{ "schemaVersion": "2.0.0", "proposalId": "one-boise", "publicationDate": "2026-07-21", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21", "status": "binding-service-transfer-matrix", "rule": "Transfer the work, staff, records, contracts, assets, and appropriation to one named owner. A workload does not become a saving because its letterhead changes.", "departments": [ { "id": "elected-government", "name": "Elected government", "currentStructure": "Two mayors and two councils govern one continuous urban area.", "proposedDestination": "One Boise Mayor and seven-member district council; City Clerk owns elections and council records.", "whatConsolidates": ["two mayoral offices", "two councils", "two clerk and election chains", "two municipal policy agendas"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["a full-voting Garden City District seat", "the permanent Garden City District name", "transfer-day territorial protections"], "doesNotDisappear": ["public meetings", "ordinances", "constituent service", "district representation"], "transition": "Voters elect the successor mayor and seven council members before the October 1 transfer. The elected body serves as the Transition Council.", "employeeEffect": "Elected offices end by statute; protected municipal employees transfer under the workforce compact.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "verified recurring reduction", "amount": 70463.82}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Controlling state law, enacted compensation, and official Boise payroll records."}, "sourceRefs": ["idaho-code-title-50-chapter-21", "garden-city-municipal-code-elected-pay", "boise-fy2026-compensation"] }, { "id": "police", "name": "Police", "currentStructure": "Garden City Police and Boise Police maintain separate municipal command, records, evidence, policy, fleet, and Ada County CAD customer relationships.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Police Chief receives all Garden City personnel, jurisdiction, records, evidence, equipment, fleet, contracts, and appropriations. The former Garden City territory becomes the named Garden City Precinct; the precinct reports response, calls, complaints, stops, force, staffing, and clearance outcomes separately.", "whatConsolidates": ["municipal command", "policy", "records and evidence systems", "fleet and contracts", "Ada County CAD customer relationship"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["the named Garden City Precinct", "district-level service reporting", "patrol and community-response capacity"], "doesNotDisappear": ["patrol workload", "investigations", "evidence", "records", "traffic enforcement", "community response"], "transition": "One command activates at transfer; radios, warrants, evidence chain, records access, dispatch identifiers, prosecutor routing, and mutual aid pass the published acceptance test before a legacy system is retired.", "employeeEffect": "Every police employee transfers. Sworn rank and Idaho certification remain recognized; pay rises to at least the mapped Boise floor.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no frontline saving; only empty command or support authorization can qualify under the compact"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official employer and county dispatch records plus the binding workforce compact."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-police-employment", "boise-police-employment", "ada-county-emergency-communications"] }, { "id": "fire-coordination", "name": "Fire coordination", "currentStructure": "Garden City service involves North Ada County Fire and Rescue and Boise Fire administration under existing law and agreements.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Fire Chief becomes the single municipal liaison. North Ada County Fire and Rescue keeps every independent power, asset, employee, levy, contract, and service duty it holds by law.", "whatConsolidates": ["the municipal planning contact", "the municipal escalation path"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["North Ada County Fire and Rescue governance", "existing fire service duties", "inspection, prevention, and suppression capacity"], "doesNotDisappear": ["fire suppression", "inspection", "prevention", "EMS coordination", "district governance"], "transition": "Existing fire response and inspection terms continue. Only the municipal intake, planning, and escalation contact becomes one.", "employeeEffect": "No fire-district employee transfers through municipal consolidation.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no saving booked"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official fire-service and district records; the compact does not claim authority over the fire district."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fire-inspections", "north-ada-fire-district"] }, { "id": "emergency-communications", "name": "Emergency communications", "currentStructure": "Ada County CAD serves two municipal police customers for Boise and Garden City.", "proposedDestination": "Ada County Emergency Communications keeps dispatch authority; Boise Police becomes one municipal law-enforcement customer with one service-level schedule and escalation path.", "whatConsolidates": ["two municipal police customer identities", "service-level reporting", "municipal escalation"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["Ada County dispatch authority", "911 intake", "CAD, radio, resilience, and county records"], "doesNotDisappear": ["911 intake", "dispatch", "radio", "CAD", "resilience", "records"], "transition": "The customer count changes from two to one only after identifiers, unit status, location, records, and failover pass a live cutover test.", "employeeEffect": "County dispatch employees remain county employees.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no saving booked"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official Ada County service records and a compact rule that preserves county authority."}, "sourceRefs": ["ada-county-emergency-communications"] }, { "id": "finance", "name": "Finance, treasury, and billing administration", "currentStructure": "Garden City maintains its own treasury, general ledger, payroll controls, billing relationships, budget, audit, and fund schedules.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Finance and Administration receives the general ledger, treasury, payroll control, budget, audit, revenue, and general billing work. Garden City legacy debt and every enterprise stay on separate schedules inside the same ledger.", "whatConsolidates": ["treasury operations", "general ledger administration", "payroll control", "budget and audit production", "general billing"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["Garden City legacy-debt schedules", "ring-fenced enterprise schedules", "Garden City District ledger identifiers"], "doesNotDisappear": ["accounts", "billing", "cash controls", "budgeting", "audit work", "reporting"], "transition": "Opening balances reconcile to the 2025 audit and transfer-day close; both ledgers run through one full month-end before the legacy general ledger becomes read-only.", "employeeEffect": "Finance staff transfer and fill the receiving work before a named fixed-portfolio authorization can end.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "eligible administrative chain; no vendor line treated as automatic saving"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Audited financial statements, the adopted budget, and explicit compact accounting firewalls."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fy2025-audit", "garden-city-fy2026-budget"] }, { "id": "hr-payroll", "name": "Human resources and payroll", "currentStructure": "Garden City administers employee records, classification, benefits, leave, payroll, hiring, and workplace rules. The public payroll record contains 85 people: five elected officeholders and 80 transferable non-elected employees.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Human Resources owns classification, benefits, employee relations, hiring, and payroll master data under the workforce compact.", "whatConsolidates": ["classification administration", "benefits administration", "employee relations", "hiring systems", "payroll master data"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["each transferred employee's service credit", "accrued leave", "appeal and placement rights", "Garden City-origin workforce reporting"], "doesNotDisappear": ["payroll", "benefits", "employee records", "leave", "classification", "labor obligations"], "transition": "Every employee receives a transfer statement before transfer and dual payroll calculation runs twice before October 1. The compact's enacted 80-record crosswalk places every worker in a real Boise class at the highest of exact transfer-day regular pay, the mapped-class minimum, any compact-enacted current-comparable floor, or the compact living-wage floor. A Year 1 employee evidence appeal may raise that placement and may not lower it.", "employeeEffect": "No break in service, new probation, base-pay reduction, leave loss, PERSI termination, or benefit gap.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "eligible administrative chain after two-year guarantee"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official budgets, benefits records, retirement law, and the binding employee-transfer rule."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fy2026-budget", "boise-employee-benefits", "idaho-code-59-1302"] }, { "id": "information-technology", "name": "Information technology", "currentStructure": "Garden City funds systems, devices, licenses, security, vendors, records, accounts, and network operations separately.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Information Technology owns the successor architecture, identity, security, devices, network, integrations, records transfer, accessibility, and vendor master.", "whatConsolidates": ["identity and access", "security operations", "network and device management", "integrations", "vendor and license administration"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["identifiable Garden City record series", "resident access during cutover", "service continuity until acceptance"], "doesNotDisappear": ["licenses", "security", "support", "devices", "data", "integrations", "continuity"], "transition": "Each system has a receiving owner, retention rule, migration checksum, rollback copy, security test, accessibility test, and retirement date in the Unification Ledger.", "employeeEffect": "IT employees transfer; qualified staff receive transition roles before outside implementation labor is purchased.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "eligible administrative chain; licenses count only after executed cancellation and no replacement cost"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official budget records and the compact's executed-cancellation recognition rule."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fy2026-budget", "princeton-transition-cost-request"] }, { "id": "legal-prosecution", "name": "Legal and prosecution", "currentStructure": "Garden City employs legal staff and purchases Ada County prosecution capacity; every pending matter and case continues after consolidation under section 50-2111.", "proposedDestination": "Boise City Attorney receives municipal legal work, code, claims, contracts, litigation, records advice, and prosecution coordination. Ada County keeps every accepted case until lawful transfer or conclusion.", "whatConsolidates": ["municipal legal leadership", "code and contracts advice", "claims and litigation management", "prosecution coordination"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["every pending Garden City matter", "existing client duties and privileges", "Ada County's accepted prosecution cases"], "doesNotDisappear": ["pending cases", "prosecution", "contracts", "claims", "litigation", "legal advice"], "transition": "A matter register assigns every open item, deadline, privilege custodian, conflict screen, record, and budget on transfer day.", "employeeEffect": "Legal employees transfer; no active matter is used to justify deleting capacity.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "eligible leadership/support chain; 215000-dollar prosecution contract is not booked as saving"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Controlling succession law and adopted municipal budget records."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fy2026-budget", "idaho-code-50-2111", "boise-prosecution-budget-2027"] }, { "id": "planning-permitting", "name": "Planning, zoning, building, and permitting", "currentStructure": "Garden City applies its comprehensive plan, development code, floodplain rules, permits, development agreements, building review, and active applications.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Planning and Development Services administers the 36-month Garden City Transition Land-Use Code and then the attached unified map. Residents submit once; required agency review remains.", "whatConsolidates": ["planning administration", "permit intake and tracking", "building and code workflow", "hearing and enforcement records"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["the 36-month Garden City Transition Land-Use Code", "lawful uses and entitlements", "manufactured-home protections", "Garden City business and industrial identity"], "doesNotDisappear": ["planning cases", "building review", "inspection", "floodplain review", "public hearings", "code enforcement"], "transition": "Every active case keeps its case ID, code-of-filing, fees paid, evidence, deadlines, approvals, and lawful conditions. No restart and no duplicate fee.", "employeeEffect": "Planning, code, and counter employees transfer. SAFEbuilt, DOPL, and engineering workloads receive named Boise appropriations until a successor contract or staffed service replaces them.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "eligible administration chain; 97500-dollar inspection and 75000-dollar engineering lines are not booked as savings"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official plans, permit records, zoning code, and the operative transition attachment."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-comprehensive-plan-2025", "garden-city-building-permits", "boise-modern-zoning-code"] }, { "id": "utilities", "name": "Water and sewer utilities", "currentStructure": "Garden City operates water and sewer enterprises with dedicated revenue, assets, cash, liabilities, permits, customers, rates, capital work, staff, and a 15,887,517-dollar FY2026 budget.", "proposedDestination": "One Boise Public Works receives a ring-fenced Garden City Water and Sewer Enterprise Division. Its money, assets, revenue, liabilities, permits, customers, rates, and capital plan remain separately accounted.", "whatConsolidates": ["executive oversight", "resident account access", "procurement and project visibility"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["the ring-fenced Garden City Water and Sewer Enterprise Division", "enterprise cash and debt", "customers, rates, permits, staff, and capital plan"], "doesNotDisappear": ["water production and distribution", "sewer collection", "billing", "operations", "maintenance", "permits", "capital"], "transition": "Operators, licenses, emergency procedures, telemetry, labs, billing, work orders, inventory, cash, and regulatory contacts transfer intact; the customer account number remains valid.", "employeeEffect": "Every utility employee transfers; no utility authorization funds a general-government saving.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no enterprise saving booked; 1274000-dollar internal transfer is not saving"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Audited enterprise records, adopted budget, and controlling enterprise-succession law."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fy2026-budget", "garden-city-fy2025-audit", "idaho-code-50-2110"] }, { "id": "sanitation", "name": "Sanitation", "currentStructure": "Garden City accounts for sanitation as an enterprise with customers, contract service, billing, cash, and a 3,042,036-dollar FY2026 budget.", "proposedDestination": "One Boise Public Works receives a separately accounted sanitation enterprise and one resident account path.", "whatConsolidates": ["executive oversight", "resident account access", "contract and billing visibility"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["the separately accounted sanitation enterprise", "customers and contract service", "enterprise cash and obligations"], "doesNotDisappear": ["collection", "contract management", "billing", "customer service", "compliance"], "transition": "Routes and pickup days remain until the successor executes a published service change; every account and credit transfers automatically.", "employeeEffect": "Employees transfer with the work.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no enterprise saving booked; 80000-dollar internal transfer is not saving"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Audited enterprise records, adopted budget, and the compact's enterprise firewall."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fy2026-budget", "garden-city-fy2025-audit"] }, { "id": "library", "name": "Library", "currentStructure": "Garden City operates a public library with 13 of the city's 14 part-time employees.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Public Library receives the branch, collection, programs, staff, accounts, technology, contracts, and appropriation. Its public name remains Garden City Library.", "whatConsolidates": ["library-system administration", "technology and accounts", "contracts and appropriation management"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["the Garden City Library name", "the branch and collection", "hours, programs, staff, and community identity"], "doesNotDisappear": ["branch", "hours", "collection", "programs", "staffed service", "community identity"], "transition": "Cards, holds, fines, digital access, catalog records, schedules, and accessibility services cross without a closure day.", "employeeEffect": "All library employees transfer; the branch and frontline authorizations are protected through Year 4.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no saving booked"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Public payroll records, the official library record, and the Year-4 frontline protection."}, "sourceRefs": ["idaho-statesman-garden-city-pay-2026", "garden-city-library"] }, { "id": "parks-facilities", "name": "Parks, pathways, facilities, and streetlights", "currentStructure": "Garden City maintains public facilities, parks, pathways, Greenbelt interfaces, and streetlight obligations while roads remain under ACHD.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Parks and Recreation receives parks and pathways; Boise Public Works receives facilities and streetlights; each asset retains a Garden City District identifier in the capital ledger.", "whatConsolidates": ["parks and pathway administration", "facility and streetlight work orders", "capital scheduling"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["each Garden City District asset identifier", "park and facility access", "maintenance, operations, and Greenbelt stewardship"], "doesNotDisappear": ["maintenance", "operations", "capital replacement", "Greenbelt stewardship", "facility access"], "transition": "Assets enter the Boise work-order system on transfer day with location, condition, warranty, open work, responsible crew, and funded capital line.", "employeeEffect": "Employees transfer with their assets and work orders.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no saving booked"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official municipal directory and ACHD jurisdiction records plus the compact asset rule."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-government-directory", "achd-policy-manual-overview"] }, { "id": "public-works-interfaces", "name": "Public works and regional interfaces", "currentStructure": "ACHD receives separate municipal positions and project submissions from Boise and Garden City; COMPASS and VRT likewise receive separate municipal participation.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Public Works and the Mayor's Office issue one municipal capital position, project submission, and escalation record. ACHD, COMPASS, VRT, ITD, DEQ, IDWR, school districts, and Ada County retain their powers.", "whatConsolidates": ["municipal capital position", "municipal project submission", "municipal advocacy and escalation record"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["ACHD road authority", "COMPASS regional planning", "VRT transit authority", "school, county, and state powers"], "doesNotDisappear": ["road authority", "regional planning", "transit authority", "school governance", "state permitting"], "transition": "ACHD local-government counterparts fall from seven to six: five cities plus Ada County. Boise and Garden City become one municipal submission at COMPASS and VRT after required governance records are updated.", "employeeEffect": "External-agency employees do not transfer.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "coordination result; no cash saving booked"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Official ACHD, COMPASS, and VRT governance records."}, "sourceRefs": ["achd-jurisdiction-cities", "compass-membership", "valley-regional-transit-authority"] }, { "id": "procurement", "name": "Procurement and contracts", "currentStructure": "Garden City maintains vendor agreements, purchase authority, grants, franchises, insurance terms, renewals, and termination dates.", "proposedDestination": "Boise Purchasing receives one vendor master, contract repository, solicitation calendar, insurance control, and public contract ledger.", "whatConsolidates": ["vendor master", "contract repository", "solicitation calendar", "insurance control", "public contract ledger"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["existing Garden City contract obligations", "grant and franchise terms", "vendor competition and performance records"], "doesNotDisappear": ["vendor work", "contract obligations", "competition", "grant terms", "insurance"], "transition": "Every contract is assigned, continued, rebid, or ended under its actual terms. A price reduction enters the fiscal ledger only after execution and service acceptance.", "employeeEffect": "Procurement staff transfer and manage the combined workload.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "no speculative procurement saving booked"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Adopted budget records and controlling contract-succession law."}, "sourceRefs": ["garden-city-fy2026-budget", "idaho-code-50-2111"] }, { "id": "records", "name": "Records and public information", "currentStructure": "Section 50-2113 transfers Garden City records to the successor clerk; retention, legal holds, privacy, security, and public access continue.", "proposedDestination": "Boise City Clerk becomes records custodian. The original Garden City series remains identifiable, searchable, exportable, and subject to its retention and legal holds inside one portal.", "whatConsolidates": ["records custody", "request intake", "search and export access", "retention administration"], "whatRemainsLocal": ["the original Garden City record series", "source identity", "retention, legal holds, privacy, and access rights"], "doesNotDisappear": ["source custody", "retention", "legal holds", "privacy", "security", "public requests"], "transition": "Every series receives a checksum, custodian, retention rule, access class, legal-hold flag, public index, and migration acceptance record before the source system is retired.", "employeeEffect": "Records employees transfer; public-request capacity remains funded.", "modeledFinancialEffect": {"status": "eligible administrative chain only after records acceptance"}, "confidence": {"level": "high", "basis": "Controlling records-succession law and the Idaho public-records statute."}, "sourceRefs": ["idaho-code-50-2113", "idaho-public-records-law"] } ], "sourceRefs": [ "idaho-code-title-50-chapter-21", "garden-city-fy2026-budget", "garden-city-fy2025-audit", "garden-city-government-directory", "ada-county-emergency-communications", "achd-jurisdiction-cities", "compass-membership", "valley-regional-transit-authority" ] }