CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 125207, which adopted the 2017 Budget, including the 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; adding new projects; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2017-2022 CIP; creating both new exempt and non-exempt positions; modifying positions; making cash transfers between various City funds; lifting a proviso; 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 2017 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2017 Budget are increased from the funds shown, 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 2017 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2017 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 3. The Woodland Park Zoo Night Exhibit Renovation-ID: K732506 project, as described in Attachment A to this ordinance, the Burke-Gilman Trail Improvements - UW Campus Project (TC367880) project, as described in Attachment B to this ordinance, and the NE 43rd Street Improvements (TC367900) project, as described in Attachment C to this ordinance are established in the 2017-2022 Adopted Capital Improvement Program.

Section 4. 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 2017 Budget was adopted, the appropriations and project allocations for the following items in the 2017 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 125207.

Section 5. Contingent upon the execution of the grant or other funding agreement authorized in Section 1 of the ordinance introduced as Council Bill 118951, 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 2017 Budget was adopted, the appropriations for the following items in the 2017 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 6. The following new positions are created in Seattle Center, the Department of Education and Early Learning, the Department of Neighborhoods, the Human Services Department, Seattle City Light, and the Seattle Police Department:

The Director of Seattle Center, the Director of Education, the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods, the Director of Human Services Department, the General Manager & Chief Executive Officer of Seattle City Light, and the Chief of Police are authorized to fill these positions subject to applicable civil service and personnel rules and laws.

Section 7. The following new position, which is exempt from Civil Service and Public Safety Civil Service rules and laws, are created in the Department of Education and Early Learning and the Law Department:

The Director of Education and the City Attorney are authorized to fill this positions subject to applicable personnel rules and employment laws.

Section 8. Effective June 1, 2017, the following position is abrogated in the Department of Education and Early Learning.

Section 9. Effective June 1, 2017, the following positions are transferred between the Seattle Police Department and the Seattle Information Technology Department.

Section 10. Effective June 1, 2017, the following positions are increased from part-time status to full-time status in Seattle City Light, the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, the Seattle Department of Human Resources, and the Seattle Police Department:

Section 11. Effective June 1, 2017, the following positions is reclassified in the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections:

Section 12. The appropriations for the following items in the 2017 Budget are modified, as follows:

Section 13. The appropriations for the following items in the 2017 Budget are modified, as follows:

  Section 14. To support appropriations transfers for items, (1.10, 1.12,1.13), (13.1), (1.32, 4.10, 13.2), (2.1), (1.5) and (15.2) cash is hereby transferred as shown in the following table:

Section 15. Appropriations in the 2017 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2017-2022 Adopted Capital Improvement Program, as adjusted by subsequent ordinance, for the Seattle Department of Transportation are further modified as follows:

*  Amounts transferred are from prior year unspent budget authority automatically carried forward to 2017

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 125207.

Section 16. The appropriation for the following items in the 2017 Adopted Budget are reduced from the funds shown: as follows:

Section 17. The restrictions imposed by the following budget proviso that limits the spending on the following item is removed because the conditions set forth in the proviso are no longer restrictions for any purpose, including those set forth in subsection 1.c of Ordinance 125207 and filed in Clerk File 314362.

Section 18. Ordinance 125207, adopting the 2017 Budget, is amended by adding the following proviso:

Proviso:

Of the appropriation for 2017 for the Executive Department’s Planning and Community Development Budget Control Level, $50,000 of the $200,000 currently allotted in technical assistance funds shall be used solely for the provision of technical support to the Ethiopian Community in Seattle to assist with applications for City funding for underserved communities under the City’s Equitable Development Initiative to support the development of an Ethiopian Community Center.

Section 19. 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 2017 Budget.

Section 20. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is hereby ratified and confirmed.

Section 21. 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 ________________________, 2017, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this _____ day of ___________________, 2017.

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    President __________ of the City Council

  Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2017.

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    Edward B. Murray, Mayor

  Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2017.

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    Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

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