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HomeMy WebLinkAboutord1996-059WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA BILL NO. 96_404 CLEARANCES Initial Date Date Received in Council Office: Agenda date Assigned to: Originator: Executive � a �0V Nov 1 VV M I OM COUNT-Y C0UN01L 11/i9./96 Division Head: 12/10/96 Finance 'Dept. Head: /�I / Prosecutor: tI Purchasing/Budget: 8 Il `+ Executive: /Y �/ SUBJECT. 1996 Supplemental Budget Request #11 ATTACHMENTS: Ordinance, Background documentation SUMMARYSTATEMENT: Please complete sections of box as appropriate & explain the item below. Related County contract #: Should Clerk schedule a hearing? NO /X / YES/ / Requested date: Supplemental Budget Ordinance No. 11 requests the following: (1) The supplemental request for the Current Expense Fund, Public Defenders Office, appropriates $20,000 from fund balance to pay for additional costs associated with a current DNA murder case. (2) The supplemental request for the Current Expense Fund, Prosecuting Attorney's Office, appropriates $15,000 from fund balance to pay for unanticipated costs related to current murder cases. (3) The supplemental request for the Current Expense Fund, Non - Departmental budget, appropriates $40,000 from fund balance: $10,000 for leave payout and $30,000 for 1996 What -Comm (911) costs adjustment. (4) The supplemental request for the Current Expense Fund, Jail budget appropriates $10,000 from income received through the commissary program to continue the program through the remainder of the year. (5) The supplemental request for the Current Expense Fund, Health Department, appropriates $132,000 from fund balance to adjust the contributions from small cities for their portion of 1995 Health Department costs. (6) The supplemental request for the Developmental Disabilities Fund appropriates $3,100 from fund balance to pay for computer equipment and Internet access for one year. (7) The supplemental request for the Combined Treatment Services Fund appropriates $2,822 from donations and state grants to pay for travel to Florida to the National Safety Council, advertising and Community Prevention Services. (8) The supplemental request for the Solid Waste Fund appropriates $133,322 from fund balance to pay for higher than expected legal fees ($85,000) and unanticipated clean up and repair of the leachate lagoon at the City of Ferndale Treatment Facility ($48,322). ORIGINATOR'S RECOMMENDED ACTION. Pass COMMITTEE ACTION TAKEN. COUNCIL ACTION TAKEN.• 1996-404 11126196: Introduced 12/10196: Adopted 6 - 1, Brenner opposed. Ord-#96-059 Number (this item only): © f--�. ti ct(r -059 SPONSORED BY: Consent PROPOSED BY: Executive INTRODUCTION DATE: ,11/19/96 ORDINANCE NO. 96 -059 AMENDMENT NO. 11 TO THE 1996 BUDGET WHEREAS, the 1996 budget was adopted November 28,1995; and, WHEREAS, changing circumstances require modifications to the approved 1996 budget; and, WHEREAS, those modifications have been assembled here for deliberation by the Whatcom County Council. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that the 1996 Whatcom County budget ordinance 95 -065 is hereby amended by adding the following amounts to the budgets included therein: Current Expense, Fund Expenditures Revenues Net Effect Public Defender 20,000 0 20,000 Prosecuting Attorney 15,000 0 15,000 Non - Departmental 40,000 0 40,000 Jail 10,000 (10,000) 10,000 Health Department 132,000 0 131000 Total Current Expense 215,000 (10,000) 205,000 Other Funds Developmental Disabilities 3,100 0 3,100 Combined Treatment 2,822 (2,822) 0 Solid Waste 133322 0 133,322 Total Other Funds 1399244 (2,822) 136,422 Total Supplemental $356,244 ($12.822) $343,422 Page 1 ADOPTED this ip_ day of npnewber , 1996. ATTEST: Dan own- Davis, Council Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: J Randall J. Watts Chief Civil Deputy ecutor WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON L. Ward Nel on, Chair ( Approved () Denied Pete Kremen, Executive a Date: �/ -1,2 —' 9 6 Page 2 WHATCOM COUNTY Summary of the Supplemental Budget Ordinance No. 11 Current Expense: Public Defender Professional services costs are 20,000 0 20,000 Disabilities expected to exceed 1996 budgeted Combined amount due to DNA murder case. 2,822 (2,822) 0 Prosecuting Unanticipated professional services 15,000 0 15,000 Attorney costs related to current murder cases. Non - Departmental Unpredictable leave payout costs will 10,000 0 40,000 (Miscellaneous and exceed 1996 budgeted amount 85,000 0 133,322 Emergency relating to Solid Waste litigation Communications Error correction adjustment to 1996 30,000 0 cost centers) What -Comm contract. Jail To provide commissary program 10,000 (10,000) 0 Total Other Funds through the end of the year, due to (2,822) 136,422 Total Supplemental 356,244 increased jail population which has *343,422 impacted the commissary program's annual revenue and expenditures. Health Department Adjustment to small cities for their 132,000 0 132,000 contribution to 1995 Health Department costs. Total Current Expense 217,000 .(10,000) 207,000 Other Funds: Developmental Purchase computer equipment and 3,100 0 3,100 Disabilities subscribe to Internet access Combined Traffic Safety Team received 2,822 (2,822) 0 Treatment additional funding through donations and state grants for advertising and travel to the National Safety Council. Solid Waste Higher than expected legal fees 85,000 0 133,322 relating to Solid Waste litigation Clean up and repair of the leachate 48,322 0 lagoon at the City of Ferndale Treatment Facility Total Other Funds 139,244 (2,822) 136,422 Total Supplemental 356,244 (12,822) *343,422 9f this total, $207, 000 is from Current.Expense fund balance. Page 3