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Lehi 2 board adopts 2025–27 expenditure plan and directs staff to develop $331,000 supplemental request
Summary
The board adopted its 2025–27 expenditure plan and directed staff to develop a 2026 supplemental budget request — a base request plus training funding — totaling $331,000; board discussed expenditure authority, allotment options through OFM, and constraints of a non‑appropriated fund.
The Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Plan 2 Retirement Board on June 18 adopted the 2025–27 expenditure plan for the board’s non‑appropriated expense account and directed staff to develop a 2026 supplemental budget request totaling $331,000 to address shortfalls and training needs.
Karen Durant, staff to the board, presented the agency spending plan and a draft supplemental request. Durant told members the board’s expense account is established in statute (RCW cited in presentation) and is a budgeted and allotted fund not subject to the normal appropriation process; expenditures are subject to review and approval by the Office of Financial Management (OFM). She said the board’s planned expenditure authority for the upcoming biennium is $4,075,000 and that the board cannot legally expend beyond that amount without increased expenditure authority.
Durant outlined a draft supplemental request that included a $77,000 one‑time item for the 2025–27 biennium plus recurring items to cover shortfalls: staff merit increases, shortfalls in previously adopted general wage adjustments, an omitted lease increase, increased actuarial and audit contract costs, a contract for a special assistant attorney general (Ice Miller) and higher member‑communications costs for two newsletters per year. Separately, the board discussed restoring trustee and staff training funding: Durant said two trainings per team member per year would cost about $130,000; staff offered a lower option of one training per staffer with corresponding cost figures.
After discussion about whether to pursue an OFM allotment adjustment versus a legislative supplemental, the board made a motion directing staff to develop the 2026 supplemental request. The board specified that the supplemental to be developed should include the base supplemental items (about $201,000 as presented) plus the training request of $130,000, yielding a total development target of $331,000. The motion to direct staff to develop the supplemental request passed by voice vote. The budget request is due in September.
Separately, the board adopted the 2025–27 expenditure plan as presented. Board members emphasized fiduciary responsibility for trustee and staff education and discussed potential perceptions from the governor’s office about discretionary travel and training reductions; staff noted the governor’s guidance listing discretionary travel and training as early targets for cuts in the broader state budget context.
Durant said the board may seek an OFM allotment adjustment or pursue the supplemental budget process; historically the board has submitted formal supplemental requests to provide transparency to legislators. The board also instructed staff to return with negotiated salary terms for the incoming executive director once those negotiations are complete, because any salary change could affect operating expenditures.
