County manager outlines budget-calendar deadlines and Workday challenges with grant accounting

County Manager Sabina Genesio told the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday that staff are working on near-term budget deadlines and continuing to address data and reporting challenges following the county's switch to Workday. Genesio said staff aim to distribute the BOCC budget memo to regularly funded outside entities by "Monday, the 20 eighth" so those organizations know instructions and timelines for requests. She asked the board to also send a budget memo to executive offices by Friday, Aug. 1, so departments can begin building requests in Workday. Genesio said she will meet individually with each commissioner to confirm the base budget that staff will load into Workday. She described Workday implementation as seven months in and said general-fund and straightforward funds are working well but the grant module and grant accounting pose reconciliation and reporting challenges. "Those challenges impact the accuracy of the reports on a monthly basis, especially for those departments and elected offices that are heavily grant funded," she said. Genesio said she is leading a meeting this week with the sheriff to discuss semiweekly versus biweekly pay schedules; the county will present options and aims to have a decision so programming can proceed, but she cautioned that reversing the change later could be difficult. Genesio also said the building and inspection division update will be scheduled for Thursday and that further documentation may be requested as the board considers creation of a new division. Staff did not ask the board to take formal action at the work session; commissioners were updated and will receive further calendar and budget materials in subsequent weekly updates.