Resolution #3599 — Transfer of Line Items and Adjustments in the 2026 Budget — PDF

Resolution #3599 — Resolution Authorizing the Transfer of Line Items and Approving Adjustments in the 2026 Budget

Cumberland County Utilities Authority

Attendee Name	Yes (Aye)	No (Nay)	Abstain
Dean Dellaquila	✓
Brent Hankins	✓
William Whelan	✓
Todd Buirch	✓
Kenny Smith-Bey	✓
Angelia Edwards
Donald Blew	✓
Mirella Piccioni	✓
John Daddario	✓

Resolution #3599

Offered By SMITH-BEY

Seconded By BUIRCH

Dated August 20, 2026

WHEREAS, the Cumberland County Utilities Authority has approved the 2026 Authority Budget, including the 2026 Capital Program on December 18, 2025, and

WHEREAS, the Cumberland County Utilities Authority has reviewed the 2026 Budgeted Appropriations, and has determined a need to modify the amounts included in Budgeted Appropriations for the Wastewater Treatment Plant; and

WHEREAS, the estimated additional cost of the Operating Appropriations to the Wastewater Treatment Plant is $450,000.00; requiring in the 2026 Operating Appropriations from $7,850,452 to $8,300,452; and

WHEREAS, the Cumberland County Utilities Authority finds it necessary to amend the 2026 approved Authority Budget, as follows:

	From	To
Anticipated Revenue:
Operating Revenues:
Sewerage Treatment Fees	$7,725,000	$7,725,000
Septage Fees	$500,000	$950,000
Investment Income	$20,000	$20,000
Industrial Pretreatment Fees	$22,500	$22,500
Total Anticipated Revenues	$8,267,500	$8,717,500
Budgeted Appropriations:
Operating Appropriations:
Administration:
Salaries and Wages	$736,377	$441,700
Fringe Benefits	$506,300	$478,000
Other Administration Costs	$1,153,200	$1,141,650
Total Administration	$2,395,877	$2,061,350
Cost of Providing Services:
Salaries and Wages	$1,773,800	$1,555,500
Fringe Benefits	$1,206,550	$1,149,500
Other Cost of Providing Services	$2,205,000	$3,264,877
Total Cost of Providing Services	$5,185,350	$5,969,877
Principal Payments on Debt	$269,225	$269,225
Total Operating Appropriations	$7,850,452	$8,300,452
Non-Operating Appropriations	$7,214,936	$7,214,936
Total Non-Operating Appropriations	$7,214,936	$7,214,936
Total Operating & Non-Operating Appropriations & Accumulated Deficit	$15,065,388	$15,515,388
Less: Total Unrestricted Net Position Utilized	$6,797,888	$6,797,888
Net Total Appropriations	$8,267,500	$8,717,500

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Commissioners of the Cumberland County Utilities Authority, the 2026 Authority’s Budget is hereby amended as detailed above, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board’s Secretary is hereby directed to submit a copy of this resolution to the Director of the Division of Local Government Services for approval as part of the Authority’s 2026 budget.

Passed and adopted at the regular meeting of the Cumberland County Utilities Authority, held at the Authority’s Administration Building, 333 Water Street, Bridgeton, New Jersey, Thursday afternoon, August 20, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. prevailing time.

DATED: AUGUST 20, 2026

The foregoing is certified to be a true and complete copy of a resolution adopted by the Governing Body of the Cumberland County Utilities Authority at a meeting thereof duly called and held on August 20, 2026.

Carol Maier, Board Secretary

Adopted this August 20, 2026