ORD-2009-132 - Fiscal Year 2009-10 Budget Amendment #1

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issue an RFP for financing and will bring the financing to the Board for approval at the September 15~' or October 6~' Board meeting. (See Attachment 7, column #5; Attachment 5, County Telephone System Replacement and Attachment 6, Link Center Renovations Capital Project Ordinances) 6. At its June 2, 2009 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved a capital project ordinance for the County Facilities Arts Reserve project reflecting a transfer of a total of $20,000 from the Arts Reserve project to other County projects through ~FY 2008- 09. However., transfers to two of the affected projects were not included in the capital project ordinances for Board approval. These projects are the Animal Services Facility and the Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center capital projects. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these transferred funds of $10,000 ($5,000 for each project), currently held in reserve within the County Facilities Arts Reserve project, to the Animal Services Facility and the Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center capital projects. (See Attachment 7, column #6; Attachment 7, Animal Services Facility and Attachment S, Robert and Pearl Seymour Senior Center capital project ordinances) Animal Services 7. In FY 2007-08, a Community Spay/Neuter Program account was established within the General Fund with the majority of the proceeds coming from a $20 increase in the differential licensing fee for intact dogs and cats. This program supports and promotes pet sterilization throughout Orange County. In order to improve accountability and management of these funds, staff recommends creating a separate revenue fund for this program. The initial budget for this fund will be $81,798, which consists of funds available in the Spay/Neuter program of $48,798 {as of June 30, 2009), proceeds of $4,000 from the sale of a donated vehicle, and estimated program revenue of $29,000 for FY 2009-10. The outfitting of spay/neuter surgical suite at the new Animal Services Center needs to be completed at an estimated cost of $20,000 to begin the transition to in-house sterilization of animals that are adopted from the facility. A substantial portion of the department's ten percent reduction in operating expenses for FY 2009-10 depends on anticipated cost-savings from providing in-house sterilizations beginning in the second quarter of FY 2009-10. Sufficient funds are not currently available within the Animal Services Facility Capital Project to outfit the surgical suite. Animal Services staff projected this change in the sterilization of adopted animals to occur in the second quarter of the fiscal year. Staff believes this can be accomplished if the requested funds are provided to procure and install needed equipment. The Director has communicated this request for a transfer of $20,000 from the Spay/Neuter Program for this purpose to the Animal Services Advisory Board and received their strong support. This budget amendment provides for the creation of a Community Spay/Neuter Fund as a separate revenue fund, and transfers $20,000 from the Fund to the Animal Services Facility Capital Project to purchase and install equipment to outfit the sterilization surgery suite at the new facility. (See Attachment 1, column #7, and Attachment 7, Anima! Services Facility Capital Project Ordinance)