Fayetteville City Council March 15 heard the first reading of an ordinance to amend the FY 2007 budget in an amount totaling $584,010. The second reading and a vote are expected April 5.

Up for consideration were amendments to the General Fund, Capital Projects Fund, Impact Fee Fund, Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) Fund, Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and Main Street Tourism Fund budgets, finance director Lynn Robinson told the council.

The General Fund proposal calls for an overall $112,844 increase. Revenues of $77,076 are projected for the Fines category while $1,950 is projected for Contributions & Donations. Revenue in the Other Financing Source category is expected to increase by $59,805 from auction proceeds from surplus computers and from Georgian Municipal Association lease purchase on computers.

General Fund expenditures totaling $112,844 are forecast for fund categories such as General Government, Judicial, Public Safety, Public Works, Housing & Development and Debt Service. Expenditures include items such as information technology firewall replacement, a computer security door in city hall, security cameras, replacement of two totaled police vehicles, Pye Road base work, signs at Dickson Spring Park and Junior Police Academy supplies.

Public Safety will see the largest percentage of the increase, forecast at nearly $53,000.

General Fund expenditures include the addition of four part-time employees under the General Fund budget. Robinson said those positions include a deputy court clerk, two bailiffs and one patrol officer from an existing position that is being reinstated.

The four part-time positions included in the amendment would increase the number of city employees from 149 to 153. A department break down shows 78 Public Safety employees, 26 Water and Sewer employees and 19 General Government staff. Public Works employs 14 along with nine staff in Housing and Development, four in Component Units and three in Judicial.

Robinson said the Capital Projects Fund is targeted to see a decrease of $51,162. The overall decrease came as a result of debt service and other financing uses, she said.

The Impact Fee Fund is projected to see an increase of $193,569 while the Capital Projects Fund would decrease by $51,162 and the SPLOST Fund would increase by $206,665. The DDA Fund would increase by $122,974 and the Main Street Fund would shrink by $880.

The amendment’s second reading and a vote is expected at the April 5 council meeting.

The city’s current budget, with all funds combined, is $34,836,424.

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