Proposed City Budget Would Trim Some Services and Increase Fees : City Hall: Park maintenance and street resurfacing would be curtailed. Fees for parking meters and storm drains would increase.

Offering a stringent spending plan that he said cuts “beyond bare bones,” San Diego City Manager Jack McGrory on Monday proposed a $1.32-billion budget that would reduce city services while raising parking meter and other public fees during the next fiscal year.

Although McGrory’s proposed fiscal 1993 budget is nearly 15% higher than this year’s $1.16-billion, he stressed that the increase is attributable primarily to federally mandated improvements in San Diego’s sewage-treatment system and for other enhancements in water and sewer programs.

In most other areas, the city’s projected revenues fall millions of dollars short of the amount needed to maintain current service, necessitating cutbacks that include a 38-position reduction in the city’s 9,686-person work force, McGrory said. As it has over the past year, the city plans to continue reducing staffing through attrition and reassignment of existing employees, rather than layoffs.

The possible reductions, which exclude public-safety programs, could range from park and building maintenance to street resurfacing and the promptness with which other city services are rendered, McGrory added. Joining public-safety services as high priority items in next year’s proposed budget are anti-drug and after-school programs, library services and other recreation programs.

The City Council, which must approve the budget, is scheduled to begin debating McGrory’s recommendation next month.

Under McGrory’s proposal, the first two-year spending plan presented to the council, San Diego’s budget would rise a modest 3% to $1.37 billion in fiscal 1994. Among other things, that increase would permit the city’s work force to grow by 252 positions to 9,900, with 52 of the new jobs going to the Police Department in order to maintain the city’s current ratio of 1.65 officers per 1,000 residents.

Although McGrory proposed no new major taxes for the next two years, certain public fees would be increased, including parking meter fees, which would go up from 75 cents an hour to $1.25.

“ Not !” said Mayor Maureen O’Connor, succinctly indicating her thoughts about that particular proposal.

Homeowners and businesses with burglar alarms also would face higher permit fees, largely to compensate for what McGrory said was a 97% false alarm rate that costs about $1.5 million in police services annually. Permits for residential alarms, which now cost $25 every two years, would increase to $55 for the same period, while commercial and industrial permits would rise from $50 to $95.

Storm drain fees, now 50 cents monthly, also would be increased by 34 cents under McGrory’s proposal, to help purchase equipment needed to comply with federal clean-water standards.