Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: 4/5ths _
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Michael P. Callagy, County Executive
Subject: Measure K: Appropriation Transfer Request for Measure K Initiatives
RECOMMENDATION:
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Measure K: Approve an Appropriation Transfer Request (ATR) appropriating a total amount of $985,902 from Measure K Reserves to County Non-Departmental Services funds for contracts obligated in connection with the FY 2024-25 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) process.
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BACKGROUND:
In 2023, this Board authorized the County Executive to develop and proceed with a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) process to obtain applications from providers for funding of $34,500,000 of Measure K revenues beginning FY24-25. While most contracts awarded as part of this NOFO were initiated by the start of FY24-25, certain of the contracts within the priority area of Children, Family, and Seniors were executed several months after the start of FY24-25 for a number of reasons, including the completion of a number of Board-directed Request for Proposals (RFP) processes to finalize the awards.
DISCUSSION:
The proposed ATR is necessary to transfer funds from Measure K reserves to specified Non-Departmental Services funds to provide funding for specific existing Measure K programs awarded as part of the NOFO. Since contracts within these three funds were awarded after the start of FY24-25-giving the contractors fewer than 12 months to implement their obligations for the first year of the award-the contracts anticipated the potential for unspent funds at the end of the fiscal year and expressly allowed the contractors to expend those amounts in the second year of the contracts, FY25-26. However, because unspent Measure K funds at the end of the fiscal year are typically returned to Measure K reserves as a matter of course in the County's accounting system, the unspent funds at the end of FY24-25 for these specific initia...
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