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Resource Officers included in the budget and leave funding available for salary increases and other rising expenses. Staff's recommendation to fund 50% of the School Resource Officer costs is a one year commitment. Based upon the potential impact of Amendment 1 on the FY 19/20 budget, the County cannot. commit to funding this expense. The State has not provided adequate funding for this new mandate on School Districts. The County needs to work with our partners at the Sheriffs Office and School District to request that the legislature fix this funding shortfall. The Supervisor of Elections has requested an increase of $47,753 or 3.6% and includes funding for employee raises, costs for a 3 -card ballot due to the volume of proposed constitutional amendments, and additional cyber and building security. The Tax Collector's budget is not due until August 1 st. A mid -year budget amendment approved by the Department of Revenue authorized 8 new positions. Therefore, staff has estimated a $120,000 increase in this budget request at this time. The Property Appraiser has requested an increase of $151,480 or 4.0% overall. General Fund dollars support the bulk of the Property Appraiser's budget, and the General Fund impact is an increase of $130,235 or 4.4%. The budget request includes funding for employee raises. The BCC departme-nfa-TTu-n-di-n-g-amount -r-eEects a -decrease of $75,406 or 0.4%. Total staffing for BCC departments increased by 2.5 full time positions. These positions include one (1) Environmental Specialist in the Indian River Lagoon Department, a Staff Assistant I position in Procurement (offset by a 0.5 FTE reduction in a clerical position previously shared with Computer Services), and a Human Resources Assistant (offset by the reduction of a part time Payroll Assistant). Recommended State agency budgets total $3,499,868, which is an increase of $270,981 or 8.4%. This is principally due to increased costs of: Medicaid funding - $151,683, Health Department funding - $47,473, Department of Juvenile Justice funding - $40,700 and increased costs of Indian River County's share of the Medical Examiner's budget - $31,677. Proposed funding for Children's Services is $1,663,965, which is an increase of $56,000 or 3.5% as approved by the Board continue ' the transition to the maximum 0.1250 mill funding allocation authorized in the enabling ordinance. However, the ad valorem impact is actually $306,000 as one-time revenues funded $250,000 of the Children's Services budget allocation in FY 2017/2018. General fund transfers to other funds are increasing $910,764 or 17.5%, primarily due to increased expenses in the Transportation Fund. 11