Item 7B - Ordinance 20-15-129STAFF REPORT
City of Atlantic Beach
Commission Meeting
AGENDA ITEM# 7B
JANUARY 26, 2015
AGENDA ITEM: ORDINANCE NO. 20-15-129
DATE:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE OPERATING
BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH,
FLORIDA FOR FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING
OCTOBER 1, 2014 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,
2015, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
January 2, 2015
SUBMITTED BY: Nelson VanLiere, Finance Director c:;::;>
BACKGROUND:
This budget amendment is necessary to fund the proposed Release and Settlement
Agreement between the City of Atlantic Beach and the City of Jacksonville for
the purpose of resolving all disputes between them relating to tipping fees. The
original budget for Fiscal Year 2015 did not anticipate the resolution of the
dispute and the amounts were unknown at the time ofbudget adoption. Sufficient
funds do exist in the fund balance reserves of the General Fund and will be
transferred to the Sanitation Fund where the expense will be paid and recorded to
reflect this as a sanitation expense on the City's Audited Financial Statements.
For more background information on the agreement, see the staff report on
the release and settlement agreement included in this agenda.
BUDGET: This ordinance will increase the City's net expense budget by $322,709
RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Ordinance NO. 20-15-129 amending the 2014-15 Annual
Operating Budget for the purpose of funding the Release and Settlement
Agreement with the City of Jacksonville resolving the all disputes relating to
tipping fees.
ATTACHMENT: Ordinance NO. 20-15-129.
ORDINANCE NO. 20-15-129
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE OPERATING BUDGET
FOR THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, FLORIDA FOR
FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2014 AND
ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2015, AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
AGENDA ITEM# 7B
JANUARY 26, 2015
WHEREAS, the City Charter of the City of Atlantic Beach requires that the City
Commission approve all budgetary increases and transfers at the fund level, and
WHEREAS, the nature of budgetary systems and those day-to-day decisions affecting
such budgetary systems require adjustments from time-to-time, and
WHEREAS, The City of Atlantic Beach and the City of Jacksonville have negotiated a
release and settlement agreement for the payment of past due landfill disposal fees in the amount
of $322,709 and setting a percentage discount disposal rate of 50% for the disposal of sludge
from the sewer plant going forward, and
WHEREAS, the City of Atlantic Beach did not include the funding of this agreement in
the adoption of the original Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Operating Budget and therefore must
amend the budget to have sufficient amounts within the Sanitation Fund to pay the City of
Jacksonville.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION ON
BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, FLORIDA, that;
1. The Fiscal Year 2014/2015 Budget to be amended as follows:
~GENERAL FUND~
Expenses:
Non-Departmental-Transfers Out
Total Expenses:
Fund Balance
~SANITATION FUND~
Revenues:
Transfer from General Fund
Expenses:
Settlements
Total Expenses:
Fund Balance:
$322,709
$322.709
<$322,709>
$322,709
$322,709
$322.709
$0
2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
Passed by the City Commission on first reading this __ day of 2015.
AGENDA ITEM # 7B
JANUARY 26, 2015
Passed by the City Commission on second and final reading this __ day of 2015.
CAROLYN WOODS
Mayor I Presiding Officer
Approved as to form and correctness:
RICHARD KOMANDO, ESQUIRE
City Attorney
ATTEST:
DONNA L. BARTLE, CMC
City Clerk