Council MINS 04-30-1998 Special
FEDERAL WAY CITY COUNCil.
Special Meeting
Council Chambers - City Hall
April 30, 1998 - 5:15 p.m.
MINUTES
I
CALL MEETING TO ORDER
Mayor Ron Gintz opened the regular meeting of the Federal Way City Council at 5:35 p.m., in
Council Chambers, City Hall, Federal Way, Washington.
City Council present: Mayor Ron Gintz, Deputy Mayor Michael Park, Jeanne Burbidge, Jack
Dovey, Linda Kochmar and Phil Watkins.
City staff present: City Manager Ken Nyberg, Deputy City Manager Philip Keightley, Assistant
City Attorney Valerie Petrie, City Clerk Chris Green and Deputy City Clerk Bob Baker.
II
BASELINE BUDGET ASSUMPTION AND PROÆCTION
City Manager Nyberg made a presentation to Council regarding the proposed budget. The base
line projection does not consider the potential effect of initiative 690/691 or referendum 48
dealing with Motor Vehicle Excise Tax Reform (MVET). The direct impact to the City's revenue
from the passage of initiative 691 will be approximately $1.4 million. This does not consider
indirect impact to the public health services provided by Seattle-King County MVET funding.
III
ALTERNATIVE BUDGET PROÆCTIONS
-Use 2% Growth Rate for Police Cost Projection after 1999
-Increase Base-Line Funding for Human Services to $300,000.00 Per Year
-Use IPD as Inflationary Adjustment for Property Tax
Ms. Wang spoke of such items as reducing police expenditures, financial impacts of referendum
47, the CPI for Seattle/King County and inflation projections. Three models
Council discussed initiative 47, city-wide staffing, program cuts, contract employees, grant-
funded positions, baseline vs. non-baseline positions, sales tax increases.
Councilmember Watkins and Kochmar asked for a list, by department, including the activity of
contracted employees, source of monies, their duties, etc.
ORIGINAL
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING
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Councilmember Kochmar MOVED FOR THE CONSIDERATION AND USE OF MODEL #3;
second by Councilmember Watkins. (see Exhibit "A")
Councilmember Burbidge and Dovey prefer model # I.
Deputy Mayor Park and Mayor Gintz both like model #2 as it addresses the option and/or
capability ofre-funding human services funding.
Mayor Gintz noted that whichever model is selected, it should have a relatively strong
endorsement by Council.
A vote on the motion for model #3 showed it failed as follows:
Burbidge
Gates
Kochmar
Watkins
no
no
yes
yes
Dovey
Gintz
Park
no
no
no
Councilmember Dovey MOVED APPROVAL OF MODEL #2; second by Councilmember
Burbidge. The motion carried as follows:
Burbidge
Gates
Kochmar
Watkins
yes
yes
no
no
Dovey
Gintz
Park
yes
yes
yes
IV
ADJOURNMENT
Having no other business to come before the Council, Mayor Gintz adjourned the special meeting
at 6:42 p.m.
Robert H. Baker
Deputy City Clerk