Reform 1.4: City OMB
Create a City “Office of Management and Budget”. Other Information:
The five elements of the City Management Agenda require integration and coordination. Councilmember DeMaio has long proposed
the creation of a single “Office of Management and Budget” to consolidate and coordinate the various management functions
of the city. Such a move would not only improve management capabilities, but achieve cost savings as well. The OMB would be
headed by a consolidated Chief Performance Management Officer – reflecting a consolidation of the current Chief Financial
Officer position and the Assistant Chief Operating Officer position. The following functions would be housed within the OMB:
* Budget and Performance Management (Merged function of Financial Management, Business Office, and management analyst currently
located in individual city departments) * Financial Management (Merged function of Comptroller’s Office and City Treasurer)
* Human Resources and Labor Relations * Information Technology (OneSD and Information Technology) * Contracting and Competitive
Sourcing (a merged office of Purchasing/Contracting and a portion of the Business Office) In addition to integrating the functions
comprising the City Management Agenda, the OMB would house the following support functions that serve all city departments:
* Risk Management * City Asset Management (Assumes Fleet and Facilities Management functions are outsourced) * Debt Management
A number of other important changes would be made in the consolidation of these support functions and the creation of an integrated
management office: * Expanded Project Management Capacities: The current City Business Office would be folded into the new
OMB. To equip the OMB with internal resources to lead large-scale change management projects, we propose the creation of an
unclassified position of “Project Management Leader” to allow the city to hire individuals with advanced project management
(PMP) certification. Drawing on support from impacted departments, these individuals would work on priority projects – starting
first with the Managed Competitions outlined in Commitment #6 of this Roadmap to Recovery. Reduction in Administration Office:
The current Administration Office contains functions that – in the middle of a fiscal crisis – should be curtailed. Functions
relating to EMS contract management and Equal Opportunity Contracting would be transferred to the Contracting and Competition
directorate in the new OMB.
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