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Facilities requests $50,000 for landscaping and asks that utilities be billed to departments
Summary
At a Davis County Budget Committee meeting, facilities staff outlined operational increases, a shift to department-level utility billing, and capital requests including $50,000 for landscaping, $20,000 for maintenance related to a new building, and elevator service contracts for the Western Sports Park.
Lane Rose, with facilities, told the Davis County Budget Committee that facilities is submitting a set of additional budget requests and that the department has restored utility charges to individual department accounts rather than holding them centrally.
“We have now put that back in the department's account for this year,” Lane Rose said, describing a move to make departmental utility costs visible to the departments that use the buildings.
The change, Rose said, reflects actual usage and follows a 12-month lookback that the facilities team used to project costs. Rose said departments previously received an allocation that covered utilities; facilities paid the bills and kept the allocation centrally. The department has now distributed the actual utility expenses back to departmental accounts so those departments must review and approve the bills.
Rose identified two operational increases the department is requesting: an extra $1,900 to cover…
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