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Pacific County commissioners adopt $1.3 million budget supplement, front-load payments to emergency communications
Summary
The board adopted Supplement/Amendment No. 6 to the FY2025 budget totaling $1,303,232, including early interfund transfers to PacEMA ($245,672) and PACCOM ($494,560). The measures passed unanimously after staff described the timing rationale and confirmed no new net spending, only a change to when transfers occur.
Pacific County commissioners on Oct. 28 approved Supplement/Amendment No. 6 to the fiscal year 2025 budget, a package that staff said totals $1,303,232 and moves some routine transfers forward to bolster cash flow for emergency communications and other county services.
Paul Blacker, the county staff member who presented the supplement, told the board: "All told, the grand total amount in this budget supplement presented to the board this morning is $1,303,232." He listed five general-fund items totaling $1,063,232 — including $200,000 for nondepartmental operating supplies, $73,000 for Public Works telecommunications, and $50,000 for the coroner — and two outside-general-fund items: $80,000 in the sheriff's capital fund for radio equipment and $160,000 for the county computer reserve fund.
Blacker and other staff explained the two large interfund transfers — $245,672 to Pacific County Emergency Management Agency (PacEMA) and $494,560 to PACCOM (Pacific County Communications) — are intended to be made in FY25, if available, to improve those agencies' year‑end cash positions. "The reason for doing this now would be to complete the transfers if we have the available money to do so in order to bolster the cash flow for those particular special revenue funds," Blacker said.
Commissioners asked whether the moves add new money or merely change timing. Blacker answered that the transfers do not increase the county's overall contributions but shift when the money is disbursed. After questions and a short public hearing with no additional speakers, the board voted unanimously to adopt the resolution implementing the supplement.
The board also scheduled follow-up procedural steps as required by county process; staff said the supplement detail matched the notice published in the official county newspaper prior to the hearing.
Next steps: The supplement was adopted and will be reflected in the county's accounting entries; departments receiving the transfers and appropriations are expected to reconfirm project and expenditure timing with county finance staff.
