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Lee County CFO says management fund cut was temporary; transfers to return to prior levels
Summary
County CFO Pete Wynton told the Conservation 2020 committee that the county reduced its annual transfer to the management fund to $3 million to avoid an unspent reserve and plans to raise it to $4 million this year and $5 million next year; roughly $4 million covers in‑house salaries and about $1.4 million is budgeted for contractor work, including exotic species removal.
Lee County CFO Pete Wynton told the Conservation 2020 Committee that a planned temporary reduction in the county's management fund transfer was intended to avoid building an unspent reserve and that transfers will be restored over two years.
Wynton said the transfer historically ran about $5,000,000 a year but was reduced to $3,000,000 for 2024–25 "because it started to build a . . . balance that wasn't being spent each…
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