CC 2024-06-11_09c FY 24-25 Appropriation Limit
MEMORANDUM
TO: City Council
FROM: Nicole Valentine, Administrative Services Director
BY: Lynda Horejsi, Accounting Manager
SUBJECT: Consider Approval of Fiscal Year 2024-25 Appropriation Limit
DATE: June 11, 2024
RECOMMENDATION:
1) Adopt a Resolution adopting a tax proceeds expenditure appropriation limit for Fiscal
Year 2024-2025; and
2) Determine that establishing the appropriation limit for FY 2024-25 is not a project
to result in either a direct, or reasonably foreseeable indirect, physical change in the
environment. (State CEQA Guidelines, §§ 15060, subd. (b)(2)-(3), 15378.)
IMPACT ON FINANCIAL AND PERSONNEL RESOURCES:
There are no significant fiscal or personnel impacts associated with approval of the
appropriation limit.
BACKGROUND:
Proposition 4, known as the Gann Initiative, was approved by California voters in 1979,
adding Article XIIIB to the California Constitution. This Article established an annual limit
(Gann Limit) on the appropriations of tax proceeds for government agencies. In 1990, the
article was modified by Proposition 111 and SB 88, which included new adjustment
formulas that allow cities a choice in methodologies for determining both the annual
growth and inflation factors. The annual population growth factor can be calculated by
using the greater of the City of Arroyo Grande or County population growth. Agencies
have a choice of using the growth in California per capita personal income, or the growth
in non-residential assessed valuation due to new construction within their city. In May
2024, the California Department of Finance released population and per capita personal
income information. The population between January 2023 and January 2024 for the City
decreased by a half-percent (-0.5%) and the County population decreased by an eight-
thousandths of a percent (-0.08%). For FY 2024-25, the change in per capita personal
income from the prior year increased by three point sixty-two percent (3.62%).
Item 9.c.
City Council
Consider Approval of Fiscal Year 2024-25 Appropriation Limit
June 11, 2024
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In accordance with Proposition 111, t
by the City Council at the beginning of each fiscal year. The limit is calculated using the
($27,890,501), multiplied by the per capita personal
income percentage increase (3.62%), and multiplied again by the greater available
population growth factor, which for FY 2024-25 is the -0.5%.
ANALYSIS OF ISSUES:
The City is responsible for separating citywide revenues between tax and non-tax
revenue and applying the formula to the cumulative appropriation limit. For FY 2024-25,
the appropriation limit has been calculated to be $28,875,036. This calculation means the
City cannot appropriate more than $28,875,036 of tax-based revenues in FY 2024-25.
The estimated proceeds of taxes subject to appropriation limit for the proposed FY 2024-
25 budget is estimated to be $20,577,352, which is approximately $8.3 million less than
the appropriation limit. Therefore, the City is in compliance with Article XIIIB of the
California Constitution.
ALTERNATIVES:
1. Adopt a Resolution establishing the appropriation limit for FY 2024-25; or
2. Revise and adopt a Resolution establishing the appropriation limit for FY 2024-25;
or
3. Provide other direction to staff.
ADVANTAGES:
Adoption of the Resolution establishing the appropriation limit for FY 2024-25 will ensure
that the City is in compliance with Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
DISADVANTAGES:
There are no disadvantages identified with the recommended action.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:
Establishing the appropriation limit for FY 2024-25 is not a project subject to the California
or reasonably foreseeable indirect, physical change in the environment. (State CEQA
Guidelines, §§ 15060, subd. (b)(2)-(3), 15378.)
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION AND COMMENTS:
Government Code Section 54954.2.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Proposed Resolution
Item 9.c.
ATTACHMENT 1
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ARROYO GRANDE ADOPTING A TAX PROCEEDS
EXPENDITURE APPROPRIATION LIMIT FOR FISCAL
YEAR 2024-2025
WHEREAS, sections 7900 et seq. of the Government Code provide for the effective and
efficient implementation of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution; and
WHEREAS, Government Code sections 7901 through 7914 provide that each year, the
governing body of each local jurisdiction shall, by resolution adopted at a regularly
scheduled meeting, establish the annual adjustment factors to be used and the tax
proceeds expenditure appropriation limit.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Arroyo Grande
as follows:
1. The California per capita income and the population for the County of San Luis
Obispo, California are recognized as the annual adjustment factors for Fiscal Year
2024-2025.
2. The appropriation limit for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 is hereby set at twenty-eight
million, eight hundred seventy-five thousand, thirty-six dollars ($28,875,036).
3. Documentation used in the determination of the tax proceeds expenditure
appropriation limit is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by this
reference.
4. This Resolution is effective on its date of adoption.
On motion of Council Member , seconded by Council Member
, and on the following roll call vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
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the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted this 11 day of June, 2024.
ATTACHMENT 1
RESOLUTION NO.
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CAREN RAY RUSSOM, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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JESSICA MATSON, CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
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MATTHEW DOWNING, CITY MANAGER
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ISAAC ROSEN, CITY ATTORNEY
ATTACHMENT 1
EXHIBIT A