CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 124648, which adopted the 2015 Budget; changing appropriations to various departments and from various funds in the Budget; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2015-2020 Capital Improvement Program; creating new appropriations; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1: The 2015 budget is amended with the creation of a new budget control level added to Attachment A to Ordinance 124648 as follows:

Section 2. In order to pay for necessary costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred, but for which insufficient appropriations were made due to causes that could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of making the 2015 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2015 Budget are increased from the funds shown, as follows:

Section 3. Appropriations in the 2015 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2015-2020 Adopted Capital Improvement Program, as adjusted by subsequent ordinance, are modified as follows:

All allocation modifications in this item shall operate for the purposes of increasing or decreasing the base for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 124648, which adopted the 2015 Budget and Capital Improvement Program.

Section 4. In accordance with RCW 35.32A.060, by reason of the facts above stated, some of the foregoing appropriations are made to meet actual necessary expenditures of the City for which insufficient appropriations have been made, due to causes which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of the making of the 2015 Budget.

Section 5. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.

Passed by a three-fourths vote of all the members of the City Council the ____ day of ________________________, 2016, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this _____ day of ___________________, 2016.

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    President __________ of the City Council

  Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2016.

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    Edward B. Murray, Mayor

  Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2016.

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    Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

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