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Umatilla County adopts 10 supplemental budgets and multiple transfers, including $2 million economic development reserve
Summary
The Umatilla County Board of Commissioners adopted 10 supplemental budget orders and approved eight budget transfers during its final 2024 meeting, including a $2,000,000 transfer to the economic development reserve and a $2,250,000 transfer tied to the central water project.
The Umatilla County Board of Commissioners voted to adopt 10 supplemental budgets and approve a package of budget transfers at its final meeting of 2024.
Robert Paul, Umatilla County chief financial officer, told the board "there are 10 supplemental budgets before you" and summarized increases and decreases across funds, including federal revenues and personnel and materials budgets. Notable items Paul listed included an increase of $400,000 in local revenue and corresponding personnel and materials increases for a school-based health center at Hermiston High School, and a $2,000,000 increase in transfers into an economic development reserve program.
During the budget transfers review, Paul described eight transfers the county needed to reallocate, including a $2,250,000 decrease in materials and services and a corresponding $2,250,000 increase in transfers out for the central water project.
Commissioners moved and seconded a series of motions to adopt the supplemental budget orders and transfers; the transcript records commissioners voicing "aye" on the motions and the board approved the items presented.
Votes at a glance - Budget Order 202502: Increase in local revenue and contingency of $36,407 — Adopted. - Budget Order 202503: County school program, $120,000 federal revenue and $240,000 materials/services increase — Adopted. - Budget Order 202504: Hermiston High School school-based health center, $400,000 local revenue; personnel +$310,600; materials/services +$89,400 — Adopted. - Budget Order 202505: Emergency management grant program; increases including $400,000 federal revenue and $70,000 capital outlay — Adopted. - Budget Order 202506: Road improvement program; net increases in transfers and materials/services — Adopted. - Budget Order 202507: Treatment court program; $150,000 federal revenue and materials/services increase — Adopted. - Budget Order 202515: Local distribution program; transfers in +$250,000 and contingency +$250,000 — Adopted. - Budget Order 202516: Economic development reserve; transfers in +$2,000,000 and contingency +$2,000,000 — Adopted. - Budget Order 202518: Facilities improvement program; beginning cash +$1,300,000 and transfers out increase — Adopted. - Budget Order 202519: Public works program; transfers in +$1,400,000 and contingency +$1,400,000 — Adopted.
On the transfers side, the board approved the set of eight transfers summarized by the CFO, including the central water project transfer of $2,250,000.
What happens next County staff will implement the adopted supplemental budgets and transfers. Robert Paul and department heads were thanked by commissioners for bringing the items forward on an accelerated schedule.
Provenance: Topic introduced SEG 363, topic last discussed SEG 636.
