AMENDED Agenda Packet 6-10-19 Work Session

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Ordinance - Page 6 of 7 Section 2. Payroll tax revenues shall be budgeted and accounted for in a separate fund that is easily identifiable by members of the public. Section 3. The purpose of the payroll tax is to raise additional revenue to be able to increase community safety services beyond what the City was able to fund in FY18 (before the $8.6 “bridge” funding). Therefore, the Council will use, in accordance with Oregon budget law, the payroll tax revenues to supplement, and not replace, funding used in FY18 for community safety services. Section 4. Notwithstanding Section 3, the Council may use payroll tax revenues to replace $840,000 of downtown police services funding that is currently coming from the parking fund. Section 5. In FY27, the Citizen Advisory Board established by section 3.738 of this code shall conduct a comprehensive review of the city’s community safety system, use of the payroll tax revenues, and compliance with Section 3 and shall prepare and deliver a report to the city manager no later than March 31, 2027. The report shall include, but is not limited to, an analysis of the economic impacts of the payroll tax on businesses in the city and an analysis of the progress made toward achieving the following system outcomes: 1) increase the number of minutes per hour officers are available for community policing (currently, officer availability is approximately five minutes per hour); 2) reduce the number of calls for service per day to which no city personnel are dispatched to respond (currently, there is no response to approximately 80 calls for service per day); and, 3) reduce the number of minutes it takes city personnel to respond to non-emergency requests for service (currently, non-emergency response time is approximately 42 minutes). Section 6. The city manager shall provide the Citizen Advisory Board’s report to the Council and make the report publicly available. After receiving the report, the Council shall hold a public hearing to hear community input regarding whether the payroll tax is accomplishing the objectives specified in Section 5, this Ordinance’s findings, and the purpose specified in section June 10, 2019, Work Session – Item 2