CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 124927, which adopted the 2016 Budget, including the 2016-2021 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; creating new appropriations; creating both exempt and nonexempt positions; modifying positions; adding new projects; making cash transfers between various City funds; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2016-2021 CIP; lifting a proviso; revising project descriptions; 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 appropriation for the following item in the 2016 Adopted Budget is reduced from the fund shown below:

Section 2. The 2016 Adopted Budget is amended with the creation of the Fleet Capital Program Budget Control Level, the Election Vouchers Budget Control Level, and the Department Leadership Budget Control Level, which are added to Attachment A of Ordinance 124927 as follows:

Section 3. 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 2016 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are increased from the funds shown, as follows:

Section 4. 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 2016 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are increased from the funds shown, as follows:

Unspent funds so appropriated shall carry forward to subsequent fiscal years until they are exhausted or abandoned by ordinance.

Section 5. The BRT Concept Design (TC367830) project as described in Attachment A to this ordinance, the King Street Station Tenant Improvements (TC367840) project as described in Attachment B to this ordinance, the Boundary Crane Improvements (6620) project as described in Attachment C to this ordinance, the North Service Center Interim Work (9220) project as described in Attachment D to this ordinance, the Summit FinMap Upgrade - City Light V2 (9961) project as described in Attachment E to this ordinance, the Gorge Powerhouse - Transformer Bank 10 Replacement (6224) project as described in Attachment F to this ordinance, the Sound Transit - City Light System Upgrades V2 (8475) project as described in Attachment G to this ordinance, and the Boundary Switchyard - BPA Reliability Improvements (6611) project as described in Attachment H to this ordinance are established in the 2016-2021 Adopted Capital Improvement Program.

Section 6. In order to pay for necessary capital 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 the 2016 Budget was adopted, the appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are increased from the funds shown, as follows:

Section 7. Contingent upon the execution of the grant or other funding agreement authorized in Section 1 of the ordinance introduced as Council Bill 118670, and in order to pay for necessary costs and expenses for which insufficient appropriations were made due to causes that could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time the 2016 Budget was adopted, the appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are increased as follows:

Unspent funds so appropriated shall carry forward to subsequent fiscal years until they are exhausted or abandoned by ordinance.

Section 8. The following new positions are created in the Department of Education and Early Learning, the Department of Neighborhoods, the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, the Department of Finance and Administrative Services, the Seattle Department of Human Resources, and the Seattle Police Department:

The Director of Education, the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods, the Director of the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, the Director of Finance and Administrative Services, the Human Resources Director, and the Chief of Police are authorized to fill these positions subject to applicable civil service and personnel rules and laws.

Section 9. The following new positions, which are exempt from Civil Service and Public Safety Civil Service rules and laws, are created in the Executive Department, the Ethics and Elections Commission, the Seattle Information Technology Department, the Law Department, and the Seattle Department of Human Resources:

The Mayor or the Mayor’s designee, the Chief Technology Officer, the Executive Director of the Ethics and Elections Commission, the Director of Finance and Administrative Services, the City Attorney, and the Human Resources Director are authorized to fill these positions subject to applicable personnel rules and employment laws.

Section 10. Effective May 1, 2016, the following positions are increased from part-time status to full-time status in Seattle Center and in the Seattle Department of Human Resources:

Section 11. The appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are modified, as follows:

Section 12. The appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are modified, as follows:

  Section 13. To support appropriations for items 3.15, 3.31, 3.32, 6.6, 12.1, and 12.2, cash is hereby transferred as shown in the following table:

  Section 14. To support appropriations transfers for items 12.3, 12.4, and 12.5, cash is hereby transferred as shown in the following table:

  Section 15. To support contracts being paid in 2016 by the Office of Planning and Community Development but entered into by the former Department of Planning and Development in 2015 and originally supported by funds residing in the Planning and Development Fund, cash is hereby transferred as shown in the following table:

Section 16. Appropriations in the 2016 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2016-2021 Adopted Capital Improvement Program, as adjusted by subsequent ordinance, for Seattle City Light are further modified as follows:

All allocation modifications in this section shall operate for the purposes of increasing or decreasing the base for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 124927.

Section 17. Appropriations in the 2016 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2016-2021 Adopted Capital Improvement Program, as adjusted by subsequent ordinance, for the Seattle Department of Transportation are further modified as follows:

All allocation modifications in this section shall operate for the purposes of increasing or decreasing the base for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 124927.

Section 18. Appropriations in the 2016 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2016-2021 Adopted Capital Improvement Program, as adjusted by subsequent ordinance, for the Seattle Department of Transportation and the Department of Parks and Recreation are further modified as follows:

Section 19. The following appropriations from the funds displayed are abandoned effective January 1, 2016, in the amounts shown or in such lesser amount as the City Budget Director determines remained unexpended and unencumbered from each appropriation as of that date:

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 124927.

Section 20. The following appropriations from the funds displayed are abandoned effective January 1, 2016, in the amounts shown or in such lesser amount as the City Budget Director determines remained unexpended and unencumbered from each appropriation as of that date:

*  Amount represents unspent budget from 2015 plus the 2016 Adopted Budget amount.

Section 21. The restriction imposed by the following budget proviso which limits spending on the following item is removed, and there is no longer restriction for any purpose, including those set forth in Subsection 1(c) of Ordinance 124927:

Section 22. The 2016-2021 Adopted Capital Improvement Program is amended as shown in Attachment I. Dollar amounts displayed in Attachment I show adjustments made by other sections of this ordinance:

Section 23. 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 2016 Budget.

Section 24. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Section 25. 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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