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City Facilities Assessments March 20, 1986 Page 2 of 2 Attachment B represents staff's best efforts to determine the development of the organizati iwithin that time period. This is broken down into a.) the present st ff level, b.) the expected scenario of development and c.) with possibilities that may altar the expected scenario. These City Facilities Assessment scenarios are an attempt to translated the development into numbers of people. (These are extremely rough at this point.) The reason for the translation into people is to be able to develop an estimate on the amount of space needed in a facility. As you will note the development contains the alternatives of both growth in staff size and the with possibility of contracting out those services in selective areas. The development is in part based on attachment C. That is the updated version of information given to the Council back in January which was originally develop for budgetary information purposes. ISSUES RELATED TO FACILITIES, In addition to the issues addressed in the goals and objectives in attachment D, the issues of significant are as follows: A. Organizational Development - The physical seperation creates numerous problems for an organization as small as the city. This increases having to make trips back in forth on a routine basis particularly between the Police Department and the City Hall. This not only expends energy and employee time, but also severely limits the ability to share appropriate resources among the departments. Additionally significant problems occur when the separated department feels that they are an independent group and not part of the overall organization. B. Convnnience Of Location - It is strongly felt that any location should be cent ally located in the community. One advantage to the current site is that it is not to far off "center." There are hc- aver other sites that would more closely approximate both the geographical and population centers of the community. C. Facilities Limitation To Productivity - As you are aware there is a significant link between an organization' productivity and the extent to which facilities will limit the productivity possibilities. This obviously increases the ongoing cost of city business. As -r example the City has had to stay with short wheel based trucks which ' of allowed the City to attain the productivity or flexibility which coL_d be achieved with even slightly larger wheeled based trucks. The shorter wheel base is usedin large part because of the garages cannot accommodate anything bigger. Other restrictions that inhibit productivity in addition to the separation of sites and the problem of less productive equipment, include personel having to spend considerably amount of time working around the impediments present in the current facilities. These include working on equipment (1 maybe 2 at a time), having to lay in water or ice because of the lack of drains, having to "jockey" equipment around in order to repair or maintain the equipment. From an office standpoint, the current arrangement presents impediments to the management and technical people as they are interrupted on a rot,tine basis by the public. They are reluctant