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Exhibit A Proposed 2014 PORTAL AGENCY OPERATING BUDGET SUMMARY (including number of Transactions used for cost allocation as between Original Principals) (June to December 2014) Labor Total' 152,649 Contracts Total2 27,000 Overhead Total 12,500 Vendor Costs4 180,208 Operating Reserves 55,854 Total Budgeted Costs 428,210 Total Budgeted Revenues 428,210 Estimated User fee Revenues5 72,566 Estimated Revenue from City Cost Allocations6 355,644 City of Seattle Cost Allocation? 245,394 City of Bellevue Cost Allocation 35,654 City of Tacoma Cost Allocation 56,903 City of Everett Cost Allocation 17,782 This budget estimates a six month budget beginning after the Multi-City Business License and Tax Portal is up and running in mid-2014,the first six months are covered by the Portal 1 This budget includes 2.5 FTE: the Portal Manager,a half-time administrative assistant and a full-time IT Project Manager/Business Analyst. The personnel for these positions will be provided by the City of Seattle and the costs in this budget include the fully-funded(salary,benefits,etc.)labor costs for all 2.5 positions. A separate loaned staffing agreement will be entered into between the Portal Agency and the City of Seattle in 2014 for these staff. 2 Includes contracts for outside services such as Accounting,Insurance,Bank and the State Auditor. 3 Funding for miscellaneous overhead items such as legal fees,office and operating supplies,printing and licenses/memberships. a Includes costs estimated payable to-Gov Systems under the Portal Services Contract in 2014,from and after the Portal goes"live." For the first five years of Portal operation,.e-Gov Systems will charge the Portal Agency$1.25 every time a business or taxpayer makes an online Portal filing,whether or not tax is owing. 5 Assumes the Executive Board approves a proposed user fee of$4 per online session per City(the proposed fee would be payable only when tax is owed;multiple tax and/or license filings on the same session would incur only one fee). This user fee is based on an estimated Portal use adoption rate by business and taxpayers of 15%.This adoption rate is expected to grow considerably each year. 6 Cost Allocations are based on the 2012 Transaction count for each Original Principal,shown in the table at the End of this Exhibit A. 'Excludes Seattle's contributions to start-up costs in 2014. Also excludes labor and operating costs for which Seattle will be reimbursed from the Total Budget shown above,per the loaned staffing agreement. v. 11.4.13 33