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Budget Workshop for Fiscal Years 2017-18 and 2018-19 to Provide Direction on Funding Requests for Budget Adoption on June 6, 2017. (Finance 2410)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Budget Workshop for Fiscal Years 2017-18 and 2018-19 to Provider Direction on Funding Requests for Budget Adoption on June 6, 2017
BACKGROUND
Staff is pleased to present comprehensive budget information in a workshop format to provide information to the City Council and community at large and seek direction from the City Council.
Our City is committed to strong fiscal stewardship, transparency and accountability. Working together, the City Council and City staff ensure our budget and financial policies reflect spending consistent with the community's priorities.
In tandem with our work towards adopting the upcoming two year budget, the City has launched the Budget Challenge, an interactive online tool that allows Alamedans an opportunity to designate how their priorities should be reflected, in a hypothetical budget scenario. This year's Budget Challenge will allow users to experience firsthand the difficult choices in developing a responsible balanced budget with a variety of service priorities in mind. We look forward to presenting the perspectives of Alamedans at June's budget adoption meeting.
The purpose of the Budget Workshop is to provide the City Council an understanding of the City's fiscal position at the end of Fiscal Year 2016 and project out into Fiscal Years 17-18 and 18-19 and beyond. With that as a backdrop, we will be informing the public and City Council about departmental requests prior to incorporating them into the final two-year budget. Based upon input provided by the City Council at this meeting and after presentations made by those departments requesting additional funds tonight, staff will bring the Proposed Budget to the City Council for presentation and consideration at the June...
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