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Arapahoe County approves 27 supplemental appropriations, including rental-assistance and road projects
Summary
The Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners adopted a supplemental appropriation resolution adding 27 items to the 2025 budget, increasing expenditures across funds for rental assistance, IT transitions, public health staffing, sheriff vehicle replacements and road infrastructure adjustments.
The Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 9 adopted a supplemental appropriation resolution adding 27 items to the county's 2025 budget after a public hearing and staff presentation.
County finance staff said the package includes a mix of one-time and ongoing funding adjustments that increase expenditures across several funds and recognize new grant revenues and reimbursements. The changes were presented by Leanna Quint, senior budget analyst, and the county's deputy attorney John Kristofferson said notice requirements under the state statute for supplemental appropriations had been satisfied.
Quint highlighted several of the larger items: $300,000 appropriated in the general fund to continue the rental assistance program through the end of the year; $81,534 from the public health fund balance to retain an emergency preparedness manager position after a 25% cut to the emergency preparedness response program; $500,000 in ongoing funding and $750,000 split over three years in the general fund for subscriptions and parallel run costs related to a new property and taxation system; and various sheriff's office equipment and vehicle-related appropriations including funds to replace a totaled vehicle and to upfit six vehicles.
Human services-related adjustments include recognizing and appropriating $505,559,000 in the social services fund for Alternatives to Detention programming (Arapahoe County is the fiscal agent for that program). Community resources and the ArapahoeDouglas Works fund will recognize about $2 million in grant awards, including approximately $1.3 million from a climate pollution reduction grant and $315,000 from the Colorado Department of Education for adult education and literacy. The infrastructure fund will recognize roughly $939,299 for assorted fees and about $4.2 million (with $5.8 million appropriated) for road infrastructure adjustments, including $4.1 million for the High Line Canal underpass at Broadway reflecting state and federal shares.
Across all funds, staff reported a net increase in revenues of about $126,961 and expenditures of nearly $2 million; for revenue “cleanup” items, about $9 million in revenue and $10.6 million in expenditures were recognized, along with a reduction of 8.5 full-time equivalents. Quint said the general fund showed a small revenue reduction (about $87,000) and an expense increase of about $1.6 million from the items discussed.
No members of the public offered comment during the public hearing on the supplementals. Commissioner Fields moved to adopt the supplemental appropriation resolution; the motion was seconded and the board voted unanimously to approve the 27 items.
The adopted resolution authorizes the administration of the listed appropriations and allows staff, with the county attorney's approval, to correct minor typographical or formatting errors necessary to publish the adopted changes.
The county will incorporate the supplemental changes into its published budget documents and implement the appropriations through established departmental processes.
