2. 2011
BUDGET DEVELOPMENT PROCESS – PRIORITY TO PROJECTS AND SERVICES WILL REDUCE
OVERALL OPERATING COSTS IN THE SHORT, MEDIUM, AND LONG TERM
PROCESSUS D’ÉLABORATION DU BUDGET DE 2011 – LA
PRIORITÉ AUX PROJETS ET AUX SERVICES PERMETTRA DE RÉDUIRE LES COÛTS GLOBAUX DE
FONCTIONNEMENT À COURT, MOYEN ET LONG TERME
COMMITTE RECOMMENDATION AS
AMENDED
That Council receive the following
motion:
That the LRFP Working Group review ways that
the 2011 budget development process be adjusted to give priority to all
projects and services that will in the short, medium, and long term reduce the
overall operating costs required by the City of Ottawa to deliver municipal
services; and review ways that the budget development process could be changed
to identify all projects and services which attract operational costs that rise
faster than the rate of inflation and that these projects be given secondary
status for approval.
RECOMMANDATION MODIFIÉE
DU COMITÉ
Que le Conseil prenne
connaissance de la motion suivante :
Que le groupe de travail du Plan
financier à long terme examine les façons d’ajuster le processus d’élaboration
du budget de 2011 de manière à donner la priorité à tous les projets et les
services qui permettront à la Ville d’Ottawa de réduire, à court, à moyen et à
long terme, les coûts globaux de fonctionnement des services municipaux qu’elle
offre. Ce groupe de travail devra également examiner les changements possibles
au processus d’élaboration du budget pour déterminer les projets et les
services qui entraînent des coûts de fonctionnement augmentant plus rapidement
que le taux d’inflation, et pour que ces projets soient considérés secondaires
aux fins d’approbation.
DOCUMENTATION
1. City Council’s report dated 15 March
2010 (ACS2010-CCS-ABF-0004).
2. Extract of Draft Minute, 22 March 2010.
Report to / Rapport au:
Audit, Budget and Finance Committee
Comité de vérification, du budget et des finances
and Council / et au Conseil
15 March 2010 / le 15 mars 2010
Submitted by / Soumis par: City Council /
Conseil municipal
City Wide / À l'échelle de la Ville |
Ref N°: ACS2010-CCS-ABF-0004 |
SUBJECT: 2011 BUDGET DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS – PRIORITY TO PROJECTS AND SERVICES WILL REDUCE OVERALL OPERATING COSTS
IN THE SHORT, MEDIUM, AND LONG TERM
OBJET: PROCESSUS D’ÉLABORATION DU BUDGET DE 2011 – LA PRIORITÉ AUX PROJETS ET
AUX SERVICES PERMETTRA DE RÉDUIRE LES COÛTS GLOBAUX DE FONCTIONNEMENT À COURT,
MOYEN ET LONG TERME
That the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee consider the following
motion, for recommendation to Council:
That the LRFP Working Group review ways that the 2011
budget development process be adjusted to give priority to all projects and
services that will in the short, medium, and long term reduce the overall
operating costs required by the City of Ottawa to deliver municipal services;
and review ways that the budget development process could be changed to
identify all projects and services which attract operational costs that rise
faster than the rate of inflation and that these projects be given secondary
status for approval.
Que le Comité de vérification, du budget et des finances
examine la motion suivante, aux fins de recommandation au Conseil :
Que le groupe de
travail du Plan financier à long terme examine les façons d’ajuster le
processus d’élaboration du budget de 2011 de manière à donner la priorité
à tous les projets et les services qui permettront à la Ville d’Ottawa de
réduire, à court, à moyen et à long terme, les coûts globaux de fonctionnement
des services municipaux qu’elle offre. Ce groupe de travail devra également
examiner les changements possibles au processus d’élaboration du budget pour
déterminer les projets et les services qui entraînent des coûts de
fonctionnement augmentant plus rapidement que le taux d’inflation, et pour que
ces projets soient considérés secondaires aux fins d’approbation.
Moved by
Councillor C. Doucet
Seconded
by Councillor J. Legendre
WHEREAS Ottawa City
Council has been forced to cut services and raise property taxes each budget
year; and
WHEREAS even with the
additional $350 million dollars the City received in stimulus funding from the
Federal government for infrastructure renewal projects, and the provincial
uploading of ODSP costs, the 2010 draft budget proposes to raise taxes by more
than the rate of inflation and cut current service levels; and
WHEREAS the budget is
presently organized without giving priority to projects and services that will
in the short, medium, and long term reduce the overall operating costs to the
City of Ottawa; and
WHEREAS this results in
programs such as Crime Prevention Ottawa and services such as Public Transit,
being on the proposed cutting list even though making cuts to these programs and services will result in higher costs in the long term; and
WHEREAS the City of Ottawa
would be able to maintain current service levels and balance the budget if the
budget development process gave priority to programs and services that have
proven economies of scale instead of diseconomies of scale, for example
investing in light rail increases service while decreasing costs to the City
and bus transit does the opposite;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the LRFP Working Group review ways that the 2011 budget development process be adjusted to give priority to all projects and services that will in the short, medium, and long term reduce the overall operating costs required by the City of Ottawa to deliver municipal services; and review ways that the budget development process could be changed to identify all projects and services which attract operational costs that rise faster than the rate of inflation and that these projects be given secondary status for approval.
MOTION NO. 82/38
Moved by
Councillor A. Cullen
Seconded
by Councillor R. Chiarelli
That
Motion No. 82/37 be referred to the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee.
REFERRAL
CARRIED
As such, the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee is required to consider this matter and report back to Council with its recommendation(s) 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
During 2010, Council established a
new Audit, Budget and Finance Committee.
Prior to each yearly budget cycle, the Audit, Budget and Finance
Committee will receive and discuss a Budget Timetable and Process report.
As this motion deals with the manner
in which budget requests may be prioritized, Committee may want to direct staff
to include the subject of this motion in the 2011 Budget Timetable and Process
report that will come before the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee prior to
the next budget cycle.
LEGAL / RISK MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS
There are no legal/risk management impediments to
implementing the recommendation in this report.
RURAL IMPLICATIONS
N/A
Staff to implement Council’s decision.
2011 BUDGET DEVELOPMENT PROCESS – PRIORITY TO PROJECTS AND SERVICES WILL REDUCE OVERALL OPERATING COSTS IN THE SHORT, MEDIUM, AND LONG TERM
PROCESSUS D’ÉLABORATION DU BUDGET DE 2011 – LA
PRIORITÉ AUX PROJETS ET AUX SERVICES PERMETTRA DE RÉDUIRE LES COÛTS GLOBAUX DE
FONCTIONNEMENT À COURT, MOYEN ET LONG TERME
(Referred from City Council meeting of 25, 26
and 28 January 2010 / Reporté de la réunion du Conseil municipal du 25, 26 et
28 janvier 2010)
ACS2010-CCS-ABF-0004 CITY-WIDE /
À L’ÉCHELLE DE LA VILLE
Committee dealt with items 1 and 2 concurrently. For a summary of the discussion, see Minutes under item 1.
Moved by Councillor J. Harder
WHEREAS items 1 and 2 of Audit, Budget and Finance
Committee Agenda 8 relate to the 2011 Budget and the 2011 Budget process;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the recommendation
contained at item 1 be referred to staff with a direction to incorporate the
subject of this recommendation into the report to come forward in the fall of
2010 with respect to the 2011 Budget process and timetable;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the recommendation
contained at item 2 be received.
CARRIED
That the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee consider the following motion, for recommendation to Council:
That the LRFP Working Group review ways that the 2011
budget development process be adjusted to give priority to all projects and
services that will in the short, medium, and long term reduce the overall
operating costs required by the City of Ottawa to deliver municipal services;
and review ways that the budget development process could be changed to
identify all projects and services which attract operational costs that rise
faster than the rate of inflation and that these projects be given secondary
status for approval.
RECEIVED