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Staff recommends pre-authorizations, fee updates and pausing select capital projects to reduce costs
Summary
Presenter proposed immediate steps to control spending — including pre-authorizing expenditures, switching to black-and-white printing, updating water and sewer rates, revising permit and recreation fees, suspending lower-priority capital projects and using reserves temporarily.
To address the projected deficit, staff recommended a set of near-term and longer-term measures including a requirement that expenditures be pre-authorized, switching printing to black-and-white to reduce costs, updating fee schedules and considering suspension of less-critical capital projects such as the town square and bike park.
"We recommend that all printing be done in black and white to reduce cost as color printing has been significantly more expensive," the presenter said. Staff also recommended updating the water and sewer rate study, adjusting building permit fees and revising park and recreation fees as part of a strategy to improve cost recovery. The presenter included the temporary drawdown of reserve funds as an option while pursuing longer-term revenue and efficiency measures.
