3.
4.
PUBLIC COMMENT
There was no public comment.
CHAIRMAN'S REMARKS - CHAIR SCHWARZE
Chair Schwarze thanked the Members for participating in the fourth annual Ad Hoc Finance
Committee.
5.
FY24 Mid-Year Budget Review
5.A.
Mid-Year Budget Review
There was no discussion on this item.
Attachments:
6.
FY25 BUDGET
Chair Schwarze turned the meeting over to Ms. Zerwin. A presentation was shared on-screen to
supplement a memorandum that had been distributed to the Members. The slides of the
presentation are attached to these minutes. Ms. Zerwin provided a review of the slides which
showed a decrease of $1.9M to the overall budget. She explained, however, that last year an
additional $2M had been carried over for the IGA so once that amount is removed, the budget is
in line with the effects of some of the contracts and operational decisions still to be determined.
The second slide demonstrated that costs are primarily focused on the systems and support of the
9-1-1 system, as opposed to personnel. Ms. Zerwin continued with detailed explanations of each
of the slides including personnel, commodities, and contractual lines of the budget.
Discussion ensued as Members asked questions about specific costs and line items. These
discussions included the FY23 headcount that was added pending the Attorney General opinion
regarding the focus groups and whether they fall under the purview of the Open Meetings Act
(OMA) and whether the role of additional personnel could instead fall under contractual services
or services rendered by artificial intelligence, whether there is enough work for an additional
full-time employee, or if the focus groups should be brought back under the agenda of the Policy
Advisory Committee (PAC). ASA Winistorfer recommended that Board consider moving
forward with staffing based guidance from OMA standards. Ms. Zerwin indicated that there
would be no problem having sufficient work for an additional staff member as no one at ETSB
puts in less than 40 hours per week.
There was discussion regarding the movement of servers from capital contingencies to small
value, PSAP training costs, contract maintenance costs, RapidSOS Premium, the CAD-to-CAD
project and its efficiencies and the potential effect of NextGen 9-1-1, and the history of the
contingencies account and the question of whether a budget amendment could instead be
utilized, if necessary.
Chair Schwarze asked if the next Ad Hoc Finance Committee meeting was scheduled after the
August 14 board meeting, would be sufficient time to prepare for discussions on capital projects.
Ms. Zerwin felt that a lot of outstanding questions would be answered by that time to make the
meeting productive. Member Guttman asked that a future meeting include details on staff time
spent on agency requests that dedicate staff time beyond what was expected and his concern that
agencies should be charged for staff time spent on such projects.
