Resolution 15215CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15215
AMENDING THE GENERAL FUND AND THE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FUND BY $140,000 FOR THE
RECONFIGURATION OF THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
WHEREAS, on June 2, 2015, the City Council did adopt a biennial budget
representing the financial plan for conducting the affairs of the City of Alameda for the
Fiscal Years beginning July 1, 2015 and ending June 30, 2017; and
WHEREAS, on June 7, 2016, the City Council did adopt Resolution 15157
approving workforce changes in the City Attorney's Office; and
WHEREAS, the City Attorney's Office is recruiting for an Assistant City Attorney 11;
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WHEREAS, the City Attorney's Office needs to provide a work space for the new
Assistant City Attorney 11; and
WHEREAS, the City Attorney's Office has worked with Public Works, Finance and
the City Manager's Office to identify the most cost effective design to add a lawyer's office
to existing space; and
WHEREAS, in order to have the necessary office available at the time the new
attorney commences work, it is requested that $140,000 be appropriated from the
available reserves of the General Fund with the intention those funds be replaced with
proceeds of the Tidal Canal property sales anticipated to be received by the end of
January 2017; and
WHEREAS, the Council has considered the report and recommendations of the
City Manager on the budget amendments and has determined that the budget
amendments are both fair and appropriate; and
WHEREAS, this budget ensures that the City of Alameda has exercised prudent
judgment in its fiduciary responsibility as guardian of the public tax dollars.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Alameda
that the amendments to the City's Fiscal Year 2016-17 Budget are approved, by
increasing the General Fund transfers out by $140,000 and increasing the Capital
Improvement Fund transfers in and expenditures by $140,000 each to pay for the City
Attorney's Office reconfiguration.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting
assembled on 201h day of December, 2016 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 official
seal of said City this 21 st day of December, 2016.
Lara Weisiger, City Jerk
City of Alameda
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Jan C. Kern, City Attorney
City of Alameda