Issue Sheet ATH2026-026
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City of Smyrna Issue Sheet File Number: ATH2026-026 A Max Bacon City Hall 2800 King Street Smyrna, GA 30080 3 4 9 9 3 Agenda Date: 03/02/2026 In Control: City Council File Type: Authorization Agenda Section: Formal Business Department: Finance Agenda Title: Authorization to amend the FY 2026 Adopted General Fund Budget to increase the departmental expenditure budgets for Parks Maintenance, Parks Administration, Administration, and General Government Allocations in the total amount of $294,426.00 and the revenue budget by the same amount to cover unbudgeted expenditures and revenues, authorization to the amend the Adopted Project Length Budgets in the Water CIP Fund to decrease the project budgets in project 52409 and 52509 and increase project 52609 to move all funds into the AMI meter replacement project, and authorization to amend the 2016 SPLOST project length budgets. Citywide ISSUE AND BACKGROUND: Park and Recreation has requested weather monitoring/ alerting equipment to be installed at River Line Park and Jonquil Park to provide safely for patrons of those parks. This was not included in the FY 2026 Adopted budget, so we need to amend the Parks Maintenance departmental budget to cover the equipment and related implementation costs ($26,650) and the annual fee ($2500/ site, total $5,000). Council approved the use of a new software platform at a previous meeting. We need to amend the Parks Admin departmental budget for the implementation costs associated with that switch. We have contractual obligations related to a former employee that were not included in the adopted budget. We to amend the Administration and General Government Allocations departmental budget to cover expenses contractual salary and benefit amounts. On the February 2, 2026 agenda Council approved phase 1 of a new meter project. We are requesting to move existing meter and dial replacement available budget to this new project to show all the costs in one project rather than 3 different ones. We need to amend the project length budgets for the 2016 SPLOST fund budgets to true up LTD balances on both revenue and expenditure accounts.