Resolution 15668CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 15668
APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE OPERATING AND CAPITAL
BUDGET MID-CYCLE UPDATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020-21
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 for the Fiscal Year (FY) beginning July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2021; and
WHEREAS, the expenditures provided in the said budget are within the
expenditure limitation imposed by Article XI liB 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 excluding the expenditure contribution towards Other Post-Employment Benefits and
Pension unfunded liabilities; 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 FY 2020-21, 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, 2021 with the following
provisions and authorities:
1. The proposed FY 2020-21 Budget as submitted by the City Manager as set forth in
the Exhibit 1 of the June 16, 2020 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 16, 2020 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,
2020 will remain in effect in the following FY 2020-21. The City Manager or his/her
designee is authorized to increase the FY 2020-21 budget appropriations in the
amount of the outstanding encumbrances for valid purchase orders and contracts
as of June 30, 2020.
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,
2021, 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 2020-21 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 16th day of June 2020, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and Mayor
Ezzy Ashcraft-5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said City this 17th day of June 2020.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Yibin Shen , Ci(y Attorney
City of Ala£eda
Lara Weisige ity Clerk
City of Alameda