—(Eliminate) acting pay

—(Eliminate) additional pay (uniform allowances, etc.)

—Building temperature control

—(Eliminate) Bus Passes

—Cancel all partnership payouts/contracts. NAU, FUSD and social organizations

—Cancel all periodical subscriptions

—Cancel section retreats

—(Eliminate city issues) Cell phones

—Change percent of health care paid by city

—Citywide mandatory one day off a month

—Close down APS building

—Close library on Sunday

—Close the library at 8 p.m. instead of 9 p.m.

—(Establish a third-party) Coffee stand in city hall

—Consider contracting with independent medical provider to respond to incidental medical calls to reduce the number of responses with large inefficient fire trucks.

—Remove as much public responsibility to make medical responses as possible. If private medical firms respond they could be paid through insurance or from AHCCCS or other sources.

—Contract purchase agreement with APS

—Contract with handicap organization for janitorial

—Cut City Hall, Cherry, Chase and GIS buildings to 4 days a week. Give the option for people to work 4-10 hour shifts or go to part time, 32 or 20 hours a week.

—Cut exempt pay 2 percent

—Defer all promotions and future expenditures, capital items or purchases

—(Eliminate) Dental/vision benefits

—Discount fees and allow private developers to pick up city commercial DRB plan sets.

—Offer this option to private entities

—Donate a vacation day in lieu of day off without pay

—Eliminate city's match for dependent insurance

—Eliminate color copies

—Eliminate wow awards

—Find somewhere the city already owns for staff in leased building space and terminate rent

—Flatten the organization and move toward a 1:5 or 1:7 average supervisor to staff ratio

—(Eliminate) Food/cocoa/coffee

—Freeze all OT. Any OT must be requested and approved in advance by deputy city managers

—Freeze continuing education allowances / payouts

—Halt car washes

—Implement e-government ideas and processes for transparent City of Flagstaff and cost/staff time reduction

—Implement shut down policy

—Increase building permit fees

—(Halt the planned rewrite of the) Land development code

—Library start charging late fees

—Look at job sharing opportunities

—Look at (eliminating) projects that may be unrealistic or unnecessary due to economic downturn

—Mandate contracted office supply list

—Offer early out (buyouts) for retirement eligible staff

—Paperless systems throughout

—Partnership with hotels and Snowbowl for packages and increase visitors

—Pay decrease (4 percent high, 1 percent mid, .5 percent low range)

—Plows, use part time prior to giving any overtime

—Put retirees on own insurance

—Raise benefit eligible positions to 30 hours a week versus 20

—Realign programs with core mission and redistribute full time employees

—Realign Public Works with Utilities in one division

—Re-arrange cubicles to add off site employees to city hall

—Reduce branch library hours

—Reduce bulky trash pick up

—Reduce paper use

—Reduce recreation facilities hours of operation

—Reduce the number of take home vehicles

—Remove $60 deferred comp for single insurance

—Repetitive motion therapy

—Retention pay

—Review work at home options for some non-direct service staff. Create new performance measures for productivity outcomes for these staff. (e.g. measure outcomes vs. hours of work.)

—Rio De Flag funds

—Sell physical assets

—Snow removal threshold for residential of 6 inches or more

—Stop buying Council dinner for six months

—Stop printing agendas for meetings

—Stop using chemical on the roads and use cinders

—Strict adherence to Fair Labor Standards Act rules

—Suspend annual board and commission member appreciation lunch

—Suspend Cityscape

—Take Fire Dept. out of the general fund

—Travel allowances

—Uniform allowances

—Upper management cuts

—Use employees as consultants instead of contract

—Use internal expertise/licensed staff to reduce current contract cost. Example: —Allow 15 percent to 35 percent contract documents to be done in house and allow city  staff to stamp their work.

Source: City of Flagstaff