FY 14-15 Adopted Budget

Public Safety - Emergency Telephone System Fund

BUDGET SUMMARY

2012-13

2013-14 Budget

2014-15 Adopted

2015-16 Projected

Actual

Expenditures:

Personnel Costs

156,946

137,015

167,862

171,891

Maintenance & Operations

2,199,454

2,578,922

3,146,183

2,578,888

Capital Outlay

0

0

0

0

Total

2,356,400

2,715,937

3,314,045

2,750,779

Total FTE Positions

1.600

1.800

2.200

2.200

Revenues:

User Charges

2,715,590

2,607,208

2,760,822

2,720,147

All Other

-3,587 41,092

0

4,000

3,750

Appropriated Fund Balance

108,729

549,223

26,882

Subtotal

2,753,095

2,715,937

3,314,045

2,750,779

General Fund Contribution

0

0

0

0

Total

2,753,095

2,715,937

3,314,045

2,750,779

BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS  The FY 14-15 Adopted Budget reflects an increase of 10.98%, or $298,108.  A partial FTE, 0.4, is transferred from the Metro Communications Fund based on expenditures applicable for reimbursement from the NC 911 Board.  The FY 14-15 Adopted Budget includes an allocation of $2.7 million, a $153,614, or 5.89%, increase, from the NC 911 Board, compared to FY 13-14. Funds will be used to upgrade the 911 phone system at both the primary site as well as the back-up site which is over seven years old. These upgrades will bring the center closer to the next generation of 911 which enables the ability for 911 to receive text and data messages. Consoles at both the primary site and back-up center were also replaced with this funding during FY 12-13.  In FY 11-12 in accordance with the requirements of NCGS 62A pertaining to required financial reporting to the State Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Board for Emergency Telephone Service funding, the former Guilford Metro Fund was split into two separate funds, a Special Revenue Fund titled the “Emergency Telephone System Fund” and the “Guilford Metro Communications Fund”, per guidance from the N.C. Local Government Commission. The City, per the financial reporting requirements, now reports all 911 fee revenues, expenditures and fund balance in the Special Revenue Fund titled the “Emergency Telephone System Fund,” formerly the “Guilford Metro 911 Fund.”

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