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2. 2009
Draft Budget estimates Format and Presentation / Budget Challenge Working
group process FORMAT ET PRÉSENTATION DES PRÉVISIONS
BUDGÉTAIRES DE 2009 / GROUPE DE TRAVAIL SUR LES DÉFIS BUDGÉTAIRES |
Committee RecommendationS
1. That Council approve the following:
a) That the 2009 Draft
Budget be tabled at a Special Council Meeting, to be held on November 4, 2008
at 10 a.m.; and
That the
Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee meeting scheduled for
that day begin at 1:30 p.m.;
b) That the role, membership,
structure and mandate of the Budget Challenge Working Group be as follows:
Role
Review the draft operating and capital
budget estimates and their explanatory notes, in order to provide input from
the Elected Representatives’ viewpoint and to offer an opinion on the
reasonableness of staff estimates for Council in a companion report to the 2009
Draft Budget.
Membership & Structure
The membership will consist of the Mayor
or his Councillor designate, the respective Standing Committee’s Chair and Vice
Chair, the City Manager, the Treasurer, the Manager of Financial Planning, the
respective Deputy City Manager, as well as Bob Plamondon as an external
resource.
The Mayor or his Councillor designate,
the City Manager, the City Treasurer, the Manager of Financial Planning and Bob
Plamondon shall attend all meetings.
The additional members of each working group shall be as follows:
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Session
Councillor Jellett and Councillor
Thompson
A Deputy City Manager
Rural Affairs Office
Rural Capital Program
Community and Protective Services Session
Councillor Deans and Councillor Qadri
Steve Kanellakos and another department
head
Office of the DCM CPS
Paramedic Services
By-Law Services
Office of the Emergency Management
Fire Services
Housing
Parks & Recreation
Public Health
Employment & Financial Assistance
Cultural Services and Community Funding
Long Term Care
Ottawa Public Library
Corporate Services and Economic
Development Session
Councillor Desroches
Steve Finnamore and another department
head
Elected Officials
Office of the Auditor General
Committee of Adjustment
City Manager’s Office
Financial Services
Legal Services
City Clerks’ Services
Office of the Executive Director of BTS
Communications and Customer Service
Corporate Planning
Real Property Asset Management
Information Technology Services
Employee Services
Service Excellence Program
Corporate Performance Measurement &
Reporting
Non-Departmental
Planning and Environment Session
Councillor Hume and Councillor Feltmate
Nancy Schepers and another department
head
Office of the DCM Planning, Transit and
the Environment
Building Services – Ontario Building Code
Building Services Other Permits and
Compliance Reporting
Planning
Economic and Environmental Sustainability
Solid Waste
Transit Session
Councillor Cullen and Councillor
Wilkinson
Nancy Schepers and another department
head
Transit Services
Transportation Session
Councillor McRae and Councillor Leadman
Richard Hewitt and another department
head
DCM Public Works and Services
Surface Operations
Traffic and Parking Operations
Infrastructure Services
Fleet Services
Mandate
Each group will review and question the
key assumptions and risks behind the forecasted actual results, the 2008 budget
baseline, and the budget pressures for 2009, both overall and with a specific
focus on the risk assumptions, user fee and other revenue estimations, and the
information presented in explanatory notes, as well as any other issues that
they believe should be brought to the attention of Council and the community;
and
That the
effectiveness of the Budget Challenge Working Groups be reviewed in time for
the 2010 budget process; and
2. That Council consider
the following:
That the line-by-line
budget information be compiled (electronically and/or in volume form) and be
made available to Councillors at the time of the tabling of the budget upon
request.
RecommandationS du comité
1. Que
le Conseil approuve ce qui suit :
a) Que les prévisions budgétaires pour 2009
soient déposées à l’occasion d’une réunion extraordinaire du Conseil devant
avoir lieu le 4 novembre 2008 à 10 heures;
Que la réunion du Comité des
services organisationnels et du développement économique prévue pour ce jour-là
débute à 13 h 30;
b) Que le
rôle, la composition, la structure et le mandat des groupes de travail sur les
défis budgétaires soient les suivants :
Rôle
Examiner les
prévisions préliminaires des budgets de fonctionnement et des immobilisations
ainsi que les notes explicatives s’y rapportant, afin de pouvoir les commenter
dans l’optique des représentants élus et formuler une opinion à l’intention du
Conseil sur le bien-fondé des prévisions établies par le personnel dans un
rapport devant accompagner les prévisions budgétaires pour 2009.
Composition et
structure
Le groupe de
travail se composera du maire ou du conseiller appelé à le remplacer, du
président et du vice-président du comité permanent concerné, du directeur
municipal, du trésorier, du gestionnaire de la Planification financière, du
directeur municipal adjoint concerné ainsi que de Bob Plamondon, qui agira à
titre de personne-ressource externe.
Le maire ou le
conseiller appelé à le remplacer, le directeur municipal, le trésorier de la
Ville, le gestionnaire de la Planification financière et Bob Plamondon
assisteront à toutes les réunions. Les
autres membres des différents groupes de travail seront les personnes
suivantes :
Séance consacrée
à l’agriculture et aux questions rurales
Conseiller
Jellett et conseiller Thompson
Un directeur
municipal adjoint
Bureau des
affaires rurales
Programme
Capitale rurale
Séance consacrée
aux services communautaires et de protection
Conseillère Deans
et conseiller Qadri
Steve Kanellakos
et un autre chef de service
Bureau du DMA,
SCP
Service paramédic
Services des
règlements municipaux
Bureau de gestion
des situations d’urgence
Service des
incendies
Logement
Parcs et Loisirs
Santé publique
Emploi et Aide
financière
Services
culturels et Financement communautaire
Soins de longue
durée
Bibliothèque
publique d’Ottawa
Séance consacrée
aux services organisationnels et au développement économique
Conseiller
Desroches
Steve Finnamore
et un autre chef de service
Représentants
élus
Bureau du
vérificateur général
Comité de
dérogation
Bureau du directeur
municipal
Services
financiers
Services
juridiques
Services du
greffe
Bureau du
directeur exécutif des STA
Communications et
Service à la clientèle
Planification
municipale
Gestion des biens
immobiliers
Services de
technologie de l’information
Services aux
employés
Programme
d’excellence du service
Évaluation et
Rapports généraux de rendement
Personne de
l’extérieur du service
Séance consacrée
à l’urbanisme et à l’environnement
Conseiller Hume
et conseillère Feltmate
Nancy Schepers et
un autre chef de service
Bureau du DMA,
Urbanisme, Transport en commun et Environnement
Services du
bâtiment – Code du bâtiment de l’Ontario
Services du
bâtiment, autres permis et rapports de conformité
Urbanisme
Viabilité
économique et de l’environnement
Déchets solides
Séance consacrée
au transport en commun
Conseiller Cullen
et conseillère Wilkinson
Nancy Schepers et
un autre chef de service
Services de
transport en commun
Séance consacrée
au transport
Conseillère McRae
et conseillère Leadman
Richard Hewitt et
un autre chef de service
DMA, Services et
Travaux publics
Opérations de
surface
Circulation et
Stationnement
Services
d’infrastructure
Services du parc
automobile
Mandat
Chaque groupe
examinera et remettra en question les hypothèses clés et les risques sous-tendant
les résultats prévus, le budget de base de 2008 et les pressions budgétaires
pour 2009, tant d’un point de vue global qu’en ce qui concerne plus précisément
les risques présumés, la tarification et les autres recettes estimatives, ainsi
que l’information présentée dans les notes explicatives et les autres questions
que les membres du groupe jugeront utile de porter à l’attention du Conseil et
de la population;
Que l’efficacité des groupes de
travail sur les défis budgétaires soit examinée avant le début du processus
budgétaire de 2010; et
2. Que
le Conseil considère ce qui suit :
Que l’information budgétaire
détaillée soit compilée (de façon électronique et sous forme de volume) et mise
à la disposition des conseillers sur demande au moment du dépôt du budget.
Documentation
1. Committee Coordinator’s report dated 11
August 2008 (ACS2007-CMR-CSE-0033).
2. Extract of Draft Minutes, 19 August 2008.
Report to / Rapport au:
Corporate Services and Economic Development
Committee
Comité des services organisationnels et du
développement économique
and Council / et au Conseil
11 August 2008 / le 11 août 2008
Submitted by / Soumis par: City Council /
Conseil municipal
|
City Wide / À l'échelle de la Ville |
Ref N°: ACS2007-CMR-CSE-0033 |
SUBJECT: 2009 Draft Budget estimates Format and
Presentation / Budget Challenge Working group process
OBJET: FORMAT ET PRÉSENTATION DES PRÉVISIONS
BUDGÉTAIRES DE 2009 / GROUPE DE TRAVAIL SUR LES DÉFIS BUDGÉTAIRES
That the
Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee consider the following,
as referred by Council at its meeting of 9 July 2008:
1. That the
Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee receive public delations
on, and discuss, the attached proposal for the 2009 draft budget estimates and
format and budget challenge process, submitted by Plamondon & Associates;
and
2. That the
line-by-line budget information be compiled (electronically and/or in volume
form) and be made available to Councillors at the time of the tabling of the
budget upon request.
Que le Comité des services
organisationnels et du développement économique examine ce qui suit, tel que le
Conseil l’a déféré à sa réunion du 9 juillet 2008 :
1.
Que
le Comité des services organisationnels et du développement économique examine
la proposition ci-jointe concernant les prévisions budgétaires préliminaires de
2009 et leur format ainsi que le procédé d’examen critique du budget soumis par
Plamondon & Associates; et
2.
Que
l’information budgétaire détaillée soit compilée (de façon électronique et sous
forme de volume) et mise à la disposition des conseillers sur demande au moment
du dépôt du budget.
“That Council receive and table the
attached proposal for the 2009 draft budget estimates format and budget
challenge process, submitted by Plamondon & Associates, at its meeting on
July 9, 2008, for referral to the August 19, 2008 meeting of the Corporate
Services and Economic Development Committee, and for subsequent consideration
and approval of the report and Committee recommendations by Council at its
meeting of August 28, 2008.”
In considering the above-noted report, Council also approved the following motion:
“That the following motion be tabled and
referred to Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee :
BE IT RESOLVED that the line-by-line budget information be compiled
(electronically and/or in volume form) and be made available to Councillors at
the time of the tabling of the budget upon request.”
As such, the Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee is required to consider these matters and report back to Council with its recommendations on same.
CONSULTATION
This item will be advertised in the local dailies as part of the Public Meeting Advertisement on Friday preceding the Committee meeting.
FINANCIAL
IMPLICATIONS
There are
no financial implications associated with this report.
SUPPORTING
DOCUMENTATION
Document 1: Report from the City Manager titled “2009 Draft Budget Estimates
Format and Presentation / Budget Challenge Working Group Process” (ACS2008-CMR-OCM-0008), issued previously to all members
of Council and held on file with the City Clerk
Staff to implement Council’s decision(s) / direction(s).
2009 Draft Budget
estimates Format and Presentation / Budget Challenge Working group process
FORMAT ET PRÉSENTATION
DES PRÉVISIONS BUDGÉTAIRES DE 2009 / GROUPE DE TRAVAIL SUR LES DÉFIS
BUDGÉTAIRES
(Referred from City Council meeting
of 9 July 2008 / Reporté de la réunion du Conseil municipal du 9 juillet 2008)
ACS2008-cmr-cse-0033 city-wide / À l’Échelle de la ville
Mr. Bob Plamondon of Plamondon and
Associates, introduced the item. He
reminded Committee that last year, Council unanimously endorsed a fiscal
framework, giving the City a blueprint on sustainable finances. He indicated this framework was
operationally relevent only during the budget process. In light of the framework and Councillors’
feedback on the budget process, he advised that the City Manager had asked him
to recommend some practical budget forms that could be implemented this
year. Short of establishing a standing
committee on finance, he had made two recommendations to the City Manager; a
more analytically useful and understandable budget document; and a budget
challenge process. He stated that he
was given free hand to do this work and he took full responsibility for the
results.
He felt the new look budget offered
a logical, drilled down format with analytical perspectives offered on every
single line item in the budget. The
budget numbers would be more accessible, more understandable, and the flow
between the operating and capital budget as well as to and from reserve funds
would be clear and transparent. He
noted members of Council would be given additional, detailed information such
as the number of staff and the net cost of each program and additional high
level information such as total user fees, government grants, crisp break-down
of property taxes.
With respect to his recommendation
for a budget challenge process, he indicated the design he initially proposed
was modeled after the City’s Council Audit Working Group. He submitted that regardless of design
details, the point of the challenge process was to provide an opportunity and
venue for senior management and a few Councillors, acting on behalf of their
colleagues, to review staff budget estimates before the document was printed. He felt this was a healthy and normal
process, but one that was difficult to do in a large group facing a tight
deadline. He believed the quality and
tightness of the budget estimates tabled with Council in November would be
enhanced with the challenge function.
With respect to the proposed
100-page budget document, Ms. Linda Lalonde noted it was a reduction in
information and she believed it would result in citizens being less able to
participate, which would in turn lead to a reduction in democracy. Furthermore, she maintained that, as a
minimum, residents needed to have access to the same level of information as
members of Council. Speaking to the
proposed budget challenge process, she feared this had the potential to give a
small group of Councillors the ability to overtly or covertly influence the
budget. She also felt the process had
to be open and accountable.
Councillor El-Chantiry referenced
the speaker’s comments with respect to the budget challenge process and asked
for clarification with respect to her concerns. Ms. Lalonde indicated if two members of Council sat down with
staff and had a conversation about a project, staff could not help but be
influenced by that conversation.
Councillor Wilkinson stressed that
she was very much in favor of public participation and public knowledge. However, she acknowledged the difficult in
preparing a budget and she indicated she felt it was worthwhile having the
Committee Chairs involved in the discussion.
Having said that, she recognized the speaker’s concerns and suggested
giving the process a chance this year, as a trial, and reviewing it for future
budget processes.
Mayor O’Brien clarified the intended
role of the budget challenge group would not be to add or subtract things from
the budget but rather to review and challenge the staff’s estimates. He felt this was a practical business
activity and that it should take place before Council got into the political
debate about programs and services.
Responding to a question from
Councillor Chiarelli, Mr. Kent Kirkpatrick, City Manager, indicated he felt the
proposed budget format provided for specific perspectives in the budget to be
much clearer. He noted that Councillors
had always had, and would continue to have the ability to ask for supplementary
information. In terms of Ms. Lalonde’s
comments with respect to members of the public having access to information, he
acknowledged her concerns and advised that staff would focus on this as they
designed presentations for the public consultation around the budget.
Mr. Paul Durber, Past Chair of
Council, First United Church, spoke to his written submission in which he echoed some of the previous
speaker’s concerns with respect to the avaibility of information in order to
encourage public participation. He
pleaded for much greater information. A
copy of Mr. Durber’s written submission is held on file with the City
Clerk.
Mr. Campbell Robertson, City Centre
Coalition,
maintained the budget must be transparent and that line by line information
must be available to the public and all its elected representatives on Council
in a timely fashion. He recognized that
for years, the budget process had been chaotic. However, he submitted Council would not get around the chaos by
doing something that was not transparent.
With respect to the proposed budget challenge process, he did not think
the idea would fly and suggested it would be improper and undemocratic. He maintained that all of the elected
representatives had to have an equal opportunity to work on the budget.
At this juncture, Committee dealt with the
following motions.
Moved by Councillor E. El-Chantiry
WHEREAS the proposed Budget schedule
indicates that the 2009 Draft Budget will be tabled on Wednesday, November 5,
2008 in order to meet the remainder of the budget consultation and approval
timelines; and
WHEREAS the Transportation and Transit
Committees are scheduled to meet on November 5, 2008 and it is anticipated that
these meeting agendas will be significant;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 2009
Draft Budget be tabled at a Special Council Meeting, to be held on November 4,
2008 at 10 a.m.; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the
Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee meeting scheduled for
that day begin at 1:30 p.m.
CARRIED
Councillor El-Chantiry introduced a
motion with respect to the budget challenge working group role, membership,
structure and mandate. However,
Councillor Wilkinson submitted an amendment motion. Therefore, Committee began by voting on the latter.
Moved by Councillor M. Wilkinson
That the Budget Challenge Working
Group motion be amended by adding the following :
That the effectiveness of the Budget
Challenge Working Groups be reviewed in time for the 2010 budget process.
CARRIED
Moved by Councillor E. El-Chantiry
WHEREAS Corporate Services and Economic
Development Committee and City Council have expressed a need for the 2009
Budget to be “designed to allow Council to review budgetary estimates and
provide input to the development of the budget estimates prior to the actual
tabling of the budget documents in the fall”;
AND WHEREAS the Corporate Services and
Economic Development Committee and City Council are considering the
establishment of a Budget Challenge Working Group in order to provide assurance
to Council that the assumptions and funding requirements prepared by staff for
the 2009 draft budget and the forecasts for 2010 and 2011 have been thoroughly
tested;
AND WHEREAS details on the role,
membership, structure and mandate of the Budget Challenge Working Group were to
be developed through the Committee and Council discussion on this item;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Corporate
Services and Economic Development Committee recommend that Council approve the
role, membership, structure and mandate of the Budget Challenge Working Group
as follows:
Role
Review the draft operating and capital
budget estimates and their explanatory notes, in order to provide input from
the Elected Representatives’ viewpoint and to offer an opinion on the
reasonableness of staff estimates for Council in a companion report to the 2009
Draft Budget.
Membership & Structure
The membership will consist of the Mayor
or his Councillor designate, the respective Standing Committee’s Chair and Vice
Chair, the City Manager, the Treasurer, the Manager of Financial Planning, the
respective Deputy City Manager, as well as Bob Plamondon as an external
resource.
The Mayor or his Councillor designate,
the City Manager, the City Treasurer, the Manager of Financial Planning and Bob
Plamondon shall attend all meetings.
The additional members of each working group shall be as follows:
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Session
Councillor Jellett and Councillor
Thompson
A Deputy City Manager
Rural Affairs Office
Rural Capital Program
Community and Protective Services Session
Councillor Deans and Councillor Qadri
Steve Kanellakos and another department
head
Office of the DCM CPS
Paramedic Services
By-Law Services
Office of the Emergency
Management
Fire Services
Housing
Parks & Recreation
Public Health
Employment & Financial
Assistance
Cultural Services and
Community Funding
Long Term Care
Ottawa Public Library
Corporate Services and Economic
Development Session
Councillor Desroches
Steve Finnamore and another department
head
Elected Officials
Office of the Auditor General
Committee of Adjustment
City Manager’s Office
Financial Services
Legal Services
City Clerks’ Services
Office of the Executive
Director of BTS
Communications and Customer
Service
Corporate Planning
Real Property Asset Management
Information Technology
Services
Employee Services
Service Excellence Program
Corporate Performance
Measurement & Reporting
Non-Departmental
Planning and Environment Session
Councillor Hume and Councillor Feltmate
Nancy Schepers and another department
head
Office of the DCM Planning,
Transit and the Environment
Building Services – Ontario
Building Code
Building Services Other
Permits and Compliance Reporting
Planning
Economic and Environmental
Sustainability
Solid Waste
Transit Session
Councillor Cullen and Councillor
Wilkinson
Nancy Schepers and another department
head
Transit Services
Transportation Session
Councillor McRae and
Councillor Leadman
Richard Hewitt and another
department head
DCM Public Works and Services
Surface Operations
Traffic and Parking Operations
Infrastructure Services
Fleet Services
Mandate
Each group will review and question the
key assumptions and risks behind the forecasted actual results, the 2008 budget
baseline, and the budget pressures for 2009, both overall and with a specific
focus on the risk assumptions, user fee and other revenue estimations, and the
information presented in explanatory notes, as well as any other issues that
they believe should be brought to the attention of Council and the community.
CARRIED
A brief discussion ensued with
respect to recommendation two of the report, which called for line by line
budget information to be made available to members of Council at the time of
the tabling of the draft budget.
Ms. Marian Simulik, City Treasurer,
noted the referenced recommendation had been added at the time the report was
tabled with Council in early July. She
explained that providing line by line budget information would represent 4300
cost centres: over 1000 pages of
numbers by cost elements. She expressed
a desire to discuss this request with members of Council in order to either
better define what was wanted or to find a compromise.
Councillor Deans indicated the
recommendation had been her idea. Based
on the City Treasurer’s comments, she recognized the need to better define the
request and she expressed a willingness to work with staff to come up with
something more meaningful to put before Council. In conclusion, she asked that the recommendation be referred to
Council.
Committee then voted on the item as amended.
1. That the Corporate Services and Economic
Development Committee receive public delegations on, and discuss, the attached
proposal for the 2009 draft budget estimates and format and budget challenge
process, submitted by Plamondon & Associates;
CARRIED
2. That the line-by-line budget information be
compiled (electronically and/or in volume form) and be made available to
Councillors at the time of the tabling of the budget upon request;
REFERRED
3. WHEREAS the proposed Budget schedule indicates that the 2009
Draft Budget will be tabled on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 in order to meet the
remainder of the budget consultation and approval timelines; and
WHEREAS the Transportation and Transit
Committees are scheduled to meet on November 5, 2008 and it is anticipated that
these meeting agendas will be significant;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 2009
Draft Budget be tabled at a Special Council Meeting, to be held on November 4,
2008 at 10 a.m.; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Corporate
Services and Economic Development Committee meeting scheduled for that day
begin at 1:30 p.m.
4. WHEREAS Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee
and City Council have expressed a need for the 2009 Budget to be “designed to
allow Council to review budgetary estimates and provide input to the
development of the budget estimates prior to the actual tabling of the budget
documents in the fall”;
AND WHEREAS the Corporate Services and
Economic Development Committee and City Council are considering the
establishment of a Budget Challenge Working Group in order to provide assurance
to Council that the assumptions and funding requirements prepared by staff for
the 2009 draft budget and the forecasts for 2010 and 2011 have been thoroughly
tested;
AND WHEREAS details on the role,
membership, structure and mandate of the Budget Challenge Working Group were to
be developed through the Committee and Council discussion on this item;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Corporate
Services and Economic Development Committee recommend that Council approve the
role, membership, structure and mandate of the Budget Challenge Working Group
as follows:
Role
Review the draft operating and capital
budget estimates and their explanatory notes, in order to provide input from
the Elected Representatives’ viewpoint and to offer an opinion on the
reasonableness of staff estimates for Council in a companion report to the 2009
Draft Budget.
Membership & Structure
The membership will consist of the Mayor
or his Councillor designate, the respective Standing Committee’s Chair and Vice
Chair, the City Manager, the Treasurer, the Manager of Financial Planning, the
respective Deputy City Manager, as well as Bob Plamondon as an external resource.
The Mayor or his Councillor designate,
the City Manager, the City Treasurer, the Manager of Financial Planning and Bob
Plamondon shall attend all meetings.
The additional members of each working group shall be as follows:
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Session
Councillor Jellett and Councillor
Thompson
A Deputy City Manager
Rural Affairs Office
Rural Capital Program
Community and Protective Services Session
Councillor Deans and Councillor Qadri
Steve Kanellakos and another department
head
Office of the DCM CPS
Paramedic Services
By-Law Services
Office of the Emergency
Management
Fire Services
Housing
Parks & Recreation
Public Health
Employment & Financial
Assistance
Cultural Services and
Community Funding
Long Term Care
Ottawa Public Library
Corporate Services and Economic
Development Session
Councillor Desroches
Steve Finnamore and another department
head
Elected Officials
Office of the Auditor General
Committee of Adjustment
City Manager’s Office
Financial Services
Legal Services
City Clerks’ Services
Office of the Executive
Director of BTS
Communications and Customer
Service
Corporate Planning
Real Property Asset Management
Information Technology
Services
Employee Services
Service Excellence Program
Corporate Performance
Measurement & Reporting
Non-Departmental
Planning and Environment Session
Councillor Hume and Councillor Feltmate
Nancy Schepers and another department
head
Office of the DCM Planning,
Transit and the Environment
Building Services – Ontario
Building Code
Building Services Other Permits
and Compliance Reporting
Planning
Economic and Environmental
Sustainability
Solid Waste
Transit Session
Councillor Cullen and Councillor
Wilkinson
Nancy Schepers and another department
head
Transit Services
Transportation Session
Councillor McRae and Councillor Leadman
Richard Hewitt and another department
head
DCM Public Works and Services
Surface Operations
Traffic and Parking Operations
Infrastructure Services
Fleet Services
Mandate
Each group will review and question the
key assumptions and risks behind the forecasted actual results, the 2008 budget
baseline, and the budget pressures for 2009, both overall and with a specific
focus on the risk assumptions, user fee and other revenue estimations, and the
information presented in explanatory notes, as well as any other issues that
they believe should be brought to the attention of Council and the community;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the
effectiveness of the Budget Challenge Working Groups be reviewed in time for
the 2010 budget process
CARRIED as amended with Councillor R. Chiarelli dissenting