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File #: 22-5792    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Financial Authorization Status: Passed
File created: 9/16/2022 In control: Commissioners Court
On agenda: 9/27/2022 Final action: 9/27/2022
Title: Request for approval of an allocation of $7,637,500 in 2015 Road and Bridge Bond funds for Engineering Road and Bridge capital salaries for FY23.

Department: Management and Budget

Department Head/Elected Official: Daniel Ramos, Executive Director

 

Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA

Type of Request: Financial Authorization

 

Project ID (if applicable): N/A

Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): N/A

 

MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A

MWDBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A

Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal:  N/A - Goal not applicable to request

 

Request Summary (Agenda Caption):

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Request for approval of an allocation of $7,637,500 in 2015 Road and Bridge Bond funds for Engineering Road and Bridge capital salaries for FY23.

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Background and Discussion:

Commissioners Court directed County departments to capitalize certain Engineering Road and Bridge-related salaries to fund raises for certain law enforcement and safety-related positions in the County. The transfer for SFY22 was $4.7 million. When annualized to 26 pay periods, this amounts to $7,637,500. OMB proposes to use 2015 Road and Bridge Bond voted authority, as was done in SFY22. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will transfer the needed budget to Engineering to support these positions.

 

Please note that for technical reasons, CP can only be allocated in amounts of $5,000, so the allocation is rounded up to the next $5,000 increment. The residual $2,500 will not be available to the department as a part of their budget.

 

Expected Impact:

Moving additional Engineering capital project salaries to CP is expected to free up approximately $7.6M in General Funds that can be redistributed to public safety salaries.

 

Alternative Options:

These salaries can be paid out of General Funds, but we would then need to find alternate sources for funding the SFY22 raises given to public safety positions.

 

Alignment with Goal(s):

_ Justice and Safety

_ Economic Opportunity

_ Housing

_ Public Health

_ Transportation

_ Flooding

_ Environment

X Governance and Customer Service

 

Prior Court Action (if any): N/A

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Agenda Item #

Action Taken

 

 

 

 

Location:

Address (if applicable): Countywide

Precinct(s): Countywide

 

Fiscal and Personnel Summary

Service Name

Road & Bridge Program

 

SFY 22

FY 23

Next 3 FYs

Incremental Expenditures (do NOT write values in thousands or millions)

Labor Expenditures

$

$7,640,000

$

Non-Labor Expenditures

$

$

$

Total Incremental Expenditures

$

$7,640,000

$

Funding Sources (do NOT write values in thousands or millions)

Existing Budget

Commercial Paper

$

$7,640,000

$

Choose an item.

$

$

$

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$

$

$

Total Current Budget

$

$7,640,000

$

Additional Budget Requested

Choose an item.

$

$

$

Choose an item.

$

$

$

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$

$

$

Total Additional Budget Requested

$

$

$

Total Funding Sources

$

$7,640,000

$

Personnel (Fill out section only if requesting new PCNs)

Current Position Count for Service

-

-

-

Additional Positions Requested

-

-

-

Total Personnel

-

-

-

 

Anticipated Court Date: September 27, 2022

Anticipated Implementation Date (if different from Court date): October 1, 2022

Emergency/Disaster Recovery Note: Not an emergency, disaster, or COVID-19 related item

Contact(s) name, title, department: Amy Perez, Deputy Executive Director, Office of Management and Budget

Attachments (if applicable): N/A