ORD-2006-029 - Budget Amendment #17

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7) Orange Public Transportation At its December 13, 2005 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners approved a new Triangle Transit Authority (TTA) and Orange Public Transportation (OPT) Express Route between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. As per the approved Memorandum of Understanding between TTA and Orange County, TTA's contribution to operations during the six -month period of January 3, 2006 through June 30, 2006, would be $41,126. The contract amount was based on a per -hour operating cost for the County of $34.00 per hour. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these funds from TTA to cover their share of the operating cost of the new Orange Express Route. (See Attachment 1, column #12) 8) Indirect Cost Over the last few years, the County has recouped indirect costs from the Solid Waste Fund, Emergency Telephone Fund, and Visitor's Bureau. This has been accomplished via a budgeted transfer from those funds into the General Fund. During the 2004 -05 annual audit, the audit team recommended that the County budget this as a receipt of actual revenue in the General Fund Charges for Services function as opposed to a transfer. This technical amendment complies with the auditors' recommendation by reducing the appropriate General Fund budgets in the Transfer from Other Funds category and increases the budgets in the Charges for Services revenue category. (See Attachment 1, column #13) 9) Medicaid Maximization Capital Project Ordinance The Orange County Health Department has received its FY 2004 -05 Medicaid Maximization Cost Settlement funds totaling $210,641. In accordance with Federal and State regulations, these funds must be budgeted and expended to further the objectives of the program that generates the funds. Allowed uses of these funds include, but are not limited to: public information and outreach, automation of administrative operations, capital improvements, expansion of preventive and primary care services to uninsured and under - insured populations, and expansion of program support services. The Orange County Health Department invests these funds into various capital areas. Examples of past uses of the funds include offsetting the costs of renovating the clinic areas at the Whitted Human Services Center. This budget amendment provides for the receipt of these FY 2004 -05 in this multi -year project. (See Attachment 3, Medicaid Maximization Capital Project Ordinance) 10) SportsPlex Enterprise Fund The County purchased the SportsPlex located in the Meadowlands in Hillsborough in December 2005. At that time, the Board approved an operational agreement between the County and Recreation Factory Partners (RFP) for management and operation of the facility. On December 13, 2005, in order to provide a continuation of day -to -day services at the facility, Commissioners approved an operating budget for the facility to cover the period from December 15, 2005 through June 30, 2006 totaling $355,867. Funds for the operating budget included a transfer of $192,432 from the SportsPlex Capital Project and a $163,435 transfer from the General Fund (appropriation of Fund Balance). At that time, staff indicated