Administration...

 

 

2-17-10: "Resolution Directing the County Manager and Purchasing Director to Develop Administrative Regulations for the Disclosure of Campaign Contributions by Entities seeking County Contract"

 

Held: (For full Board Review and Action)

 

 

Click here for "Resolution (relating to) Disclosure of Campaign contributions (Darnell)"

 

 

   

 

2-17-10: “Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Grant Program $750,000”

Report Received

 

Click here for the 2010 Enhancement Updates: F.R.E.S.H Program

 

     
 

2-17-10: FY 2010 “Senior Housing and Transportation Enhancement Grant Program $375,000”

Report Received

Click here for the Health and Human Services Budget Enhancement Updates: Senior Housing and Transportation

     
 

2-17-10: Approval of the January Payment Voucher Expenditure Report

 

 

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2-17-10: Jail Health Services Contract

 

 

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2-17-10: "Library (Construction) Program: Selection of Program Manager"

 

Held: To receive cost data and to review Selection Committee procedures

 

Yes: Darnell, Eaves, Edwards, Pitts, Riley

Absent: Boxill, Lowe

 

Click here for  the "(Recommended) Contract Award: Jacobs with GMG ($3,334,928)"

 

     

 

2-17-10: Human Services Perishable and Non-Perishable Food Contract

 

 

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2-17-10: FY 2010 “Senior Housing and Transportation Enhancement Grant Program $375,000”

Report Received

 

Click here for the Health and Human Services Budget Enhancement Updates: Senior Housing and Transportation

 

 

     
 

2-8-10: Racial Profiling Report"

 

Report Received: Public Safety Departments to develop accurate and reliable reports to evaluate (1.) training programs and (2.) officer stops

 

 

Click here for the "Racial Profiling - Quarterly Report"

 

 

     
 

2-8-10: EEO Data: 4th Quarter "Complaints" Report

 

 

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1-26-10: Juvenile Crime and Prevention Grants: F.R.E.S.H. Grant Programs

The F.R.E.S.H Grant Program to support children and youth received enhanced funding in the amount of $750,000 to support public and private agencies which have achieved measurable results in the prevention of Juvenile Crime and delinquency within incorporated and unincorporated Fulton County.

 

     
 

1-26-10: Environment and Environmental Justice

Staff Support to Commission on the Environment and Green Team: $75,000

 

Proposed cuts in the County’s Environment and Environmental Justice Program were restored. The

Commission on the Environment provides assistance to the County Manager and the Board of Commissioners in the development and implementation of board policy. The City of Atlanta, the County’s largest city has been classified by federal authorities as a “non – attainment” area. A national magazine recently rated Atlanta as the most “toxic city” in the U.S.

 

District 5 has the highest concentration of sewage treatment plants, combined sewers, land-fills and hazardous waste sites in Fulton County, according to staff officials.

 

Environmental planners and enforcement personnel will also provide support to the County’s (interdepartmental) “Green Team”.

 

Other Budget Highlights

• Absentee Ballot Computerized System: $900,000

• Public Defender Upgrades: $426,000

• Drug Court Upgrades: $150,000

• Pre-Trial Upgrades- State Court: $400,000

• Code Enforcement Upgrades (S. Fulton)

• Park Upgrades (S. Fulton)

• No Lay-offs; police or fire personnel (S. Fulton)

• No property tax increase: General Fund or S. Fulton County

• General Fund Reserve: $40,793,319 (6.93%)

 

     
 

1-26-10: "Board of Commissioners Joins National Observance of 81st Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

 

Noting Dr. King was born in Fulton County, Georgia “and is buried here,” the Board of Commissioners joined the national celebration of the 81st Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Voting Yes: Darnell, Boxill, Eaves, Edwards, Lowe, Riley and Pitts

 

Link to "Resolution: MLK, Jr.

 

     

 

1-8-10: County Manager Submits (Revised) Tentative Budget; 4% Salary Cut Reversed

Based upon “additional funds identified”, the County Manager reversed a (proposed) across-the-board 4% salary cut equivalent to 10 unpaid holidays. The recommendation had been a part of the “Tentative Budget” approved by the Board of Commissioners on December 16, 2009. The “Final Budget” has been scheduled for review and approval on January 20, 2010.

 

     

 

12-17-09: Tentative Budget Adopted for Information

 

The County Manager (Zachary Williams) has submitted the FY 2010 Budget for information.

The General Fund (county – wide) Budget includes $59 million in reductions to departments in all service areas including courts, corrections, libraries, health and human services. Funds have been allocated according to a “funding hierarchy” (priorities) established by the Board of Commissioners, according to the Budget Commission.

 

Legal mandates, court orders, consent decrees, contract obligations and Board resolutions were given the highest priority. The Board of Commissioners will begin deliberations on the

“Final General Fund Budget” January 6, 2010 at 10:00 A.M.

 

The South Fulton Tax District Budget was also presented and approved for information only. The Expenditures Budget was reduced by $10,471,634; the total revenues increase $1,581,332

 

Click here for a copy of the Tentative General Fund and South Fulton Tax District Fund

     

 

12-1-09: Resolution Establishing Board Priorities: Special Populations"

 

“Priority status” has been established by the Board of Commissioners for services to senior adults, disabled persons and other special populations within Fulton County.

 

Motion by Darnell, seconded by Edwards 

YES: Boxill, Darnell, Edwards, Pitts

NO: Riley      

Not Voting: Eaves, Lowe

 

On November 19, 2009, in a Special (Budget) Work Session, upon the recommendation of the County Attorney, first priority was established for “Legal Mandates” by State or Federal laws. This category includes the salaries of certain State officials including the District Attorney, Superior Court Judges, the Tax Commissioner, the Probate Judge and the Sheriff. State law also directs the County to pay State Court Judges 90% of the total salary of Superior Court Judges.

 

In a Special Report presented to the Board of Commissioners on November 18 regarding the “socioeconomic” status of Fulton County residents, the County Manager’s staff indicated Fulton County has an estimated population of 79,413 adults age 65 and older. Of this number, 31% have incomes below $15,000 per year and 16% live in poverty.

 

The Report also indicates Fulton County is #1 for HIV/AIDS cases in Georgia; two out of every five people arrested in Fulton County have a mental illness; 23% of Fulton County adults aged 18-64 are uninsured; 703 students between grades 9-12 in Fulton County dropped out in 2008.

 

Click here for the "Resolution Establishing Board Priorities: Special Populations"

     

 

11-20-09: FY 2010 Proposed Budget:  14 ½ % Decline in Property Tax Revenues Projected

The County Manager has projected a 14 ½% decline in property tax revenue in FY 2010 due primarily to “the crisis (within) the real estate industry.”  Patrick O’ Connor, Director of Finance also confirmed, in response to questions by Commissioners that the current budget “challenges” were also created by problems of coordination between the Tax Commissioner (Arthur Ferdinand) and the Chief Appraiser (Burt Manning, Board of Tax Assessors).

The Board of Commissioners accepted the “Proposed FY 2010 Budget” as the “First Step” in the FY 2010 Process to conclude in January 2010.

     

 

11-20-09: Board Adopts Framework for Fulton FY 2010 Budget: No Tax Increase

 

The Board of Commissioners has adopted the recommendation of the Budget Commission to implement certain “alternative actions” to reduce FY 2010 expenditures including (1) a reduction in fund balance (revenues) from 8.33% to 5% and (2) maintaining the (current) millage rate at 10.281 mills.

 

Voting Yes: Boxill, Darnell, Eaves, Edwards, Pitts

Voting No: Lowe

Absent: Riley

     

 

11-20-09: RIF (Reduction-In-Force) Policy Clarified

 

The Board of Commissioners has given the County Manager authority to implement a “reduction-in-force” policy for budgetary purposes if the facts and circumstances indicate that other options, e.g. transfers were not available.

 

In a review of board policy relating to “RIFs”, the County Attorney, David Ware also indicated RIFs cannot be used directly or indirectly for disciplinary purposes. 

 

For more information, Click here for the “Request approval to revise Personnel Regulation 800-6- Reduction-in-Force”