Resolution 15048CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15048
APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE OPERATING AND CAPITAL
BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEARS 2015-16 AND 2016-17
WHEREAS, there has been submitted to and filed with the City Council at this
meeting, a budget representing the financial plan for conducting the affairs of the City of
Alameda and its Successor Agency for the Fiscal Years a) beginning July 1, 2015 and
ending June 30, 2016 and b) beginning July 1, 2016 and ending June 30, 2017; and
WHEREAS, the expenditures provided in the said budget are within the
expenditure limitation imposed by Article XIIIB of the California Constitution; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered this budget at a duly noticed regular
meeting of the City Council, at which time members of the public were afforded an
opportunity to express their views; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has given this budget due consideration as to its
projected revenues, anticipated expenditures and available fund balances; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is committed to maintaining reserve levels in the
General Fund at a minimum level of 20% of annual expenditures including transfers out;
and
WHEREAS, the Mastick Senior Center Advisory Board will maintain full control
over its annual budget and ongoing revenues/expenditures and that their funds will
always remain separate and defined for senior services; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager or his designee shall have the ability to assign fund
balances used for specific purposes in accordance with Governmental Accounting
Standards Board (GASB) pronouncement 54; and
WHEREAS, this budget ensures that the City of Alameda, including all funds,
entities and component units, has exercised prudent judgment in its fiduciary
responsibility as guardians of the public tax dollars.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Alameda
that said budget as submitted to the City Council at this meeting is hereby approved and
adopted as the operating and capital budget for the City of Alameda for Fiscal Years (FY)
2015-16 and 2016-17, and that the expenditures by each fund, department and program
are hereby approved and authorized as the total appropriations for the FY ending June
30, 2016 and June 30, 2017 with the following provisions and authorities:
1. The proposed FY 2015 -16 and 2016 -17 Budget as submitted by the City Manager
as set forth in the Exhibit 1 of the June 2, 2015 Staff Report accompanying this
Resolution is incorporated herein by this reference.
2. The number of full -time positions authorized by the Budget is incorporated herein
as set forth in Exhibit 2 of the June 2, 2015 Staff Report accompanying this
Resolution is incorporated by this reference. The City Manager or his /her
designee is authorized to retain interim, part-time or seasonal personnel within
the amounts appropriated for such purposes. In addition, the City Manager is
authorized to respond to staffing vacancies by either under filling them or using
current staff that are at other similar pay level positions as long as there is
sufficient monies in the current budget.
3. The City Manager or his /her designee is authorized to carry-over into the following
fiscal year the remaining appropriations for uncompleted capital and grant projects.
4. All encumbrances for valid purchase orders and contracts in effect as of June 30,
2015 and June 30, 2016 will remain in effect in the following Fiscal Years 2015 -16
and 2016 -17 respectively. The City Manager or his /her designee is authorized to
increase the 2015 -16 and 2016 -17 budget appropriations in the amount of the
outstanding encumbrances for valid purchase orders and contracts as of June 30,
2015 and June 30, 2016.
5. Except as otherwise provided in the Charter or the Municipal Code, the City
Manager or his /her designee is authorized to execute and submit grant
applications on behalf of the City. The City Manager is also authorized to accept
grant awards, execute grant agreements, execute all related documents and
expend such grant funds if the funds are within the City Manager's spending
authority and have.already been appropriated within the City Council's approved
budget.
6. The City Manager or his /her designee is authorized to approve temporary interfund
borrowing within the fiscal year, and at the end of the fiscal years ending June 30,
2015 and June 30, 2016, to finance the collection period for tax, grant and other
accounts receivable. Any new interfund loans extending beyond these terms must
be approved by the City Council. The City Manager is authorized to repay interfund
loans when funding becomes available.
7. The City Manager or his /her designee is authorized and directed to take such
actions as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the intent of this resolution.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the City Council of the City of Alameda in a regular
meeting assembled on the 2nd day of June 2015, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Ezzy Ashcraft, Matarrese, Oddie
and Mayor Spencer — 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City
this 3rd day of June 2015.
Lara Weisiger, City Jerk
City of Alameda
FTAI a a
Joet'c. Kern
City Attorney
City of Alameda