Resolution 16060CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 16060
APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE OPERATING AND CAPITAL
BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEARS 2023-24 AND 2024-25
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, 2023 and
ending June 30, 2024 and b) beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2025; 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 duly noticed special
meetings of the City Council, at which time any and all 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/her 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 Years (FY)
FY 2023-24 and FY 2024-25, 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, 2024, and June 30, 2025 with the following provisions and authorities:
1. The proposed FY 2023-24 and 2024-25 Budget as submitted by the City Manager
as set forth in the Exhibit 2 of the June 20, 2023 Staff Report accompanying this
Resolution is incorporated herein by this reference.
2. The proposed FY 2023-24 and 2024-25 Capital Budget and Capital Improvement
Program as submitted by the City Manager as set forth in the Exhibit 3 of the
June 20, 2023 Staff Report accompanying this Resolution is incorporated herein
by this reference.
3. The number of full-time positions authorized by the Budget as set forth in Exhibit
2 of the June 20, 2023 Staff Report accompanying this Resolution is incorporated
herein 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.
4. 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.
5. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to redistribute budget
appropriations between similar capital projects. The maximum transfer shall be
$75,000 per project, in conformance with the City Manager's signing authority.
Funds may be transferred from projects in different capital budgets as long as they
are between similar projects. Unexpended General Funds from completed projects
may be transferred to unappropriated capital reserves. The City Manager may
transfer up to $75,000 of unappropriated capital reserves to approved capital
projects. The City Manager may transfer remaining budgets up to $75,000 on
closed projects back to the funding source(s).
6. All encumbrances for valid purchase orders and contracts in effect as of June 30,
2023, and June 30, 2024 will remain in effect in the following FY 2023-24 and
2024-25, respectively. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to
increase the FY 2023-24 and 2024-25 budget appropriations in the amount of the
outstanding encumbrances for valid purchase orders and contracts as of June 30,
2023, and June 30, 2024.
7. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to carryover into the following
fiscal year the remaining General Fund expenditure budget from FY 2022-23 at
year-end, up to a not -to -exceed amount of $3,000,000, for the purchase of police
radios and a fire engine.
8. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to transfer appropriations
between departments or programs to facilitate the reorganization of the Housing &
Human Services, Climate Action & Resiliency, and Base Reuse and Economic
Development functions.
9. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to consolidate the Alameda
Landing CFD 13-1 Bond funds (805 and 806) into Fund 805 and to establish the
following new funds and transfer appropriations as follows to facilitate accounting
of distinct programmatic fund balances:
Current Fund
Current Org(s)
Proposed Fund
401 City Debt Service
40100816, 40161816 HUD
108 Loan
440 HUD 108 Loan
240 Commercial
Revitalization
24061814 Public Art
242 Public Art
240 Commercial
Revitalization
24061815 Theater
243 Theater Complex
209 Planning/Bldg/Transp
20962741 Paratransit
218 Paratransit
501 Sewer Services
50141601 2012 Sewer
Revenue Bond
502 Sewer Revenue
Bond 2012
10. 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 have already been appropriated within the
City Council's approved budget.
11. 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,
2024 and June 30, 2025, 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.
12. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to make administrative or
technical corrections to the FY 2023-24 and 2024-25 Adopted Budgets.
13. The City Manager or his/her designee is authorized to execute settlement
agreements in the amount that the claim has been settled, as approved by the City
Council.
14. 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 20th day of June 2023, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Jensen, Vella and Mayor Ezzy
Ashcraft — 4.
NOES: Councilmember Herrera Spencer — 1.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
said City this 21st day of June 2023.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Yibin She
City of Ala
ttorney
Lara Weisiger, Clerk
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City of Alameda