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Fiscal Year 2008-2009 County Manager’s Recommended Budget

Fiscal Year 2008-2009 County Manager’s Recommended Budget. May 20, 2008. Presentation. Budget Overview Revenues Expenses Next Steps. Budget Overview. $1.49 Billion $1.03 Billion in County Funds Maintain Tax Rate – 83.87 ¢ 1¢ = $9,498,448. FY2009 Total Revenue.

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Fiscal Year 2008-2009 County Manager’s Recommended Budget

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  1. Fiscal Year 2008-2009 County Manager’s Recommended Budget May 20, 2008

  2. Presentation • Budget Overview • Revenues • Expenses • Next Steps

  3. Budget Overview • $1.49 Billion • $1.03 Billion in County Funds • Maintain Tax Rate – 83.87¢ • 1¢ = $9,498,448

  4. FY2009 Total Revenue Note: County revenue growth available for general appropriation is $13.6 million.

  5. FY2009 County Revenue

  6. FY2009 Expenditures County Dollars $1.03 Billion

  7. Major Expenditure Categories • Education Services • Debt Service/Paygo • County Services

  8. Education Services *Includes $4.0 million in fines and forfeitures. Note: This table only shows County dollars.

  9. General Debt Service & Paygo • Education Debt Service is included with Education Services. • Paygo includes $1.5 million in non-County tax dollars

  10. Paygo – Current Projects *FY2009 Paygo Funding is comprised of $24.5 M in County funds and $1.5 M in revenue from LUESA.

  11. Enterprise Reserves • Unable to maintain strategy of funding at 2 cents on the tax rate. • Recommended funding at 1.2 cents on the tax rate.

  12. County Services

  13. FY09 Employee Pay & Benefits • Market Adjustments $ 2.6 million • Pay-for-Performance (2.7% of payroll) $ 8.1 million • FY09 Merit ($5.4 M) • Annualized FY08 Merit ($1.2 M) • Retention/Other Adjustments ($1.5 M) • Medical/Dental Benefits $ 2.7 million • Workers Comp. $ (600,000) • Total $ 12.8 million

  14. Merit Matrix Recommendation: Maintain Current Matrix FY08 Average Increase = 4.4% FY09 Recommended Average Increase = 3.5%

  15. Service Increases

  16. Public Safety Option • Option for 1 cent tax increase ($9.5 million) to provide additional funding for public safety initiatives • Placed in restricted contingency • Recommendation from County/City Managers with input from the Criminal Justice Advisory Group • Conditions for use • Performance measures and reporting • Three year sunset

  17. Requests Not Funded

  18. Law Enforcement Service District • .26¢ Tax Increase results in a $5.20 annual increase in the property tax bill for an owner of a $200,000 home

  19. Tax Rate Impact • Ave. Household Assessed Value $200,000 • Tax Rate (incorporated) $ .8387 • Tax Rate (unincorporated) $ 1.0175 Bottom line: FY08 Property Tax bill $1,677 FY09 Property Tax bill $1,677

  20. Next Steps • Budget Workshop May 27 2:00 PM • CMS • CPCC • Public Hearing May 29 6:00 PM • Public Policy Workshops June 10-12 5:00 PM • Budget Adoption June 17 6:00 PM

  21. MecklenburgCountyNC.gov

  22. Thank You • Focus Area Leadership Teams • Department Directors • Finance Department • Public Service & Information • Human Resources • Budget staff in the departments • Strategic Organizational Improvement staff

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