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 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; 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. 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 2. The Human Resources Information (D601TC001) project as described in Attachment A to this ordinance, and the Joint Preschool Site and Tenant Improvements (K732498) project as described in Attachment B to this ordinance, are established in the 2016-2021 Adopted Capital Improvement Program.

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

Allocation modifications for the Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle City Light, and Seattle Public Utilities 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 4. Contingent upon the execution of the grant or other funding agreement authorized in Section 1 of the ordinance introduced as C.B. 118751, 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 5. The following new positions are created in the Executive Department’s Office of Arts and Culture, the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, Seattle City Light, the Seattle Police Department, and Seattle Public Utilities:

The Mayor or his designee, the Director of the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Seattle City Light, the Chief of Police, and the Director of Seattle Public Utilities are authorized to fill these positions subject to applicable civil service and personnel rules and laws.

Section 6. The following new positions, which are exempt from Civil Service and Public Safety Civil Service rules and laws, are created in the Department of Finance and Administrative Services, the Seattle Police Department, the Seattle Information Technology Department, and Seattle Public Utilities:

The Director of Finance and Administrative Services, the Chief of Police, the Chief Technology Officer, and the Director of Seattle Public Utilities are authorized to fill these positions subject to applicable personnel rules and employment laws.

Section 7. Effective August 1, 2016, the following position is transferred from the Seattle Information Technology Department to the Seattle Police Department:

Section 8. The appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are modified, as follows:

Section 9. The appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are modified, as follows:

Section 10. The appropriations for the following items in the 2016 Budget are modified, as follows:

  Section 11. To support appropriations for items 9.1 and 10.1, cash is hereby transferred as shown in the following table:

Section 12. 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 13. 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 14. The following appropriations for the Seattle Department of Transportation from the funds displayed are abandoned effective August 1, 2016, in the amounts shown or in such lesser amount as the City Budget Director determines remains 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 15. 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 16. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Section 17. 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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