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Finally, staff expect to see positive impacts on workers compensation claims due to less overworking of existing staff. Non-personnel Expenses The non-personnel net increase of $951,119 includes several increases such as PG&E ($70,000), temporary staff from outside staffing agencies ($64,500), contract recreation instructors ($122,140), garbage expenses ($20,638), recruitment expenses ($35,000), utility audit expenses ($42,200), miscellaneous computer services ($182,942), contract plan checkers ($242,752), increased contract amount for street light repairs ($110,000), LPFD expenses ($59,184) and miscellaneous other net increases ($1,763). Some of these proposed expenses increases are off-set by increased revenues such as the contract recreation instructors and the contract plan checkers and the temporary staff from outside staffing agencies is off-set by salary savings. Staff is also asking Council to ratify adjustments approved by the City Manager totaling $588,557 funded from the Contingency as shown in Table 4, "Adjustments from Contingency" for expenses related to wage increases for management and confidential employees ($330,000), Human Resources for recruitment ($90,000), and various contracts ($154,000) including the contract with Economic and Planning Systems (EPS) to conduct the update of the City's Development Impact fees. Page 5 of 9