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Commissioners set one-time spending limits, fund-balance uses and DECD placeholder in FY2014 budget work session

2138948 · January 22, 2025
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Summary

At a March 19 budget work session commissioners directed staff to use fund balance for several one-time items, to keep a $350,000 placeholder in the Department of Economic and Community Development budget, and to return a revised recommended budget with specified agency guidance.

St. Mary’s County commissioners on March 19 directed staff to use fund balance for a set of one-time expenditures, kept a $350,000 placeholder in the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) budget, and asked staff to return a revised recommended budget that reflects board guidance on core agency increases.

CFO Kramer told commissioners staff had realigned nonrecurring furniture and equipment purchases across county departments and elected-official budgets (reductions of about $51,000 and $118,000, respectively) and proposed using fund balance for selected one-time items. Staff identified $50,000 for detention-center-related IT software and $100,000 for a consultant to support procurement of new…

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