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a. Operating, Recurring Expenditures
i. Personnel Services
ii. Supplies
iii. Maintenance
iv. Contractual Services
v. Capital Replacement / Lease
b. Operating, Non-Recurring Expenditures
i. Capital Equipment
2. The annual budget shall appropriate sufficient funds for operating, recurring
expenditures necessary to maintain established quality and scope of services.
3. The City will constantly examine the methods for providing public services in
order to reduce operating recurring expenditures and enhance quality and scope
of public services.
4. Personnel service expenditures will reflect the minimum staffing needed to
provide established quality and scope of city services. To attract and retain
employees necessary for providing high-quality services, the City shall maintain
a compensation and benefit package competitive with the public, and when
quantifiable, private service industries.
5. Supplies expenditures shall be sufficient for ensuring the optimal productivity of
City employees.
6. Maintenance expenditures shall be sufficient for addressing the deterioration of
the City’s capital assets to ensure the optimal productivity of the capital assets.
Maintenance should be conducted to ensure a relatively stable level of
maintenance expenditures for every budget year.
7. The City will utilize contracted labor for the provision of city services whenever
private contractors can perform the established level of services at a lower cost
to the City. The City will regularly evaluate its agreements with private
contractors to ensure the established levels of services are performed at the
lowest cost to the City.
8. Capital equipment is defined as equipment that exceeds $5,000 and has a
useful life of at least one year. Existing capital equipment shall be replaced
when needed to ensure the optimal productivity of City employees.
9. Expenditures for additional capital equipment shall be made only to enhance
employee productivity, improve quality of services, or expand scope of services.
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