City of Morgan Hill Adopted Budget FY 2016-17 and FY 2017-18

 CITY OF MORGAN HILL  FY 16-17 and 17-18  OPERATING AND CIP BUDGET  CITY OF MORGAN HILL  FY 16-17 and 17-18  OPERATING AND CIP BUDGET  CITY OF MORGAN HILL  FY 16-17 and 17-18  OPERATING AND CIP BUDGET  CITY OF MORGAN HILL  CITY OF MORGAN HILL  FY 16-17 and 17-18  OPERATING AND CIP BUDGET  CITY OF MORGAN HILL  FY 16-17 and 17-18  OPERATING AND CIP BUDGET  CITY OF MORGAN HILL  FY16-17 and 17-18  Official who will retire December 31, 2016. In late April 2016, Morgan Hill began a process to seek a professional to provide leadership and assume the role of the Building Official upon the retirement of the incumbent. A candidate with solid "plans review experience" is being sought to service in a role as senior plans examiner/ building official, while preparing to transfer to the Building Official position on January 1, 2017. Morgan Hill will seek a customer service oriented leader, passionate about working within a team setting, to mentor with the current building official and complete a seamless transition of administration.  Changes to the Planning Division are also being proposed. FY 16-17 proposes the addition of a 1 FTE GIS Manager, that will be physically "located" in development services, and will be funded in a shared arrangement by Planning, Engineering, Public Safety, Community Services, and both Water and Wastewater Funds. As was recommended in the Development Services review, this position will allow all activities (land use, license, house numbering, infrastructure, etc) to be inputted into the GIS data base to maintain all geographically-based information and data bases in the city.  The City's Affordable Housing focus will be in two areas; 1) protecting and rehabilitating the community's existing affordable housing supply and 2) creating a path to develop additional new affordable units that meet the general and special needs of Morgan Hill residents. Maintaining our existing housing inventory is paramount. Determining the long-term support for administration and maintenance of these assets will continue to be time consuming. Assisting with regional efforts to collaborate to meet the County’s affordable housing needs, will also be a high priority. Also targeted on the priority list is the implementation of the EAH scattered site affordable housing project, scheduled to begin construction in the summer of 2016, and assisting EAH Housing with orchestration of major renovation activities of the 112 unit, Village Avante rental neighborhood.  In FY 16-17 it will be important to focus economic development activity to help facilitate City development priorities and identify the development needed to assist with the retention and attraction of high-quality jobs, the development of vacant industrial and office acreage, expansion needs of existing business and the supply and balance of housing types required to accommodate all members of the business and residential community regardless of age, income and or physical ability. Partnerships with our existing business community will be key. The 16-17 budget anticipates creating an Economic Development Director position in recognition of the key role that this activity plays in the community and in the future Development Services/City leadership team. Funding for Economic Development is contained in the City Manager's budget; the economic development positions reside in Development Services.  This budget proposes continued implementation activities fostering construction of former Downtown “opportunity sites”, and familiarization of potential users and their brokers with service area voids, including hospitality, and retail with the strengthened market demographics and opportunities in Morgan Hill. These development amenities are critical to the support of further investment in the industrial park areas and Downtown, will enhance the City’s quality of life and support the sports, recreation, leisure and tourism goals of Morgan Hill.  As a special revenue fund, the Planning, Building, and Engineering Divisions (Engineering is in the Public Works Department) Fund 206 fees must cover all operating expenses. For FY 16-17 this is forecasted to occur. However, in FY 17-18 and beyond, the fund is projected to experience structural imbalance. The FY 15-16 work program began a review of fees by NBS; this analysis will be complete in the first quarter of FY 2016-17. Staff anticipates bringing a recommendation forward to Council as part of our comprehensive effort to ensure our processes are streamlined and the appropriate resources are dedicated to the development services process. Community Development Department (continued)

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