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Delivering on our commitments to safety and security

Delivering on our commitments to safety and security. 2010 Budget Tabling Police Services Board 9 December 2009. Topics. Chief’s Operational Priorities 2010 Draft Operating Budget $1 Million Budget Reduction Request 2010 Draft Capital Budget Timetable. Commitment Made – Results Delivered.

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Delivering on our commitments to safety and security

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  1. Delivering on our commitments to safety and security 2010 Budget TablingPolice Services Board9 December 2009

  2. Topics Chief’s Operational Priorities 2010 Draft Operating Budget $1 Million Budget Reduction Request 2010 Draft Capital Budget Timetable

  3. Commitment Made – Results Delivered 2008-2010 Financial Framework: Proposed, approved and delivered 2010 Budget: Delivers on three year commitment and manages new pressures Provides resources to allow us to remain among the three safest major cities in Canada

  4. 2008 -2010 Financial Framework Police Tax Rate Increases 5.6%

  5. 2010 Operational Priorities Enhancing relevance to the community Respond to “Quality of Life” calls for service in the community Expand operational focus on victims’ support and youth intervention

  6. Ensuring greater efficiency by increasing officers on patrol to target high call-for-service areas New shift schedule Implementation of Strategic Deployment Project Modified Job Share program 2010 Operational Priorities

  7. 2010 Operational Priorities • Reducing, investigating and preventing crime • Continue the focus on reducing street crime and neighbourhood problems, such as drugs, through enforcement • Prevent and reduce youth crime through early intervention and diversion 7

  8. 2010 Operational Priorities Expanding front-line support services • Identify under-funded specialties in the areas of youth, mental health, elder abuse and domestic violence • Hire 23 professional civilian staff to directly support front-line operations in priority community areas • Continue targeting serious crime • Robbery Unit, Street Crime Unit, Guns and Gangs, Direct Action Response Team, Beat Squads 8

  9. Crime Rates Ottawa mirrors national trend of reduced overall crime rates: • Overall Crime Severity 9% • Violent Crime Severity 4% • Fear of crime remains unacceptably high, especially for vulnerable sectors • Highlights need for continuation of targeted enforcement (assaults, robberies, street level drugs) • Four percentage point increase in robbery solvency (2009)

  10. Responding to and Resolving Citizen Calls • Emergency calls (crime in progress/life threatening situation) from the public another 2% from same time last year • Proposed capital funding for South Division Complex to make it easier for officers to respond to calls in the community

  11. Quality of Life Successes • Street Crime Unit, Beat Squads and DART target street level criminality • Drugs, prostitution, minor thefts • In 2009 (to date) 1,376 charges(826 persons) • High number of marijuana grow houses and organized crime arrests and seizures across city • With our community partners, cleanup and closing of downtown crack houses in our neighborhoods • Graffiti management partnership with City

  12. Ottawa’s Size and Geography City of Ottawa is 2,796 square kilometres : Greater than Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver combined 90 kilometres from East to West Ottawa’s area is almost 80% rural Our Nation’s Capital is the site of : 185 planned events per year 200+ unplanned events

  13. Topics Chief’s Operational Priorities 2010 Draft Operating Budget $1 Million Budget Reduction Request 2010 Draft Capital Budget Timetable

  14. 2010 Draft Operating Budget Highlights 2010 Budget delivers on our 3 year commitment • 5.6% Police Tax Rate increase as forecasted • translates to $19 for the average urban residence Managed new budget pressures • $2.4 million increase in Retirement Costs • offset by various reduction strategies Concludes the final year of the Financial Framework Request to reduce draft budget submission by $1.0 million • if approved, police tax rate increase will be 5.0% or $17

  15. 2010 Draft Budget Summary

  16. 2010-2012 Forecast Police Tax Rate Increases 5.6% 16

  17. New Budget Pressure - $2.4 million Retirement Costs • Staffing Request Reduction - $0.7M • Number of new SGI positions reduced from 45 to 23 • Capital Formation Reduction - $0.5M • Planned increase for 2010 eliminated • Three strategies were implemented • Delayed three facilities capital projects by one year • Closed out five completed capital projects • Delayed the need to borrow funds in 2010 • Materials and Supplies Reduction - $1.2M • Used zero-based budgeting • Reduced certain accounts to reflect 2009 spending levels • Froze certain accounts at 2009 levels

  18. Approved PSB Financial Framework (Final Year)

  19. Financial Framework - Element 1:Delivery of Quality Policing Services - $12.1M Labour costs constitute 82% of gross spending

  20. Financial Framework - Element 1: Budget Base a As of Q3 2009 b Contribution to Sick Leave Liability Reserve

  21. Financial Framework - Element 1:

  22. Financial Framework - Element 1:

  23. Financial Framework - Element 1:

  24. Financial Framework - Element 2Provide for Growth Needs - $2.3 million

  25. Financial Framework - Element 3Provide for Imminent Large Scale Capital Projects – no increase Capital formation costs frozen at 2009 levels

  26. Financial Framework - Element 4Seek Out New Funding Sources - $0.4M Funding for 5 officers under PAVIS (Provincial Anti-Violence Initiative Strategy) Positions allocated to DART (Direct Action Response Team)

  27. Topics Chief’s Operational Priorities 2010 Draft Operating Budget $1 Million Budget Reduction Request 2010 Draft Capital Budget Timetable

  28. $1M Budget Reduction Request November 27, 2009 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor, on behalf of the Audit, Budget and Finance Committee, formally request that Ottawa Police Services Board and the Ottawa Public Library revise their draft budget submissions and reduce from their forecasts spending by $1 million each. 28

  29. $1M Budget Reduction Request Options: 29

  30. $1M Budget Reduction Request - Impact

  31. Topics Chief’s Operational Priorities 2010 Draft Operating Budget $1 Million Budget Reduction Request 2010 Draft Capital Budget Timetable

  32. Capital Budget 2010 Capital Budget = $50.0M 2010 – 2019 Total Budget = $232.5M Breakdown of 2010 Capital Projects

  33. 2010 Capital Budget - $50M

  34. Topics Chief’s Operational Priorities 2010 Draft Operating Budget $1 Million Budget Reduction Request 2010 Draft Capital Budget Timetable

  35. 2010 Budget Consideration and Approval Timetable

  36. Delivering on our commitments to safety and security 2010 Budget TablingPolice Services Board9 December 2009

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