Overview

FISCAL

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

Julie Jenuwine, Director of Finance

Phone Number:    248-841-2535
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:

• Analyze and forecast to protect and enhance the City's long-term fiscal health and balanced budget
• Coordinate the evaluation and development of long-term revenue policies
• Coordinate long-range planning and efficient/effective program management for all fiscal matters
• Accurately inform the City Council and department directors on fiscal matters so that informed decisions are made about programs, services, and capital improvements
• Provide city-wide financial policies and services through cooperation with the Accounting, Assessing, Treasury, and Management Information Systems (MIS) Department
• Address risk management activities in such a way as to best protect the City's assets
• Coordinate with all departments to perform financial reviews of all studies which involve cost analysis in an effort to ensure accurate financial evaluations are conducted prior to recommendations from departments
• Develop a Budget Plan document, under the Mayor's direction, which excels as a communications, operations, financial, and policy document to strengthen the City's operations, management, financial status, and relationship with residents
• Effectively administer the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program in compliance with federal laws
• Fulfill the fiduciary responsibilities of the City's Pension Plan

Objectives of Fiscal:

• Research and perhaps establish an Employee Pension Board in an effort to reduce the City's risk exposure, as the existing fiduciary responsibility lies entirely with the Finance Director and City Treasurer
• Support the Local Street and Police Committee by way of providing relevant financial information to assist with the committees' analysis
• Support the Charter Study Committee by way of providing relevant tax, financial, and operational information to assist the committee's study
• Perform the funding evaluation for the Facilities Fund (utilizing the new Facilities Master Plan) – for the appropriateness of the depreciation charges/collections, as was performed for the MIS and Fleet Funds in FY 2007
• Determine the appropriate level of funding the water and sewer depreciation charge is to provide for the future replacement costs of the water and sewer system infrastructure
• 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 measures. This includes the creation of an annual risk management report.
• Research the option of self-insuring employee vision coverage in an effort to save healthcare costs
• Perform a thorough evaluation of all departmental performance measures and data collection systems to better measure future departmental effectiveness and efficiencies (performance based budgets) and implement a process that ties departmental expenditures to department functions in an effort to cost specific City services (activity based costing)
• Participate in the resurrected Safety Committee in an effort to improve employee and the public's safety and to reduce City loss costs
  

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Click Here for 2008 Adopted Budget / Plan Document

Click Here for 2008 Adopted Budget / Technical Appendix

Click Here for 2008-2013 Adopted Capital Improvement Plan

Click Here for 2009-2014 Capital Improvement Project Application

Members of Fiscal:

Julie Jenuwine;     Director of Finance
Joe Snyder;         Senior Financial Analyst
David Levett;        Financial Analyst
Judy Hewitt;        Administrative Assistant