These are the amendments that the Board of Estimates will be discussing after 18 other items. I was guessing that they will be done with the other items in about 45 minutes, but you never know. It’s actually 43 amendments with the alternatives. They will be discussing these today at 4:30 in room 260 in the Municipal Building (215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.)
Note: Co-sponsorship by the Council President does not necessarily indicate support of the Amendment.
ALTERNATE – Amendment No. 1A
Agency: Miscellaneous Appropriations / Helping Hands Homeward
Page(s): 13
Sponsors: Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt, Clear, Resnick, Cnare, Maniaci, Phair, Weier, Ellingson, Subeck, Verveer
Delete funding for Helping Hands Homeward. (25,000)
ALTERNATE Amendment No. 1B
Agency: Miscellaneous Appropriations / Helping Hands Homeward / Day Shelter
Page(s): 13
Sponsors: Alds. Rhodes-Conway, Verveer
Delete funding for Helping Hands Homeward, and provide funding for a year-round County-run day shelter. 25,000
ALTERNATE Amendment No. 1C
Agency: Miscellaneous Appropriations / Helping Hands Homeward, Community Development Division
Page(s): 13, 146
Sponsors: Alds. Subeck, Bidar-Sielaff, Phair, Weier, Verveer
Delete funding for Helping Hands Homeward, and provide additional funding for Community Services programs, with $4,706 to be allocated to the North/Eastside Senior Coalition (NESCO) and $18,128 to the Westside Senior Coalition.(Note: A separate amendment allocating similar funding to these two agencies is listed with the CDD amendments.)
Amendment No. 2
Agency: Miscellaneous Appropriations / Joint Land Use Study
Page(s): 13
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin, Ald. Bruer
Provide $30,000 to participate with Dane County and the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau in a joint study. Dane County will also provide $30,000.
Amendment No. 3
Agency: General Fund Revenues / Ambulance Conveyance Fees
Page(s): 15
Sponsors: Alds. Weier, Bidar-Sielaff
Reduce the ambulance conveyance fee increase for residents from $300 to $100, resulting in a resident fee of $700 instead of $900. (See Fire Department Budget Highlight No. 8 on p. 35.) $1,330,000 changes to levy.
Amendment No. 4
Agency: General Fund Revenues/Licenses and Permits/Miscellaneous Licenses
Page(s): 16
Sponsors: Ald. Verveer
Increase license and fees revenues derived from scrap metal dealers (Note: An authorizing Ordinance, which was introduced to Council on October 16, 2012, will also need to be approved.) $50,000
Amendment No. 5
Agency: General Fund Revenues / Intergovernmental Revenues / State Utility Aid Payment
General Fund Revenues / Intergovernmental Revenues / State Expenditure Restraint
General Fund Revenues / Intergovernmental Revenues / State Connecting Hwy. Aid
General Fund Revenues / Intergovernmental Revenues / State Exempt Computer Reimburse.
Page(s): 16
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin
Adjust General Fund Revenues associated with several State Aids due to revised estimates.
Adds $267,000 before we hit the levy cap.
Amendment No. 6
Agency: Room Tax Fund / Transfers to General Fund
Page(s): 18
Sponsors: Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt, Clear, Resnick, Cnare, Maniaci, Phair
Delete the Transfer related to Madison Scouts and Capitol Sound of $12,000 and increase the Transfer to the General Fund for Arts Grants by $12,000.
Amendment No. 7
Agency: Room Tax Fund / Civic Promotion
Page(s): 18
Sponsors: Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt, Clear, Resnick, Cnare, Phair, Maniaci
Reduce Civic Promotion from $20,000 to $15,000.
Amendment No. 8
Agency: Room Tax Fund / Madison Music City
Page(s): 18, 19
Sponsors: Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt, Clear, Maniaci, Cnare, Phair, Ellingson
Amendment No. 9
Agency: Room Tax Fund / Debt Service Payment – General Obligation Bond Issue (footnote b)
Page(s): 18, 19
Sponsors: Ald. Verveer
Reduce Madison Music City from $100,000 to $30,000 to be used for Dane Dances ($5,000) and Summer Solstice festival ($25,000).
Amendment No. 9
Agency: Room Tax Fund / Debt Service Payment – General Obligation Bond Issue (footnote b)
Page(s): 18, 19
Sponsors: Ald. Verveer
Expand footnote (b) to include reference to the G.O. bonds (as well as the Revenue Bonds) by adding the following sentence: These G.O. bonds were initially issued as part of the original Monona Terrace financing. They are due to be retired in 2014.
Amendment No. 10
Agency: Fire
Page(s): 35
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin
Provide funding for lease cost store locate Fire Administration to a temporary location during construction of the new facility. The lease costs will be funded through sales proceeds from the Fire Administration property.
Amendment No. 11
Agency: Police; Engineering
Page(s): 38, 84
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin, Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Palm, Verveer
$53,320 Provide funding for additional costs of maintaining the Police Training Center and stations.
Amendment No. 12
Agency: Police
Page(s): 38
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin, Alds. Verveer, Maniaci
$64,460 Providing funding for the Program Assistant added for the pawn program in 2012.
Amendment No. 13
Agency: Landfill
Page(s): 94
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin, Alds. Skidmore, Weier, Rhodes-Conway, Clausius
Reallocate existing hourly pay and associated benefits to fund the creation of a full-time, permanent Landfill Supervisor position. This position would be responsible for supervising Engineering field staff in the performance of environmental monitoring, operation and maintenance of the City’s five closed landfill sites, for reviewing and analyzing landfill gas data to identify potential problem are as and for identifying and implementing landfill gas extraction systm adjustments to prevent problems from occurring. Engineering currently has an hourly employee performing these functions, which is not a sustainable solution.
Amendment No. 14
Agency: Parks
Page(s): 96
Sponsors: Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt, Clausius, Cnare, Rummel, Solomon; Mayor Soglin
$75,000 Restore funding for winter ice operations. Funding is for the following rink locations: Goodman, Olbrich, Warner, Heritage Heights, Hillington Green, Nakoma, Westmorland, Wexford and Rennebohm parks. Funding for reestablishing ice at Rennebohm is available as Garner will not be restored.
Amendment No. 15
Agency: Parks
Page(s): 96
Sponsors: Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Rummel, Schmidt, Cnare, Clear, Resnick, Weier, Maniaci, Bruer, Clausius,
Solomon; Mayor Soglin
86,664
Restore funding for life guard services at the following seven neighborhood beaches: Bernie’s, B.B.Clarke, Esther, James Madison, Olin, Spring Harbor, and Warner. Restore funding for an attendant at Cypress Spray Park.
Amendment No. 16
Agency: Parks
Page(s): 96
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin
Add funding for Emerald Ash Borer mitigation and other Forestry duties. Funding of $5,000 is provided for Forestry Specialist overtime and benefits to enable a program for the preemptive removal (with replacement) of 200 ash trees in poor condition or under power transmission lines. $25,000 is provided for hourly Arborist Assistants for clean up operations and tree watering crews. $20,000 is provided to finish the ash tree inventory in City parks.(75 parks have been inventoried, with 185 remaining.)
Amendment No. 17
Agency: Parks
Page(s): 96
Sponsors: Alds. Weier, Bidar-Sielaff, Rhodes-Conway
Amend the Parks Department budget by adding $1,260 to fund portable toilets from November 1 to mid-April (pending weather conditions) at the Warner Park Shelter and the Cherokee Marsh North Unit. (Portable restrooms would cost about one-third as much as the $3,900 required to keep the regular restrooms open and heated, an amount not included in the Parks budget.)
Amendment No. 18
Agency: Parks
Page(s): 96
Sponsors: Alds. Palm, Rummel
Add $13,355 for the full restoration of hourly wages, plants, and materials for Olbrich Gardens.
Amendment No. 19
Agency: Streets
Page(s): 104
Sponsors: Alds. Rhodes-Conway, Phair
$15,870
Add funding to keep the Olin Avenue site open for five hours each Saturday from April 6th though December 7th, thereby enabling citizens to pick up mulch. Overtime funding is provided for one loader operator and one scale operator.
ALTERNATE Amendment No. 20A
Agency: Streets
Page(s): Supplement p.91
Sponsors: Mayor Soglin
$150,000
Add funding to hire an engineering consultant to assist with the biodigester project planning and with writing the Request for Proposals for the system.
ALTERNATE Amendment No. 20B
Agency: General Obligation Debt Service Summary / General Debt Reserves, Streets
Page(s): 10, Supplement p.91
Sponsors: Ald. Rhodes-Conway
Add funding to hire an engineering consultant to assist with the biodigester project planning and with writing the Requestfor Proposals for the system. Funding is to be derived by application of $150,000 of the remaining 2012 bond premium.
Amendment No. 21
Agency: Streets
Page(s): 104
Sponsors: Alds. Verveer, Resnick, Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt, Cnare, Clear, Maniaci, Ellingson
$20,872
Restore overtime funding for student move out in August.
ALTERNATE Amendment No. 22A
Agency: Streets, Stormwater Utility
Page(s): 104, 91
Sponsors: Alds. Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt, Clear, Resnick, Cnare, Maniaci, Ellingson
$58,554
Restore overtime funding for leaf collection.
ALTERNATE Amendment No. 22B
Agency: Streets, Stormwater Utility
Page(s): 104, 91
Sponsors: Ald. Verveer
Restore overtime funding for leaf collection. Charge all costs to the Stormwater Utility.
Amendment No. 23
Agency: Streets
Page(s): 104
Sponsors: Ald. Palm
Add $19,168 for the restoration of Sunday hours at self help drop off sites. Currently, the Streets Division operates three Self Help Sites in the City where Madison residents are able to drop off yard waste, refuse, recyclables, appliances, electronics, brush, large items, metals, batteries, cooking oil, plastic bags, textiles, shoes and rigid plastics for recycling and disposal. The Streets Division operates these sites seven days per week from 8:30am to 4:30pm with added hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays until 8:00 pm.
Amendment No. 24
Agency: Metro Transit
Page(s): 112
Sponsors: Alds. Rhodes-Conway, Solomon, Verveer
$686,600
Provide funding sufficient to eliminate the fare increase and associated revenues that are included in the Executive Budget.
Amendment No. 25
Agency: Metro Transit
Page(s): 112
Sponsors: Alds. Maniaci, Bidar-Sielaff, Schmidt
$35,000
Provide funding for additional service improvements for an East Isthmus bus shuttle for weekend service.(Note: There may be some potential for private contributions to help offset the costs of the service.)
Amendment No. 26
Agency: Metro Transit
Page(s): 112
Sponsors: Alds. Verveer, Rhodes-Conway
Add the following budget Highlight: “By March 31, 2013, the Transit and Parking Commission and the Common Council will consider a comprehensive bus advertising policy for implementation by Metro Transit.”
Amendment No. 27
Agency: Metro Transit
Page(s): 112
Sponsors: Alds. Palm, Rhodes-Conway, Verveer
$50,000
Move up the implementation date for the Owl Creek service from September, 2013, to June, 2013 (to be effective at the end of the school year).
Amendment No. 28
Agency: Metro Transit
Page(s): 112
Sponsors: Ald. Palm
$27,000
1)Incorporate the current Senior/Disabled 31-daybuspass into the Low-Income Bus Program, such that Low-Income passes are available for qualifying Seniors, and re allocate the estimated savings of $55,000 to fund an estimated 1,700 additional Low-Income Bus Passes. There is no net budgetary impact. 2) Increase funding for Low-Income Bus Passes by 25%, or an estimated $27,000 (net) which will support an additional 900 Low-Income Bus Passes. Note this provision is contingent upon enactment of the proposed Bus Fare rate increase.
Amendment No. 29
Agency: Office of the Director of Planning, Community and Economic Development
Page(s): 126
Sponsors: Alds. Maniaci, Bidar-Sielaff
$74,965
Provide funding for a Marketing Specialist. (It is intended that the funding for this position is offset by proposed reductions in Room Tax expenditures for Civic Promotion and Madison Music City as included in previous Amendments.)
Amendment No. 30
Agency: Planning Division
Page(s): 128
Sponsors: Alds. Resnick, Bidar-Sielaff , Verveer
Many of the indicators found on the neighborhood indicators website can be found through public data streams. Remove all funding for the project ($51,500) and reallocate $5,500 to support the posting of available data streams on the City’s open data portal.
Amendment No. 31
Agency: Planning Division
Page(s): 128
Sponsors: Alds. Ellingson, Bidar-Sielaff
$19,500
Remove funding for a Neighborhood Conference in 2013 and instead hold such a conference every other year starting in 2014.
Amendment No. 32
Agency: General Obligation Debt Service Summary / General Debt Reserves
Misc. Appropriations / Direct Appropriation to Capital; Planning Division / Transfer to Overture
Page(s): 10, 12, 128
Sponsors: Alds. Verveer, Bidar-Sielaff, Clear, Resnick, Cnare, Maniaci, Phair, Weier, Ellingson, King,
Bruer, Clausius, Subeck
Restore $900,000 in funding for the Overture Center to be funded by applying $400,000 of the remaining 2012 premium and reducing Direct Appropriation to Capital for the Olbrich Garden new roof. (See BOE capital budget am. No. 14. A capital budget amendment will be needed to replace the Direct Appropriation funding with G.O. Borrowing.)
Amendment No. 33
Agency: Economic Development Division
Page(s): 137
Sponsors: Ald. Solomon
$81,780
Restore and provide full-year funding for a 1.0 FTE Job Development Specialist to focus on job creation for low income individuals. The position will help ensure that City policies and economic development activities promote income generating opportunities for low income / low skill individuals in the City.
Amendment No. 34
Agency: Community Development Division
Page(s): 146
Sponsors: Ald. Rhodes-Conway
$33,394
Provide funding for a new 0.50 FTE Outreach Worker position for the Brentwood/Northport Corridor Neighborhood Resource Team area.
Amendment No.35
Agency: Community Development Division
Page(s): 146
Sponsors: Ald. Rhodes-Conway
Provide funding to lease and operate a shared, common space for a number of City agencies, neighborhood groups, and social service agencies to coordinate services provided to the Northside of the City. This funding is for one-year only. Funding is to be derived by application of $72,000 of the remaining 2012 bond premium.
Amendment No. 36
Agency: Community Development Division
Page(s): 146
Sponsors: Alds. Schmidt, Phair, Subeck, Bidar-Sielaff, Clear, Rhodes-Conway, Verveer
Provide funding for the Committee on Aging’s highest priority B-list recommendations, which restores three A-list programs to their 2012 levels. All other A-list programs in the “Aging” goal are a were provided their 2012 allocation by the Committee on Aging. With the growing population of seniors in Madison, these services remain a priority. A total of $38,378 shall be allocated to the programs as listed below.
Amendment No. 37
Agency: Library
Page(s): 156
Sponsors: Ald. Palm
$133,297
Provide funding to expand youth/teen services by adding two middle/high school floater librarians. This expansion allows the branch libraries to better serve underserved youth in middle and high school, reduce behavior incidents in the branch libraries with frequent unsupervised youth/teen use, and increase programming in branch libraries and neighborhoods.These floating positions would be allocated based upon need in the afternoon, evening and weekend branch hours.
Amendment No. 38
Agency: Library
Page(s): 156
Sponsors: Ald. Palm
127,722
Provide funding to expand Meadowridge Library. In light of recent public discussions about the expansion of the Meadowridge Library, this amendment is proposed to cover the expected additional costs. Without these funds, it would not be likely to open an expanded branch library in 2013. Even with additional funding, the Library Board has an established branch location/expansion policy that would need to be followed prior to expending any funds. A capital budget amendment will be needed to provide funding for facility improvements. The additional estimated cost for the facility operating costs only (excluding the additional staff) is estimated at $713,566 for the ten year period 2014-2023.
