City Releases Police Outsourcing Document

After more than six months waiting for its release, Pacifica City Councilmembers finally received a written report about potential police outsourcing to the San Mateo County Sheriff or the city of South San Francisco — a document that they thought should be made public.

The report can be found on the city website and was also presented by its creator — Management Consultants — Thursday night in a public meeting in the City Council Chambers. It will be presented again on April 6 at 9:30 a.m. in the Mildred Owen Concert Hall located at 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard.

"I'm glad to see the report released," Mayor Len Stone said in a Pacifica Tribune article. "It's important for people to understand details as we move forward with possibly outsourcing police."

Mayor Stone and Mayor Pro Tem Mary Ann Nihart had both requested their colleagues release the report last year. Mike O'Neill and Karen Ervin, newly elected to City Council, wanted to see this document made public as well. City staff finally agreed to release the report this spring.

The original report was in a PowerPoint presentation. Management Consultants took time to review the original presentation and convert the work from PowerPoint into a written presentation.

The report did not make a recommendation about which police agency to choose, but analyzed potential cost savings from outsourcing police services. The report also analyzed the impact of Pacifica's existing police pension obligation bond debt. In the proposal, the SMCSO will give a credit toward payment for their services for five years.

The proposal from San Mateo County Sheriff also shows cost savings for Pacifica as opposed to South San Francisco's proposal, which would cost $9.2 million, $8.3 million in subsequent years, very close to what Pacifica already spends on police services, according to the Tribune. The Sheriff's proposal, which is now outdated and must be renegotiated, would have saved Pacifica about $913,767 from its $8.6 million police department budget.

The report also contains reviews from three city managers of San Carlos, Millbrae and Half Moon Bay, who all in the last couple of years switched over to the Sheriff for police services.

Read the full report in the Pacifica Tribune here.

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