The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has quarterly budget adjustments, and the adjustments approved May 21 appropriated $75,000 for the purchase and installation of security cameras at Stelzer Park in Lakeside.
The supervisors’ 5-0 vote transferred that amount from the county’s general fund to provide cameras at the ranger station and at the visitors’ center.
Various factors normally cause the county to have more money than budgeted following the end of a fiscal quarter including staff turnover (which creates both vacancies and replacements at lower salaries), lighter caseloads, and completed projects for which budgeted contingencies are not spent.
The county had a balance of $158.2 million in the general fund and $222.0 million in all funds after the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2018-19.
The midyear adjustments also allocated $746,325 to the San Diego County Regional Fire Authority for two water tenders.
The county and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have an “assistance by hire” program which involves CalFire reimbursing the county for SDCRFA resources used to combat wildfires in state responsibility areas, and money from that program was used to provide the funding for the water tenders.
The money allows the county’s Department of Purchasing and Contracting to procure water tenders from the manufacturer, although the anticipated delivery time following an order is between six and eight months.
The county fire department has a fleet replacement plan and when an existing water tender is on the verge of meriting replacement the new water tenders will replace the aging ones.
The SDCRFA stations its water tenders based on the most likely anticipated needs.
