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HomeMy WebLinkAbout4 Budget 2006 Agenda Item # .0 i CKE l p rpii , i UtilityPublic . • • iE Memorandum To: Board of Directors From: Peter Holzmeister Date: February 10, 2006 Subject: Budget for 2006 Why this matter is before the Board: This matter involves adoption of a District budget for 2006. Only the Board can adopt the budget. History: The Board adopted electric and water rate increases at the last meeting. The rates were less than needed to balance the draft budget as presented in November. Therefore, budgeted expenditures needed to be reduced and alternative revenues needed to be identified to bring the budget back into balance. The rates adopted by the Board require a two percent reduction in rate supported expenditures. The Board directed staff to retain funding for Broadband planning, but to finance it from a source other than rates. That would eliminate one percent of the proposed rate increase. Staff was further directed to recommend additional budget reductions to eliminate one additional percent of rate supported expenditures. New information: Attached for your review are three documents. The document entitled Budget Revisions — 2006 lists that line item changes in the budget that accomplish the Board's direction. A new budget document is attached that contains the revisions. The attached resolution, if adopted by the Board, results in adoption of the budget and accounting overheads. Recommendation: I recommend that the Board adopt the resolution adopting the budget for 2006 and associated accounting overhead rates. s r Y .f.'3 4t�(i (.'r^» .� t�f G�!?i 5 4�✓;`t i i..�r i�,�4+ TELECOM ITEMS FUNDED THROUGH ALTERNATIVE SOURCES: General Manager Electric Water Total Offices Supplies and Expenses Broadband related expenses $2,000 $2,000 $4,000 AT&T-fiber lease 5,000 5,000 10,000 Outside Services Employed Aggregate Networks&Cebridge Lawsuit 131,500 131,500 263,000 General Advertising Expenses Broadband related expenses 5,000 5,000 10,000 Misc General Expenses Fiber to the Home Council 250 250 500 American Cable 100 100 200 Administrative Services Outside Services Employed Broadband related expenses 2,500 2,500 5,000 Total Telecom Related Items $146,350 $146,350 $292,700 Transfer into budget-temporary loan Storm Damage Fund ($146,350) ($146,350) Reserve for Future Meters (146 350) (146,350) $0 $0 $0 ITEMS DELETED FROM THE BUDGET General Manager Office Supplies and Expenses Plant Company 500 500 1,000 Misc General Expense Northwest Public Power 9,500 0 9,500 Administrative Services International City Management Association 100 100 200 Meter Reading Dues and Memberships 188 63 251 Customer Records and Collections Sierra Mail-EFT Letters 900 600 1,500 Office Supplies and Expenses Contract Services-DOT Trianing 500 500 1,000 Fed Ex/UPS/USPO 300 200 500 Meeting Expenses 120 80 200 Planning Services Customer Assistance Expenses Cash Rebate Programs 33,600 5,711 39,311 Conservation(biomass&fuel cell) 30,000 0 30,000 Conservation(Energy conservation&education) 5,000 0 5,000 Outside Services Employed Marketing,not project related 15,000 0 15,000 Misc General Expense Home Show,other District activities,mist costs 1,273 0 1,273 Support Services Transportation Expense Replace Unit#40 5,016 0 5,016 Electric Operations Transportation Expense Trade in Unit#17 14,331 0 14,331 Power Supply Professional Services UAMPS 60,000 0 60,000 Regulatory Commission Expens FERC Legal Expense 30,000 0 30,000 Miscellaneous General Operations SCADA System-Misc Expense 8,000 0 8,000 $214,328 $7,754 $222,082 TOTAL NEEDED TO DELETE AND TRANSFER IN $360,678 $154,104 $514,782 TR UCKE DONNER Public I_ District Re olutlon No. 2006 - XX ADOPTING THE BUDGET AND OVERHEAD RATES FOR 2006 WHEREAS the Board of Directors and staff of the District participated in departmental workshops in the months of August and September of 2005 to identify priority issues to be addressed by the District during 2006 and to initiate budget preparation; and WHEREAS District staff has prepared a draft budget for District operations and capital spending forthe year 2006 taking into account the strategic plan issues; and WHEREAS the Board of Directors of the District has participated in budget workshops and have conducted a public hearing on the draft budget; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of Truckee Donner Public Utility District as follows: 1. The draft budget for 2006 is hereby adopted 2. The following budget overhead rates are adopted Overhead Item Overhead Rate Labor Overhead 83.67% Transportation Overhead 31.48% Inventory Overhead 26.48% Administrative Overhead 1.30% Construction Overhead 43.56% Non-inventory Material Overhead 25.00% PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors at a meeting duly called and held within the District on the fifteenth of February 2006 by the following roll call vote: AYES: ABSTAIN: NOES: ABSENT: TRUCKEE DONNER PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT By J. Ron Hemig, President ATTEST: Peter L. Holzmeister, Clerk of the Board