City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0338

• File #: 09-0338
• Version: 0
• Name: Charter Amendment - Surplus Funds
• Type: Mayor and City Council Res.
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/18/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/19/2010
• Enactment #: 10-19
• Title: Charter Amendment - Surplus Funds FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement for certain unanticipated surplus funds to be transferred to a capital bond fund appropriation reduction account and used only for certain purposes; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
• Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, President Young, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Sharon Green Middleton, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton
• Indexes: Charter Amendment, Surplus Funds

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/19/2010	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
1/11/2010	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
12/10/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
12/10/2009	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
9/21/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
5/21/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/21/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/21/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
5/18/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
5/18/2009	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* 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
(Charter Amendment)

Introduced by: Councilmembers Conaway, Young

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL concerning
title
Charter Amendment - Surplus Funds

FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement for certain unanticipated surplus funds to be transferred to a capital bond fund appropriation reduction account and used only for certain purposes; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 9(d)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

BY repealing
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 9(e)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:

Baltimore City Charter

Article VI. Board of Estimates

§ 9. Uses of appropriations.

(d) Surpluses[– in general].


In case of any surplus arising in any fiscal year by reason of an excess of revenue over the expenditures (including any appropriation carried over) for [such] THAT year, the surplus shall become a part of the general revenue of the City and shall be available for the general expenditures of the City for the next fiscal year, in accordance with the Ordinance of Estimates for that year. An estim...