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FY19-20 Berkeley County Budget

Detailed overview of Berkeley County's FY20 general fund budget highlights, revenue changes, departmental highlights, new personnel recommendations, capital expenditures, and key IT initiatives.

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FY19-20 Berkeley County Budget

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  1. FY19-20 BerkeleyCounty Budget May 28, 2019

  2. FY20 General Fund Budget Highlights • Supervisor’s budget is balanced without the use of fund balance • Reassessment / Rollback Millage Calculation • Establishes the following New Departments • Grants - 1 new employee funded by GF @ 25% of FY20, CDBG funded FY21 forward • Tourism - 1 new employee funded by accommodations tax • Radio Department - moves 1 current employee from IT Department • Animal Control Division - moves 4 current employees from Animal Services to Sheriffs Office • Funds critically needed software: • Property tax software to replace 1980’s program • Business Intelligence software to replace Excel spreadsheet programs • Adds new positions at no additional cost due to savings from eliminated positions

  3. FY20 General Fund Overview

  4. $90,972,800 $89,008,727 $80,331,339 $75,314,536 $69,301,621

  5. FY20 Revenue Changes – Rollback Millage • Reassessment - rollback millage calculation must be performed. • Rollback millage uses the following formula: • Prior Year Taxes Collected / Assessments – Growth (new property) • Population Growth & CPI • Provided by SC Assc of Counties • Added to the rollback millage rate to determine maximum allowable millage rate. (CPI=2.44%, Growth = 3.09% = Total of 5.53% increase or 2.3 mills) • Rollback millage + CPI & Growth = 44.3 max mills • Supervisors recommendations is 43.0 mills. • Represents a 2.0 mill rollback from our current 45.0 mills.

  6. Result of Millage Reduction –County Operating Taxes

  7. FY20 Departmental Highlights

  8. $66,997,762 $66,620,534 $65,956,577 $64,142,779 $60,789,325

  9. FY 20 Recommended New Personnel • FY19-20 budget includes: • Personnel – 18 New Positions • 11.5 New General Fund positions (all funded 75% of FY) • 1 – Solicitor, Coor Drug Court/Mental Health • 1 – Coroner, Deputy Coroner • 8 – Sheriff • 4 Deputy Sheriffs • 4 Corporals • 0.5 – Engineering • .25 Engineering Tech (25% GF, 75% Sales Tax) • .25 Principal Engineer (25% GF, 75% Sales Tax) • 1 – Animal Center, Kennel Tech • 12 positions funded with 1 Cent Sales Tax*** • 11 New Storm Water positions

  10. FY 20 Recommended New Personnel • Personnel Continued: • 1 New Economic Development position (funded 100% of FY & funded by Eco Dev) • 1 – Manager of Existing Industry/Business Retention • 2 New Cypress Gardens Positions (funded 75% of FY & funded by Cypress Gardens) • 1 – Horticulturist • 1 – Admin Supp Spec • Grants – New Dept (funded 25% of FY & funded by CDBG Grant) • 1 – CDBG Grants Administrator • Tourism – New Dept (funded 75% of FY & funded by Accommodations Tax) • 1 – Tourism Director • 1.5 – Engineering • .75 Engineering Tech (25% GF, 75% Sales Tax) • .75 Principal Engineer (25% GF, 75% Sales Tax)

  11. FY20 Personnel – New PositionsRequested vs Recommended *Other includes: 2 Cypress Gardens 1 Eco Dev 1 Accommodations 1.5 Sales Tax 1 CDBG

  12. FY20 Capital Expenditures Budget philosophy: “Live within your means” • Annual 20% of LOST revenues equates to approx. $4,000,000 • General Fund Requested items = $7,692,034 • General Fund Funded items = $4,069,238 • Special Revenue Requested items = $3,046,330 • Special Revenue Funded items = $2,299,163 • Key initiatives and items recommended for funding:

  13. Information Technology & Services • Removed two positions, Senior Infrastructure Specialist & desktop support technician. • Replaced (on-going) hosted VoIP system which amounted to $339,000 /year. New system will cost $15,000 and managed in house. • Workflow Project: Eliminated the need for recurring software cost(s) associated with lifecycle and retention schedules. ~$75,000 /year • Reduced workstation replacement schedule. ~$30,000 (re-evaluate the scheduled replacement this year) • Surveillance in place of non-intelligent access control systems reducing infrastructure improvement request(s) by ~$30,000

  14. Information Technology & Services • Eliminated two cabling devices @ ~$39,000 (will place verbiage in contracts to ensure the hired contractors provide cabling certifications upon completion of their scope) • Redundant request for EMS APX radios in the amount of ~$118,000. • AS400 Replacement Plan: Initial request was for hardware and services in the amount of $159,000. We will lower this amount to $59,000 for equipment only. • Backup request eliminated: We have found a method to do this efficiently in house; ~$63,000 • Re-evaluated needs for EMS Tablets, eliminating 30 units = ~$89,000

  15. Information Technology & Services • Radio Shop • Our newly created Radio Shop Department now is home to all communication expenses in the county. • Largest expense of $1,500,000 yearly for radio maintenance for Public Safety radio system. This is captured for the first time in our budget.

  16. FY20 Fire Fees

  17. Fund Balance – General Fund

  18. Water & SanitationFY 19-20 Budget Fiscal Year 2020 Recommended Budget

  19. FY20 Budget Highlights-BCWS • Water & Sewer • Includes the following Rate Changes: • Water Rate Increase • Assumes 5% increase in water rates - appx $636k of new revenue • Current rate = $4.58/1000gals. New rate would be $4.81/1000gals. • Represents an increase of $1.83/mth for an 8,000/gal user • Previous increase of 15% FY17-18 and 10% FY18-19 base on rate study indicating 40% needed) • Sewer Impact Fee Increase • Assumes an increase in the Sewer User Fee from $2,500 to $2,850 • Est Revenue = $490,000 to Fund R&R

  20. FY20 Budget Highlights-BCWS • Water & Sewer Continued • Personnel • 6 New Positions (funded 75% of FY) = $284,035.35 • 1 Engineer III-In House Designer • 1 Wastewater Technician 1 • 1 Wastewater Utility Locator • 2 Pump & Plant Maintenance Mechanic 1 • 1 Building & Fleet Mechanic

  21. FY20 Proposed Budget - Water

  22. FY20 Proposed Budget - Sewer

  23. FY20 Budget Highlights-BCWS • Solid Waste • Includes • Major Changes due to RePower South (RPS) • New Revenue due to RPS • $2,272,800 budgeted for Residual into the landfill (min per Contract is $1,545,504) • $1,545,504 represents 34% of 120k tons @ $37.88/Ton) • $950,000 Lease from RPS to BCWS • ($455,000) reduction in revenue from sewer fund for sludge disposal • New Expense due to RPS • $4,545,600 in Users Fees will be paid to RPS (total SWUF revenue est’d @ $8,850,000) • $525,000 budgeted to manage hauling 7,000 tons of sludge to another location TBD • 10,000 tons total, but we plan to still put appx 3,000 tons in the landfill

  24. FY20 Budget Highlights-BCWS • Solid Waste Continued • Personnel • No new positions or upgrades • 3% COLA/Merit for 6 months beginning January 20’

  25. FY20 Proposed Budget – Solid Waste

  26. FY20 Budget Highlights-BCWS • R&R Fund • Budgeted Contribution for FY20 = $31,627,204 • Impact Fees = $7,070,000 • From Operating for Debt = $14,933,459 • From Operation Add’l = $9,623,745 • Does not include State Revolving Fund (SRF) for Sewer Treatment Plant Upgrades • $40M estimated from SRF to fund Sewer Treatment Plant Upgrades • Debt service will not need to be budgeted until next FY. This freed up $1.4M to add to R&R during this FY • Budgeted FY20 CIP expense = $98,157,120 (assuming all projects are completed) • Estimated R&R balance at 6/30/20 = $18,805,225 • Assumes increase in Water Rate, collections meet or exceed budgeted expectations and SRF loan revenue for treatment plant upgrades.

  27. FY20 Budget Highlights-BCWS • Budget is balanced as follows:

  28. FY20 Proposed Revenue - BCWS(as of April 2019)

  29. FY20 Proposed Expense - BCWS(as of April 2019)

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