY 2013/14FY&2014115FY Operating Budget 2012/13FY 2009/10FY 2010/11FY 2011/12FY Midyear 2013/142FY % 2014/15FY % Sales Tax Revenue Actual Actual Actual Budget Projected ,Change Projected Change Total Sales Tax $15,420,066 $18,503,316 $19,107,418 $19,000,000 $19,740,000 3.9% $20,300,000 2.8% User Fee Cost Recovery The City of Pleasanton provides many services to the public. Some services provide a general benefit to the community such as police and fire protection and are almost entirely paid for by general taxes. Other services, such as building inspections, permitting, and recreation classes provide a special benefit to an individual, group, or company and a user fee is charged to recover all or a portion of the cost of providing that special service. It is the general policy of the City to recover its costs from individuals and/or groups who benefit from a particular service. A user fee study was completed for the Community Development Department in 2011. The study updated the cost of providing planning, building, engineering and fire inspection services including overhead and indirect costs. These fees have not been increased since 1992. Staff will present the results of the study to Council in the Fall of 2013 for their review and consideration. The following table presents the additional revenues that would be added to the Operating Budget upon approval of the fee study by City Council. hcrease in Community Development User Fees 2013/14FY 2014/15FY User Fee Study I $350,000 I $700,000 General Fund Expenditures The General Fund Operating Budget is balanced. This was very difficult given increases in PERS rates and medical costs anticipated during the next two years, labor cost increases per labor contracts and increases due to restoring the City's practice of transferring funds to the capital improvement program. Increases Personnel costs represent 77% of the overall Operating Budget in 2013/14FY and 77.8% in 2014/15FY. The increases over the next two years are due to the following: 13/14FY 14/15FY • PERS Employer Contribution Increases* • Police 5.8% 7.1% • Fire 6.8% 5.2% • Miscellaneous & Management 9.7% 4.9% 'These increases were offset partially by the continued pick-up by the employees of the Employer Paid Member Contribution(EPMC).As of December 1,2013,the employees are picking-up 100%of the EPMC(see table on page 7-Employee Contribution Paid by the City). 4