2012-2013 Budget - City of Saginaw MI

in compliance with federal and state election lawsand the maintenance of voter registration files.The City Attorney’s Office provides advice andcounsel to the City Council, City Manager,department and division supervisors, and employeesof the city on city-related business. In addition, theCity Attorney’s Office provides assistance andcounsel to the city’s boards and commissions, and itrepresents the City and city employees when theyare sued for acts occurring in the course of theiremployment.The Department of Fiscal Services is comprised of 7divisions: Administration, Office of the Controller,Purchasing, Treasury, Assessor’s Office, IncomeTax, and Customer Accounting (Water and Sewer).The Deputy City Manager/CFO, who is responsiblefor financial planning, control and reporting for theCity of Saginaw, heads the departments of FiscalServices and Technical Services. Fiscal Servicesalso provides administrative support in budgeting,financial planning, management, evaluation andforecasting necessary for administering City servicesand assisting all departments in their missions. TheDeputy City Manager/CFO is also responsible forconducting the day-to-day City business in theabsence of the City Manager as well as other dutiesas assigned by the City Manager.The Assistant City Manager for Public Safetyoversees and manages the Office of CommunityPublic Safety (CPS), which includes Police and Fire.In CPS-Police, the Police Chief and the AssistantPolice Chief, who are management employees,report directly to the Assistant City Manager andoversees Police Operations. The divisions withinthis structure are: Administration, Police Patrol,Police Investigation, Criminal Investigation,Building and Maintenance, and Support Services.The City of Saginaw utilizes the 12-hour shift for thePatrol Officers, which includes some of theCommanding Officers. In addition, in FY 2011, theCity of Saginaw passed a public safety millage,which pays the salaries and benefits of 51 PoliceOfficers and Firefighters. The CPS-Police has 31Patrol Officers paid through this mileage. ThePublic Safety mileage is renewable in FY 2016. Thecosts for these 51 individuals are reflected in thePublic Safety Millage Fund, which is a SpecialRevenue Fund.Similar to the CPS-Police, the Assistant CityManager for Public Safety provides oversight to theCPS-Fire. Three Battalion Chiefs oversee andmanage the daily activities of this structure. CPS-Fire consists of four divisions: Fire Suppression,Fire Training, Fire Prevention, and Fire ApparatusOperations and Maintenance. CPS-Fire hasapproximately 20 Firefighters who are paid from thePublic Safety Mileage as with the CPS-Police.The Director of Development, who is accountablefor all of the Community Development Block Grant(CDBG) programs and the Assistant Director ofDevelopment, supervises the Department ofDevelopment. The General Fund portion of thisDepartment is composed of the Planning and Zoningdivision, which consists of an Associate Planner,35% of the Director, 92% of the Assistant Director,and 5% of the SEDC Loan Support. Their mainresponsibility is to provide the comprehensivemanagement structure for all development relatedactivities. Further, these individuals oversee allplanning and zoning activities of the City, includingstaff support to the Planning Commission andZoning Board of Appeals. Staff also providescustomer service functions with regard to numerouszoning inquiries, site plan review, and otherregulatory questions.The second general fund division of the Departmentof Development is Inspections, which consists of aLicensed Inspector, Electrical Inspector, a Plumbingand Mechanical Inspector, one Code EnforcementInspector and an Office Assistant. The primary goalof this division is to protect the general health,safety, and welfare of the public by administeringand enforcing the City’s building, electrical,plumbing, mechanical, and other property codes.This division is also responsible for managing theinspection staff assigned to the housing15