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Authorize and direct the Auditor-Controller to amend Fiscal Year 2023-24 Adopted Budget to increase appropriations and revenues by $413,209 in General Fund 001, Park Operations Appropriation Unit PFP058, financed by additional revenues received from Lake San Antonio (4/5ths vote required).
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors authorize and direct the Auditor-Controller to amend Fiscal Year 2023-24 Adopted Budget to increase appropriations and revenues by $413,209 in General Fund 001, Park Operations Appropriation Unit PFP058, financed by additional revenues received from Lake San Antonio (4/5ths vote required).
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Public Works, Facilities and Parks (PWFP) requests an increase in appropriations to complete three projects. Due to higher water levels, Parks is experiencing higher revenue than projected. Parks is requesting approval to use the additional revenue generated from Lake San Antonio to fund the following three projects:
Project 1. In August 2020, the River Fire swept through Toro Park and destroyed grazing infrastructure on the Marks Ranch including range fencing and a solar powered water tank. Big Sur Land Trust leases the Toro Park Marks Ranch property for cattle grazing as part of an ecologically friendly vegetation management program and cannot resume their stewardship work until the fences and water system are repaired. The fencing portion of this project has been approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for one hundred percent reimbursement. Repairs are estimated to be $150,000.
Project 2. On November 2, 2021, the Board of Supervisors (Board) adopted Resolution No. 21-387 to accept a Grant Award from the California State Parks Department Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) for the purchase of a patrol vessel in the amount of $155,000. The Grant award was $138,379 plus an interfund transfer from Fund 452 in the amount of $16,621. Due to supply issues, PWF...
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