Overview

Fiscal Team Members Keith Sawdon - Director of Finance Joe Snyder - Senior Financial Analyst David Levett - Financial Analyst Judy Hewitt - Administrative Assistant Documents 2010 Adopted Budget / Plan Document  2010 Adopted Budget / Technical Appendix 2009 Adopted Budget / Plan Document 2009 Adopted Budget / Technical Appendix 2010-2015 Adopted Capital Improvement Plan 2009-2014 Adopted Capital Improvement Plan

Fiscal Department

City Hours: Monday - Friday  8:00am to 5:00pm

Keith Sawdon - Director of Finance

Phone Number:    248-656-4664
Fax Number:        248-608-8178

Mission Statement  

To perform the financial functions of the City of Rochester Hills efficiently and effectively, by meeting performance standards that are well-defined and understandable in order to maintain and augment the city's excellent financial standing and to retain and to enhance the public's confidence in the city's management of public finances.

Goals of Fiscal:

• Develop the Mayor's Budget Plan that excels as an operational, financial, policy, and communication document to residents, businesses, and City Council.

• Effectively administer the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program in compliance with federal laws.

• Address risk management activities in such a way as to best protect the City's assets.

• Fulfill the fiduciary responsibilities of the City's Pension and Retiree Health Care systems.

• Assist with the strategic planning of the City's capital assets (infrastructure) by coordinating the development, preparation, and adoption of the annual Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).

• Annually analyze the City's water and sewage system funding and costs in order to propose utility rates that will provide appropriate revenues to adequately support the system.

• Forecast and analyze the City's short and long-term finances to assist with the City's strategic planning.

Coordinate the evaluation and development of the City's financial policies.

Carryout citywide financial policies and services in close cooperation with the Accounting, Assessing, Treasury, and MIS Divisions.

Accurately inform the City Council and departmental directors on fiscal matters so that informed decisions are made about programs, services, and capital improvements.

Coordinate with all departments to perform financial reviews of all city studies that involve cost analysis in an effort to ensure that accurate financial evaluations are conducted.

Administer and monitor the City's various inter-local agreements for financial compliance.

Objectives of Fiscal:

• Finish the project of working with departments to develop an interrelated comprehensive package of goals, objectives, and performance measures for each department.
• Continue the evaluation of all departmental performance measures and data collection systems to better measure future departmental outcomes (effectiveness and efficiencies) in addition to participating with the newly organized Michigan Local Governmental Benchmarking Consortium.
• Work toward improving the City's loss control program and its loss expenditures by building upon the smaller program that is currently in place with improved accountability by developing the final sections of the new annual risk management report (1st report developed in 2008).
• Perform an analysis for self-insuring employee vision and/or dental coverage in an effort to save personnel costs.
• Increase offerings and employee participation in retirement planning.
• Analyze and identify possible changes for the City's water rate and sewer rate structures as requested by the City's Water & Sewer Rate Committee.

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