HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 2017-2437 Add Chapter 2.55 Establish Requirements for Adoption and Amendment of the Annual BudgetORDINANCE NO. 2017 — 2437
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
AMENDING TITLE 2 OF THE NATIONAL CITY MUNICIPAL CODE BY
ADDING CHAPTER 2.55 PERTAINING TO FISCAL ADMINISTRATION
TO ESTABLISH REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ADOPTION AND
AMENDMENT OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of National City that Title
2 of the National City Municipal Code is amended to add Chapter 2.55 as follows:
Section 1. The Table of Contents for Title 2 is amended as follows:
TITLE 2
ADMINISTRATION
Chapters
2.01 City Manager
2.04 City Council
2.08 Removal of Appointive Officers
2.10 Ambulances
2.12 Fire Department
2.16 Finance Department
2.20 Department of Public Health
2.36 Officers' Salaries
2.42 Disposal of Surplus City Property
2.44 Unclaimed Property
2.48 Disaster Council
2.55 Annual Budget
2.60 Public Contracts and Purchasing System
2.62 Alternative Bid Procedures for Public Projects
2.64 Housing Authority and Community Development Commission
2.65 Property Acquisition by Eminent Domain
2.68 Retirement System
2.70 Reorganization
2.72 Term Limit for the Office of Mayor
2.74 Ethics Training
Section 2. Chapter 2.55 is hereby added to Title 2 of the National City
Municipal Code to read as follows:
CHAPTER 2.55
Fiscal Administration
Sections
2.55.010 Purpose and intent
2.55.020 Fiscal year
2.55.030 Preliminary budget
2.55.040 Adopted budget
2.55.050 Appropriations and transfers
2.55.060 Delegation of city manager budgetary powers and duties
2.55.010 Purpose and intent. In enacting this Chapter, it is the purpose and
intent of the city council to establish requirements for the development, adoption, and
maintenance of the city budget, and to set forth sound standards for the management of
the city's assets.
2.55.020 Fiscal year. The city's fiscal year shall begin on the first day of July
of each year and end on the thirtieth day of June of the following year.
2.55.030 Preliminary budget.
A. At least thirty days prior to the end of each fiscal year, the city manager
shall submit the preliminary budget for the ensuing fiscal year to the city council at a
regular city council meeting or other properly noticed public meeting of the city council.
B. Upon receipt of the preliminary budget, the city council may direct or
authorize the city manager to make revisions to the same at any regular city council
meeting or other properly noticed public meeting of the city council prior to adoption of
the budget.
C. At a regular city council meeting, or other properly noticed public meeting
of the city council at which the city manager presents the preliminary budget to the city
council, any member of the public may appear and be heard regarding any item in the
preliminary budget or for requests to include additional items.
2.55.040 Adopted budget.
A. After the city manager has made all revisions to the preliminary budget
directed or authorized by the city council pursuant to subsection B of Section 2.55.030,
but not later than June 30th of each year, the city council shall by resolution adopt the
budget for the ensuing fiscal year as finally determined.
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B. The resolution of adoption of the budget shall specify, at a minimum, the
following:
1. appropriations by fund, budget unit, and category;
2. interfund transfers; and
3. estimated financing sources by fund available to meet the budget
requirements.
C. The city council may set forth appropriations in greater detail than required
in subsection B of this section and may authorize any additional controls for the
administration of the budget as it deems necessary. The city council may delegate the
authority to exercise said additional administrative controls to the city manager.
D. There shall be a schedule in or supporting the adopted budget document,
or a separate ordinance or resolution, setting forth the number and classifications of
positions approved by the city council.
E. The adoption of the budget may be accomplished by a resolution in which
the adoption is effectuated by reference to the financing uses in the budget as finally
determined, provided that the minimum requirements set forth in subsection B of this
section are met in the budget document. If adopted by reference, the budget shall have
the same effect as if the resolution of adoption had been accomplished by passage of
the resolution in full in a manner provided by law.
F. A copy of the adopted budget shall be placed and shall remain on file with
the city clerk where it shall be available for inspection.
G. In accordance with Government Code Sectionn539O1, a copy of the
adopted budget shall be filed with the county auditor within 60 days after the beginning
of the City's fiscal year, and the annual budget shall be held on file by the county auditor
where it shall be available for public inspection during reasonable business hours.
H. 1. If at the beginning of any fiscal year, the budget has not been
adopted, the director of finance shall approve payments for the support of the various
budget units in accordance with the following authorizations:
a. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the totals in
the preliminary budget as submitted by the city manager, less the amounts for capital
assets, transfers out, and new permanent employee positions, are deemed
appropriated until adoption of the budget. For the purposes of this subsection, the term
"new permanent employee positions" does not include any employee position created in
lieu of an employee position that has been abolished.
b. Amounts for capital assets, transfers out, and new
permanent employee positions are deemed appropriated until the adoption of the
budget if specifically approved by the city council.
c. If the preliminary budget has not been submitted to the city
council because of an emergency as defined in Section 2.48.020, the amounts deemed
appropriated for the new fiscal year shall be based upon the final adjusted budget of the
preceding year, less the amounts for capital assets and transfers out unless specifically
approved by the city council. For the purposes of this subsection, the term "final
adjusted budget" includes the adopted budget, plus adjustments authorized by the city
council and encumbrances.
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2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, prior to the
adoption of the budget, the city council may impose expenditure limitations that are
more restrictive than those contained in this section.
2.55.050 Appropriations and transfers.
A. In accordance with Article XIIIB of the Constitution of the State of
California, the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the city shall not
exceed the appropriations limit of the city for the prior fiscal year adjusted for the
change in the cost of living and the change in population, except as otherwise provided
in Article XIIB of the Constitution of the State of California.
B. 1. Transfers and revisions to the adopted appropriations may be
made as follows:
a. transfers and revisions resulting in an increase in the
combined total of appropriations and transfers of any fund, by the approval of the city
council.
b. between budget units within a fund, subject to the restriction
of subsection 1 of this section, by the approval of the city manager.
2. The city manager is authorized to transfer monies up to the
maximums set forth in the budget.
C. Any unencumbered balance remaining to the credit of any appropriation,
except for those associated with capital assets, shall lapse at the end of the fiscal year
and shall revert to the available balance of the fund from which appropriated.
D. The budget for each fund maintained by the city, including transfers and
revisions made after adoption, shall be balanced. A balanced budget shall be defined
as that for which financing uses do not exceed available funding sources.
2.55.060 Delegation of city manager budgetary powers and duties. The
powers and duties assigned to the city manager by this chapter may be delegated.
Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of the
ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional and invalid, such decision shall
not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this ordinance. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and every section, subsection,
sentence, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact any one or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
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PASSED and ADOPTED this 19th day of September, 2017.
ATTEST:
cael R. Dalla
Mi�, ity Clerk
APPROVED AS T
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City orney
RM:
RMorrison, Mayor
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Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of National City, California, on
September 19, 2017 by the following vote, to -wit:
Ayes: Councilmembers Cano, Mendivil, Morrison, Rios, Sotelo-Solis.
Nays: None.
Absent: None.
Abstain: None.
AUTHENTICATED BY:
By:
RON MORRISON
Mayor of the City of National City, California
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City CI rk of the ity National City, California
Deputy
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was not finally adopted until seven
calendar days had elapsed between the day of its introduction and the day of its final
passage, to wit, on September 5, 2017 and on September 19, 2017.
FURTHER CERTIFY THAT said Ordinance was read in full prior to its final passage or
that the reading of said Ordinance in full was dispensed with by a vote of not less than
a majority of the members elected to the Council and that there was available for the
consideration of each member of the Council and the public prior to the day of its
passage a written or printed copy of said Ordinance.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
ORDINANCE NO. 2017-2437 of the City Council of the City of National City, passed
and adopted by the Council of said City on September 19, 2017.
By:
City Clerk of the City of National City, California
Deputy