The interim city manager is proposing a $1.65 billion budget to try and close the gap on the $44 million funding gap.
The proposed budget could come with layoffs to city staff for the first time in years. It proposes eliminating roughly 12 filled city staff positions and about 70 vacant ones.
"Police services is going to be tough," Pluckenbaum said. "The positions that we're looking at cutting any part of that funding, even for the vacant positions, is going to impact our ability to staff for events."
That is because they use the dollars not spent on these positions to pay for overtime for existing employees to do that extra work. A spokesperson with the Sacramento Police Department confirms that is how they have often been paying overtime.
Public safety continues to be top of mind for so many as the city continues to make big strides in growth.
The price for safety is coming with a cost for businesses, with all 110 fire prevention fees increasing for the first time since 2018, some by 100%.
Missman opened his business about five years ago and said he is paying around $150 yearly for fire inspections.
Captain Justin Sylvia with Sacramento Fire said he knows that most people would rather have seen a gradual increase versus the fees going up all at once.
The city's budget does propose cuts to two positions from the diversity, outreach and recruitment program with Sacramento Fire.
Pluckenbaum told CBS13 that the city staff members proposed to be laid off have already been notified, and if approved, those layoffs would begin in July.
The proposal said that despite a reduction in state homeless funding, the city is maintaining its 1,350 shelter beds and working on more strategies to reduce homelessness.
The city council will be presented with the proposed budget at its meeting on May 13.
It will be having discussions and public hearings over the next two months before approving a finalized budget by the end of June.
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