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File #: 2025-1075   
Category: Constitutional Officers Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 11/5/2025 Type: Board of County Commissioners
On agenda: 11/18/2025 Final action:
Title: Approve appropriation from the Sheriff's Office Fiscal Year 2024/25 General Fund Budget closeout: $2,312,091.56 in purchase commitments not completed by 9/30/2025. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Resolution implementing a Budget Amendment Request (BAR) in the amount of $2,312,091.56 in the General Fund to establish budget. Countywide (Lisa Spriggs, Chief of Administrative Services)
Attachments: 1. BAR #26-009, 2. MEMO
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Approve appropriation from the Sheriff’s Office Fiscal Year 2024/25 General Fund Budget closeout: $2,312,091.56 in purchase commitments not completed by 9/30/2025. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Resolution implementing a Budget Amendment Request (BAR) in the amount of $2,312,091.56 in the General Fund to establish budget. Countywide (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 2024/25 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, 2025 (i.e. 30 days after the end of the fiscal year). The Sheriff’s Office submitted the FY 2024/25 General Fund Budget Closeout and Return of Funds in the amount of $2,766,294.48 payable to the BCC to the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller on October 30, 2025.

The following table recaps the Closeout of the Sheriff’s Office FY 2024/25 General Fund Budget Closeout and requests BCC approval to appropriate:

• $2,312,091.56 for carryforward of FY 2024/25 purchase commitments for items not completed as of September 30, 2025.

The resulting return of General Funds after appropriations is $454,202.92.

 

Sheriff's Office FY 2024/25 General Fund Budget Closeout and FY 2025/26 Appropriation Request:

Return of Sheriff’s Office Unexpended Funds

$ 2,416,294.48

Return of Sheriff’s Office Budgeted Contingency

350,000.00

Total Return of Sheriff’s Office General Fund Budget - Closeout

$ 2,766,294.48

Budget Amendment Request to Appropriate Funding for FY 2025/26:

Total Appropriation Request - Carryforward funds for purchase commitments

$ 2,312,091.56

Net Return of Sheriff’s Office General Fund Budget FY 2024/25

$454,202.92

FY 2024/25 Purchase Commitments for Items Not Received by September 30, 2025

Fleet Vehicles and Vehicle-Related Equipment (1)

$ 276,942.00

Mobile Command Vehicle (2)

873,337.00

Weapons and Ammunition (3)

560,112.65

Technology Applications (4)

393,851.83

Other Equipment/Services (5)

207,848.08

Total Carryforward Funds

$ 2,312,091.56

 

(1) Represents 5 vehicles and the related equipment for outfitting.

(2) The mobile command vehicle was ordered November 2023 with an estimated 20-month order, build and outfitting schedule. Delivery is now anticipated in February 2026. This vehicle is being funded with an additional $500,000 received through FDLE from a FY2023/24 state specific appropriation awarded in October 2023.

(3) Relates to the agencywide replacement of officer handguns.

(4) Relates to technology network infrastructure and implementations in progress for the agency ERP system and fleet management system.

(5) Other Equipment/Services includes other equipment and services for the Federal Inmate per diem rate.

Requested Action:

Staff requests the Board approve appropriation from the Sheriff’s Office Fiscal Year 2024/25 General Fund Budget closeout: $2,312,091.56 in purchase commitments not completed by 9/30/2025. Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Resolution implementing a Budget Amendment Request (BAR) in the amount of $2,312,091.56 in the General Fund to establish budget.