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Platte County approves 2025 budget amendments after public hearing; motion 2-1
Summary
After a public hearing, the Platte County Commission approved multiple 2025 budget amendments — including a $740,000 Motorola console lease entry, a $2.825 million Tyler ERP realignment, and a $2.5 million ARPA transfer — by a 2-1 vote.
The Platte County Commission on Aug. 26 approved amendments to the county's 2025 budget following a public hearing and staff presentation, voting 2-1 to adopt the changes.
County Auditor Kevin Robinson presented the amendments during the public hearing, saying the adjustments affect multiple funds including the general fund, lease fund, planning and zoning deposit fund, ARPA fiscal recovery fund, ARPA sheriff's grants fund, collector's tax maintenance fund, recorder user fee fund and several road sales tax funds. "For the record during the in the public hearing, what you'll hear, are the funds in departments that are as follows that have proposed amendments," Robinson said as he listed the affected accounts.
Robinson detailed several sizable items added after initial posting. He said a $740,000 addition is tied to the sheriff's contract with Motorola for radio/dispatch equipment and will be treated as a lease entry. "This is the sheriff's department entering into a contract with Motorola... the $740,000," Robinson said. The auditor described a $2,825,000 realignment related to the Tyler ERP legacy-system transfers and characterized that reclassification as an accounting move with no net fiscal impact. Robinson also said the county is moving $2,500,000 of ARPA funds to cover anticipated change orders on the administration building and related capital work, and that roughly $617,000 remains uncommitted in the capital improvement fund.
Robinson explained fund-level staffing and contingency adjustments. He described an $85,000 contribution from the collector's tax maintenance fund to cover anticipated postage and a $100,000 contingency line added to the recorder's user-fee fund to cover part-time salaries and rolling-shelf furniture and equipment. "The user fee did start the year at 435,000 with only 28,000 budget and expenses. So there was revenue to cover these," Robinson said of the recorder fund.
After questions from commissioners and no public testimony, the hearing closed and the commission considered Commission Order 2025-CO-118 to adopt the amendments. The motion to approve passed 2-1.
What changed and why it matters: The package reassigns funding across multiple special and capital funds, accelerates the Motorola purchase under a lease accounting treatment, and anticipates additional ARPA-supported capital costs; the auditor described some of the entries as accounting realignments rather than new net spending, but commissioners pressed for clarity on contingency lines and fund sources.
A note on the vote: the roll-call sequence in the record shows the motion carried 2-1; the transcript does not record an explicit, named roll-call tally for that item in the public verbatim section, so individual commissioner votes are recorded only as the aggregated outcome.
Next steps and implementation: The approved amendments will be reflected in the county's budget ledgers and the auditor said staff will continue to monitor encumbrances and change orders and will report back during the budget process if more transfers are required. The Motorola contract referenced appears on the agenda separately as CO-116 and was later approved by the commission (2-1) during the same meeting.
