DATE:
May 24, 2022
27
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
FISCAL YEAR 2021-22 THIRD QUARTER OPERATIONAL PLAN STATUS REPORT AND BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
This report summarizes the status of the County's Fiscal Year 2021-22 Adopted Operational Plan, as measured by projected year-end fund balance from current year operations. The projected year-end balance for the General Fund is $130.6 million (or 1.9% of the General Fund budget), and $255.5 million (or 2.7% of the Overall budget) for all budgetary funds combined. The projected fund balance anticipates an overall positive expenditure variance and an overall negative revenue variance from the Fiscal Year 2021-22 Amended Budget. The projection assumes General Purpose Revenue will perform better than estimated, and all business groups will produce operating balances. The General Fund year-end fund balance projection includes the assumption that the County will continue to incur COVID-19 costs and anticipates receipt of additional federal and State emergency response funding including American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) revenue to continue response efforts through the end of the fiscal year. The projections also reflect FEMA revenue deferrals anticipated to be received after December 2022. The projected balance for all other funds combined is $124.9 million (or 4.9% of the other funds combined budget).
Transfers and revisions to the adopted budget can be made by formal action of the Board of Supervisors in accordance with the California County Budget Act, Government Code (GC) Section 29125. Increases to the overall budget require 4 votes while transfers of appropriations between departments within the same budgetary fund that do not increase the overall budget or the cancellation of appropriations require a majority vote. However, transfers of appropriations to facilitate transfers between budgetary funds require 4 votes even if...
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