Comments: October 26, 2009 thru November 2, 2009
Employee or
Community
Member		 Name
(optional) 		 Email
(optional) 		 Suggestion: Date Time
Employee     Offer the Voluntary Incentive Program again. In recent presentations made by Financial Services staff it appears the incentives paid for themselves very quickly through salary savings. 26-Oct-09 3:47 PM
Employee     Eliminate the following programs:
- Tempe History Museum - Tempe 11- Mounted horse unit - Diversity Department - Bilingual pay - Tuition reimbursement - CPM - Car allowances - Tempe Learning Center - GAIN participation		 27-Oct-09 1:41 PM
Employee     Charge $100 for each vendor who submits a proposal to Purchasing.  27-Oct-09 1:42 PM
Employee     Don't pave the streets as often.  27-Oct-09 1:43 PM
Community
Member		     Save energy costs by reducing street lights. Unscrew the bulbs as it's too bright in Tempe.  27-Oct-09 1:44 PM
Employee     Charge $5 to $10 for Tempe residents to get a library card.  28-Oct-09 8:37 AM
Employee     Do not implement a call center at this time. Save the money.  28-Oct-09 8:38 AM
Employee     Do not spend money on remodeling office space, even if it is a one time expense. Specifically, do not spend $700,000 to remodel the Engineering Division offices.  28-Oct-09 8:40 AM
Employee Shawn Daffara Shawn_Daffara@Tempe.gov Revenue Idea:  Why hasn't the City been more willing to allow wireless/cellular antennas in City Parks.  The wireless companies have been expanding coverages due to antenna capacity problems.  If you figure one cell site lease is about $2,000.00 per month for one carrier and you multiply by 3-4 carriers. One City Park could generate around $8,000.00 per month or almost 100K per year.  I hope the City will look at this idea as a revenue generator.  28-Oct-09 8:42 AM
N/A     Stop all overtime offer comp time instead.  Stop all promotions. Stop all hiring except to fill vacancies that can be truly evaluated as critical. Offer retirement packages to those 2 or 3 years from retirement where possible fill positions with temporary full time employees without benefits. 29-Oct-09 8:04 AM
CommunityMember     Cost saving idea. Outsource the IT department including all computer hardware, software and staff.  HP has a global outsourcing division called EDS. 29-Oct-09 8:23 PM
Employee     The city of phoenix has tossed a temporary tax increase out to see if the public would accept it, why are we not doing the same? Raising the sales tax by 2 tenths of one percent would go a long way to fill in the gaps in revenue. Making it temporary would show the citizens good faith. 30-Oct-09 11:27 AM
Employee     The City Manager and the City in particular would be well served if he were to take an unbiased look at the organizational structures of all City Departments (not just listen to his Department managers).  He might be surprised to find that most, if not all, City Departments are top heavy with more manager/supervisor positions than any other position.  You have people in management positions that don't directly supervise even one employee and others whose supervisor position is not needed based on the number of employees they supervise.    30-Oct-09 11:50 AM
Employee     Our Fee Assistance program for Parks & Recreation classes should be reviewed and capped at an amount per family.  This would keep it in line with surrounding cities and keep the cost down by offering a program that is fair and not abused by a few. 30-Oct-09 12:54 PM
Employee     Diversion should be moved to Courts. Also, Counseling is generally not provided by other municipalities, and eliminating this service should be explored.  Actual non-profit social services agencies typically provide this service. Care7 should fall under PD. KidZone programs in other municipalities fall under Parks and Recreation, and it makes sense to follow this model. The supervisor in charge of grants can be absorbed into another area and be part of a grant writing team to benefit the entire department.  If these changes are put in effect then it would eliminate the need for a Social Services division.
 		 30-Oct-09 2:46 PM
N/A     Community Centers should fall under one department so there is no longer duplication of services across departments. All programming of classes/programs should fall under one division, which will reduce the number of staff needed, eliminate duplication of services and reduce budget needs. 30-Oct-09 2:48 PM
Employee     There are some Community Outreach and Marketing Coordinators dedicated to just one department. Assign each coordinator to several departments and reduce the Community Relations Department.   30-Oct-09 4:56 PM
Employee     Please consider making the 32 hour work week optional. It seems to be working for the City of Chandler.  2-Nov-09 9:39 AM
Employee     Will the reorganization from last year be looked at? I still haven't been told how it saved any money. It doesn't seem to have helped the budget at all and in fact cost money by moving all these people around to different offices. And now we are going to do it again? 2-Nov-09 9:42 AM