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File #: PH-16-001    Version: 1 Name: 2014 SAFER Grant Budget Amendment
Type: Ordinance/Public Hearing Status: Passed
File created: 12/2/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/12/2016 Final action: 1/12/2016
Title: HOLD a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending the FY 2016 Annual Budget and Plan of Municipal Services of the City of Killeen by increasing General Fund revenues by $894,529 and various General Fund operating expenditure accounts by $894,529.
Sponsors: Finance Department, Fire Department
Attachments: 1. Council Memorandum, 2. Ordinance, 3. Amendment Package

TITLE

 

HOLD a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending the FY 2016 Annual Budget and Plan of Municipal Services of the City of Killeen by increasing General Fund revenues by $894,529 and various General Fund operating expenditure accounts by $894,529. 

 

SUMMARY

 

AGENDA ITEM                                         

 

2014 SAFER Grant Budget Amendment

 

ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT                                         

 

Finance / Fire Department

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

 

On October 6, 2015, the City Council approved resolution 15-114R accepting award of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) FY 2014 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant to fund thirty-seven (37) positions needed to staff Fire Station Nine, scheduled to open January 2017. The SAFER grant is a competitive program that was created to provide funding directly to fire departments to help increase the number of frontline firefighters, thus assuring the community has adequate protection. The program provides awards to assist in paying salaries and associated benefits of newly-hired Fire Rescue Officers. The City Council accepted the award of the SAFER Grant on October 6, 2015, in the amount of $4,443,404.00 over a two-year period. In the third year, the City will be responsible for the cost of the positions awarded as a result of the grant in the third year.

 

DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION

 

The SAFER Grant awarded the full amount requested in the City’s application which will help fund the first two years of salaries and benefits for thirty-seven (37) new Fire Rescue Officer positions. The first-year salary and benefits cost of the Fire Rescue Officer positions was calculated to be $2,114,365; the second year, $2,329,039.  The total cost of both years is  $4,443,404.The performance period for the Fire and Rescue Officers will begin on May 2, 2016. Therefore, this budget amendment will cover the remaining five months in FY2016.

 

FISCAL IMPACT

 

The salary and benefits cost for the thirty-seven (37) Fire Rescue Officers from May 2, 2016 - September 30, 2016, is $894,529. Accordingly, the following budget amendment is needed to increase General Fund revenue and expenditure accounts for the grant:

 

Revenues

 

Account Number

Account Name

Original Budget

Increase

Amended Budget

010-0000-382.45-30

SAFER Grant 2014

0

$894,529

$894,529

 

Expenditures

 

Account Number         Account Name          Original Budget      Increase     Amended Budget

 

 

 

 

010-7070-442.40-05

Full Time Salaries

$10,694,508

$657,195

$11,351,703

010-7070-442.40-30

Incentive Pay

$917,640

$18,785

$936,425

010-7070-442.45-05

Hospital Insurance

$870,863

$71,457

$942,320

010-7070-442.45-10

Retirement

$1,615,032

$87,876

$1,702,908

010-7070-442.45-15

Social Security

$986,398

$51,710

$1,038,108

010-7070-442.45-20

Workers Comp

$252,465

$7,506

$259,971

Total

 

$15,336,906

$894,529

$16,231,435

 

 

RECOMMENDATION

 

Staff recommends that City Council approve the ordinance amending the FY 2016 City of Killeen General Fund budget.