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PROPOSAL:

Appropriate Funds for Environmental Justice Initiative No. 2 and Technical Enhancement Program for Year 2000 AQMP

SYNOPSIS:

For the implementation of Environmental Justice Initiative No. 2 and the Technical Enhancement Program for the Year 2000 AQMP (TEP 2000), the Board approved funding in the FY 1997-98 Budget. This action is to appropriate unexpended funds for these programs from the FY 1997-98 Budget, which reverted to the Undesignated Reserves on June 30, 1998, to the FY 1998-99 Budget.

COMMITTEE:

Administrative, June 19, 1998, Recommended for Approval

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

1. Appropriate $190,000 from the Undesignated Fund Balance to the FY 1998-99 Budget to support Environmental Justice Initiative No. 2.

2. Appropriate $389,000 from the Undesignated Fund Balance to the FY 1998-99 Budget for the implementation of TEP 2000.

Barry R. Wallerstein, D.Env.
Acting Executive Officer

Background

Environmental Justice Initiative No. 2

On December 12, 1997, the Board appropriated $400,000 from the Equipment Replacement Designation in the General Fund to the Applied Science and Technology (AST) FY 1997-98 Budget for the purchase of air monitoring equipment for Environmental Justice Initiative No. 2. On February 13, 1998, the Board approved the allocation of previously approved funding of $400,000 to support a third mobile platform and also recognized a total $110,000 in revenues from settlement agreements for staff support. The purchases of all of the equipment to support a third mobile platform were completed in FY 1997-98. Because the revenues for temporary staff identified in the FY 1997-98 Budget are being utilized primarily in FY 1998-99, staff is requesting that the Board appropriate a total of $190,000 allocated for temporary staff to the FY 1998-99 Budget, in order to meet the monitoring objectives of Environmental Justice Initiative No. 2.

TEP 2000

On February 13, 1998, the Board approved the TEP 2000 program with funding identified within the FY 1997-98 Budget to support the program scheduled to begin in late summer 1998. From Planning and Policy (P&P), $305,000 was allocated in the Professional and Special Services Account for various contracts and studies. From AST, a total of $84,000 identified for allocation. Since these funds allocated for TEP 2000 were unexpended in FY 1997-98, staff is requesting the Board to allocate these funds to the FY 1998-99 Budget, as indicated in the February 13, 1998 Board letter.

Proposal

Staff proposes that the Board appropriate from the Undesignated Fund Balance to the FY 1998-99 Budget as follows:

(1) For Environmental Justice Initiative No. 2, a total of $190,000 be appropriated to AST’s Services and Supplies Major Object, Temporary Services Account in the FY 1998-99 Budget for temporary staff support; and

(2) For the TEP 2000 program, a total of $389,000 be appropriated to the Services and Supplies Major Object, FY 1998-99 Budget, as follows:

Applied Science &Technology:

$150,000 - Temporary Services (746 Account)

$ 50,000 - Maintenance of Equipment (760 Account)

$ 34,000 - Laboratory Supplies (805 Account)

Planning & Policy

$155,000 - Professional and Special Services (745 Account)
                   Ammonia Inventory Enhancements ($80,000)
                   Analyze Methods to Address 8-Hour Ozone Standard Form ($75,000)

Fiscal Impacts

These funds, as identified and approved by the Board in FY 1997-98, are needed in FY 1998-99 for the success of these two key programs. It should be noted, however, that the Undesignated Fund Balance would be reduced by the total amount ($579,000) of these appropriations.

Since an appropriation of funds by the AQMD constitutes a budget supplement within the definition of Health and Safety Code 40720(j), public notice of this proposed supplement was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Riverside Press Enterprise, Orange County Register, San Bernardino Sun, and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.

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