Title
AN ACT CONCERNING SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATIONS, INTRADEPARTMENTAL TRANSFER OF 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 2021 Budget and transferring surplus appropriation between various agencies and providing an appropriation adjustment to the Special Revenue Fund.
Background
This legislation provides supplementary appropriations and transfers surplus appropriations between various agencies and within various agencies in the General Fund and the Internal Services Fund to cover unanticipated and vital costs needed to meet year end operational requirements. The additional resources will support the following: (1) remaining year deep cleaning costs and the purchase of thermal machines related to COVID-19 mitigation and detection in the Office of Central Services; (2) reallocation of appropriation within the Police Department to pay for anticipated remaining legal expenses and increased telecommunication expenses and (3) COVID-19 related activities for the remaining half of the year for the Department of Health. Outside of the spending character reallocations, these costs are initially supported by the additional use of fund balance. It is anticipated that subsequent supplemental legislation will reduce compensation from the Fire/EMS Department to reflect the transfer of eligible expenditures from the General Fund to the FY 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief an Economic Security Act (CARES) grant and thereby reduce the use of fund balance set in this bill. Additionally, this legislation reconciles with the final Board of Education adopted on June 25, 2020 by reflecting $41.4 million in additional Board of Education outside aid sources. There is also $2.4 million transferred from the General Fund to the Information Technology Internal Service Fund technical and communicat...
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