Resolution 15401WHEREAS, 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 for the Fiscal beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, 2019; and
WHEREAS, the expenditures provided in the said budget are within the
expenditure limitation imposed by Article XI I I B of the California Constitution; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered this budget at duly noticed regular
meetings 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 25% of annual expenditures including transfers out;
and
WHEREAS, the City Manager or his designee shall have 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 Year (FY)
2018-19, 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, 2019 with
the following provisions and authorities:
1. The proposed FY 2018-19 Budget as submitted by the City Manager as set forth
in the Exhibit 1 of the June 19, 2018 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 1 of the June 19, 2018 Staff Report accompanying
this Resolution in 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,
2018 will remain in effect in the following Fiscal Year 2018-19. The City Manager
or his/her designee is authorized to increase the 2018-19 budget appropriations in
the amount of the outstanding encumbrances for valid purchase orders and
contracts as of June 30, 2018.
5. Except as otherwise provided in the Charter of 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 inter -fund
borrowing within the fiscal year, and at the end of the fiscal year ending June 30,
2019, to finance the collection period for tax, grant and other accounts receivable.
Any new inter -fund loans extending beyond these terms must be approved by the
City Council. The City Manager is authorized to repay inter -fund loans when
funding becomes available.
7. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to make administrative or
technical corrections to the FY 2018-19 Adopted Budget.
8. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to accept grants, donations
and reimbursements received during the year, establish appropriations for and
expend those accepted grant funding, donations and reimbursements received
during the year where these special funds are within the City Manager's spending
authority and do not exceed amount of funds received.
9. 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 Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting
assembled on the 19th day of June 2018, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Ezzy Ashcraft, Matarrese, Oddie, Vella 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 20th day of June 2018.
Lara Weisiger, Citi` Clerk
City of Alameda
Jan&6. Kern, City Attorney
City of Alameda