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County manager outlines FY24-25 year-end budget amendment and FEMA recovery allocations
Summary
Burke County staff presented a year-end budget amendment covering mechanical reallocations, grant withdrawals and reallocations, returned residual project equity, and an estimated $2 million increase to the county's disaster recovery estimate for FEMA debris collection.
County staff presented details of a fiscal year 2024-25 year-end budget amendment at the Burke County Board of Commissioners pre-agenda meeting and left the item on the consent agenda for formal consideration at a regular meeting.
The county manager told the board the amendment contains housekeeping reallocations rather than additional appropriations and that several changes reflect recent disaster recovery developments. He said the county is withdrawing from a previously anticipated grant for the Indian Hills pump station: "It was a $2,400,000 grant that we, have made a strategic decision to now, withdraw from," he said; the manager also said the county had set aside an additional $1.1 million as its match portion tied to that work.
Staff said the county previously used Clean Water Trust Fund proceeds for the water meter project and that some state ARPA dollars would be reallocated to capital in the water/sewer fund. The manager also said two completed projects finished under budget and will return residual equity to county coffers: the Eastbrook convenience site returned about $179,000 to general capital and the 201 Avery (behavioral/protective services) project returned $65,008.75 to the general fund.
On disaster recovery, staff explained that debris collection responsibilities crossed to the state at a crossover date and that the county will no longer incur some right-of-way costs, but invoices from February and March remain to be processed. The manager said the county estimated a $2,000,000 increase in its disaster recovery fund requirement to cover lingering invoices that will be included in the FEMA public assistance application.
The manager emphasized that none of the line-item adjustments are new appropriations; instead, they reallocate existing balances to ease year-end close-out procedures. The board did not take final action at the pre-agenda meeting; the item will remain on the consent agenda for the regular meeting.
No vote occurred on the amendment during the pre-agenda session.
