* 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 Federal Fund Operating Appropriation - Baltimore City Police Department - $1,600,500
FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $1,600,500 to the Baltimore City Police Department - Program 201 (Field Operations), to provide funding for planning, equipment, training, exercises, management and administration of protective actions aimed to enhance the ability of State and local agencies to prevent, respond to, recover from incidents of terrorism, and reduce the vulnerabilities around identified critical infrastructure and key resource locations/sites; and providing for a special effective date.
Body
BY authority of
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section 8(b)(2) and (c)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
Recitals
The revenue appropriated by this Ordinance represents a grant from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness 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 2006.
That grant could not have been expected with reasonable certainty when the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2006 was formulated.
On November 2, 2005, 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 $1,600,500 shall be made available to the Baltimore City Police Department - Program 201 (Field Operations) as a Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2006, to provide funding for planning, equipment, training, exercises, management and administration to enhance the ability of State and local agencies to prevent, respond to, and recover from incidents of terrorism. The source of revenue for this appropriation is a grant from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency 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 2006.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.
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