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Douglas County adopts $67.6 million supplemental budget amendment for 2025
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners approved a supplemental resolution increasing the 2025 adopted budget by $67,609,506 to recognize new revenues and reappropriate fund balances, including rolling forward $47,625,208 in ARPA funds.
The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners on June 24 approved a resolution supplementing the county’s 2025 adopted budget to recognize $67,609,506 in new revenues and to appropriate restricted, committed, assigned and unassigned fund balances.
Kim Hirsch, assistant budget director, told the board the supplemental request affects 13 funds and raises the county’s amended budget to $725,505,227. The general fund requests an additional $1,087,815 in spending authority, fully offset by new grant revenues. Multiyear capital projects need roughly $7,000,000 of additional spending authority because the projects did not progress as far as expected in 2024. The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area fund requests $2,510,868 in additional spending authority, offset by new revenues, Hirsch said. The remaining unspent American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds — $47,625,208 — are being rolled into fiscal 2025, with roughly $42 million of new revenues offsetting the total increase.
Hirsch also noted a $1,461,565 transfer from the Road and Bridge Fund into the Local Improvement District (LID) Fund to cover initial costs for utilities and roadway/drainage improvements to make properties within the LID buildable; the board previously approved that transfer on May 27 and this action appropriates the required spending authority. Hirsch said the budget team reconciled reappropriation schedules after the county’s financial audit and included written explanations and fund statements in the board packet.
Following discussion a commissioner moved to approve the supplemental resolution and another seconded; the motion carried unanimously. The supplemental brings the county’s total amended 2025 budget to $725,505,227, the assistant budget director said.
Commissioners praised prior fiscal restraint and management of ARPA funds, saying the county had preserved funds for multiyear projects rather than using one-time money to fund ongoing operations. The board directed staff to proceed with implementing the budget adjustments and appropriations as specified in the packet.
