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Personal Services <br />Professional Services <br />Other Expenses <br />Special Services - Consulting & Police Total <br />PROGRAM DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES: <br />City of Orono <br />2026 General Fund Budget - Departmental Summary <br />Special Services <br />49280 <br />2026 <br />Dollar <br />% <br />2023 <br />2024 <br />2025 <br />Preliminary <br />Increase <br />Increase <br />Actual <br />Actual <br />Budget <br />Budget <br />Decrease <br />Decrease <br />88,870 <br />60,236 <br />41,000 <br />49,400 <br />8,400 <br />20.49% <br />32,490 <br />54,573 <br />55,000 <br />50,000 <br />(5,000) <br />-9.09% <br />302,708 <br />113,442 <br />0 <br />0 <br />0 <br />N/A <br />424,069 <br />228,251 <br />96,000 <br />99,400 <br />3,400 <br />3.54% <br />The Special Services Department provides a separate 'cost center' for tracking city -provided consulting and Police special service details. Orono residents who <br />apply for land use variations are subject to be billed for any additional staff, legal, and engineering time that is spent reviewing their application. These charges <br />are recorded in this departmental budget, and the applicants are subsequently billed for this additional time. Orono businesses or residents who wish to <br />contract with the city for Police security or traffic control are billed for the officers' time. The City's costs are recorded in this departmental budget, and are <br />offset by the revenues received from the requesting parties. <br />OPERATING COST ACTIVITIES (Reimbursed): <br />* Personal Services include Police Officer overtime wages for security work and/or traffic control. <br />* Professional Services include legal and engineering review expense for land use applications. <br />Page 42 of 96 197 <br />