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Commission approves multiple FY2025 budget amendments, grant adjustments and CIP transfers
Summary
The board approved a slate of budget amendments and transfers including a $2.2 million vehicle-replacement transfer adjustment, multiple Criminal Justice Coordinating Council grant increases and a $5.4 million CIP contingency transfer to the CEMA building project.
Chatham County commissioners voted July 18 to approve a group of fiscal adjustments for FY2025 and FY2026, including grant revenue and expenditure increases and transfers in the county's Capital Improvement Program.
Staff presented line items read into the record: a $2.2 million change related to the vehicle replacement project (described as a decreased transfer in the CIP fund and a corresponding increased transfer into the general fund for detention center salaries), multiple CJCC (Criminal Justice Coordinating Council) grant awards and amendments totaling several hundred thousand dollars across juvenile and adult court programs, and a $5.4 million transfer from CIP contingency into the CEMA building project.
Specific grant amounts listed in staff materials included: $193,070 for a CJCC Juvenile Court Family Treatment Court grant; $94,451 for a CJCC Juvenile Mental Health Court grant; $276,238 for the CJCC Savannah-Chatham County Drug Court grant; $106,249 for the CJCC Mental Health Court grant; $73,769 for a CJCC DUI court grant; and $194,750 for a Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Savannah-Chatham County Drug Court grant. The general fund also included a $15,000 increase for museum professional services under FY2026 materials.
Commissioner comments noted that moving funds would not prevent the sheriff's office from later replacing vehicles; a commissioner clarified the transfers were a timing/administrative measure and that vehicle replacement funds would be returned for purchase in the near future. A motion to approve the listed budget amendments and transfers was moved, seconded and recorded as passed in the transcript; no roll-call tally was provided in the record.
