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Budget board debates baseline, one‑time money and timeline; special meeting set to finalize FY25‑26 recommendations
Summary
Committee members discussed systemic issues in baseline budgets carried from FY24 into FY25, recommended verifying annualized salaries and benefit allocations, proposed preserving one‑time funds and seeding a reserve with $1 million of ongoing dollars, and scheduled a special meeting Monday to continue finalizing FY25‑26 estimate of needs.
The Budget Evaluation Team discussed multiple technical issues affecting FY25‑26 baseline budgets, urged departments to verify annualized salaries and benefit allocations, and agreed to reconvene next week to finalize recommendations.
Members said the problem stems from a mix of causes: flat budgets that did not annualize midyear salary or benefit changes; transfers and midyear supplemental appropriations that were not tracked into the baseline; and occasional allocation errors in the clerk’s office that reduced department benefit funding…
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