Title
Agenda Item:
Approval of Amendment to Ordinance 6835 (Operating Budget)
Body
Issue:
Amend the Operating Budget
City Manager’s Recommendation:
Move to approve the amending ordinance on second reading.
Staff Contact:
Dean Walz, Fiscal Services Director, Administrative Services Department, 360.753.8465
Background and Analysis:
To change the budget, the Council must approve a new ordinance amending the budget. Due to the administrative difficulty of possibly having several items going to the Council at or near the same time, budgetary amendments are generally made quarterly. On occasion, a budget change needs to be made between the quarterly updates. In those cases an ordinance may come to the Council as an ordinance relating to the budget but not actually amending a previous ordinance. The ordinances relating to the budget will be included in the next quarterly update. The attached ordinance reflects ordinances which may have been adopted relating to the budget since the last quarterly update and other proposed changes to the operating budget.
There has been one ordinance passed since the adoption of the operating budget relating to the operating budget. The ordinance was adopted on March 19, 2013. This ordinance appropriated the General Fund balance as follows:
$ 10,000 Economic Development
$ 23,000 Repairs to jail
$ 200,000 Information Technology
$ 319,440 Facilities major repair and maintenance
$ 552,440
Budget items not previously presented to the Council:
1) Appropriation of $200,000 within the Information Technology special account. This is funded by a transfer from the General Fund.
2) Appropriation of $10,000 for the City’s portion of an infrastructure study on Martin Way (Wilson to Lilly). This is funded by a HUD grant through Thurston Regional Planning.
3) Appropriation of $23,660 to the Fire Department to provide confined space rescue services to the Water Utilities. This is funded by funds from the various utilities.
4) Approp...
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