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Norwalk Board approves year-end transfers, moves staff pay cadence as part of UKG rollout
Summary
The Board of Estimate and Taxation approved interdepartmental transfers May 4 to fund a new UKG time-and-attendance system and related one-time costs tied to a negotiated switch from bi-weekly to weekly pay; the board also isolated $500,000 for school security in a newly created account.
The Norwalk Board of Estimate and Taxation on May 4 approved a series of interdepartmental transfers to finish the fiscal year and put in place accounts tied to a new time-and-attendance system and payroll cadence.
Controller Chitsime Land told the board the city added features to the new UKG system, including an FMLA module for both city and Norwalk Public School human resources, and that the negotiated move from bi-weekly to weekly pay is contractual. "With our new time and attendance system, UKG, we had added an additional feature, which is the FMLA module for the city and the Norwalk Public School Human Resource Departments," Chitsime said. She cautioned staff would quantify full first‑year costs after running several payroll cycles.
The board also approved a transfer that police officials said will separate school security expenditures from the department's SRO overtime account. "I want to draw your attention to the transfer of $500,000," Mickey said, explaining the money would be moved from the SRO overtime account into a newly created account to isolate Board of Education extra security costs. Mickey said the reallocation preserves transparency and maintains cost‑center integrity without requesting contingency funds.
Other police reallocations included $108,000 moved from an overfunded premium/differential account to various overtime accounts and smaller transfers to firearm-supply and other operating accounts to cover increased equipment, boating repair and training expenses.
Health department transfers approved the board's request to cover condemnation costs from a recent relocation, to fund WIC-program overages and to purchase additional vaccines for travel and adult immunization clinics. Deanna of the health department said staff were able to locate funds internally to avoid drawing on contingency.
Tom and other staff briefed the board on the contingency tracker, noting roughly $120,000 remained with one month left in the fiscal year and urging caution. All transfer motions were approved by the board during the meeting.
What happens next: staff said they will monitor payroll transition costs over the coming months and provide detail once actual expenses from the UKG conversion and weekly payroll cycles are known. The board did not vote on any new appropriations from contingency at the meeting.
