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Pacific committee reviews FY2024 actuals, corrects transportation calculation and recommends targeted budget adjustments
Summary
Committee updated FY2024 actuals, recommended lowering a water/sewer transfer estimate to $140,000, adjusted several operational lines, and corrected a $109,000 transportation calculation error that was resolved by raising motor-vehicle sales-tax projections to produce a small transportation surplus.
Meeting chair (unnamed in transcript) opened the committee’s review of fiscal-year 2024 actuals and proposed changes for FY2025, saying the spreadsheet had been updated with end-of-year figures and that items the clerk touched were highlighted in green while discussion points were marked in yellow. "Anything that I touched, I made, I highlighted green," the meeting chair said.
Why it matters: The committee’s review led to several recommended changes to the proposed FY2025 budget that the chair will send to the full Board of Aldermen for approval. The most consequential finding was a spreadsheet calculation error that understated transportation expenses by $109,000 and required revenue/line-item adjustments to avoid a deficit.
The chair called attention to several revenue and expense lines. For revenues, St. Louis County’s 1¢ sales tax for FY2024 came in at $267,329…
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