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Council presses administration on staffing charges to Affordable Housing Trust Fund and parks millage
Summary
Council members questioned administration officials about moving staff positions onto special funds, asking for a line-item accounting of how many FTEs and what dollar amounts will be paid from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and the parks millage rather than the general fund.
Council members on Thursday pressed city officials about the practice of funding full-time staff positions from special revenue sources such as the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and the parks millage, saying the decisions change the long-term footprint of city employment.
Council President Shipman and several council members raised concerns that charging permanent FTEs to trust or millage funds makes those positions effectively permanent and shifts a sustained personnel cost onto dedicated revenue streams. "There's a difference between paying out of a general fund and paying out of a revenue stream like a trust fund," Shipman said, noting the permanence of…
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