Fiscal Note
This resolution provides funding authorization for a variety of expenditures not anticipated in the 2011 Operating Budget. The appropriation of $6,188.100, from the General Fund balance brings the 2011 General Fund budget closer to the expenditure limit allowable under the State of Wisconsin’s Expenditure Restraint Program and helps preserve expenditure authority in future years. There is no impact on the tax levy. It is anticipated that, following this transfer, the unreserved, undesignated, and unassigned General Fund balance will remain at approximately 12.5 percent of budgeted expenditures, somewhat below the established target of 15 percent. This resolution also appropriates $190,000 from the Contingent Reserve.
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2nd SUBSTITUTE-Appropriating $6,188,100 from the General Fund balance to agency budgets and the Workers Compensation Fund to cover various unbudgeted expenditures in 2011.
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As the end of the year approaches, a review of agency operating budgets indicates a number of areas where conditions and events during 2011 are expected to result in the overrun of specific expenditure categories.
The most significant of these is in the area of the Police Department employee compensation. Several factors, including conversion of vacation leave to pay as authorized in the Police collective bargaining agreement, the overhire of police officer positions, and overtime costs related to protests at the State Capitol earlier this year, combine to add $1,833,000, to estimated Police Department expenditures above budgeted amounts. Savings in other categories and reimbursements from the state and other governments are expected to leave a net budget shortfall of approximately $1,000,000.
The Fire Department requires additional authority of $349,100. This includes the overhire of 5 positions above authorized strength and higher fleet costs. In addition, the Fire Department budget needs to be increased by $73,100, to fund a sole source contr...
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