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Board sets FY27 discretionary pool at $550,000; ARPA and PSAP updates given
Summary
Supervisors agreed on a $550,000 discretionary set-aside for FY27 (down from prior levels) while staff briefed the board on ARPA/SLFRF commitments, the PSAP project status and how leftover ARPA could fund the county CAD project; treasurer also presented revenue assumptions.
The Dubuque County Board of Supervisors set a FY27 discretionary funding target of $550,000 and received an update on ARPA/SLFRF allocations and the PSAP (public-safety answering point) project.
Finance staff (Stella, speaker 7) reviewed ARPA/SLFRF and the SWAP purchase-of-service program. She said $2.775 million of traditional ARPA was allocated to the county's PSAP project and that PSAP implementation has launched and was running under budget to date. Staff recommended that any ARPA dollars remaining after PSAP billing be redirected to the county CAD replacement project, which the county is already funding out of long-term capital.
The board discussed the SWAP program (an internal purchasing program funded from an ARPA revenue-replacement allocation), which has approximately $1.1 million remaining unspent; a small amount (roughly $147,000) was returned to the county when some projects closed under budget or expired.
Treasurer Mike (speaker 12) presented FY27 revenue assumptions, including a conservative $1.6 million interest-on-investments estimate and an anticipated $400,000 additional auto-registration fee revenue tied to a January 2025 statutory change. He said the motor-vehicle office will migrate to the state scheduling system and that printing/postage costs are a notable line-item.
On discretionary funding, supervisors and staff discussed the composition of the county's dues, memberships and purchase-of-service programs (economic development partners, county fair, historical societies, Tom Hancock grants, competitive purchase-of-service). Given variations in gaming revenue and fiscal conservatism, board consensus was to allocate $550,000 for FY27 discretionary programs and to refine categories and recipient lists in follow-up sessions.
