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7 <br />Debt Issuance Costs and Transfers -Over budget $1,250,318. This project is used to <br />record revenue from interest earnings, the County Capital Project Funds share of debt issuance <br />and ongoing debt related costs such as trustee fees and arbitrage calculation costs. This project <br />is also where Capital funds are recorded that have not yet been allocated to a project. There has <br />not been a budget in this project in the past. This project ordinance appropriates revenue from <br />interest earnings funds to cover the past expenditures and transfers and provides additional <br />funding to cover transfers to the General Fund for debt service and expenditures related to debt <br />issuance costs through FY2009-10. <br />Robert and Pearl Seymour Center Over budget $7,271. This project exceeded budget due to <br />expenditures on art for the facility which was not budgeted and expenditures on equipment in <br />excess of budget. This project ordinance appropriates funds transferred from the General Fund <br />for these expenditures. <br />Animal Services Center -Over budget $65,287. Significant additional cost for rock excavation <br />was incurred to construct sewer service for the facility. The original contract included a rock <br />allowance, which was exceeded by approximately $100,000. The project budget was unable to <br />absorb the full amount of this expense. <br />Justice Center -Over budget $341,142. Areas of verified unanticipated expense: <br />• Asbestos abatement in the old portion of the building was more extensive than <br />anticipated and exceeded the budgeted cost by approximately $76,000. The areas of <br />asbestos removal were hidden and were revealed only after planned demolition. <br />• Regulatory issues associated with bringing the existing building into code compliance on <br />ingress/egress will total an estimated $200,000 by the conclusion of the renovation. This <br />work was not identified during plan review and has only recently been brought forward <br />as an issue by building inspectors. <br />The third area contributing to the deficiency of the Justice Center balance is the uncertainty <br />regarding some accounting entries that were posted before the new financial package (MUNIS) <br />was implemented in 2003. Old records have yet to be located to substantiate the amounts <br />included in the entries. Staff will continue to pursue resolution to this issue. <br />Senior Center/Sportsplex -Over budget $280,532. The Board approved a $377,000 change <br />order to the Central Orange/Sportsplex construction project for replacement of Dectron units at <br />the Sportsplex: These units are critical to the maintenance of an acceptable air quality level in <br />the pool area and were failing to the point closing the pool was a possibility. Availability of funds <br />was available within the Sportsplex Enterprise fund to reimburse this expense. However, toward <br />the end of the construction period the Sportsplex membership waned, partly because of the <br />construction project, partly because of the economy and reimbursement to the construction <br />project expense was not possible. The construction project could absorb approximately $97,000 <br />of the Dectron expense, but the additional amount is required to bring the project into balance. <br />No additional operational subsidy has been required since the Sportsplex re-opened in their <br />expanded space. <br />