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Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Amendment: Law Enforcement Training Center Project.
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Recommended Action: Approve the amendment to the CIP and the budget adjustments to the CIP Fund and General Fund.
The adopted CIP includes $2.65-million of cash funding for the Law Enforcement Training Center project, to be provided by a transfer of cash from the General Fund.
The County has received responses to a Request for Proposals (RFP) from developers and contractors, and is considering them. Each of the proposals is for a greater amount than $2.65-million. In order to make an award the project budget must be increased.
The project will provide a training facility to be used in partnership by Sedgwick County and Wichita. The County will award the contract and thus be contractually committed to the entire project cost, and the City will pay half of the project cost to the county. The CIP amendment will increase the project budget to $10.85-million from $2.65-million. Funding will be provided via budget amendments to the CIP Fund and General Fund in the amounts of $2.65-million of General Fund cash (already budgeted); $5.43-million of contribution from Wichita (new revenue to the CIP Fund); and $0.50-million to be transferred from the General Fund Public Safety Contingency, $0.36-million to be transferred from the General Fund CIP Contingency, and $1.92-million to be transferred from the General Fund Operating Reserve (each an adjustment of the adopted General Fund budget). With in the General Fund, in accordance with standard practice the various specified contingency account amounts will be transferred to the 'budgeted transfers' account, from which they will then be transferred to the CIP Fund.
Alternatives: The Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) could decline to approve the actions, in which case insufficient budget authority would exist to permit an award of contract to one of the respondents to the RFP. The BOCC could elect to fund the increased project budget with different sources than those recommended.
Financial Considerations: The current and adjusted budgets will be as follows.
CIP Fund Adopted Budget Adjusted Budget
Project budget: LETC
Construction 2,650,000 9,542,379
Contingency @ 5% - 477,119
Furniture & equipment - 656,000
Technology equipment & installation - 147,000
Signage - 20,000
Moving costs - 10,000
Total budget $2,650,000 $10,852,498
Project funding:
General Fund transfer 2,650,000 5,426,249
Wichita capital contribution 2,650,000 5,426,249
Total funding $2,650,000 $10,852,498
General Fund
CIP transfer 2,650,000 2,650,000
Public safety contingency - 500,000
CIP contingency - 356,742
Operating reserve - 1,919,507
$2,650,000 $5,426,249
Legal Considerations: The State Budget Law and the Cash Basis Law prohibit the County from incurring obligations unless sufficient unencumbered budget authority exists and sufficient cash is on hand to support the obligations unless the obligation is to be paid with the proceeds of a bond issue. The present budget does not include sufficient budget authority, and the CIP Fund has insufficient cash to permit the award of a contract to one of the RFP respondents.
Policy Considerations: The BOCC has declared its intent to fund this project without the use of bond proceeds.