Amber Padrick, Guardian Ad Litem Assistant Circuit Director, Circuit 18, addressed the Board
and presented the budget for the Guardian Ad Litem. There were Board questions and
comments.
Blaise Trettis, Public Defender's Office, addressed the Board and presented the Public
Defender's budget. There were no questions or comments.
Phil Archer, State Attorney, and Ashley Wood, Executive Director, addressed the Board and
presented the State Attorney's budget. There were no questions or comments.
Donna Walsh, Health Officer; Ana Scuteri, Assistant County Health Department Director; and
Tom Kellis, Business and Community Relations Division Manager, addressed the Board and
presented the Health Department's budget. There were Board questions and comments.
BUDGET DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE (UPCOMING MEETINGS)
County Manager Darren Gray stated staff will follow-up with some of the additional information
that the Board has discussed today. He advised they will most likely need an extra day for
budget work sessions. The next one is planned for June 20, but there are some follow-up
items that will need to be addressed. All of the County departments will present; and they will
also be talking about sales tax, Article V, and the capital projects list. Staff will most likely
work with the Commissioners to set up a separate day for an additional work session, and
then he will bring a couple options to the Board for them to look at. It may need to be pushed
to July, but he will try to set it for June.
PUBLIC COMMENTS, BOARD COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, DIRECTION
Chairman Lockhart stated in regard to requests for additional information from Constitutional
Officers, she would like the Board's asks of each Constitutional Officer to be consistent. If
they are asking for budget detail for one, they need to be asking it from all. The additional
information helps solidify that they're all working together to make good decisions. There was
Board consensus that all requests should be the same. Vice Chairman Herr suggested they
should also be prepping for next year, so this is the ask now and the expectation for future
submissions as well. Mr. Gray explained since this was his first budget with the County, he
told staff he would like to go through this year how it is normally done; and then tweak it next
year, possibly having everyone together over a couple of days so the Board can see the full
picture of revenues and expenditures. Vice Chairman Herr stated when they have the
Property Appraiser kick-off budget discussion talking about the increase to revenue for
property taxes, that sort of sets a bar; other revenue sources to the organization may not be
increasing to that degree, and there may be other sources that are actually decreasing. That
bar needs to be calibrated from the very beginning; and even if they are setting the bar, it
seems to be an irrelevant number. Mr. Gray stated staff has discussed kicking off the year in
January with an economic forecast because they will know a lot of the revenue projections at
that time.
There were no public comments.
ADJOURN BUDGET WORKSESSION
There being no further business to come before the Board, the Chairman declared the
meeting adjourned at 5:12 p.m., this same date.
