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Approval by the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) to appropriate from the Sheriff’s Office Fiscal Year 2022/23 General Fund Budget closeout: (1) $6,200,725.22 in purchase commitments for items not received by 9/30/2023 and (2) $500,000.00 in budget savings requested to fund a portion of our agency’s Mobile Command Vehicle Replacement; and approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Resolution implementing a Budget Amendment Request (BAR) # 24-009 in the General Fund to transfer $6,700,725.22 from reserves for the re-appropriation of the Sheriff’s purchase commitments and Mobile Command Vehicle. (Lisa Spriggs, Chief of Administrative Services)
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Sheriff's Office
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Authorized By:
Sheriff Dennis Lemma
Contact/Phone Number:
Chief Lisa Spriggs/407-665-6617
Background:
The Sheriff's Office has finalized its financial/budgetary closeout pertaining to FY 2022/23 in accordance with Section 30.50(6), Florida Statutes, which requires all unexpended balances at the end of each fiscal year be refunded to the Board of County Commissioners by October 30, 2023 (i.e. 30 days after the end of the fiscal year). The Sheriff’s Office submitted the FY 2022/23 General Fund Budget Closeout and Return of Funds in the amount of $6,906,838.25 payable to the BCC to the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller on October 24, 2023.
The Sheriff’s Office requests the BCC carryforward and appropriate $6,200,725.22 in FY 2022/23 purchase that were ordered but not received as of September 30, 2023. Net of purchase commitments, we are pleased to return unexpended FY 2022/23 funds in the amount of $706,113.03 and request $500,000.00 be appropriated toward the Mobile Command Vehicle Replacement, which has been partially funded through a $500,000 grant from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The resulting return of General Funds is $206,113.03.
The following table recaps the Closeout of the Sheriff’s Office FY 2022/23 General Fund Budget and requests BCC approval to appropriate:
(1) $6,200,725.22 in carryforward of FY 2022/23 purchase commitments not completed as of September 30, 2023, and
(2) $500,000.00 to fund a portion our Mobile Command Vehicle Replacement.
General Fund Reserves are currently budgeted at $59.9M.
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Staff Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Resolution implementing a Budget Amendment Request (BAR) # 24-009 in the General Fund to transfer $6,700,725.22 from reserves for the re-appropriation of the Sheriff’s purchase commitments and Mobile Command Vehicle.