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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2662 Supplemental Budget AppropriationOrdinance No. 2662 AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $36,915 TO THE PUBLIC, EDUCATIONAL AND GOVERNMENTAL (PEG) ACCESS FUND; AND AMENDING THE 1998 BUDGET; AND AUTHORIZING AN INTERFUND LOAN IN THE AMOUNT $36;500 FROM THE EQUIPMENT RENTAL FUND TO THE PEG ACCESS FUND AND PROVIDING FOR REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST; MAKING FINDINGS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, UPON REVIEW OF THE 1998 BUDGET, MAKES THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS: 1. The City has entered into a 15-year nonexclusive franchise agreement with Cable TV Limited Partnership and interlocal agreement with the Port Townsend School District, dated 11/4/97, which agreements enable the City to operate a public, educational and governmental access channel at the Port Townsend High School Gael Stuart building ("the studio"); and 2. Pursuant to the franchise agreement, capital equipment for the studio is to be purchased through a $0.45 per month per customer contribution (currently about $12,500 per year); therefore, although a stable revenue source exists, the funds will be accumulated slowly over the 15-year term of the franchise agreement; and 3. Pursuant to the intedocal agreement, the School District has upgraded the Gael Stuart Building, with the intent to provide video production space and a PEG access studio for use by students, the government and the public; and 4. The City (through the PEG Access Fund) needs to procure the capital equipment necessary for pre-production, production, editing and transmission of programming of local value, before the studio can open for public, governmental and full educational use; and 5. The PEG Access Fund does not currently have sufficient resources to pay for needed capital equipment; and and The Equipment Rental Fund has sufficient resources to loan moneys to the PEG Access Fund; 7. The City intends to repay the interfund loan through loan proceeds to be obtained from the State Treasurers's Local Option Capital Asset Lending Program to be applied for November 10, 1998, and are disbursed by December 15, 1998; and 8. The PEG Access Coordinating Committee has reviewed the funding for the studio, and has recommended that the City take the course of action outlined in this ordinance; and 9. The above findings are due to events which could not have reasonably been known at the time of adoption of the 1998 Budget; and 10. Pursuant to 35A.33 RCW, the City Council desires to supplement the 1998 budget. SECTION 1. The sum of THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED and NO/100 DOLLARS ($36,500.00) is hereby appropriated as a Capital Outlay supplement to the 1998 PEG Access Fund Budget from an interfund loan; and the sum of FOUR HUNDRED FIFTEEN and NO/100 DOLLARS ($415.00) is hereby appropriated as an interest expenditure supplement to the 1998 PEG Access Fund Budget from unappropriated fund balance. SECTION 2. An interfund loan in the amount of $36,500 is hereby authorized from the Equipment Rental Fund to the PEG Access Fund. The City Finance Director is hereby directed to make such transfer, and the Mayor and the Finance Director are hereby authorized to draw warrants in accord with the same. SECTION 3. Repayment of the above authorized loan shall be made according to the repayment schedule as specified in Attachment A, together with interest at an annual rate of 4.65 percent. The City Council shall repay this interfund loan with loan proceeds to be obtained from the State Treasurer's Local Option Capital Asset Lending Program to be applied for November 10, 1998. SECTION 4. There is hereby found and declared to be an emergency requiring the foregoing appropriations to the 1998 budget. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force five days after the date of its publication in the manner provided by law. Read for the first, second, and third times and adopted by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend, Washington, at a regular meeting thereof, held this 21st day of September, 1998. Attest: ~~q ~' Clerk Pam Kolacy, Citi~ Attachment A - Loan Amortization Schedule 09/24/98 Ord\{PEGFund.doc} Ord-2662 Julie~gCulloch, Mayor Timothy ~c~lahan[ City Attorney 2 Ord. 2662 Attachment A City of Port Townsend Loan Amortization Schedule - P.E.G. Access Fund Purpose of loan: Capital equipment for the studio Source of loan funds: Equipment Rental Fund Date of loan: October 5, 1998 Loan amount $36,500 Interest rate 0.0465 Term 88 days Payment Loan Interest Number Payment date Balance Portion 1 December31, 1998 $ 36,500 $ 415 Principal Portion $ 36,500 Payment Amount $ 36,915