Santa Rosa budget proposals

<p>Items to be considered by the City Council on Tuesday, and the money that would be saved:</p><p>CUTS</p><p>Consolidate Morgan Street Homeless Services Center and 40 beds at Brookwood Homeless Shelter at Samuel Jones Homeless Shelter $174,000</p><p>Turn off half the city's 16,000 street lights $400,000</p><p>Discontinue removing most dead animals from city streets $64,000</p><p>Eliminate street sweeping $192,000</p><p>Substantially reduce maintenance at 45 neighborhood parks, concentrate on 16 citywide and community-serving parks $212,000</p><p>Eliminate seven park maintenance positions $385,000</p><p>Close Steele Lane Community Center to all recreation programs $152,324</p><p>Reduce pothole patching by 25 percent $140,000</p><p>Close Bennett Valley Senior Center $252,945</p><p>SAVINGS</p><p>Defer pay raises for city department heads $25,000</p><p>Members of the city's firefighters union agreed to two-tier delay in pay raises to July 1 $550,000</p><p>NEW REVENUES</p><p>Create special tax districts that will increase property taxes on new homes by several hundred dollars $900,000 annually</p><p>Extend city's garbage franchise contract an extra 15 years $1.2 million a year.</p><p>To be considered Nov. 18:</p><p>CUTS</p><p>Rotate fire station brownouts $1.1 million</p><p>Eliminate adult and youth sports programs $128,180</p><p>Eliminate 10 sworn police officer positions or shift funding to Measure O $1.4 million</p><p>Eliminate city Emergency Preparedness Program $146,606</p><p>Seek employee salary and fringe benefit cuts, reduced work schedules, etc. $1.6 million</p><p>LONG-TERM REVENUE PROPOSALS</p><p>(All require voter approval)</p><p>Expand utility users tax to include cell phones $500,000 a year</p><p>Increase transient occupancy tax on hotel rooms $1.2 million a year</p><p>Quarter-cent sales tax measure $7 million a year</p><p>Increase cap on business licenses $500,000 a year</p>