The Roseville City Council approved the City's operating budget for Fiscal Year 2017-2018 at
its June 22, 2017 meeting. The $507 million citywide budget includes
the City’s General Fund departments, Roseville Electric Utility, Water
Utility, Wastewater Utility and Solid Waste Utility.
The General
Fund portion is $137 million. The General Fund, which receives
approximately 60 percent of its revenue from a portion of sales and
property taxes collected in the city, funds services including public
safety, public works, parks, recreation, and libraries.
The City
Council held a budget workshop on April 17 to discuss options to close a
projected $2 million gap in the FY 2017-18 General Fund budget.
Options
included the elimination of vacant, funded positions; revenue
enhancements; and service-level reductions such as reduced maintenance
levels in city parks and urban forest and reduced hours for libraries
and Maidu Museum.
While the reduction in overall staffing is not
significant, it will affect current service levels in some programs
areas and will limit the City’s capacity to expand services.
In April, the Roseville City Council approved an effort called "Engage Roseville: A Community Conversation about Priorities" to get community input to help stabilize the General Fund budget in coming years.
Extending
through Spring 2018, the effort will involve residents, businesses, and
others who have a stake in Roseville’s quality of life, in prioritizing
city services and looking at options to match services levels with
revenues.
A key component will be the volunteer Community
Priorities Advisory Committee (CPAC). All meeting are open to the
public. The application period for Council appointment to the CPAC runs
through May 26.
More information about “Engage Roseville” can be found here.