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City of Sunnyvale Meeting Minutes City Council Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:30 AM Council Chambers, City Hall, 456 W. Olive Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Special Meeting - Budget Workshop CALL TO ORDER Mayor Griffith called the meeting to order in Council Chambers. SALUTE TO THE FLAG Mayor Griffith led the salute to the flag. ROLL CALL Present: 7 - Mayor Jim Griffith Vice Mayor Jim Davis Councilmember David Whittum Councilmember Pat Meyering Councilmember Tara Martin-Milius Councilmember Glenn Hendricks Councilmember Gustav Larsson PUBLIC COMMENTS (ON SPECIAL MEETING ITEMS ONLY) Joe Antuzzi spoke in support of Item 9 regarding the $30,000 request for the Sunnyvale Downtown Association. WORKSHOP 14-0291 Review of the Recommended FY 2014/15 Budget and Twenty-Year Financial Plan Interim City Manager Robert Walker, Director of Finance Grace Leung and Assistant Director of Finance Tim Kirby provided the budget overview and a PowerPoint presentation detailing City revenues and resources, expenditures, the budget stabilization fund, enterprise funds, capital projects and infrastructure funds, special revenue funds, internal services funds and budget supplements. Council recessed at 10:49 a.m. Council reconvened at 11:05 am with all Councilmembers present. City of Sunnyvale Page 1 City Council Meeting Minutes May 22, 2014 Directors provided additional information: • Director of Public Works Kent Steffens • Director of Environmental Services John Stufflebean • Director of Library and Community Services Lisa Rosenblum • Director of Community Services Hanson Hom • Director of Information Technology David Jensen • Assistant Director of Public Safety Steve Drewniany Council recessed for lunch at 11:57 a.m. Council reconvened at 12:48 p.m. with all Councilmembers present. Assistant Director of Finance Kirby continued the report of special revenue funds and proposed budget supplements. MOTION: Vice Mayor Davis moved and Councilmember Whittum seconded to request information for a one-time supplement for use of the gymnasium at the Community Center to house the homeless for four months this winter between the hours of 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The motion carried by the following vote: Yes: 5 - Vice Mayor Davis Councilmember Whittum Councilmember Meyering Councilmember Hendricks Councilmember Larsson No: 2 - Mayor Griffith Councilmember Martin-Milius MOTION: Councilmember Whittum moved and Vice Mayor Davis seconded the motion to include an Item #10 in the Budget Supplements: Care Management in the amount of $40,000. AMENDMENT: Councilmember Whittum amended the motion and Vice Mayor Davis accepted the amendment to indicate the Care Management supplement should come from the General Fund. The motion carried by the following vote: Yes: 7 - Mayor Griffith Vice Mayor Davis Councilmember Whittum Councilmember Meyering Councilmember Martin-Milius Councilmember Hendricks Councilmember Larsson No: 0 City of Sunnyvale Page 2 City Council Meeting Minutes May 22, 2014 MOTION: Councilmember Whittum moved and Councilmember Martin-Milius seconded the motion to request staff to come back with information on the sidewalk repair backlog, to provide additional options: Option 1: to look at how much it would cost over twenty-years to keep the backlog from increasing; Option 2: look at what it would cost to eliminate that backlog over ten years. Yes: 5 - Mayor Griffith Vice Mayor Davis Councilmember Whittum Councilmember Meyering Councilmember Martin-Milius No: 2 - Councilmember Hendricks Councilmember Larsson SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS Director of Finance Grace Leung provided a brief summary and reported that the public hearing on the budget, the fee schedule and utility rates is scheduled for June 10, and the adoption of the budget is scheduled for June 24. Mayor Griffith provided information on a request from the City Manager to look at the policy on how the Council travel budget is allocated and reported he would put it on a future agenda for discussion. MOTION: Mayor Griffith moved to decrease the Council travel budgets from $9,000 to $7,000. Motion died due to lack of a second. ADJOURNMENT Mayor Griffith adjourned the meeting at 3:09 p.m. City of Sunnyvale Page 3