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Annual Reports This Publication Was Airport, Burlington International TABLE OF CONTENTS City Government ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS City Organizational Chart. 2 Mayor’s Message. 3 Design/Production: Futura Design City Officials Appointed Printing: Villanti Printers, Inc. by the Mayor. 6 Printed on PC Recycled Paper Vermont Legislators . 7 Photography: Photos by Patricia Braine ©2014 SilverImagesVermont.com Mayors of Burlington . 7 Available for purchase to support Burlington Parks City Council . 8 & Recreation Scholarship Program. City Council Standing Committees . 9 Cover Photo: City Departments and Phone Numbers . 10 Scott Duckworth, Clerk/Treasurer’s Office Important Dates . 11 Project Management: City Holidays . 11 Jennifer Kaulius, Mayor’s Office Board of School Commissioners . 12 This report can be made available in alternate for- mats for persons with disabilities. City Commissioners . 13 This report also is available online at Regularly Scheduled www.burlingtonvt.gov. Commission Meetings. 18 Department Annual Reports This publication was Airport, Burlington International. 19 printed on FSC® certified Arts, Burlington City . 20 paper. Assessor, Office of the City . 22 It was manufactured Attorney, Office of the City . 23 using high solid inks containing no VOCs Church Street Marketplace . 25 and 100% Green-e® Clerk/Treasurer, Office of the City . 27 Certified Renewable Code Enforcement . 29 Energy through the Community and Economic purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs). Development Office . 31 Electric Department . 35 Fire Department . 37 Human Resources Department. 40 Fletcher Free Library. 42 Parks and Recreation Department . 45 Planning and Zoning Department . 50 Police Department . 52 Public Works Department . 56 School District . 62 Telecom, Burlington . 64 Regional Organizations Annual Reports Burlington Housing Authority . 65 Chittenden County Transportation Authority . 66 Chittenden Solid Waste District . 68 Winooski Valley Park District . 70 Miscellaneous Annual Town Meeting Day Results . 71 Salaries . 72 General Obligation Debt. 96 Appraised Valuation . 96 Tax Exempt Property Summary . 96 Financial Statements . 97 1 ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT CITY ORGANIZATIONAL CHART WARD CLERKS & SCHOOL THE VOTERS INSPECTORS OF COMMISSIONERS4 ELECTION4 MAYOR CITY COUNCIL 4 AUTHORITY TO: AUTHORITY TO: • Carry out laws and ordinances • Set City policy with Mayor • Pass legislation through passage • Appoint department heads of ordinances subject to Mayor’s • Assure performance of jobs by veto* subordinate officers • Pass resolutions with Mayor* • Recommend measures • Approve Mayor’s budget • Approve supplementary • Act as Chief Peace Officer interbudgetary transfers • Prepare annual budget • Set annual tax rate with Mayor • Act as Chair of Board of Finance • Establish rules for City Council meeting conduct CITY OFFICERS & COMMISSIONERS! KEY DEPARTMENT HEADS (for list, see pages 13-17) Elected at large (for list, see page 6) 4 Elected at large by ward Appointed by the Mayor subject to City Council approval ! Appointed by the City SUPERINTENDENT L BOARD OF Council or City Council FINANCE M with Mayor presiding AUTHORITY TO: L Appointed by the Board • Act as trustees of public money of School Commissioners • Establish accounting system * Ordinances relate to external matters while • Provide monthly reports and resolutions relate to PRINCIPALS annual audit internal matters • Select official depository M Mayor, Chief Administrative • Authorize budget line item changes Officer (non-voting), President • Be responsible for care and of City Council, and three control of public buildings Councilors elected by the City Council CITY OF BURLINGTON 2 MAYOR’S MESSAGE n keeping with an important and deep • As part of our sustained effort to identify ITown Meeting Day City tradition, I am efficiencies, during the first months of the pleased to present to you the City of current fiscal year we identified more than Burlington’s Annual Report for Fiscal Year $470,000 in savings in the FY14 budget; 2013. In these pages, you will find reports • The City began publishing monthly, public from each of our City Department Heads financial reports for the first time in recent and an enormous amount of information memory; and about the workings and progress of our •The City has completely changed the way great City. The level of citizen engagement MIRO in which internal loans–loans such as those WEINBERGER in the City continues to be strong, with Mayor made to Burlington Telecom (BT) in past Burlingtonians constantly tackling a wide years–are made, documented, overseen, array of challenges to move our community forward and reported in recent months. and, once a year, the accounts of all this work are The most significant recent step forward we have bound together and illustrated in the volume before made was the successful negotiation of a settlement you. agreement between the City of Burlington and Citibank in the Burlington Telecom lawsuit. This mediated settlement agreement will–if key mile- Restoring Burlington’s finances – stones and approvals are met in the coming months– turning the corner resolve the $33-plus million lawsuit for $10.5 mil- The City is engaged in a long-term effort to put its lion, plus a share of BT’s future value. The settle- financial house in order. This effort has been my top ment is expected to be funded largely from BT priority since taking office two years ago and will continue to be my top priority for the foreseeable future. In recent months, we have seen many indica- tions–some large, some more modest–that we have begun to turn the corner in this effort: • The City and the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank closed on the refinancing of a $14.6 million waste- water bond, addressing a long-standing unfunded liability and saving Burlington ratepayers a pro- jected approximately $4.8 million in interest pay- ments over the next 20 years; • Moody’s announced upgrades in both Burlington International Airport’s and Burlington Electric Department’s credit rating outlooks from “nega- tive” to “stable”; • As a result of voter support of the Fiscal Stability Bond and other steps, in the current fiscal year we have dramatically reduced the City’s reliance on revenues and non-City sources and to avoid removal short-term borrowing–a practice that had been of of BT’s fiber optic system. With this agreement, considerable concern to our auditor and rating there is now for the first time a clear path to resolu- agency in recent years; tion of our BT challenges. We also made progress in 2013 on the City’s other major financial challenge – the more than $50 million unfunded liability of our pension system. The Mayor’s Office organized a pension summit in November 2013 to begin discussions about the City’s system and possible paths forward. The sum- mit led to the formation of a Retirement Committee that began meeting in January 2014, with the charge of developing a better understanding of the prob- lem in time to inform upcoming collective bargain- ing with all four City unions. I congratulate Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Bob Rusten for an outstanding start to his tenure. I also want to thank CAO Rusten, former interim Chief Administrative Officer Paul Sisson, and the dedicated staff team of the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office on completing a successful first full fiscal year using our City’s new accounting system. The Fire Chief Seth Lasker and Mayor Miro Weinberger 3 ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT MAYOR’S MESSAGE transition to the new system was complex, but City report produced by the IBM Smarter Cities Chal- Hall and the City Council now have the ability to lenge grant award team. This report represented the oversee the City’s finances throughout the year to a culmination of a productive, three-week pro bono far greater degree than was previously possible. consulting engagement last spring with a six-mem- ber team of IBM’s top experts, made possible by Burlington’s selection by IBM as a grant recipient. Investing in Burlington’s future The team was tasked with determining how Burling- While exercising the discipline and restraint neces- ton could become an even better, greener commu- sary to restore the City’s finances, we have moved nity by planning and implementing broad-based forward in pursuing opportunities to invest in the greenhouse gas reductions that take advantage of City’s future without impacting tax rates. Smart Grid infrastructure and other investments the To this end, we launched the Public Investment City already has made, while strengthening Burling- Action Plan (PIAP) in January 2013, calling for pro- ton’s economy and financial position. The final re- posals for waterfront tax increment financing (TIF) port envisions Burlington becoming synonymous investment. The launch brought in more than 70 with green technology through the implementation project proposals that were graded and whittled of four focused recommendations: leverage the down by the five-person Public Investment Team Smart Grid; optimize the McNeil Generating Sta- (PIT), whose members recommended a project slate tion; enable electric vehicle sharing; and promote to me. After carefully considering the important energy efficiency execution. public input and the PIT recommendations, I se- In October 2013, the City of Burlington was lected the final project slate of six projects, which named a US Ignite partner. Our local Ignite initia- the City Council then ratified for inclusion on the tive–“BTV Ignite: New England’s Gigabit City”–is March 2014 Town Meeting Day ballot. a collaboration of public, private, and academic in- The past 18 months have been a time of invest- stitutions to accelerate Burlington’s tech economy ment and renewal in our treasured City parks. Using and community use of our fiber-optic resources. the voter-approved Penny For Parks funds, the Parks and Recreation Department has completed renova- tions and upgrades in over 40 parks throughout the City New additions to senior leadership team and eliminated a nearly $1 million backlog of work. 2013 was marked by the arrival of three new Depart- In September 2013, the City rolled out the final ment Heads.
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