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The DeKalb County Finance, Audit and Budget (FAB) Committee met in a special called session on October 12, 2026, chaired by Commissioner Ted Terry. The primary focus was amending the FY2026 operating budget and reallocating capital improvement project (CIP) funding. Budget Director TJ Sigler and Chief Operating Officer Zach Williams presented the proposals, and Chief of Staff Lee May presented on BOC staffing and facility updates. The committee split the main budget amendment agenda item into two separate votes to address a specific funding concern on the CIP side.
Operating Budget Amendments (Item 2026-1319): The committee reviewed the top portion of a spreadsheet detailing operating budget adjustments deemed necessary by administration.
Capital Improvement Program Amendments (Schedule C, Item 2026-1319): The bottom portion of the agenda item covered sweeping old capital allocations to fund current capital needs without impacting the operating budget.
Strategic Procurement Assessment (Item 2026-1181): A change order ratifying the consent of assignment from NIGP to Periscope Holdings for procurement assessment services was presented by Commissioner Patrick and approved without objection.
Solicitor's Court Vehicles (Item 2026-1431): A request to authorize $72,000 for larger replacement county vehicles for the Solicitor's office was presented. The funding utilizes $52,000 from their existing budget with a $20,000 increase to purchase larger vehicles through the fleet unit.
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our special called Finance Audit and Budget Committee meeting. Uh chair by myself, Commissioner Ted Terry. We're joined in person here by committee member Commissioner Shakira Johnson and on the phone uh by Commissioner Michelle Long Spears and also joining us is Commissioner Robert Patrick. Welcome. Um right, so uh Commissioners, let's do our meeting minutes real quick here from the last meeting, the September 29th uh FAB committee meeting. And if there's no edits or changes to item 2026 1488, I'll take a motion. Move to approve. All right, motion and second. Seeing no further discussion. All in favor of your hands say aye. Aye. Chair votes aye. Commissioner Long Spears, aye. Yes. Okay. All right. Aye. All right, that passes. All right. So we are, Commissioners, we are focusing today on the um the budget reallocation. So this is item uh 2026 1319 to amend the 2026 operating budget and reallocate capital improvement project funding. And we have uh budget director TJ Sigler here and CO Zach Williams to present on uh the spreadsheet that's being handed out. And did did uh Commissioner Long Spears get this as well, TJ? No, I can't. Okay. All right, Commissioner Long Spears, TJ will be emailing you the spreadsheet that uh we just handed out here in a minute. Thank you. All right, any preface, Zach while TJ is getting that ready. Uh thank you so much, Mr. Chair. And so what what you have before you uh represents two things, quite frankly. The first and on the top part will be um adjustments to the annual operating budget. In those instances where our discussions either with commissioners or with um key departments or partners, we've made the determination that we need to act now in terms of this funding. So each of the items you will see are those items that we feel are necessary to fund at this time so that we can continue um providing services at a level that we've historically provided, or in some instances provide a a new level of service or enhance existing services for um key key programs that we're um uh we're providing. At the bottom, uh the capital improvement program amendments represents our effort over the past uh six months really in sweeping old capital uh allocations that go back as far as 2003 and reallocating those so that we can find ways to fund existing capital needs without an impact, an adverse impact on our current operating budget. As you're well aware, our traditional funding for capital is really using our operating budget and allocating money as as we can. So I'm very pleased with the work that the team has done in identifying old projects that have been completed and maybe small dollar amounts have remained, bundling those together and addressing these key items that are before us. So that's what is represented here. There are some instances on that where we will be using SPLOST funds, some instances where we're using swept funds, and and I believe one instance where we're looking to bring it back as part of a larger conversation. But what you have before you is uh where we are as of October of 2026. Okay, great.