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To: City Council ~~~ ~ ~~~a
From: Crime Task Force
Date: December 7, 1981
Re: Analysis of Finance Subcommittee's Preliminary
Recommendations
At the November 30, 1981 meeting of the Crime
Task Force, the Finance Subcommittee presented its preliminary
recommendations regarding methods of raising Proposition.
"A" revenue, and obtained approval in. concept of those
recommendations from the Task Force as a whole. while
the Finance Subcommittee has been able to come up with
specific suggestions concerning what sources of revenue
ought to be pursued to fund protective services for
the City of Santa Monica, it-has been unable accurately
estimate how much Yevenue would likely be raised and
made available for protective services if such sources
were successfully tapped.
Without realistic estimates of the revenue which
would likely be made available for implementation of Proposition
"A" as a result of the Finance Subcommittee's recommendations,.
the other subcommittees of the Task Force {Community Programs
Committee and Public Sector Programs Committee) cannot
effectively prioritize their recommendations for presentation
to the City Council. Additionally, the Finance Subcommittee
cannot intelligently study other options, such as imposition
of a protective services tax (via a Jarvis-Gann override
ballot measure) without an accurate understanding of how
much revenue existing sources might provide for protective
services without such a tax. The Crime Task Force therefore
requests the following assistance from the city council.. and
city staff.
First, it is requested that the City Manager be
directed to assign duly-qualified staff to analyze the
preliminary recommendations of the Finance Subcommittee
(copy attached) and to provide to the Crime Task Force the
following information: (1) the amount of revenue likely
to be raised from the sources of revenue suggested for
Proposition "A" implementation, and (2) the amount of
revenue from such sources realistically likely to be
available for protective services. It is requested that
this information be provided to the Task Force at the soonest
possible time, and. no later than January 7, 1981.
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Second, it is requested that as soon as the preliminary
recommendations of the Public Sector and Community Programs
Subcommittees have been presented and approved in concept
by the entire Task Force, city staff be assigned by the
City Manager to provide the Crime Task Force with an
estimate of the cost of implementing each of the recommended
programs. It is also requested that this information be
provided as soon as possible following approval of such committee
recommendations by the entire Crime Task Force.
If the City Council and City Manager can provide
us with the above assistance, the Crime Task Force feels
it will be able to provide the City Council with a much
more comprehensive and, realistic proposal for implementation:
of Proposition "A".
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