Committee approves resolution to correct Jamestown Community College capital-project budgets

The Administrative Services Committee voted to approve a resolution amending capital-project accounts for Jamestown Community College to correct prior budgeting errors and close out several projects before year end.

Kathleen Dennison, interim executive director of administrative services for Jamestown Community College, told the committee the resolution “is to clean up budgets for some of our projects in preparation for year end.” She said an earlier $300 adjustment had been applied to the wrong projects and must be corrected, and that an underground-heating project that is finished needs additional budget authority to reconcile county and state fiscal-year accounting.

Dennison also said the college is reducing the budget on an information-technology project and will move the reduced amount into fund balance; in the meeting record she stated the reduction as “37.31” (phrase as spoken in the transcript; the exact intended dollar amount was not clarified on the record). She noted the college previously received roughly $23,000 in additional fund balance from the county and is returning a portion of those funds: “a few months ago we came asking to use fund balance and you were gracious enough to provide us with additional fund balance of around $23,000 so we’re giving a little bit of it back,” she said.

The committee approved the resolution by voice vote. The motion and vote were recorded on the public meeting record as passed by voice; no roll-call tally or named votes were provided in the transcript.

Next steps: the county will reflect the amended project totals in its year-end accounting; Dennison did not provide supporting schedule details on the record and said county/state fiscal-year timing requires careful reconciliation.