Title
AN ACT CONCERNING SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATIONS for the purpose of declaring additional revenue and appropriating to the General Fund and Internal Service Fund to provide for costs that were not anticipated and included in the Approved Fiscal Year 2024 Budget.
Background
This legislation provides additional appropriation authority totaling $45,807,800 in the General Fund. The additional resources will increase the Fiscal Year 2024 General Fund Budget from $4,513,632,600 to $4,559,440,400 as expressed in CB-63-2023. The legislation includes an adjustment in revenue estimates for the general real property tax receipts (increase of $8,789,000), interest income under Use of Money and Property (increase of $12,544,000), other miscellaneous receipts from Radio One, payments for the Public Safety Tower (increase of $900,000), use of assigned fund balance (increase of $10,101,100) and Board of Education outside sources ($13,473,700).
This legislation provides $13.5 million in supplementary appropriations in the General Fund to incorporate the FY 2024 budget reconciliation and first financial review transfer requests from the Board of Education (previously passed by the County Council in October 2023). For the Board of Education adjustments, the increase in outside sources revenue comes from State sources ($11,165,100) in support of school-based initiatives across various expenditure categories and from Board Sources ($2,308,600) in support of the Health Services expenditure category due to the multistate settlement agreement with JUUL Labs, Inc.
This legislation appropriates additional resources to several County agencies/branches to cover unanticipated and vital costs needed to meet year end operational requirements. Non-Board of Education supplemental resources supports the following operating expenses: (1) Personnel Board - $7,200 due an increase in board member stipends per CB-25-2020; (2) Circuit Court - a net increase of $600,000 for additional jury fees;...
Click here for full text