Title
Resolution to Amend the Fiscal Year 2022 Council Approved Budget and Appropriate a total of $49,263.59 from the General Fund's Assigned, Committed and Restricted Fund Balances to the Operating Budgets of the City Attorney; Emergency Management; and Office of Youth and Young Adult Opportunities to Complete Activities Started in Fiscal Year 2021 Using Residual Funding from the Previously Appropriated Fiscal Year 2021 Budget
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The departments listed below ended Fiscal Year 2021 with ongoing projects, for which all or a portion of the funds originally appropriated were (re)deposited to the General Fund's Fund Balance during the year-end closing process. The amounts to be appropriated are as follows:
1. City Attorney - $24,579.59 from Assigned Fund Balance: Attorney fees from previously completed judicial tax sales.
2. Emergency Management - $14,684.00 from Committed Fund Balance: Unused FEMA Mitigation Funds such as those for on-going home elevation projects.
3. Office of Youth and Young Adult Opportunities - $10,000.00 from Restricted Fund Balance: Contribution from Hampton City Schools for youth violence prevention programs cancelled due to COVID-19.
Discussion:
The funds from the departments listed above have all traditionally been rolled over.
Impact:
No impact.
Recommendation:
Rec
Approve.
Body
WHEREAS, several City of Hampton ("City") departments ended Fiscal Year 2021 with funding that was budgeted for ongoing projects and it is in the best interest of the City that those departments be permitted to continue use of the remaining funds in Fiscal Year 2022;
WHEREAS, $24,579.59 (in attorney fees from previously completed judicial tax sales) is available to be appropriated from Assigned Fund Balance to the City Attorney;
WHEREAS, $14,684.00 (in unused FEMA Mitigation Funds such as those for the on-going home elevation projects) is available to be appropriated from Committed Fund Balance;
WHEREAS, $10,000.00 (in unused contributions from Hampton City Schools for youth violence prevention programs cancelled due to COVID-19) is available to be appropriated from Restricted Fund Balance; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Hampton, Virginia that the Fiscal Year 2022 Council Approved Budget be amended to appropriate a total $49,263.59 from the General Fund's Assigned, Committed and Restricted Fund Balances to the operating budgets of the City Attorney, Emergency Management, and Office of Youth and Young Adult Opportunities to complete activities started in Fiscal Year 2021, to be allocated among those departments as set forth in the recitals above.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council authorizes the City Manager, or her designee, to take the necessary steps to implement the prescribed action.