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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR ORDINANCE NO. 010481
Reducing
two accounts in the General Fund by $477,262.00 relating to the City Council
Office budget; appropriating $508,500.00 to twelve accounts, one for each
Councilmember; authorizing the Director of Finance to make these budget
adjustments in the 2001-02 City Budget; authorizing personal services contracts
for eight staff positions in the office of the City Council for Fiscal Year
2001-2002; authorizing amendments to these contracts to reflect the cost of
living increase in November 2001; authorizing expenditure of funds for FICA and
health insurance for these contracts; establishing a compensation policy for
Council assistants; and recognizing an emergency.
WHEREAS,
the Council has determined that the structure of its own office budget should
be revised to allow more efficiency, flexibility and independence for each
council member in running his own office; and
WHEREAS,
the Council office budget can be restructured using unused funds from the
offices 2000-01 fiscal year budget, including funds from the legislative
account, totaling approximately $32,000.00, and transferring $24,000.00 from
the legislative account of its budget for the 2001-02 fiscal year to individual
accounts for each council member; and
WHEREAS,
this restructuring would allow each council member greater freedom to better
serve his constituents, while placing greater accountability on each council
member for his financial decisions and expenditures within his own office; and
WHEREAS,
it is the intention of the Council to establish a compensation policy for the
Council assistants; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE
IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section
1. That the following accounts in the General Fund are hereby reduced by the
following amounts:
02-100-001-1010
B City Council $
24,000.00
02-100-001-1050
B Council Assistance 453,262.00
Total $477,262.00
Section
2. That $508,500.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund
Balance of the General Fund to the following accounts of the General Fund:
02-100-001-1011
B City Council In-District 1 $ 43,000.00
02-100-001-1012
B City Council In-District 2 43,000.00
02-100-001-1013
B City Council In-District 3 43,000.00
02-100-001-1014
B City Council In-District 4 41,500.00
02-100-001-1015
B City Council In-District 5 41,500.00
02-100-001-1016
B City Council In-District 6 41,500.00
02-100-001-1021
B City Council At-Large 1 43,000.00
02-100-001-1022
B City Council At-Large 2 43,000.00
02-100-001-1023
B City Council At-Large 3 41,500.00
02-100-001-1024
B City Council At-Large 4 43,000.00
02-100-001-1025
B City Council At-Large 5 41,500.00
02-100-001-1026
B City Council At-Large 6 43,000.00
Total $508,500.00
Section
3. That on May 1, 2001, the Director of Finance is authorized to make the
adjustments included in this ordinance in the appropriate accounts of the
2001-02 City Budget.
Section
4. That the Councilmember for each respective office is authorized to execute
a personal services contract with his or her Council Assistant as named below
for Fiscal Year
2001-2002
in the following amount from funds appropriated in the 2001-2002 Budget as
follows:
Derek
Ramsay 02-100-001-1021-B City Council At-Large 1 $32,760.00
Lisa
Minardi 02-100-001-1011-B City Council In-District 1 $32,760.00
Linda
Becker 02-100-001-1022-B City Council At-Large 2 $39,060.00
Mary
Phelps 02-100-001-1012-B City Council In-District 2 $34,020.00
Julie
Llorente 02-100-001-1024-B City Council At-Large 4 $39,060.00
Ramonda
Doakes 02-100-001-1026-B City Council At-Large 6 $35,880.00
Harry
Ingles 02-100-001-1016-B City Council In-District 6 $36,000.00
Tom
Wrysch 02-100-001-1025-B City Council At-Large 5 $34,800.00
Section
5. That the Councilmember designated as requisitioning authority for his
respective account in Section 2 of this ordinance is authorized to expend funds
required for FICA and necessary for health insurance relating to each personal
services contract.
Section
6. That the Councilmember for each respective office is authorized to execute
amendments to the contracts set forth in Section 1 to provide for inflation
protection adjustments as set forth in Exhibit A, not to exceed 4%, effective
November 1, 2001, subject to the availability of funds.
Section
7. That the Council hereby adopts Exhibit A, attached to this ordinance, as
the compensation policy for Council assistants.
Section
8. That this ordinance is recognized as an emergency measure within the
meaning of Section 15 of the Charter and will take effect in accordance with
that section.
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I
hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit
of the appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a
cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the
fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation
hereby incurred.
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Director
of Finance
Approved
as to form and legality:
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Assistant
City Attorney