To: San Marino City Council
From: Concerned Citizens of San Marino
Subject: The City Council must provide leadership and oversight.
the undersign believe that our City suffers from lack of control over our expense budget leading to wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. The functions performed by City departments are inconsistent and of poor quality.
In 2016, the City Council formed an Ad Hoc Committee supported by five San Marino residents. The goal of the Committee was to review the operations of the Administrative, Finance and Public Works Departments and make recommendations for improvement. The final Report was submitted and approved by the Council on January 3, 2017. The Report included 47 recommendations which the Committee highlighted that would reduce operating costs and improve service quality.
As an example, the Committee pointed out that the Public Works monthly personnel costs of $150,000 could not be justified by the work performed. In addition, the work of the Department was of poor quality and resulted in the taxpayers now being burdened by $50 million of deferred or neglected maintenance. Almost three years later, very few of the recommendations have been implemented and the City continues to waste taxpayer dollars and provide poor service. Where is the City Council leadership and oversight?
We ask the Council to direct the Staff to adopt the recommendations of the Committee and incorporate them in the 2019/2020 City budget which is now under review.
For 2 years, the current Mayor has called for a goal of reducing the City budget by 10%. It appears that the proposed budget is now up 10%. Implementation of the Ad Hoc recommendations would assist in reaching the Mayor’s goal. If the City Manager is incapable of submitting a budget with a 10% reduction, the City Council needs to do a “Top Down” budget reduction for the City Manager. Then it is the assigned task and responsibility for the City Manager and Departments to meet the reduced budget numbers.
Inconsistencies and poor quality in City services are due to lack of a Quality Management System. In order to improve the City’s operations going forward, we Concerned Citizens of San Marino, ask the City Council to study and implement a Quality Management System for the City of San Marino and all City departments. Specifically, implementation of International Standards Organization “ISO9001:2015” and “ISO 18091:2019” for local governments.
By signing this petition, we are asking the City Council to do what is right for the citizens of San Marino. Verify legitimate spending, eliminate unnecessary spending and improve the quality of service in our City.
Go to this link to sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/concerned-citizens-of-san-marino-san-marino-city-council-must-provide-leadership-and-oversight
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