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Facilities manager details utility reallocation and modest capital requests to budget committee
Summary
Lane Rose told the Davis County Budget Committee that utilities have been moved back into departmental accounts and presented modest increases and capital requests — including $50,000 for landscape replacement, $10,000 for egress lights, $20,000 in tourism-funded building maintenance, and elevator service contracts — and committee members discussed returning $8 million to capital projects for transparency.
Davis County facilities manager Lane Rose told the Davis County Budget Committee on an unspecified date that the county has shifted utility costs back into departmental accounts and used 12 months of actual billing to recalibrate allocations.
"This is the first year we started this...from 10 on, this is just holding up our projections on utilities for all the departments," Lane said, explaining that the office used August-to-August actuals because heating, gas and cooling costs fluctuate.
Rose said the change means departments now see actual utility bills in their accounts and must approve expenses even though facilities continues to pay the invoices. He said the shift is intended to make charges fairer across…
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