Sacramento Bee, The (CA) (KRT) via NewsEdge Corporation
Mar. 26--The Citrus Heights City Council heard good news about 2006-07 budget Thursday night: The city expects to save $2.5 million in law enforcement costs.
A new police department will take over law enforcement services from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department on July 1.
"We're projecting to spend less money than this year, increase our police services and still put money in reserves," said Councilman Jeff Slowey. "I think the city is in great financial shape."
The law enforcement savings will comprise most of the $3 million increase in general fund revenues, bringing the total to $33 million.
Mayor Jeannie Bruins said the council began discussing the budget last fall. The new police department, she said, will be the first priority. Then the city can focus on infrastructure improvements.
"I'm very encouraged," Bruins said. "We've got money allocated for capital improvements. We've got the money to do the things we need to do."
Also, the city will consider taking over more services, such as animal control and road maintenance, in 2006-07, city officials said. The services are currently handled under contracts with Sacramento County.
Councilwoman Jayna Karpinski-Costa cautioned that the city should continue to consider innovative ways to raise funds for special projects, such as a community center and infrastructure improvements, that don't involve bonds.
"I don't want to see us borrow money if we don't have to," she said.
For now, she added, "I think we're way ahead. We don't spend a lot of money on splash and flash."
Karpinski-Costa said she hopes to maintain or increase funding for neighborhood enhancement in 2006-07 and continue funding nonprofit community groups such as Meals-on-Wheels and Campus Life, an after-school program on Sayonara Drive.
Slowey added that Citrus Heights, with scarce room for new development, depends more heavily on sales tax revenue than other cities in the region.
He said the city needs to improve infrastructure, especially roads, to attract more economic development.
"We're an older city. Unlike other communities that have an opportunity to built out to improve infrastructure, we're going to have to take existing revenues to do that," he said. "We have a good cushion but we have to set our priorities."
The city expects to tap into the reserves for operating expenses, starting in 2017-18. However, the city will begin collecting property tax revenues in 2022-23 and, at that point, will no longer need to dip into the reserves, city officials said.
Sacramento County now collects most property taxes generated in Citrus Heights as part of the agreement that allowed the city to incorporate in 1997.
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