HomeMy WebLinkAboutCAP 2016-10-10 Item 2A - Update - Human Services: 2017-2018 FundingCity of Tukwila
Allan Ekberg, Mayor
TO: Community Affairs and Parks Committee
FROM: Rachel Bianchi, Communications and Government Relations Manager
CC: Mayor Ekberg
RE: Human Services Funding 2817/2018
DATE: October 5, 2016
ISSUE
At the September 2O Committee of the Whole meeting, the Council had preliminary
conversation about providing additional funding tothe 2O17/201G Human Services budget. The
preliminary budget sent to the Council on October 3, 2016 is balanced and shows that revenues
currently exceed operational expenses in both years of the biennium; $78.121 in2O1Yand
$117.811in2018. |n order tu meet the increased need inthe community for human services
and remain fiscally prudent in the City's budgeting, the Administration concurs with the Council's
interest in additional funding for this department and would recommend that the Council
dedicate another $5O thousand per year to Human Services.
The Administration appreciates the Council's leadership in addressing the human services
needs of the nornnnunhv, as well as the daains to potentially add additional funding to the
division's budget for the coming biennium. Because the Human Services division has already
completed its process for awarding provisional funding to providera, and in order to respect the
important role that the Human Services Advisory Board serves our community in the distribution
of human services funding, we would recommend the following process to help distribute any
additional funds:
Council shares its priorities for additional funding beginning at the October 10, 2016
meeting of the Community Affairs and Parks Committee.
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Staff and the Human Services Advisory Board utilize the Council priorities to review
programs that scored well, but were not recommended for funding due tobudget
limitations, as well as the potential for increasing awards to programs that were already
recommended for funding.
9 Staff will present final recommendations for additional funding to the Council for approval.
We would recommend that any increase desired by Council to the Human Services budget be
included in the 2017-2018 budget, but unallocated for specific p[og[8DlS until the first quarter Vf
2017. However, the division would be unable to spend such resources until Council review and
passage of the final recommendations in the first quarter of2O17. This deviation from our
DO[0@| procedures would allow the COuDCi|. Division and Human Services Advisory Board to
take a thoughtful, equitable approach to any distribution of additional investments in Human
Services, while providing Council the assurance that it will ultimately provide the policy guidance
for any additional funding.
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Regarding the structural questions contemplated by the Council on the Human Services budget
and the different ideas raised by Councilmembers, the Administration recommends that this
effort be incorporated into the Community Affairs and Parks Committee work plan for 2017.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff requests Committee approval of the process described above for additional human
services funding, as well as placing the issue of Human Services' structural budget on the 2017
Community Affairs and Parks work plan. If approved, it is requested that the Committee forward
this item to the Committee of the Whole for final approval and direction to the Administration to
include the Council's request of additional funding in the amount of $50,000 per year for Human
Services.
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