ORDINANCE NO. 8296 

 

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS AMENDING ITS 2008 ADOPTED BUDGET PURSUANT TO K.S.A. 79-2929a AND AMENDMENTS THERETO

 

WHEREAS, the governing body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas passed Ordinance No. 8139 on the 14th day of August, 2007 adopting its 2008 budget in accordance with K.S.A. 79-2927 and amendments thereto; and

 

WHEREAS, K.S.A. 79-2929a authorizes the governing body of a municipality to amend its adopted current budget during the year in which such budget is in effect subject to the same publication, notice and public hearing requirements as required by K.S.A. 79-2929, and amendments thereto, for the adoption of the original budget; and

 

WHEREAS, the governing body has determined that an amendment of the 2008 adopted budget is necessary to authorize expenditures from the Transportation Fund that had beginning fund balances in excess of those anticipated to cover increased operating expenses related to the operation of the City’s public transit system; and

 

WHEREAS, the proposed amendment of the 2008 adopted budget amends only the Transportation Fund Expenditures and no other fund expenditures in the 2008 adopted budget; and

 

WHEREAS, on the 27th day of June, 2008,  the Governing Body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, caused to be published in the Lawrence Journal-World, a daily newspaper of general circulation within Douglas County, Kansas, notice of a public hearing to be conducted on July 8, 2008, at 6:35 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter could be heard, at the City Commission Chambers, City Hall, Lawrence, Kansas, for the purpose of answering and hearing objections of taxpayers relating to the proposed amendment to the 2008 adopted budget; and 

 

WHEREAS, such public hearing was held at the time and place designated for the purposes stated, all as provided in the published notice of said hearing.

 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS:

 

Section I.  The above stated recitals are by reference incorporated herein and made a part of this ordinance as if copied in length.

 

Section II.  The amended 2008 budget and financial statement as shown on standard budget forms furnished by the Kansas Director of Accounts and Reports is approved, adopted, and appropriated as the maximum amounts to be expended for the Transportation Fund for the budget year starting January 1, 2008.

 

Section III.  The Governing Body certifies that the amounts shown to be raised by ad valorem property tax levies are within statutory or duly adopted charter ordinance limitations; and,

 

 

 

 

 

Section IV.  The following is a summary of the amendment to the 2008 adopted budget:

 

 

Adopted Budget

2008

Amendment to

2008 Adopted Budget

Tax Levy Fund

Actual

Tax

Rate

Amount

Of Tax to

be Levied

 

Expenditures

 

Expenditures

Transportation

1.171

999,428

1,550,846

1,782,846

 

Section V.  The increase in expenditures set forth above is balanced by previously unbudgeted increases in revenue other than ad valorem property taxes by virtue of the Transportation Fund’s actual beginning fund balance exceed the anticipated beginning fund balance

 

Section VI.  The amendment to the 2008 budget shall be filed with the County Clerk of Douglas County, Kansas and the Director of Accounts and Reports as provided by law.

 

Section VII  The Expenditures Entry for the Transportation Fund of the 2008 Adopted Budget set forth in Ordinance No. 8139 is  hereby repealed and of no further force and effect, it being the intent of this ordinance that its provisions be substituted in place thereof.  

 

PASSED by the Governing Body of the City of Lawrence, Kansas this _______ day of July, 2008.

 

Approved:

 

 

 

_________________________

Michael Dever, Mayor

Attest:

 

 

 

___________________________________

Frank S. Reeb, City Clerk

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:

 

 

 

                                                                       

Toni Ramirez Wheeler, Director

Legal Services Department