* 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
Title
Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Police Department - $5,400,000
FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $5,400,000 to the Police Department - Program 202 (Investigations), to provide funding to pay for additional operating expenses; and providing for a special effective date.
Body
BY authority of
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section 8(b)(3) and (c)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
Recitals
The revenue appropriated by this Ordinance represents funds from the FY 2007 Recordation Tax and Building Construction Permits 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 2007.
This additional revenue could not have been reasonably anticipated when the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2007 was formulated.
This appropriation is made necessary by a material change in circumstances since the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2007 was formulated or is for a new program that could not have been reasonably anticipated when that Ordinance of Estimates was formulated.
On May 9, 2007, 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 $5,400,000 shall be made available to the Police Department - Program 202 (Investigations) as a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2007, to provide funding to pay for additional operating expenses. The source of revenue for this appropriation is funds from the Fiscal 2007 Recordation Tax ($4,750,000) and Building Construction Permits ($650,000) in excess of the amount from these sources that were relied on by the Board of Estimates in determining the tax levy required to balance the budget for Fiscal Year 2007.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.
dlr07-1336~intro/14May07
suppapp3/Police/nbr
dlr07-1336~intro/14May07
- -
suppapp3/Police/nbr