Title
Resolution to Adopt City Council Fiscal Year 2014 & 2015 Planning Session Report
Memorandum
On December 10, City Council met to discuss priorities and important issues facing the City over the upcoming two fiscal years (July 1 2013 through June 30 2015). City Council discussed and considered over a dozen issues and agreed that City Council energy should focus on five areas:
City Budget & Fiscal Discipline
Public Safety
Infrastructure Maintenance and Transportation in the Urban Core
Economic Development
Affordable Housing
For each of the five areas, City Council discussed problems and identified what success would look like.
Recommended next steps for City Council's priority areas are adoption at the January 7 City Council Meeting and for staff to develop work plans and incorporate into the two-year fiscal plan and the City Administrator's recommended budgets for FY2014 and 2015. Adoption of the priorities will provide the policy direction necessary for staff to develop work plans, including the budget.
The plans will be provided to City Council for review and consideration Work plans will also include bi-annual status reports to Council. Reporting on how the City is accomplishing the successes identified by City Council will help ensure the plan has meaning and is useful.
If the priorities are adopted by City Council on January 7, 2013, draft work plans will be available within 60 days.
Staff
Prepared and Approved by: Steven D. Powers, City Administrator
Body
Whereas, City Council met on December 10 to discuss important issues for the City to pursue in the coming two years;
Whereas, At the December 10 planning session, City Council identified priority areas for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015;
Whereas, The priority areas will provide policy direction for the City to pursue;
Whereas, City Council's policy direction will be incorporated into the City Administrator's FY 2014&2015 Recommended Budgets;
Whereas, The priority areas are specified in the planning report titled Ann Arbor Michigan City Council Planning Session December 2012;
RESOLVED, That City Council adopts the planning report Ann Arbor Michigan City Council Planning Session December 2012;
RESOLVED, That the City Administrator develop work plans to accomplish success within the priority areas and incorporate City Council's priority areas into the FY 2014 and FY 2015 recommended budgets.
Sponsored by: Council Budget Committee