DATE: October 8, 2024
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steve Brandau, Supervisor, District 2
Brian Pacheco, Supervisor, District 1
SUBJECT: Budget Resolution for Increasing FY 2023-24 Appropriations and Estimated Revenues for Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator Org 31113219
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Adopt Budget Resolution increasing FY 2024-25 appropriations in the amount of $15,000 and increasing FY 2024-25 estimated revenues in the amount of $7,500 for Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator Org 31113219 to provide traffic control and additional law enforcement coverage for the Christmas Tree Lane “walk nights” (4/5 vote).
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will increase FY 2024-25 appropriations ($15,000) and increase estimated revenues ($7,500) within the Sheriff-Coroner Public Administrator Org 31113219 to provide traffic control and additional law enforcement coverage for the Christmas Tree Lane “walk nights”. Sufficient appropriations are available for the transfer of $5,000 from Board of Supervisors District 2 Org 01100102 and $2,500 from Board of Supervisors District 1 Org 01100101 to the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator Org 31113219 and $7,500 of Unassigned Fund Balance is available in General Fund 0001, Subclass 10000 to fund the remainder of these expenditures. This item pertains to a location in District 2.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
If the recommended action is not approved, the expenditures would not be appropriated, and departmental revenues would not be increased to fund the provision of law enforcement coverage for Christmas Tree Lane on designated “walk nights”.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There will be an increase in Net County Cost of $7,500 associated with the recommended action. While sufficient appropriations are included in District One and Two’s Board of Supervisors Orgs 0110 FY 2024-25 Adopted Budget, appropriations will be increased for the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator Org 31113219 FY 2024-25 Adopted Budget to address the proposed expenditure.
DISCUSSION:
For more than a century, Fig Garden’s annual Christmas Tree Lane event has been a Fresno County landmark. Tens of thousands of people from all over the Central Valley come to visit the event over the month of December, where 140 homes along two miles of Van Ness Blvd between Shaw and Shields Avenues are available to visitors every night, including two designated “walk nights” where Van Ness is closed to traffic and families can walk the entire two miles of lights.
To ensure public safety, the Sheriff’s Department coordinates with Fresno Police Department and California Highway Patrol to provide traffic control every night, and additional law enforcement coverage to handle the large crowds during the two walk nights. This results in major overtime costs for the Sheriff’s Department. In 2023, District 2 provided the additional funding to cover that overtime. For this year’s event, it is requested your board approve the AP75 community outreach expenditures to be shared by both Districts 1 and 2, with $2,500 allocated from District 1’s allocated budget and $5,000 from District 2’s, for a total of $7,500. Any additional expenditures are budgeted by the Department.
ATTACHMENTS INCLUDED AND/OR ON FILE:
On file with Clerk - Budget Resolution Org 31113219
On file with Clerk - AP #75 - Legal Review and Determination Forms (Districts 2 and 1)
CAO ANALYST:
Fine Nai