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June 24, 2025 Ayes: Bryant, Dodson, Hugel, Thomas, Tillage, Glover Nays: None 25 - 179 - Adoption of an ordinance to transfer $250,000 from the Social Services Fund to the Children’s Services Act Fund to increase the funding available to serve as the required local match for mandated services. Background:  The City allocated $707,977 of local matching funds as part of the overall $2.6 million FY 2025 budget for the Children’s Services Act Fund. However, due to increased demand for mandated services, this allocation may not be sufficient to cover the required local match amount for FY 2025.  The City allocated $3,470,219 of local matching funds as part of the overall $23.2 million FY 2025 budget for the Social Services Fund. Department of Social Services staff does not anticipate needing the full budgeted local match amount by the end of the FY 2025 fiscal year. Discussion:  The transfer will ensure that the FY 2025 Children’s Services Act Fund Budget will include enough money to satisfy the local match requirement for mandated services.  “Mandated services” refer to youth who require foster care services and/or youth in foster care by court order. Mandated services also include youth who require placement for purposes of special education in a private school mandated by an Individualized Education Program (IEP), and youth determined to be a Child in Need of Service (CHINS). Financial Impact:  Expenditures and revenues in the FY 2025 Social Services Fund budget would be decreased by $250,000.  Expenditures and revenues in the FY 2025 Children’s Services Act Fund budget would be increased by $250,000.  There would be no net impact to the General Fund. Recommended Action:  Adoption of the ordinance. Motion by Mr. Hugel, and seconded by Mr. Tillage, to adopt the following ordinance, and was adopted by the following vote: “ORDINANCE TO TRANSFER $250,000 FROM THE SOCIAL SERVICES FUND TO THE CHILDREN’S SERVICES ACT FUND TO INCREASE THE FUNDING AVAILABLE TO SERVE AS THE REQUIRED LOCAL MATCH FOR MANDATED SERVICES. ” Ayes: Bryant, Dodson, Hugel, Thomas, Tillage, Glover Nays: None 25 - 180 - Adoption of an ordinance accepting a Marketing Leverage Tourism Grant in the amount of $22,500 and a Destination Marketing Organization Tourism Grant in the amount of $20,000 from the Virginia Tourism Corporation and appropriating said funds in the FY 2025 Grants Fund for use by the Department of Museums and Tourism for marketing. Background:  The Virginia Tourism Corporation makes available annually a menu of grants and cooperative marketing programs to assist localities and tourism-related businesses in driving tourism business to Virginia. Depending on the number of applications, grants may or may not be funded at 100%.  Portsmouth applied for $50,000 in Marketing Leverage Tourism (MLP) funding and $20,000 in Destination Marketing Organization Tourism (DMO) funding. Due to the number of applications, Portsmouth’s funding request for the MLP was only partially met while the DMO grant request was fully funded.