Environmental and General Services Overview
Fiscal Year 2022/23
Mission Statement
To promote a healthy Tucson community by providing innovative and effective waste management, environmental and code enforcement services and maintaining City building, communications, and vehicle assets to support City-wide service delivery.
Programs
The following programs are included in this department:
Staffing By Program
*Full Time Equivalent Employee (FTE)
Budget By Program
Department Expenses
Budget By Expense Category
Budget By Funding Source
Significant Changes
The adopted budget for Fiscal Year 2022/23 of $129,795,110 reflects a net increase of $11,157,100 from the Fiscal Year 2021/22 Adopted Budget. Major changes include the following:
- Increase in salary and employee related expenses by $840,540
- Increase in outside vendor services and miscellaneous professional services by $1,133,040
- Increase in general fund gas and diesel by $3,395,530
- Increase in vehicle repair parts by $350,000
- Increase in Capital Improvement Projects for Los Reales Landfill and others by $5,350,000
- Increase in miscellaneous costs by $87,990
Trends
Re-envisioning the City’s recycling and waste reduction program consistent with Zero Waste principles continues to be a priority. The department is also embarking on the deployment of high impact low-cost projects at Los Reales Sustainability Campus consistent with the City of Tucson Declaration of Climate Emergency.
Accomplishments
The Environmental and General Services continues to provide uninterrupted internal and external services in support of all city operations and services.
Future Objectives
The department continues to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the various work units and programs; the office is also taking an active role in addressing community wide clean-up requests resulting from homelessness encampments and implementation of various initiatives and projects intended to address climate change.