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Home My WebLink About4814 AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington, mending Chapter 3.02 of the Bremerton Municipal Code relating to the City Budget Structure and Policy by providing for an annual budget beginning January 1, 2003 and by making related minor amendments to said chapter. WHEREAS, the current provisions of Chapter 3.02 of the Bremerton Municipal Code provides for a biennial budget structure; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that an annual budget structure will result in a more efficient and effective budget, which will be more responsive in meeting the financial challenges of the City; NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION1. Chapter 3.02 of the Bremerton Municipal Code entitled "Budget Structure and Policy" is hereby amended to read as follows: Chapter 3.02 BUDGET STRUCTURE AND POLICY 3.02.010 BUDGET STRUCTURE. The City Council hereby establishes an annual budget for the City of Bremerton, beginning January 1, 2003. The 2003 Budget and all subsequent budgets shall be prepared, considered and adopted pursuant to the provisions of RCW Chapter 35.33 and of this Chapter. The adopted budget of the City of Bremerton shall consist of various Funds and Departments within those Funds as provided in the chart of accounts pursuant to statute. Each Department shall contain five (5) distinct Category Groups, which shall be classified as; 1. Budget Structure and Policy Personnel, 2. Supplies, Services and Taxes, 3. Debt Service, 4. Capital Expenditures and 5. Transfers. 3.02.020 GENERAL BUDGET POLICY. Except as specifically authorized in subsequent sections of this ~Chapter, no administrator or legislator shall expend or authorize expenditure of monies that would cause the overexpenditure of any budget Category group. Further, no administrator or legislator shall employ or authorize the employment of a person into a permanent position not specifically authorized in the adopted budget. Budget Structure and Policy 3.02.030 ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS. The Mayor may authorize the transfer of appropriations between Category Groups within Departments. Each authorization is limited to $10,000 except authorizations made to correct technical errors in classification of projects or tasks to a Category Group which can be in any amount. Only one such adjustment may be applied to any Category Group within a department in a fiscal year. These authorizations may not result in the addition or deletion of capital projects or items and shall be accomplished in a manner which provides for audit review. Further, the Mayor is empowered to authorize recruitment for and filling of a permanent position at a level lower than that approved in the adopted budget. 3.02.040 CITY COUNCIL FISCAL AND BUDGET COMMITTEE BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS. The City Council Fiscal and Budget Committee may authorize the addition or deletion of capital projects and items, provided that individual deletions or additions do not exceed a cost of $10,000 and provided all council members have been advised of the Committee agenda item. Further, the Committee may authorize the transfer of appropriations between Category Groups to accomplish capital additions and/or to reappropriate surplus funds generated by capital deletions. Such transfer authorizations shall be accomplished in a manner which provides for audit review. In exercising this exception authority, the Committee shall not deviate from the policy outlined in the adopted budget, nor shall it authorize any budget adjustment that exceeds the total Department appropriation. Denials of requests for authorizations allowed in this section may be appealed to the City Council. All adjustments related to capital expenditures additions and deletions shall be reported to the Council by the Council Fiscal and Budget Committee. 3.02.050 CITY COUNCIL BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS. Except as specifically provided in this Or~inanceChapter, all adjustments to the adopted budget shall be authorized only by the City Council. Further, no adjustments to the adopted budget shall be considered by the City Council without prior review and recommendation or comment by the Mayor and the Fiscal and Budget Committee. Budget Structure and Policy 3.02.060 O,II:t~N~IC~,-IMPLE MENTATION. Policies and procedures to insure the implementation, and maintenance of the policies set forth in this Chapter shall may be prepared by the City Treasurer and provided to the administrators responsible for each Department. SECTION 2. Severability. If any one or more sections, subsections, or sentences of this ordinance are held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance and the same shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force ten (10) days from and after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law. APPROVED by the City Council the~ day of ~Cd~7~:~t.tt~ ,2002 PASSED by the City Council the~~.2._~ day of ~d~_~-~.~ ,2002 CAROL ARENDS, Council President Approved this ~ day of ,2002 ATTEST: KATHLEEN MCCLUSKEY, City Clerk j PUBLISHED the~ day of EFFECTIVE the~day of ORDINANCE NO. -5/oO/~r/ R:~LEGAL\OrdinancesXFinance~Budget Structure and Policy - Ch. 3.02.doc 4 APPROVED AS TO FORM: , Ci~orney ,2002 ,2002 Budget Structure and Policy . AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION , County of Kitsap, State of Washington No. 100029680 I, Valerie Zoller, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and says: That she is now, and at all times embraced in the publication herein mentioned was the principal clerk of the printers and publishers of THE SUN; that said newspaper has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior Court of the County of Kitsap, in which County it is published and is now and has been for more than six months prior to the date of the publication hereinafter referred to, published in the English language continually as a daily newspaper in Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington, and is now and during all of said time, was printed in an office maintained in the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper; that the following is a true text of a legal advertisement as it was published in regular issues (and not in supplement form) of said newspaper on the following dates, to wit: October 21, 2002; and that such newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period. 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IOf\;t o ~ . /111//11111\\\\\\ . , Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, Kitsap County, SUMMARY OF' ORDINANCE NO. 4814' AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington, amending Chapter 3.02 of the Bremerton Municipal Code relating to the City Budget Structure and Policy by providing for an annual budget beginning January 1, 2003 and by making related minor amendments to said chapter.- APPROVED by the City Council the 9th day of October, 200T PASSED by the City Council the 16th day of October, 200T The full text of this ordinance is available from the City Clerk's Office, 239 Fourth Street, Bremerton, WA 98337.- October 21,2002- - #100029680-