City of Roseville

During the recession and as the economy began to recover, Roseville’s strong fiscal management allowed the City to maintain quality-of-life services while minimizing cuts.

We reduced staffing, implemented pension reforms, cut hours at city facilities and cut community events to maintain a balanced budget and level of services. In addition, the City borrowed from other funds that now need to be replenished.

In the time since, we’ve conducted performance audits to ensure our staffing levels and structure provide efficiency and effectiveness. And we have partnered with our labor groups to slow payroll growth, reduce post-retirement benefits, and reduce salaries.

All the while, a constantly changing legislative and regulatory environment continues to add unfunded mandates and significant costs to the City’s operations, such as the State moving responsibility for stormwater management from the State to local government, adding $1 million annually to city expenses.

These realities, in addition to a slowing and shifting economy, have led to a budget gap that is projected to widen in the years ahead.

The City has been making cuts to the budget since 2007, when the economy first began to shift. This 10 Year Reduction document summarizes more than 10 years of cuts that departments have made to the budget.

As a service organization, our biggest expense is people. We have 37 percent fewer employees per capita than in 2007, A big portion of cuts has been to employee cots, as we’ve been working to make cuts that aren’t necessarily noticeable to the public.  Our salaries are set to median in the market, our employees now pay 100 percent of our share of pension costs, and new salary schedules have slowed the growth of salaries by doubling the time it takes to reach the top step in a pay range.