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Consider and take action on an ordinance amending the City of League City, Texas, Governmental, Proprietary, and Capital Funds Budget for Fiscal Year 2019 by amending Ordinance No. 2018-27 to adjust the operating and capital budget for actual and projected expenditures (Director of Budget & Project Management)
Staff requests first and final reading.
Background:
The proposed ordinance requests adjustments to the General Fund with a net increase $859,537, an increase to Hotel/Motel Tax Fund of $175,000, Public Access Channel Fund of $118,710, Hurricane Harvey Fund of $79,026, Disaster Preparedness Fund of $28,793, as well as an increase in Capital Replacement Fund of $1,297,587.
If approved, the proposed ordinance would amend the City’s FY2019 budget to incorporate proposed adjustments for:
GENERAL FUND:
· Merit Increases: $589,812 budgeted in Non-Departmental and then reallocated to each department based on actual merit increases.
· Personnel Related Items:
o $21,000 is requested to be moved from General Fund Non-Departmental to Municipal Courts personnel services to cover an increase in pay for the Municipal Court Judge that was approved by Council on January 22, 2019 item 15B.
· Accounting: an additional $30,000 is requested to cover expenses for the Investment Advisory Consultant contract approved by Council on November 13, 2018 item 9E, which will be offset by an increase in the same amount to revenue account Interest Earned.
· Fire: $25,200 increase to rent bunker gear for cadets for both the current and Fall classes, and tuition for enrollment of the Fall class at the College of the Mainland.
· Fire Marshal ($154,255):
o $79,255 increase approved by Council on February 26, 2019 agenda 9B to purchase a 26-foot custom arson command trailer from Rolltechs Specialty Vehicles, LLC. The trailer will be entirely funded by a grant received from the Office of the Governor - Homeland Security Grant Division 2018 State Homeland Security Program.
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