Title
AN ACT CONCERNING SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATIONS AND INTERDEPARTMENTAL TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS for the purpose of declaring additional revenue and appropriating to the General Fund to provide for costs that were not anticipated and included in the Approved Fiscal Year 2017 Budget, and transferring surplus appropriation between various agencies, and providing an adjustment to revenue estimates to the Internal Service Fund.
Background
This legislation provides supplementary appropriations and transfers surplus appropriations between various agencies in the General Fund in order to cover unanticipated and vital costs needed to meet year end operational requirements. The additional resources will support the following: (1) costs related to the salary enhancements for certain County departments, (2) public safety overtime, (3) reconciliation of the Board of Education’s operating budget including the use of Board fund balance (4) other non-departmental expenses including the transfer of additional child protection program funding to the Department of Social Services, (5) video lottery terminal (VLT) funding to the Board of Education, (6) funding designation for land acquisition in Suitland, (7) added contributions for the Other post-employment benefits (OPEB), (8) designation of funding for self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) equipment costs and (9) designation of funding for Rosecroft grant funded costs. The Fiscal Year 2017 General Fund budget as expressed by CB-32-2016 increases the budget from $3,116,934,200 to $3,149,349,400. The increase in revenue totals $32,415,200.
Note: CB-61-2017 is retroactively effective to June 30, 2017.