2025-0153
INTRODUCED BY: MATTHEW JEWELL, PARISH PRESIDENT
(DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE)
ORDINANCE NO. __________
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An ordinance to amend the 2025 Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget, Amendment No. 1, to add revenues and transfers totaling $33,691,489, an addition of accumulated fund balance of $16,475,210 and expenditures, including transfers, totaling $45,075,920 for all Governmental Funds for the purpose of adjusting beginning 2025 fund balances across all funds to match ending 2024 Final Budget balances and to re-apply various construction, architectural/engineering, and other fees unexpended in 2024 for Parish projects that were not completed during 2024 and apply them to 2025.
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WHEREAS, the 2025 St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget was adopted on November 4, 2024 by Ordinance No. 24-11-2; and amended on January 6, 2025 by Executive Order No. 2025-01; February 4, 2025 by Executive Order No. 2025-02; February 12 2025 by Executive Order No. 2025-03; March 17, 2025 by Executive Order No. 2025-04; March 21 2025 by Executive Order No. 2025-05; March 21, 2025 by Executive Order No. 2025-06; May 1, 2025 by Executive Order No. 2025-07; and,
WHEREAS, the Parish Council has taken under consideration the study of Amendment No. 1 to the St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget for fiscal year 2025: to increase beginning General Fund balance by $18,146,458 and to add Revenues totaling $10,945,352 as well as expenditures totaling $24,755,692; to increase the beginning Fund balance in Fund 102 - Parish Transportation by $637,365 and to increase capital expenditures by $697,171; to increase beginning Fund balance in Fund 105 -Road Lighting by $1,228,498; to increase beginning fund balance in Fund 110 - Criminal Court Fund by $5,389; to decrease the beginning Fund balance in Fund 112 by $5,215,502 and to add revenues including transfers totaling $16,988,605 and expenditures totaling $11,967,970, for construction, architectural/engineering and other fees for: Fund 112 - Roads and Drainage - Paved Streets - Account No.112-420210 capital expenditures in the amount of $5,178,094; Fund 112 - Roads and Drainage - Sidewalks, Account No. 112-420230 in the amount of $2,891; Fund 112 - Roads and Drainage Fund - Cross Bayou Pump Station - Account No. 112-420240 total expenditures in the amount $3,500,000 of Fund 112 - Roads and Drainage Fund - Drainage - Account No. 112-420260 total expenditures in the amount of $3,286,985; Fund 113 - Recreation Fund, an increase in beginning Fund Balance totaling $449,204, an increase in Revenues totaling $1,007,990, and an increase in Capital Expenditures totaling $1,007,990; to increase beginning Fund balance in Fund 114 - Mosquito Control by $95,488; to increase beginning Fund balance in Fund 116 RSVP by $64,398; to increase beginning Fund balance in Fund 123 - Flood Protection Fund - by $1,172,889 and to add revenues totaling $4,386,928 and expenditures of $6,330,052; to decrease Debt Service Funds beginning Fund Balance by $138,075; to increase beginning Fund Balance in Fund 302 - Recreation Facilities Construction Fund by $28,055; Fund 310 - West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee an increase in beginning Fund Balance totaling $3,508; to decrease beginning Fund balance in Fund 312 - GOMESA Construction Fund by $1,299 and decrease total capital expenditures by $45,569; to decrease beginning Fund Balance for Fund 313 LCDBG Public Facilities Construction Fund by $9 and increase total expenditures by $362,614; to decrease beginning Fund Balance for Fund 316 - Front Foot Assessment Capital Projects Fund by $1,157, all as shown by the Revision Schedule.
THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I. That in accordance with the provisions of Article V, Sections D, E, and F of the St. Charles Parish Home Rule Charter and with the Louisiana Local Government Budget Act (R.S. 39:1301 et. seq.), the St. Charles Parish Council does hereby amend the 2025 St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget, as amended, as per "Exhibit A".
The foregoing ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:
And the ordinance was declared adopted this ______ day of ____________, 2025, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.
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