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Planning and Building Department, Airports Division, recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign a budget transfer adjusting the budget for Fiscal Year 2021-22 to reallocate $28,200 from salary savings to professional services in the Placerville Airport budget and to reallocate $39,000 from the Placerville Airport General Fund contribution using salary savings to professional services in the Georgetown Airport budget, as outlined in Attachment A, to provide upfront funding to achieve cost savings for the Placerville Airport and Georgetown Airport Obstruction Removal Projects, and to advance a few additional Airport Capital Improvement Program projects, as required by the Federal Aviation Administration.
FUNDING: General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Planning and Building Department (Department), Airports Division, requests a budget transfer adjusting the budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22 to reallocate $28,200 from salary savings to professional services in the Placerville Airport budget and to reallocate $39,000 from the Placerville Airport General Fund contribution using salary savings to professional services in the Georgetown Airport budget to achieve significant cost savings for multiple planned Airport Capital Improvement Program (ACIP) projects. As well, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) now requires the County to provide upfront funding for preliminary scoping, surveys, and other analyses required for the environmental process for obstruction removal, beacon and beacon tower replacement, and other ACIP projects. Historically, the FAA grants fund 90% of eligible project costs, and if the County were successful in receiving competitive State of California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics grants, those would fund 5% of the FAA grant amount. These funds are received on a reimbursement basis as each project progresses, typically within a fiscal year. With the FAA now requiring the County to pro...
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