The District needs to adjust its 2022 budgeted appropriation from $31,533,994 of expenditures to $28,055,950. This decrease of $3,478,044 of expenditures is offset by decreased revenues of $3,028,706 and increases 2022 budget surplus to $449,338, increasing the fund balance at the end of 2022.

Highlights:

COVID-19 FTE Activities:

• Due to demobilization, removes 62.0 FTE from COVID-19 related activities

Non-COVID FTE Activities:

• Includes the following additional positions:
  • Administration
    • Accountant, Finance Dept.
    • Internal Audit and Financial Reporting Supervisor, Finance Dept.
  • Prevention Services
    
    • Infection Preventionist, Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response
    • Disease Intervention Specialist, Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response
    • Health Educator, Prevention Services - division wide
    • Health Educator, Prevention Services - division wide
    • Program Specialist II, sexually transmitted diseases 
  • Environmental Health (EH)
    • Environmental Health Specialist (EHS), Land Use Program for drinking water activities
    • EHS, Land Use Program for permitting
    • Health Educator, Land Use Program
    • Temporary term-limited Technical Writer for code revisions/updates
    • EHS, Safe Environments for schools
    • Program Assistant II, Customer Service program

Non-COVID FTE Reclass:

• Including the following reclassification of a current budgeted FTE
  • Administration
    • Communications Supervisor (was Communications Coordinator), Communications Dept.

Material Non-FTE Activities:

• Reallocated remaining Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) funds to programs with allowable expenditures
• Budgeted funds to contract out a cost of service study to assess EH fees
• Budgeted funds to pay Accela (EH software vendor) to develop an integration between Snohomish County’s Amanda system and current EH software
• Budgeted funds to hire a contract project management professional to provide an assessment of business needs for EH software upgrade
• Budgeted funds to retain a staff member from a temporary staffing agency to assist with answering the phones
  

Consistent with Resolution 19-20 and the revised Division of Responsibilities (10/8/19), the Board of Health has authority over the Health District budget.

MOVE TO adopt Res. 22-14 authorizing the 2022 budget amendment #1 as shown in Exhibit A.