TRANSMITTAL LETTER FOR SPECIAL MEETING OF NOVEMBER 5, 2026
COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND EMPLOYMENT
Mr. John P. Murray, Executive Director
Title
Authority to Accept the Executive Director’s 2027 Budget Recommendations and the Attached Changes
Body
Dear Sir:
The attached changes to the Executive Director’s 2027 Budget Recommendations (BF-19 budget forms) are submitted for your consideration during the Committee on Budget and Employment Special Meeting beginning on November 5, 2026. The requested net changes to appropriations are summarized below:
FUND DEPARTMENT NET CHANGE
CORPORATE Monitoring & Research $0
Engineering|9 10| Maintenance & Operations|9 10| TOTAL CORPORATE FUND $0
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT $0
The total appropriation request for the 2027 Budget is $1,524,581,500, unchanged from the initial budget. The estimated total tax levy for the 2027 Budget is $782,398,741, unchanged from the initial budget.
The total appropriation request for the Corporate Fund is $538,800,000, unchanged from the initial budget. The major proposed BF-19 amendment includes the increase of costs for outsourcing select organic chemical analyses, offset by the drop of one Senior Laboratory Technician position. The remaining amendments reclassify expenditures based on operating needs.
The total appropriation request for the Stormwater Management Fund is $98,574,200, unchanged from the initial budget. Major proposed BF-19 changes include a change in the project schedules for four intergovernmental agreements ($2.4 million), the addition of funding reserved for unanticipated cost increases for waterway facility structures ($2.0 million) and 26-IGA-10, Citation Lake Stormwater Improvements, Phase II in Northfield Township project ($1.8 million), and professional engineering services for 10 construction projects ($1.7 million), offset by a shift in anticipated award for the Flood Control Project on Prairie Creek to 2028 ($7.9 million).
Revised budget pages 52-53 include appropriation changes with no changes to the estimated tax rate.
Revised budget pages 64-65 summarize the appropriations and positions and reflect all proposed changes for the 2027 Budget. The total number of positions requested for 2027 is 1,951, a net decrease of six positions from the 2026 adjusted appropriation. The amended position changes, detailed below, resulted in a decrease of one position in the total position count from the Executive Director’s Recommendations.
Revised budget pages 86-87 present a summary of revenues and expenditures for all funds for 2027, as budgeted, and 2026, as estimated.
Revised position analysis pages 165-167 for the Monitoring and Research Department in the Corporate Fund show the decrease of one Senior Laboratory Technician position from Section 165.
Revised budget pages 373-374 provide an updated list of capital projects for the Stormwater Management Fund.
BF-19 budget forms, pages 1 through 8, detail all requested changes in appropriation and staffing.
Requested, Shellie A. Riedle, Administrative Services Officer, IG
Respectfully Submitted, Patricia Theresa Flynn, Chairperson Committee on Budget and Employment
Disposition of this agenda item will be documented in the official Special Board Meeting Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for November 5, 2026
Attachments
Revised budget pages 52-53, 64-65, 86-87, 165-167, and 373-374, dated October 28, 2026
BF-19 budget forms, pages 1-8, dated October 28, 2026