Name of requestor: Frank Lancaster / Bob Keister

Department: County Manager

Preferred appearance date: 5/27/2008    Time required: 15

Date decision needed: 5/27/2008

 

Objective: Continuation of Appropriation of Carryover funds from 2007

 

Situation: After the final closeout of each year, there is a certain amount of funds that were unexpended in the previous year that are available for use in providing county services.

 

Some of these funds are for projects that were previously approved, but were not completed in 2007.  Others are funds that are legally or otherwise dedicated to a specific use and cannot be redistributed to another area.  All of these funds are automatically carried over as appropriate.

 

 Each spring we re-examine budget requests that were a) not able to funded at the time the budget was adopted  b)New requests from county departments.  These are reviewed and presented to the County Commissioners for consideration.

 

Proposal: For the Board to review the requested carryover uses and to appropriate funds for those the Board decides to fund.

 

Advantages: * can address many service needs of the citizens

* provide good stewardship of county resources

 

Disadvantages: * funds allocated are not available for other uses

* not all requests can be approved.

 

Requested action: That the board approve the appropriation of 2007 carryover funds as agreed to on this date.

 

Potentially Affected Interest: * citizens recieving services

* county departments and elected officials

 

Level of Public Interest and Participations: * moderate to high

 

Audio/Visual/Computer Needs: computer projection