Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0122    Version: 0 Name: General Fund Appropriation Transfer - Transfer in the Aggregate Amount of $1,375,312 from Various Agency Programs to the Baltimore City Fire Department (Program 212 - Fire Suppression)
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 5/19/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 6/20/2008
Enactment #: 08-53
Title: General Fund Appropriation Transfer - Transfer in the Aggregate Amount of $1,375,312 from Various Agency Programs to the Baltimore City Fire Department (Program 212 - Fire Suppression) FOR the purpose of transferring a General Fund Operating Appropriation in the aggregate amount of $1,375,312 to the Baltimore City Fire Department - Program 212 (Fire Suppression) to provide funding to pay for additional operating expenses in Fiscal 2008; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Appropriations, General Fund, Transfer
Attachments: 1. Finance - 08-0122.pdf, 2. 08-0122 - 1st Reader.pdf, 3. Fire - 08-0122.pdf, 4. 08-0122 - 3rd Reader.pdf
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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
General Fund Appropriation Transfer - Transfer in the Aggregate Amount of $1,375,312 from Various Agency Programs to the Baltimore City Fire Department (Program 212 - Fire Suppression)

FOR the purpose of transferring a General Fund Operating Appropriation in the aggregate amount of $1,375,312 to the Baltimore City Fire Department - Program 212 (Fire Suppression) to provide funding to pay for additional operating expenses in Fiscal 2008; and providing for a special effective date.
Body
BY authority of
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section 9(a)(2)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

Recitals

Article VI, ยง 9(a)(2) of the City Charter provides that, on recommendation of the Board of Estimates, the City Council by ordinance may authorize the transfer of an appropriation contained in the Ordinance of Estimates from one municipal agency to another municipal agency.

The sums to be transferred from the agency programs designated in this Ordinance are not needed for the purpose for which they were appropriated and, therefore, are available for transfer to another agency.

On May 14, 2008, the Board of Estimates recommended the transfer authorized by this Ordinance.

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the sums contained in the Fiscal 2008 Ordinance of Estimates as General Fund Operating Appropriations in Enoch Pratt F...

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