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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 09-07-2005-5dORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date September 7, 2005 Action Agend?a? Item No. SUBJECT: Budaet Amendment #1 DEPARTMENT: Budget PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No ATTACHMENT (S): Attachment 1. Budget as Amended Spreadsheet Attachment 2. Year-To-Date Budget Summary INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna Dean 245-2151 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To approve budget ordinance amendments for fiscal year 2005-06. BACKGROUND: Social Services The Department of Social Services has received the following donations that are set-aside in a special Adoption Enhancement Fund: a. Foster Care Donations - donated funds totaling $20,394 from Triangle Community Foundation, Inc, ($20,214) and from a refund of an overpayment of a day camp participant ($180). These funds will be used to help send Department of Social Services foster care children to summer camp. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these donated funds, (See Attachment 1, column #1) b, General Assistance Donations - donated funds totaling $356 from citizens of Orange County ($100) and from the N. C. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation ($256) to help with special needs of clients including seniors. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these donated funds, (See Attachment 1, column #1) Miscellaneous (Technical Amendment) 2. A technical amendment is needed to correctly budget two entries in their appropriate functions. At the time of establishing the Changes to the Manager's Recommended Budget for Board of Commissioner approval, the decrease of $10,000 in the transfer to Affordable Housing Trust Fund should have been reduced from the Transfers function instead of from the Human Services function, and the increase of $4,000 to the Burwell School should have been added to the Cultural and Recreation Non-Departmental function instead of the Human Services Non-Departmental function. This technical amendment provides for the appropriate budgeting in these functions for FY 2005-06. (See Attachment 1, column #2) Department on Aging 3. The Department on Aging has received notification from the N. C. Department of Insurance of receipt of $1,000 to be used to promote/expand the Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) within the eldercare division. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds for the above purpose. (See Attachment 1, column #3) 4. The Department on Aging has also received funds totaling $1,093 from the Triangle J Council of Government for Orange County's share of the Duke Energy program to purchase fans for low-income elderly Orange County residents. Duke Energy donates funds annually to this program.. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds. (See Attachment 1, column #4) Health Department 5. At its August 16, 2005 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved the transfer of $21,500 from the Social Safety Net/Critical Needs Reserve to the Health Department's Environmental Health division to address water sampling costs of an estimated 100 households in the Mill Creek Road Area located in the Cedar Grove Township. This budget amendment provides for the transfer of these funds to the Environment Health division of the Health Department for this purpose. With this appropriation of $21,500, $418,500 remains budgeted in the Social Safety Net/Critical Needs Reserve for FY 2005-06. (See Attachment 1, column #5) Human Services Non-Departmental 6. As part of the Adopted FY 2005-06 Budget, the Board of County Commissioners approved an appropriation of $18,000 for Orange County's contribution to the Partnership to End Homelessness Initiative. Membership in the Initiative includes Orange County, the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, the Triangle United Way, Orange Congregations in Mission, the Inter-Faith Council, OPC Area Program, the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce, and UNC. These funds will be used to provide administrative support services to the Partnership to End Homelessness in order to create a written 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness in Orange County. Budget requests were made to the county and municipalities according to the existing HOME Program funding formula. The total funding received equals $50,000 with committed monetary contributions from the Town of Chapel Hill ($18,450), Town of Carrboro ($6,300), the Town of Hillsborough ($2,250), and the Triangle United Way ($5,000) in addition to the $18,000. The County will serve as the lead entity for this Initiative in the same manner it currently does for the HOME Program, This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds totaling $32,000 to be used for the above stated purposes. (See Attachment 1, column #6) FINANCIAL IMPACT: Financial impacts are included in the background information above. RECOMMENDATION (S): The Manager recommends that the Board of County Commissioners approve the attached budget ordinance amendments. 4 Year-To-Date Budget Summary Fiscal Year 2005-06 General Fund Budget Summary Original General Fund Budget $149,856,874 Additional Revenue Received Through Budget Amendment #1 (September 7, 2005): Grant Funds Non Grant Funds $34,093 Additional County Dollars (i.e. County Fund Balance Appropriated to Date) to Cover Unanticipated Expenditures Total Amended General Fund Budget $149,890,967 Dollar Change in 2005-06 Approved General Fund Budget $34,093 % Change in 2005-06 Approved General Fund Budget 0.02% Authorized Full Time Equivalent Positions Original Approved General Fund Full Time Equivalent Positions 750.436 Original Approved Other Funds Full Time Equivalent Positions 69.550 Additional Positions Approved Mid-Year Total Approved Full-Time-Equivalent Positions for Fiscal Year 2005-06 819.986 Full-Year County Cost of Mid-Year Positions for Upcoming Fiscal year Attachment 2 5