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Commission to review homeless-services cost template; finance to present homelessness numbers at next meeting
Summary
An in-person commenter presented a spreadsheet template for matching homeless services sources and uses; staff said the finance department will present a summary of homelessness-related costs at the August meeting and that the Q3 revenue report will be scheduled later.
Commissioners on the Redondo Beach Budget and Finance Commission agreed to review a public-submitted template for analyzing homeless-services costs and to receive quarterly revenue materials from staff for later discussion.
An in-person speaker who placed a document in the blue folder urged the commission to use a standard “sources and uses” format to match multiple funding sources to program expenditures and to extract data from the city’s financial system (Munis) for program-level analysis. “You can see from the spreadsheet template that I included that the homeless program uses resources from at least 4 different departments,” the in-person commenter said.
Finance staff confirmed a scheduled presentation on homelessness-related costs for the August meeting so the commission can see actuals and ask follow-up questions. Staff also said the treasurer and finance team are preparing quarterly revenue reports: the treasurer’s quarterly report will be provided next month, and a full Q4/annual carryover report is likely in September or early October because year-end posting takes longer.
The commission received and filed the blue-folder items for tonight by motion, which included the template and a Q3 revenues spreadsheet placed in the blue folder. Commissioners invited further suggestions on the revenue report format before the next presentation.
Staff told the commission the template could help identify split or part-time resources that support homeless services (for example, police, fire and public works time) and could reduce staff time if the Munis data-extraction procedure is developed in collaboration with IT and the Munis vendor. The commission asked staff to accept the blue-folder submission as an attachment and to bring homelessness spending data and the revenue reports back for discussion at the next meeting.
No budget or policy decisions were made tonight; the actions were limited to receiving materials and scheduling future presentations.
