The Jefferson City Budget Committee continued budget presentations from various city departments Monday, including the police department and the city's public works department.
The overall proposed mayor-approved budget for fiscal year 2021 is $64,610,654, a decrease of 0.88 percent from the FY20 adopted budget.
Of that $64.6 million, approximately $32.8 million is in the projected general fund budget.
Chief Roger Schroeder presented the proposed budget for the Jefferson City Police Department, which breaks down into five budget areas - police general budget, animal control, 911 center, school resource officer and the Mustang program.
The proposed budget for the full police department is approximately $11 million, divided among the five areas, and has a total of 20 pink sheets, or budget adjustment requests.
For operation of the police department, the proposed budget is $8,037,292, with about $7.22 million going to personnel.
The police department has 17 pink sheets, with one being funded by the mayor-approved budget. Sixteen of the pink sheets, including the one that was funded by the mayor, are for the purchase of new police vehicles to replace older vehicles currently being used.
During her presentation at an earlier budget committee meeting, Mayor Carrie Tergin proposed budget re-allocations to pay for five new police vehicles in the FY21 budget.
To purchase one vehicle, $55,000 would be re-allocated from JCTV, with the remaining amount used to purchase equipment needed for livestreaming and recording meetings.
For the other four vehicles, the mayor is recommending reallocation of $120,000 for police field operating equipment and $20,000 for PD information systems, within the Capital Improvement Sales Tax Fund.
The 17th pink sheet for the police department is for a police officer trainee.
The animal control division has a proposed budget of $672,620, with the majority going to personnel.
There are two pink sheets for the animal control division, both are for a part-time customer service specialist to work at the animal shelter.
The proposed budget for the school resource officer division is $702,553, the proposed budget for the Mustang program is $200,259, and the 911 center proposed budget is $1,598,704.
There is one pink sheet for a communications operator in the 911 center.
Fire Chief Matt Schofield presented a proposed budget of $7,901,824 for the Jefferson City Fire Department, with approximately $7.4 for personnel services.
The fire department has 13 pink sheets totaling $1,832,093; none were funded in the mayor-approved budget. The pink sheets include replacing a two-way portable radio, ladder truck personnel, and replacing the Hyde Park burn building.
There is also a proposed budget of $1,860 for the Fire Museum. These funds are used for utilities.
The budget committee also discussed the city's public works department budget.
The public works department breaks down into 10 divisions with 10 proposed divisional budgets: $1,148,715 for central maintenance, $384,665 for public works administration, $1,181,106 for engineering, $3,439,750 for streets and stormwater, $465,568 for the airport, $903,990 for parking, $2,554,959 for transit, and $12,088,023 for wastewater, which includes wastewater administration, collections and treatment.
In total, the public works department has 32 pink sheets - one for central maintenance, one for engineering, 16 for streets, four for the airport, two for parking and eight for wastewater. Some of these can be funded internally by the department, such as through the wastewater fund.
Todd Spalding, director of the Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department, presented a proposed budget of $8,975,673 for the department.
That includes approximately $2.5 million for parks maintenance, $1.1 million for recreation programs and $1.5 million for administration.
The parks budget also funds the Washington Park Ice Arena, Oak Hills Golf Course and the city pools.
Moving forward, the budget committee will decide if they want to fund any additional pink sheets that were requested by the city departments, or remove funding from any mayor-approved pink sheets, before voting to approve the proposed budget.
The next meeting of the budget committee is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Aug. 20.