Efficient, Effective, Responsive County Budget Plan COUNTY BOARD 2021 BUDGET WORKSHOP COUNTY BUDGET PLANNING WORKSHOP ning workshop June 16, 2020 1
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County Budget PlanCOUNTY BOARD
2021 BUDGET WORKSHOP COUNTY BUDGET PLANNING WORKSHOP ning workshopJune 16, 2020
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Efficient, Effective, ResponsiveDiscussion Items
• 2019 Financial Year Review
• 2020 Budget & Financial Performance
– COVID-19 Impacts
– 2020 Year-end Projections
• 2021 Budget Pressures & Opportunities
• 2021 Financial Planning Environment
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2019 Financial Year Review
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Beginning Fund Balance $ 310.4 $ 341.3
Total Revenues 357.5 365.6
Expenditures:
Current 314.9 330.4
Capital Projects and Equipment 12.3 17.1
Debt service - -
Total Expenditures 327.2 347.5
Other Financing Sources (uses) 0.6 (5.8)
Non-spendable, Restricted,
Committed or Assigned 217.0 239.4
Unassigned 124.3 114.2
Ending Fund Balance $ 341.3 $ 353.6
Net Change in Fund Balance $ 30.7 $ 12.7
Audited
12/31/2018
Unaudited
12/31/2019
Fund Balance Summary(in millions)
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General Fund – Fund Balance History
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Change in General Fund balance: Actual vs. Planned
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**Actuals may not include audit entries
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ELF – Fund Balance History
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Transportation/Transportation Sales Tax – Fund Balance History
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2020 Budget & Financial Performance
– COVID-19 Impacts
– 2020 Year-end Projections
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Dakota County COVID-19 Impacts –Total Projected Impact
YTD Actuals
Forecast for
Remainder of Year Total YE Forecast
Total Budgeted Spending Diverted to COVID-19 5,805,152 16,397,521 22,202,673
Total Unbudgeted COVID-19 Spending 671,609 3,968,763 4,640,372
Total Budgeted and Unbudgeted COVID-19 Spending 6,476,761 20,366,284 26,843,045
Total Projected Revenue Shortfalls Due to COVID-19 5,879,000
Total Projected Dakota County COVID-19 Impact 32,722,045
Data as of 6/11/20
** Sheriff and Public Health revenues are net of State, Federal, and other Intergovernmental revenues that offset
personnel costs
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COVID-19 Related Grants
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Grant Description (Grants - Awarded, Applied for, or
Considering Applying for)
Awarding
Entity Awarded Applied For TotalCOVID-19 Response Grant State 393,362$ 393,362$
Community Development Block Grant - COVID Funds Federal 1,134,381$ 1,134,381$
Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Federal 571,921$ 571,921$
Pohlad - COVID Homeless Prevention Grant Other 99,900$ 99,900$
FHPAP State 20,250$ 20,250$
Emergency Services Program (ESP, in Housing) State 83,130$ 83,130$
Emergency Preparedness Management Grant - Supplement State 89,265$ 89,265$
FY 2020 Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding Program (BJA) Federal 58,008$ 58,008$
FEMA Public Assistance Grant Federal -$
FEMA Individual Assisstaance Grant Federal -$
CARES Act Federal -$
Totals 2,199,564$ 250,653$ 2,450,217$
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Year-End Projections - Operations
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Total Operating Budget Year-End Projections by Major Categories
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Object Category Actuals
Amended
Forecast
Forecast % of
Budget Budget Variance
Property Taxes 33.4$ 140.4 100% 140.4 -
Charges for Services/Other 16.1$ 43.4 95% 45.7 (2.3)
Licenses & Permits 1.1$ 1.4 100% 1.4 -
Federal Revenue 8.9$ 33.1 97% 34.3 (1.2)
State Revenue 12.5$ 50.9 100% 51.1 (0.2)
Other Intergovernmental Rev 1.5$ 5.7 95% 6.0 (0.3)
Other Financing Sources 0.0$ 0.1 100% 0.1 -
Revenue 73.5$ 275.0 99% 279.0 (4.0)
Salaries/Benefits 75.2$ 187.9 94% 198.9 11.0
Dept/County Support 10.3$ 24.2 101% 24.0 (0.2)
Travel/Training 0.4$ 1.5 71% 2.1 0.6
Office Support 0.9$ 2.3 88% 2.6 0.3
Materials/Supplies 1.3$ 2.3 92% 2.5 0.2
Citizen/Client Related Service 14.0$ 48.5 97% 50.2 1.7
Interdepartmental (1.3)$ (9.0) 98% (9.2) (0.2)
Capital, Debt, Other Financing 2.6$ 7.9 100% 7.9 -
Expense 103.4$ 265.6 95% 279.0 13.4
Projected Contribution to Fund Balance (29.9)$ 9.4$ -$ 9.4$
in millions
Dakota County
Projection Summary - As of May 2020
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Significant Variances $100K or Greater – Revenues
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Department Description Budget YE Projection Variance COVID Related
Public Health Public Health Family Health Promotions Fees 491,455 340,130 (151,325) Yes
Environmental Resources Host Fees 7,015,000 8,509,845 1,494,845
Corrections Juv Detention Beds 908,000 582,678 (325,322) Yes
Non-Departmental Interest on Investments 8,266,000 6,266,000 (2,000,000) Yes
Social Services Social Services - Waivers 2,380,000 1,479,262 (900,738)
Library Library Fines 400,000 174,564 (225,436) Yes
Parks Park Rentals Fees 1,063,374 816,000 (247,374) Yes
Byllesby Dam Byllesby Dam Sale of Energy 260,000 691,172 431,172
EEA EEA - Federal FFP Revenue 14,647,696 13,563,872 (1,083,824)
Social Services Social Sevice SSTS & MNChoice Revenues (State) 3,664,389 4,100,000 435,611
Sheriff School Liason 568,310 378,873 (189,437) Yes
39,664,224 36,902,396 (2,761,828)
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Significant Variances $100K or Greater – Expenses
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Department Description Budget YE Projection Variance COVID Related
Facilities Mgmt Building Utilities (Electricity, Natural Gas,
Water/Sewer) 2,047,692 1,894,951 152,741
Facilities Mgmt Facilities Contracted Services and Public Facility
Upkeep 1,023,557 923,281 100,276 Yes
Non-Departmental Managed Print Services 299,143 160,043 139,100 Yes
Fleet Fleet - Gasoline 600,345 546,413 163,119 Yes
Risk Mgmt Risk Insurance Accounts (Net) 1,424,810 1,712,389 (287,579)
Information Technology IT Consulting 344,409 516,906 (172,497)
Sheriff Inmate Medical/Dental Care & Boarding 1,583,042 1,079,077 503,965 Yes
Environmental Resources Business Recycling Program 484,500 342,051 142,449
Social Services Direct Employment Services 217,664 30,000 187,664 Yes
Social Services CD Treatment 918,000 310,016 607,984 Yes
Social Services Detoxification 694,620 400,000 294,620 Yes
Social Services Reg Trmt Center (RTC) 1,707,000 1,810,932 (103,932) No
Social Services MH Community Living 509,475 260,000 249,475 Yes
Social Services County Adults 153,000 31,890 121,110
Social Services Employment DT&H 925,000 1,105,036 (180,036) No
Social Services Nursing Home 318,500 100,000 218,500 Yes
Corrections Juv Placement Residential 933,442 444,108 489,334 Yes
14,184,199 11,667,093 2,626,293
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2021 Budget Pressures & Opportunities
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Countywide• Overall Uncertainty
– Pace of pandemic
– Pace of economic recovery
• Current planning assumes continued economic stress into 2021
– State and Federal funding
– Personnel costs 2021 and beyond
• Understanding and Adjusting to Long-Term Changes
– Supporting a remote workforce
• Technology
• Equipment
– Adjusting County workspaces to new environment
• CARES Act
– How to utilize 2020 reimbursement savings (that will fall to fund
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Administration
• Agenda Management Software Replacement
• Begin transition to new website planning
• Provide support for an increasingly virtual workforce
– Providing resources and service
– Administration of policy and practices
– Supporting engagement, culture and communication
• Negotiate Collective Bargaining Agreements
– 13 Collective Bargaining Agreements, all expire at the end of
2020
• Increase automation of HR transactions to manage limited staff
resources against increasing organizational demand
– New employee On-Boarding
– Investigation and Grievance Tracking
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Operations, Management, and Budget (OMB)
• Replacement of enterprise financial/employee relations
application (OneSolution)
• Technology & ergonomic resources for teleworking
• Host server hardware replacement
• Pressures of hiring freeze
• Economic recovery
• County-wide space analysis
• Revenue/expenditure uncertainty
• Duration of COVID-19 and its aftereffects
• Increasing cyber security threat environment
• Increasing costs for insurance (property, auto and cyber
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2021 County Attorney’s Office
• Ability to maintain same level of services
– Attorney vacancy in the Criminal Division
– Attorney vacancy in the Civil Division (Sept.)
– Legal Administrative Assistant vacancy in the Child Support
Division (Aug.)
– Potential loss of VAWA grant funding in 2021 for 2 victim witness
specialist positions (current grant expires 09/30/21)
• Demands associated with transfer, retention and disclosure of
electronic data
– Cellphones/Computers
– Body Worn Camera Video and Squad Video
• Long-term operational needs exist in the case management system,
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Public Service and Revenue
• Staffing needs overall
– Workload pressures from hiring freeze
• Impacts on staff and customers
– Greater technology and ergonomic resources for continued
telework
• Assessing Services – Appropriate staffing levels to address climbing
appeals and multi-year backlog of reassessment mandate
• Service and License Centers – Extended backlogs for license
services and shift of RealID deadline to 2021
• Historical Society – Building Renovation Needs
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Community Services
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Increased Service Demands
• Child Support
• Public assistance
• CareerForce Services
• Housing
• Child Protection
• Etc..
Funding Changes
• PH medical billing & immunization clinics
• JSC bed revenue
• CCA subsidy
• Rule 185 case mgmt. costs
• Family First Prevention Svcs Act funding
• Social Services program revenue
Staffing/Infrastructure Pressures
• Data management
• Technology tools & staff support
• Race equity work
• Community & partner engagement
• Employee safety & wellbeing
• Disability services administrative pressures
Innovation Priorities
• Pathways to Prosperity & Wellbeing
• Coordinated Response Pilot
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County Sheriff’s Office
• Discussion and implementation of potential local and national police
reform strategies
• Evidence Property Room Technician funding
• Electronic Crimes Unit domestic violence grant for 1.0 FTE expires
October 2021
• Staff funding pressures and needs– Patrol OPA study and Jail DOC
staffing study
• Support mental health and wellness of employees
• Crime evolution – technology
• Replacement of Jail Management System –RFP in 2020
• Mobile booking capability
• Jail physical needs assessment – medical and mental health unit,
short term female unit, social services workspace
• Expansion of body-worn-cameras22
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Physical Development
• Capital Projects:
– Impacts of State and Federal funding of projects on CIP
– Uncertain bidding climate and delays in availability or delivery of
supplies, equipment, vehicles and contracted labor
– Re-evaluation of workspace design standards due to increased
telework and client interactions
• General Concerns:
– Changes in dedicated revenues; i.e. CSAH, Sales and Use Tax,
Host Fees, State grants
– Funding availability to implement County Board approved capital,
strategic and master plans
– Capacity to deliver projects, programs and services with reduced
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2021 Financial Planning Environment
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Levy History
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2021 Preliminary Budget Assumptions
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Millions
Total % of Levy
2020 Levy (Operations & CIP) 144.61$
Change:
Salary/Benefits $3.68 to $7.36
Non-Personnel Costs 0.40$
Total Estimated Change $4.08 to $7.76 2.8% to 5.4%
Total Estimated Inflation Adjusted Current Level $148.69 to $152.37
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Budget Scenario Presented to the County Board – November 2017
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2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Available Levy Management Account (LMA) 11.67 7.44 4.10 0.53 0.00
Overall Planning Base Inflation Adjustment (3.1%/yr) 139.56 143.70 147.85 152.06 160.42
Departmental Budget Right Sizing Adjustments (0.30) (0.20) (0.10) - -
New Non-Levy Revenues (1.35) (1.41) (1.45) (1.48) (1.56)
Adjusted Net Levy Costs 137.91 142.09 146.30 150.58 158.86
Total New Requests (Levy only) 3.54 3.72 3.90 4.10 4.30
Additional County Resources 1.20
Assumes Funding Half of Requests 1.77 1.86 1.95 2.05 2.15
Total Requested Levy 140.88 143.95 148.25 152.63 161.01
Total Requested Levy (% increase) 6.1% 5.3% 5.4% 5.5% 5.5%
Less: Use of LMA (Total used through 2020 $16.53M) (4.23) (3.34) (3.57) - -
Total Adjusted Levy 136.65 140.61 144.68 152.63 161.01
Total Adjusted Levy (% increase) 2.9% 2.9% 2.9% 5.5% 5.5%
2018 Levy increase: 2.9%
(in millions)
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Potential Strategies to Manage the 2021 Budget
• CARES Funding
– Use for One-time uses for COVID-19 related
items
• Reallocate existing levies
• Use of Levy Management Account ($6
million available)
• Hold or Eliminate Vacant Positions
• Tax levy
• Find other way to increase revenues or
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CARES Funding Strategy
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$$$
Use of FB – CARES
Spending
• Limited Term Position Funding
• Partial Mileage/Travel Funding
• One-time COVID Expenses
Revenues
• Short-Term Revenue Loss
Use of FB – CARES Replacement
Revenues Strategy
• Increasing Current Revenues
• New Revenues (new grants, levy, other)
Spending Strategy
• Elimination of One-time COVID Expenses
• Elimination of CARES FB Funded Vacancies
• Elimination of CARES FB Funded Mileage/Training
Total Offset of Use of FB (CARES)
Over 3 Years
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Levy and Household Growth
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Budget Development Process
• June 16 – County Board Budget Workshop #1
• July 14 - GGP COVID/Year-End Forecast Update
• August 18 - County Board Budget Workshop #2
• September 1 - GGP Budget Update
• September 22 - County Board Adoption of maximum levy
• November 3-6 – County Board Budget Hearings
• December 1 – CIP Public Hearings
• December 1 – County Board Budget Public Hearing
(“Truth-In-Taxation”)
• December 15 – County Board Adoption of 2021 Budget
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