Baltimore City Council
File #: 12-0157    Version: 0 Name: Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Fire Department - $1,100,000
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 11/19/2012 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 3/21/2013
Enactment #: 13-110
Title: Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Fire Department - $1,100,000 FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $1,100,000 to the Fire Department - Program 602 (Fire Suppression and Emergency Rescue), to provide funding for additional operating expenses; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: General Fund, Operating Appropriation, Supplementary
Attachments: 1. 12-0157 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Finance - 12-0157.pdf, 3. Fire - 12-0157.pdf, 4. Law - 12-0157.pdf, 5. 12-0157 - 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 General Fund Operating Appropriation - Fire Department - $1,100,000
 
FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $1,100,000 to the Fire Department - Program 602 (Fire Suppression and Emergency Rescue), to provide funding 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 overdue admissions and amusement taxes from the 2011 Grand Prix ($500,000), from admissions and amusement taxes from the 2012 Grand Prix ($300,000), and from fees from the race organizers ($300,000) 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 2013.
 
  This additional revenue could not have been reasonably anticipated when the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2013 was formulated.
 
  This appropriation is made necessary by a material change in circumstances since the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2013 was formulated or is for a new program that could not have been reasonably anticipated when that Ordinance of Estimates was formulated.
 
  On October 24, 2012, 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 $1,100,000 shall be made available to the Fire Department - Program 602 (Fire Suppression and Emergency Rescue) as a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013, to provide funding for additional operating expenses.  The source of revenue for this appropriation is funds from overdue admissions and amusement taxes from the 2011 Grand Prix ($500,000), from admissions and amusement taxes from the 2012 Grand Prix ($300,000), and from fees from the race organizers ($300,000) 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 2013.
 
  SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.
 
dlr12-0425~intro/14Nov12
suppapp3/FireDept/nbr
 
 
dlr12-0425~intro/14Nov12
??2??
suppapp3/FireDept/nbr