Or
morning, Judy morning, Veronica. Can you guys hear me? Ok. Good morning, good morning.
Right. And ready for the holidays for the most part. How about you? Uh, yeah, and
that I'm not doing anything. I don't know, ready to not come to work for a couple
days. I don't know. And there is that right?
Uh, we're just waiting for Kate. I think Mark's gonna zoom in from his office as
well. I don't expect, I think Heidi is already onto her travel plan. So it'll just
be, uh, Kate to, to complete our quorum today.
I have the agenda here.
Mhm.
Let's see. People coming over. Do you promote Mark already? And Apple?
Mhm.
Greetings Mark Apple just waiting for Kate to get to complete a quorum here.
Mark. Do you know if Kate's planning on being here in person or zooming in? Uh, we
didn't, we didn't know. I, I imagine if she's not physically here that, um, yeah,
I'll, I'll pop across the hall real quick.
It's on her way. Ok. Yeah, she just rode in on her bike. Oh, nice in the rain. The
rain dedicated to a multi mobile transportation. I was trying to join from home,
but my internet is out. Oh, no. All right. Well, it's nice that they're the district
one commissioner, I guess. Yes. Right. No worries. All right. I will, uh, call
this special meeting of the board of county commissioners to order now that we have
a quorum first up. Um, and as this is a special meeting, we cannot adjust the agenda
or anything, but I will first call for public comment. I don't see any public with
us. Um But if anyone has something to say, uh it's fine time to say it um pertaining
to the agenda, seeing no hands raised, right? I will, I will close public comment
and we'll turn it over to Mark and, and Judy for the one topic that's on it, which
is really just I believe calling a hearing. So take it away Mark. Ok. Well, thank
you commissioners and apologize for having to have this special meeting this morning
to announce a public hearing on January 8th to consider an emergency appropriation
for the Public Health department to recognize additional grant revenues and um to
increase budget capacity of the department so that they can pay their vendors and
their employees and get through uh budget year 2023
with a little bit of budget left rather than being in a deficit. So that's the purpose
of this morning's meeting. And I don't know if Judy or uh Veronica or Apple want
to add to that
Julia see un muted anything to add, you know, um This is just kind of one of those
things that that happens and it kind of happens out of the blue sometimes. Um And
so, um I appreciate Veronica and her team working very digital diligently to get
this rectified because we don't, you know, if we have a, a negative budget situation,
we, we have a finding from the state auditor. Uh, it's not good. And so, um we're
able to accomplish all of this to resolve the situation in the 13th month. So we'll
pay payroll, we'll be able to um appropriate um and then finish paying
vendors for the 13th month and in 2023 in a positive budget situation. So, you know,
we're spending a lot more money is passed in through the county. Um More money is
passing through our departments and with more money passing through more expenditures.
And so sometimes, um I have to say these things happen. So uh just a little bit more
on our radar. This is our, so we're just, we're gonna be watching things a little
more closely in 2024. Thanks, Julie, uh Veronica Apple.
Yeah, I would like to say, um you know, sorry that this has happened. Um Some of
our funding has changed um and communication with some of our outside agencies. Um
You know, it's, it's just challenging, it's more challenging, you know, um uh the
money comes in. Um and, you know, it's just harder to track, uh, you know, and so
we have procedures in place, um, you know, and we just need to get back on track
with those procedures. Um I've been doing two positions for five years now. Deputy
director and finance manager. We now have Jen Mitchell on board. Um She's only been
in our department for a couple of months now. Um And so we're gonna get back on track.
Um Again, apologies um for this happening. I know that um it's really important
for um sorry for that interruption for um you know, us to be on um top
of things. And typically we are uh this is a huge budget, it's gonna be over $8 million
in 2024. Um And uh so again, we, we will put things in place so that this
won't happen again. Ok. Thanks Veronica. Ok. Um Any questions or
yeah, maybe if um if you wouldn't mind Veronica Apple just um kind of stating that
the nature is, was this a like a higher than expected expenditure or it sounds like
you do have the revenue um or is it AAA cash flow issue if you could just kind of
categorize the um the the issue that got us here. Um What
happened was I actually had this calculated in my spreadsheet to submit these numbers
in third quarter appropriation. And unfortunately, I didn't, I had the, I had some
of them um on the third quarter appropriation that we submitted, but it didn't include
like a whole fourth page in my third quarter appropriation. So I just missed it and
I don't know how Yeah. Got it. Ok, thank you. I appreciate that. Ok, if there's no
more questions, Kate doesn't have her computer with us. So I will make a motion that
we approve the resolution in the matter of a hearing notice for an emergency 2023
supplemental budget appropriation for fund 127 personal benefits, insurance and professional
services. Ok. It's been moved and seconded to approve the resolution as presented.
Uh Any further questions, comments all in favor indicate by saying hi, hi, I and
he opposed. All right, that is unanimous. Thank you everyone. Um I believe we have
completed the uh agenda and as this is a special meeting, I will bid you all a do
and Merry Christmas and, and happy holidays. Is it actually festivus today? Have
a good festivus and we are adjourned happy holidays. Thank you. Thank you. Bye bye.
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