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Clallam County schedules June 24 hearing on ARPA reallocation, approves notices for multiple budget revisions
Summary
County staff notified the board of several budget revisions and supplemental appropriations and the board called a public hearing for June 24 on a debatable emergency to reallocate $138,036 of ARPA funds to cover personnel costs and repay the general fund.
Clallam County commissioners received notice June 10 of several proposed budget revisions and supplemental appropriations and voted to publish a public hearing for June 24 on a debatable emergency to reallocate American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.
CFO Mark Lane outlined three budget revision notices to be considered for adoption on June 24: $42,000 reallocated within Health and Human Services for lease-accounting adjustments; $88,047 moved within ARPA non‑departmental funds to cover recruitment and referral costs more appropriately charged to corrections; and $55,463 in ARPA funds moved to cover medical respite contract fee adjustments and an additional $20,000 to a local nonprofit contract. Lane also described six supplemental appropriations that staff will bring forward, including a $10,000 grant for Internet Crimes Against Children training, a $32,239 Ecology grant for Lower Elwha channel migration work, and a $155,144 recognition of a forgiven Department of Ecology loan in the Clallam Bay sewer fund.
Separately, the board voted to call a public hearing on June 24 at 10:30 a.m. regarding a proposed debatable budget emergency to reallocate $138,036 of ARPA non‑departmental funds. County staff said the amount reflects previously committed ARPA recruitment and retention incentives that were released when employees left before earning bonuses; memoranda of understanding allow re‑designation of the released funds to repay personnel costs incurred in 2025 by the general fund. The transcript identifies $85,810.40 as one component of that total tied to an earlier resolution (Resolution 41‑2025) and explains that the reallocation accelerates costs originally planned for 2026 into 2025.
Commissioners asked clarifying questions about why this item is treated as a debatable emergency; staff said the primary driver is timing and acceleration of previously committed expenditures. The board approved notice of the revisions and the call for the June 24 public hearing; the hearing will determine formal adoption of the revisions and the debatable emergency.
