Ordinance No. 2021-17 Adopting Budget for FY 21-22 - September 23, 2021 CITY OF AVENTURA ORDINANCE NO. 2021-17
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, ADOPTING
THE ATTACHED TENTATIVE OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET, AS
REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION AT THE
REVIEW MEETING HELD ON JULY 22, 2021 AS THE CITY OF
AVENTURA FINAL BUDGET FOR THE 2021/2022 FISCAL YEAR,
PURSUANT TO SECTION 4.05 OF THE CITY CHARTER; AUTHORIZING
EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS ESTABLISHED BY THE BUDGET;
PROVIDING FOR BUDGETARY CONTROL; PROVIDING FOR
PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATION; PROVIDING FOR GIFTS AND
GRANTS; PROVIDING FOR AMENDMENTS; PROVIDING FOR
PROCEDURES REGARDING ENCUMBRANCES AND THE RE-
APPROPRIATION OF UNEXPENDED CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS;
ESTABLISHING THE COMMITTED FUND BALANCE FOR CAPITAL
RESERVE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The tentative 2021/2022 Operating and Capital Improvement
Program Budget, reviewed and approved by the City Commission on July 22, 2021 , a
copy of said budget being attached hereto and made a part hereof as specifically as if set
forth at length herein, be and the same is hereby established and adopted as the City of
Aventura's final budget for the 2021/2022 fiscal year. The tentative budget adopted
hereby may be amended or adjusted by a motion approved by a majority vote of the City
Commission at the public hearings in accordance with State Statutes.
Section 2. Expenditure of Funds Appropriated in the Budget Authorized. Funds
appropriated in the Budget may be expended by and with the approval of the City Manager
in accordance with the provisions of the City Charter and applicable law. Funds of the City
shall be expended in accordance with the appropriations provided in the Budget adopted by
this Ordinance and shall constitute an appropriation of the amounts specified therein.
Supplemental appropriations or the reduction of appropriations, if any, shall be made in
accordance with Section 4.07 of the City Charter.
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Section 3. Budgetary Control. The 2021/2022 Operating and Capital Outlay Budget
establishes a limitation on expenditures by department total. Said limitation requires that
the total sum allocated to each department for operating and capital expenses may not be
increased or decreased without specific authorization by a duly-enacted Resolution affecting
such amendment or transfer. Therefore, the City Manager may authorize transfers from
one individual line item account to another, so long as the line item accounts are within the
same department and fund.
Section 4. Personnel Authorization. The "Personnel Allocation Summary" included
within each department budget enumerates all authorized budgeted positions for
appointment by the City Manager. All personnel filling said authorized positions shall be
paid pursuant to the City's Budget, Personnel Policies and/or collective bargaining
agreements.
Section 5. Grants and Gifts. When the City of Aventura receives monies from any
source, be it private or governmental, by Grant, Gift, or otherwise, to which there is attached
as a condition of acceptance any limitation regarding the use or expenditures of the monies
received, the funds so received need not be shown in the Operating Budget nor shall said
budget be subject to amendment of expenditures as a result of the receipt of said monies,
but said monies shall only be disbursed and applied toward the purposes for which the said
funds were received. To ensure the integrity of the Operating Budget, and the integrity of
the monies received by the City under Grants or Gifts, all monies received as contemplated
above must, upon receipt, be segregated and accounted for based upon generally accepted
accounting principles and where appropriate, placed into separate and individual trust
and/or escrow accounts from which any money drawn may only be disbursed and applied
within the limitations placed upon the Gift or Grant as aforesaid.
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Section 6. Amendments. Upon the passage and adoption of the 2021/2022 fiscal
year Budget for the City of Aventura, if the City Manager determines that an Operating
Department Total or a Capital Outlay Line Item will exceed its original appropriation, the City
Manager is hereby authorized and directed to prepare such Resolutions as may be
necessary and proper to modify any line item from the Budget hereby.
Section 7. Encumbrances.
1. All outstanding encumbrances for operating expenditures at September 30, 2021
shall lapse at that time; and,
2. All outstanding encumbrances for Capital Expenditures as of September 30, 2021
shall lapse at that time; and, that all unexpended Capital appropriations, including
outstanding encumbrances, may be added, at the City Manager's discretion, to the
corresponding 2020/2021 available balances and be simultaneously re-appropriated
for capital expenditures, as previously approved in the 2020/2021 fiscal year; and,
3. It is contemplated and acknowledged that the possible addition of available Capital
balances in the General Fund and other Funds and their simultaneous re-
appropriation, at the City Manager's discretion, under this Section shall not be
interpreted or construed as an increase in revenues available for appropriation under
Section 4.07 of the City Charter or as a variation of the total budget under Section 6
of the City's Original Budget Ordinance.
Section 8. Committed Fund Balance. The Committed Fund Balance to be utilized
for the Capital Reserve, as established in the 2021/2022 Budget, is $14,772,304 (effective
September 30, 2021).
Section 9. Severability. The provisions of this Ordinance are declared to be
severable and if any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance shall for any
reason be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining sections, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this Ordinance but they shall
remain in effect, it being the legislative intent that this Ordinance shall stand notwithstanding
the invalidity of any part.
Section 10. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon
adoption on second reading.
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The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Commissioner Evans, who moved its
adoption on first reading. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Friedland, and
upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Commissioner Jonathan Evans Yes
Commissioner Rachel S. Friedland Yes
Commissioner Denise Landman Yes
Commissioner Marc Narotsky Yes
Commissioner Robert Shelley Yes
Vice Mayor Dr. Linda Marks Yes
Mayor Enid Weisman Yes
The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Commissioner Shelley, who moved its
adoption on second reading. This motion was seconded by Commissioner Evans, and
upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Commissioner Jonathan Evans Yes
Commissioner Rachel S. Friedland Yes
Commissioner Denise Landman Absent
Commissioner Marc Narotsky Yes
Commissioner Robert Shelley Yes
Vice Mayor Dr. Linda Marks Yes
Mayor Enid Weisman Yes
PASSED on first reading this 13t" day of September, 2021 .
PASSED AND ADOPTED on second reading this 23rd day of September, 2021 .
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ENID WEISMAN, MAYOR
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CITY CLERK
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