Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0634    Version: 0 Name: Supplementary State Fund Operating Appropriation - Department of Transportation - $720,700
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 4/16/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 5/17/2007
Enactment #: 07-0436
Title: Supplementary State Fund Operating Appropriation - Department of Transportation - $720,700 FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary State Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $720,700 to the Department of Transportation - Program 239 (Traffic Safety), to provide funding for the Safe Routes to Schools project; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Operating Appropriation, State Fund, Supplementary
Attachments: 1. 07-0634 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. 07-0634 - 3rd Reader.pdf

                     * 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 State Fund Operating Appropriation - Department of Transportation - $720,700

 

FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary State Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $720,700 to the Department of Transportation - Program 239 (Traffic Safety), to provide funding for the Safe Routes to Schools project; 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 development impact fees 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 April 4, 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 $720,700 shall be made available to the Department of Transportation - Program 239 (Traffic Safety) as a Supplementary State Fund Operating Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2007, to provide funding for the Safe Routes to Schools project.  The source of revenue for this appropriation is funds from development impact fees 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 2007.

 

 

 

SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.

 

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