Agenda 01-20-2026; 8-g - Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget Amendment #6

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1 ORD-2026-001 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 20, 2026 Action Agenda Item No. 8-g SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget Amendment #6 DEPARTMENT: County Manager's Office ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Attachment 1. Year-to-Date Budget Kirk Vaughn, (919) 245-2153 Summary PURPOSE: To approve budget, grant, and capital project ordinance amendments for Fiscal Year 2025-26. Outside Agencies 1. Funds totaling $6,500 that were previously budgeted for the outside agency Charles House's fourth quarterly payment in FY 2024-25 were not encumbered at the end of the fiscal year and fell to fund balance. This budget amendment appropriates $6,500 in General Fund fund balance and authorizes it to be spent in the General Fund to pay for the Charles House FY 2024-25 fourth quarterly payment. ALIGNMENT WITH STRATEGIC PLAN: This item supports: • GUIDING PRINCIPLE — PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATION We build meaningful relationships and connections that allow us to create holistic and integrated systems of support for all. Information Technologies 2. Information Technologies (IT) has requested that its IT Help Desk Administrator position, which has recently become vacant due to a retirement, be increased from .70 FTE (full time equivalent) to 1.0 FTE and reclassified as a Business Officer I position. This reclassification and FTE increase will require an additional $15,927 in FY 2025-26 which can be covered through normal salary attrition. In FY 2026-27, this personnel change will add $30,559 to the base budget for this position. This amendment increases the FTE count for that position from .70 FTE to 1.0 FTE, but does not add any additional budget authority in FY 2025-26. ALIGNMENT WITH STRATEGIC PLAN: This item supports: