Santa Rosa budget proposals

Items to be considered by the City Council on Tuesday, and the money that would be saved:

CUTS

Consolidate Morgan Street Homeless Services Center and 40 beds at Brookwood Homeless Shelter at Samuel Jones Homeless Shelter $174,000

Turn off half the city's 16,000 street lights $400,000

Discontinue removing most dead animals from city streets $64,000

Eliminate street sweeping $192,000

Substantially reduce maintenance at 45 neighborhood parks, concentrate on 16 citywide and community-serving parks $212,000

Eliminate seven park maintenance positions $385,000

Close Steele Lane Community Center to all recreation programs $152,324

Reduce pothole patching by 25 percent $140,000

Close Bennett Valley Senior Center $252,945

SAVINGS

Defer pay raises for city department heads $25,000

Members of the city's firefighters union agreed to two-tier delay in pay raises to July 1 $550,000

NEW REVENUES

Create special tax districts that will increase property taxes on new homes by several hundred dollars $900,000 annually

Extend city's garbage franchise contract an extra 15 years $1.2 million a year.

To be considered Nov. 18:

CUTS

Rotate fire station brownouts $1.1 million

Eliminate adult and youth sports programs $128,180

Eliminate 10 sworn police officer positions or shift funding to Measure O $1.4 million

Eliminate city Emergency Preparedness Program $146,606

Seek employee salary and fringe benefit cuts, reduced work schedules, etc. $1.6 million

LONG-TERM REVENUE PROPOSALS

(All require voter approval)

Expand utility users tax to include cell phones $500,000 a year

Increase transient occupancy tax on hotel rooms $1.2 million a year

Quarter-cent sales tax measure $7 million a year

Increase cap on business licenses $500,000 a year