Supervisors consider examples—from grants to lawsuits—of when midyear funding is needed
Summary
Members used examples including conservation grant risks, legal fees and vendor delays to test whether the proposed guideline should allow informal approvals for urgent items and formal year-end amendments for others.
Board members tested the proposed guideline with concrete examples including potential loss of federal conservation grants, unexpected legal fees, vendor delays that push projects into the next fiscal year, and new regional lead-agency public-health funding. Committee member (S5) referenced conservation and campground grant volatility as an example of a revenue shortage; another member asked whether legal fees would fall under the proposed categories.
The staff member said those cases can be fuzzy but are appropriate candidates for the new request process and, in some instances, may be handled informally so the board is aware ahead of a formal year-end amendment. "If a department sends you a form ... we would kind of informally, you would give the okay for that. It'll get picked up again in the hearing in May or April whenever we do that at year end," the staff member said. Supervisors generally supported a flexible approach that avoids unnecessary hearings while ensuring the board is notified of significant midyear obligations.
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