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Gary Lecheminant

Friday, September 27, 2019 2:04 PM

General Questions

1. Why are you interested in the ADF opportunity with the City of San Jose? Tell me a bit about what you
know about the City.

Used to live in Dublin ­ would like to get back to California. I saw the job posting and saw that they are looking
for someone who may have some experience in enterprise resource funding. Total budget of about $20m.

2.Please describe your most recent position and day­to­day responsibilities.

Currently I am the FD for Highland City ­ I pretty much handle everything. I handle fixed assets, AP, HR
payroll ­ about 30 fulltime employees. I handle the fixed assets, all of the revenue projections, mid­year budget
adjustments, risk management, external auditor ­ I am pretty much a one man show ­ I do all the grunt work
plus everything else.

3. How many employees do you supervise? Who do you report to?

A team of 1. Anything with the accounting system if we try to upgrade, I'll do that. It would be nice to have an
extra person to help out one in awhile. I report to the City Administrator.

Finance Questions

4. Please describe the ways in which you determine whether your organization is operating efficiently and
effectively.

We see if we are running according to our budget. We operate pretty tight on the budget. We are very tight ­
we look at the budget on a quarterly basis, then after the first half of the year on a monthly basis. We have
weekly meetings with City Engineer, Recorder at Library ­ talk about what's been happening at the City, how
successful we are ­ pretty much aligning ourself with the budget ­ and gauging wheter or not we are doing
what we are supposed to ­ trying to have my goals aligned with them ­ all the way down to the bottom. You
can pretty much tell if you are deviating or not.

5. Describe your experience in proactively managing the financial programs of an agency to ensure
fiscal transparency, stability, and efficiency, and to protect the agency’s financial resources.

The important part about the Highland job is understanding what the revenue is going to come in at. If we
estimate the history for sales tax is 4% ­ you want to make sure at the end of the day that the net revenue and
net expenses are aligned. One of the things when I first got here, the pressurized irrigation system ­ I noticed it
was running in the negative because of the bond payment ­ I told them that we can't keep doing this ­ we
adjusted the bond rate and our sewer rates up. I also adjusted our impact fees ­ those are the fees people pay
when they want to adjust their sewer fees.

6. What is your assessment regarding current public budgeting/funding issues that the City may be facing
and how do you think the City could best respond to these challenges?