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Special Revenue Fund Community Tree Planting

FY2025 DISCUSSION AND SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
The major components of the FY2025 Recommended Budget include consultant professional services, funding
for equipment replacement, facility repairs, and IT solutions. These allocations aim to ensure expert guidance, up-
to-date equipment, maintained infrastructure, and enhanced technological capabilities, supporting our continued
growth and operational efficiency.

The Recommended Budget:
• Increases by $54,080 in consultant professional services.

• Increases by $15,356 in salary and benefits due to pay band adjustment and budgeted vacancy savings
rate that produces salary savings.
• Increases by $13,895 in salary and benefits for previously approved costs associated with pay for
performance, step increases, rising health care costs and pension contributions.
• Decreases by ($26,404) in General Operating & Maintenance for IT solutions allocation costs, facility
repair and maintenance, and equipment lease.
• Decreases by ($180,000) in VERF Transfer out for one-time costs due to previously approved budget that
was only needed for one fiscal year.

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