Title
Amendment to Ordinance 6855 (Operating Budget)
Body
Issue:
Amend the 2013 Operating Budget
Amendment to Ordinance 6855
City Manager's Recommendation:
Move to adopt amending ordinance on second reading.
Staff Contact:
Dean Walz, Fiscal Services Director, Administrative Services Department, 360.753.8465
Background and Analysis - same as provided in the 1st reading staff report:
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 a budget-related ordinance but not actually amend a previous ordinance. The budget-related ordinances 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 are no ordinances passed since the last budget amendment, relating to the operating budget.
Budget items not previously presented to the Council:
1) Appropriation of $3,000 for management of the Legion Way Stewardship Planting Project. Funding is provided by a Tree City USA grant from the USDA Forest Service.
2) Appropriation of $2,061 for tree planting. This is funded by a donation from the Olympia-Kato Sister City Association.
3) Appropriation of $115,537 to be transferred from the Facilities Major Repair Fund to the 2013 General Obligation Bond Fund for 2013 debt service related to the Washington Center improvement project currently in construction. This is funded from existing resources within the Facilities Major Repair Fund.
Options:
1) Approve amending ordinance on first reading and forward to second reading. Authorizes budget items not pre...
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