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An Ordinance approving Amendment No. 1 to the Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, as adopted by Ordinance No. 8405, by revising the authorized expenditures for the City of Lee's Summit to fund expansion requests. (F&BC 8-20-18)
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Issue/Request:
An ordinance approving Amendment No. 1 to the Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, as adopted by Ordinance No. 8405, by revising the authorized expenditures for the City of Lee's Summit to fund expansion requests.
Key Issues:
As part of the annual budget process each department reviews operational needs for funding consideration. Periodically, it is necessary to add new expenses to the budget which have been called expansion requests.
During the FY19 Budget Process, the Finance and Budget Committee and City Council, reviewed the list of expansion requests that were part of the budget materials. Consideration for funding was postponed to protect existing funding for potential wage enhancements. Now that the budget has been adopted the expansion requests are being considered as they relate to current and future delivery of services.
Staff recommends proceeding with caution regarding impact to the City's compensation plan when considering the funding of expansion requests. The recommendation below has been limited to items that do not have an impact on the compensation plan.
The expansion items recommended for funding at this time meet at least one of the following criteria:
1. They are one-time expenses
2. They do not have a financial impact on the general fund and can be purchased using separate and distinct revenue sources
3. They will not be implemented until such time as there is evidence of departmental cost savings, operational efficiencies, and/or new revenue sources.
General fund items not highlighted in the attached document are proposed to come from the general fund reserve balance. It is anticipated that the general fund will finish fiscal year 2018 with reve...
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