Baltimore City Council
File #: 20-0598    Version: 0 Name: Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Health Department - $5,500,000
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 9/21/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 10/27/2020
Enactment #: 20-424
Title: Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Health Department - $5,500,000 For the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $5,500,000 to the Health Department - Service 315 (Emergency Services - Health), to provide funding for unanticipated additional expenditures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: General Fund, Health, Operating Appropriation, Supplementary
Attachments: 1. BOE Sheets for All Supplementals Appropriations, 2. 20-0598~1st Reader, 3. Finance 20-0598, 4. Law 20-0598, 5. FINAL SYNOPSIS 20-0598, 6. Health 20-0598, 7. Hearing Notes 10 1 20, 8. Signed Ordinance 20-0598, 9. 20-0598~3rd Reader

                     * Warning: This is an unofficial, introductory copy of the bill.

                     The official copy considered by the City Council is the first reader copy.

                     Introductory*

 

                     City of Baltimore

                     Council Bill          

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by: The Council President

At the request of: The Administration (Department of Finance)                                                      

 

                     A Bill Entitled

 

An Ordinance concerning

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Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Health Department - $5,500,000

For the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $5,500,000 to the Health Department - Service 315 (Emergency Services - Health), to provide funding for unanticipated additional expenditures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic; and providing for a special effective date.

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By authority of

Article VI - Board of Estimates

Section 8(b)(3) and (c)

Baltimore City Charter

(1996 Edition)

 

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The revenue appropriated by this Ordinance represents funds from the Budget Stabilization Reserve in excess of the revenue relied on by the Board of Estimates in determining the tax levy required to balance the budget for Fiscal Year 2020.

 

This additional revenue could not have been reasonably anticipated when the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2020 was formulated.

 

This appropriation is made necessary by a material change in circumstances since the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2020 was formulated or is for a new program that could not have been reasonably anticipated when that Ordinance of Estimates was formulated.

 

On September 16, 2020, the Board of Estimates recommended this appropriation to the City Council.

 

Section 1.  Be it ordained by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, That $5,500,000 shall be made available to the Health Department - Service 315 (Emergency Services - Health) as a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2020, to provide funding for unanticipated additional expenditures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.  The source of revenue for this appropriation is funds from the Budget Stabilization Reserve in excess of the amount from this source that was relied on by the Board of Estimates in determining the tax levy required to balance the budget for Fiscal Year 2020.

 

 

Section 2.  And be it further ordained, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.