4. Resolution 4548 - Authorizing Budget TransferREPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Judge Heidi Ulbricht
SUBJECT: Resolution No. 4549; regarding the transfer among appropriations
to fund expenditures for legal fees in the Municipal Court
MEETING DATE: April 3, 2000
BACKGROUND: At the time the fiscal year 2000 budget was prepared, the City of
Kalispell and the Kalispell Police Association were involved in
wage negotiations. Understandably, it would have been difficult to
anticipate revenue and expenditures until these negotiations were
resolved. It is important to remember the underestimated expenses
are related to the City of Kalispell's obligation to provide legal
counsel to indigent defendants if the possibility of jail time exists,
as required by law. While the Court makes every effort to expedite
the resolution of cases, the City Attorney's office is typical of the
trend to more actively prosecute defendants and by taking them to
trial.
RECOMMENDATION: The Council approves the resolution funding the Court's
legal fees. The amount designated in the Resolution will adjust the
legal fee line item to meet anticipated costs.
FISCAL EFFECTS: $18,000 budget transfer from unallocated contingency (general
government) to Court's legal fees.
ALTERNATIVES: None
Re ectively sub i ed
ei Abri t
Municipal Judge
Report compiled April 3, 2000
RESOLUTION NO. 4549
A RESOLUTION TO APPROVE A TRANSFER AMONG APPROPRIATIONS WITHIN A
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF EXPENDITURES AS ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF
KALISPELL BUDGET FOR 2000 FISCAL YEAR.
WHEREAS, in the budget adopted by the City of Kalispell for the
2000 fiscal year, certain detailed and itemized estimates
of expenditures for legal fees in the office of the
Municipal Judge of the City have proven inaccurate in the
operation of the Judge's office for the 2000 fiscal year,
and
WHEREAS, the overall expenditures of the Municipal Judge are
currently not in excess of the total of such estimates of
expenditures adopted in the City's budget for the 2000
fiscal year, however, it does appear that the total of
the budgeted appropriations in said classification will
exceed such estimate for the balance of the 2000 fiscal
year, and
WHEREAS, further, other General Fund classifications will have
appropriations in excess of expenditures and said excess
appropriations may be utilized so that, the Municipal
Judge's Budget appropriation is not exceeded by
expenditures, and
WHEREAS, under the authority granted the Council by law to make
transfers or revisions within a general budgetary
classification.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KALISPELL, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. That the following transfers within the
classification set forth in the City budget
for the 2000 fiscal year should be made as set
forth in Exhibit "A", attached hereto and by
this reference made a part hereof.
so
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR OF
THE CITY OF KALISPELL, THIS 3RD DAY OF APRIL, 2000.
Attest:
Theresa White
City Clerk
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Wm. E. Boharski
Mayor
BUDGET TRANSFER
TO:
FROM:
EXHIBIT A
Municipal Judge
351 Legal Fees
General Government
000 Contingency
Unallocated
511
1000 406 410360
$18,000.00
1000 400 510300
$18,000.00