HomeMy WebLinkAbout2306 Supplemental Budget AppropriationsORDINANCE NO. 22~t06
AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $30,000 TO THE PARKS
FUND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF GATEWAY PARK AND
TRANSFERRING $15,000 OF THAT AMOUNT FROM THE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENTS FUND AND THE REMAINING $15,000 FROM THE
WATER FUND; MAKING FINDINGS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
THEREFORE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, UPON REVIEW OF
THE 1992 BUDGET FOR THE CITY MAKES THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS:
WHEREAS, in 1988, the City Council adopted the Gateway Concept Plan which included
proposed acquisition and development of "Gateway Park" at Kearney and Washington Street,
and
WHEREAS, the City Council approved a plan for a Gateway Park in 1991,and
WHEREAS, the implementation and funding for the plan was delayed due to financial
concerns of the City Council, and
WHEREAS, businesses adjoining the proposed mini-triangle parks have made a strong
case for reconsidering funding of the Gateway Park to allow construction to occur in 1992, and
WHEREAS, monies used for construction of the Gateway Park may be able to be used
as matching money for' Keamey Street improvements, and
WHEREAS, the Keamey Street improvements are scheduled to occur in Summer 1992
and delay in appropriating money for Gateway Park could eliminate the opportunity to use the
funds to obtain matching money, and
WHEREAS, monies from the Water Fund may be used for landscaping and an irrigation
system to demonstrate the water savings which can be made through the use of drought tolerant
species of plants and the use of a drip irrigation system, and
WHEREAS, the foregoing emergency need was not reasonably foreseeable at the time
of filing the City's preliminary budget and requires the transfer of and expenditure of money not
provided for in the annual budget for 1992.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, IN REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLED, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The sum of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($30,000) is here and hereby
appropriated as a supplement to the 1992 Budget for the City of Port Townsend in the Parks
Fund to pay for the construction of Gateway Park with a demonstration garden using drought
tolerant plants and a drip irrigation system with funds of FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
($15,000) being transferred from the Capital Improvement Fund from quarter percent Real
Estate Excise Tax revenues and funds of FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($15,000) from
the Water Fund as set forth in Exhibit "A" attached hereto as though fully set forth herein.
Section 2. There is here and hereby found and declared to be an emergency requiting the
foregoing appropriation in the 1992 Budget for the City of Port Townsend.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall take effect, upon its passage, approval and publication in the
form and manner provided by law. '
READ for the fn'st time on July 6, 1992. Read for the second and third times, passed by the
~--'-- "" 1992.
Council and approved by the Mayor on
Attest:
David A. Grove, City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Dennis McLerran, City Attorney
EXHIBIT "A"
ORDINANCE NO. 2306
PARK FUND
R~ources
Transfer from Capital Improvement Fund
Transfer from Water-Sewer Fund
130.397.000.00
E~penditure
Gateway Park Construction
130.13.576.681.65.639
$15,000
15~000
$30,000
$.30,Q00
$30,000