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 to cover unanticipated and vital costs needed to meet year end operational requirements. The additional resources will support the following: (1) additional personnel expenses in the offices of the County Executive, Ethics and Accountability, Finance and Central Services along with the Board of License Commissioners; (2) overtime costs due to COVID-19 related activity in the Office of Homeland Security; (3) additional COVID-19 related invoices for the Office of Central Services; (4) COVID-19 hotel expenses to shelter the homeless in the Department of Social Services; (5) higher-than-anticipated expenses for contractual expenses in the Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement; and (6) unanticipated operating expenses in the Department of Housing and Community Development. Additionally, the legislation includes a reallocation within the Office of Human Resources Management to reflect the transfer of contracted public safety investigators from compensation to operating expenses. Outside of the spending character reallocations, these costs are initially supported by the additional use of fund balance. The fiscal year 2021 General Fund budget as expressed by CB-24-2020 and amended by CB-24-2021 increases the budget from $3,771,909,300 to $3,777,384,200. The increase in revenue totals $5,474,900.
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