Baltimore City Council
File #: 23-0459    Version: 0 Name: Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Fire Department - $18,900,000
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 12/4/2023 In control: Baltimore City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/17/2024
Enactment #: 24-303
Title: Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Fire Department - $18,900,000 For the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $18,900,000 to the Fire Department - Service 609 (Emergency Medical Services), to provide funding for balancing the Fire Department budget for Fiscal Year 2023 due to costs associated with staff overtime payments and contractual services to provide Basic Life Service ambulance services; and providing for a special effective date.
Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
Indexes: Fire Department, General Fund, Operating Appropriation, Supplementary
Attachments: 1. BOE - Approved-Supplemental-Fire-SB-23-14119, 2. Law 23-0459, 3. Fiscal 2023 Closeout Bill Response, 4. 23-0459~1st Reader, 5. XX Final Synopsis 8 supplemental 23 0457 thru 23 0464, 6. XX Final Hearing Notes 3 23-0459, 7. 23-0459~3rd Reader.pdf, 8. 23-0459 Signed, 9. 23-0459 Completed Ordinance 24-303
* Warning: This is an unofficial, introductory copy of the bill.
The official copy considered by the City Council is the first reader copy.
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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
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Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation - Fire Department - $18,900,000
For the purpose of providing a Supplementary General Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $18,900,000 to the Fire Department - Service 609 (Emergency Medical Services), to provide funding for balancing the Fire Department budget for Fiscal Year 2023 due to costs associated with staff overtime payments and contractual services to provide Basic Life Service ambulance services; and providing for a special effective date.
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By authority of
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section 8(b)(2)(iii) and (c)
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

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The revenue appropriated by this Ordinance represents $18,900,000 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 2023.

This additional revenue could not have been reasonably anticipated when the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2023 was formulated.

This appropriation is made necessary by a material change in circumstances since the Ordinance of Estimates for Fiscal Year 2023 was formulated or is for a new program that could not have been reasonably anticipated when that Ordinance of Estimates was formulated.

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