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Morrow County commissioners approve ARPA recommitment, adopt supplemental budget adjustments
Summary
The Morrow County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution to replace certain American Rescue Plan Act commitments with general funds and reassign ARPA to executable contracts to avoid federal compliance burdens, and adopted several supplemental budget adjustments including reimbursement for an airport cultural-survey expense and carryforward of forest-service funds for a sheriff’s search-and-rescue vehicle.
The Morrow County Board of Commissioners on a voice vote approved a resolution to modify prior commitments of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) state and local fiscal recovery funds and adopted related supplemental budget adjustments.
County finance staff told the board the change would replace some existing ARPA commitments with general-fund commitments and reassign the ARPA dollars to expenditures with a high probability of occurring, reducing the heightened federal compliance burden on subrecipients. “By receiving the $800,000 grant for the day care center, that would subject them to a heightened level of federal compliance,” staff said, urging the board to recommit ARPA so the county can meet the Dec. 31 deadline for modifying commitments and still expend the funds by 2026.
Commissioners also heard three supplemental-budget items tied to the resolution package: (1) use of an Oregon Business Development grant to reimburse roughly $50,000 for an airport cultural-resource survey rather than charging the airport fund; (2) carrying forward forest-service funds to complete a sheriff’s search-and-rescue vehicle project that missed the prior fiscal-year completion window; and (3) small transfers to the assessment and tax office for a mobile-assessor capital project delayed by vendor performance. Staff said the latter adjustments fall below the ordinance threshold and may be accomplished by board resolution.
The board moved, seconded and approved the ARPA recommitment resolution (R-2024-24) and then adopted associated supplemental budget resolutions. Finance staff noted a public hearing on the supplemental budget had been opened and closed with no public testimony. The board directed staff to include the necessary budget modifications in the supplemental budget posted with the agenda.
What happens next: staff will include the approved changes in the supplemental budget documents and execute the budget transfers and reimbursements. The county will also document the ARPA recommitment to ensure compliance with federal deadlines and the accompanying audit trail.
