Form revised December 4, 2006

FISCAL NOTE FOR NON-CAPITAL PROJECTS

Department:	Contact Person/Phone:	DOF Analyst/Phone:
Legislative	Christa Valles, 45336	NA

Legislation Title:

AN ORDINANCE relating to reviewing the status of Neighborhood Plans and updating Neighborhood Plans where transit stations are or will be located and removing a budget proviso that restricted spending of a 2008 budget appropriation.

· Summary of the Legislation:

This legislation lifts a proviso on appropriations in various departments for Neighborhood Plan updates and establishes how the appropriated funds should be spent.

· Background:

To ensure that the Council had an opportunity to review the Executive’s proposed process to update Neighborhood Plans, Council imposed a proviso on appropriations in the 2008 Adopted Budget for activities related to updating the City’s existing Neighborhood Plans

The ordinance removes the restriction imposed by the following budget proviso:

Dept	Green Sheet #	Proviso Description	BCL Code
All City Departments	127-1-B-1	“None of the money appropriated for 2008 in any department and in any BCL may be spent to pay for activities related to updating specific neighborhood plans or specific neighborhood “sector” work until authorized by a future ordinance.  Council anticipates that such authority will not be granted until it has reviewed the Mayor’s proposed process to update the neighborhood plans, made changes as appropriate, and approved the process, as well as the criteria that will be used to select the first neighborhood plans to be updated.  ‘Pre-planning’ activities that need to be completed prior to commencing updates of the neighborhood plans are an allowable use of appropriation authority.”	All BCLs

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This legislation does not change the appropriation authority in the various City departments that received funding for updating neighborhood plans but it lifts the proviso that restricted spending the appropriation.