DATE:
May 20, 2025
19
TO:
Board of Supervisors
SUBJECT
Title
FISCAL YEAR 2024-25 THIRD QUARTER OPERATIONAL PLAN STATUS REPORT AND BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS (DISTRICTS: ALL)
Body
OVERVIEW
This report summarizes the status of the County's Fiscal Year 2024-25 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 $52.6 million (or 0.7% of the General Fund budget). The projected balance for all other funds combined is $126.5 million (4.1% of the other funds combined budget). For all budgetary funds combined, the projected balance is $179.1 million (or 1.6% of the overall budget). The projected fund balance anticipates an overall positive expenditure variance and an overall negative revenue variance from the Fiscal Year 2024-25 Amended Budget. The projection reflects the unused portion of the appropriation for contingency pursuant to Government Code ?29084, assumes General Purpose Revenue will perform better than estimated, and business groups will produce operating balances, except for Public Safety Group.
Transfers and revisions to the amended budget can be made by formal action of the Board of Supervisors in accordance with the California County Budget Act, Government Code Section 29125. Increases to the overall budget require 4 votes. 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. Transfers of appropriations to facilitate transfers between budgetary funds require 4 votes even if the overall budget is not increased.
In the Public Safety Group (PSG), recommendations include appropriation adjustments to support increased costs in enhanced collection activities reimbursed to the Court, in Public Defender's Office to support increasing costs in psychiatric evaluations, facility management, professional expert services, and in...
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