97-25 ORDINANCE NO. 97-25
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA,
ADOPTING THE ATTACHED TENTATIVE OPERATING
AND CAPITAL BUDGET, AS REVIEWED AND APPROVED
BY CITY COUNCIL AT THE REVIEW MEETING HELD ON
JULY 21, 1997, AS THE CITY OF AVENTURA FINAL
BUDGET FOR THE 1997/98 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 ENCUMBRANCES; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AVENTURA, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section1. The tentative 1997/98 Operating and Capital Improvement
Program Budget, reviewed and approved by the City Council on July 21, 1997, a copy
of said budget being attached hereto and made a part hereof as specificially as if set
forth at length hereat, be and the same is hereby established and adopted as the City
of Aventura's final budget for the 1997/98 fiscal year. The tentative budget adopted
hereby may be amended or adjusted by a motion approved by a majority vote of the
City Council at the public hearings in accordance with State Statutes.
Section 2. Expenditure of Funds Appropriated in the Bud,qet 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
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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.
Section 3. Budgetary Control. The 1997/98 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 tong 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 Personnel Policies.
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
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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.
Section 6. Amendments. Upon the passage and adoption of the 1997198 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. All outstanding encumbrances at September 30, 1997
shall lapse at that time; and all lapsed capital outlay encumbrances shall be reappropriated
in the 1997/1998 fiscal year.
Section 8. 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
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remain in effect, it being the legislative intent that this Ordinance shall stand
notwithstanding the invalidity of any part.
Section 9. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon
adoption on second reading.
The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Councilmember Rogers-Libert, who
moved its adoption on first reading. This motion was seconded by Councilmember
Beskin, and upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Councilmember Arthur Berger yes
Councilmember Jay R. Beskin yes
Councilmember Ken Cohen yes
Councilmember Harry Holzberg yes
Councilmember Patricia Rogers-Libert yes
Vice Mayor Jeffrey M. Perlow yes
Mayor Arthur I. Snyder yes
The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Councilmember Rogers-Libert ,
who moved its adoption on second reading. This motion was seconded by
Counciimember Beskin and upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Councilmember Arthur Berger absent
Councilmember Jay R. Beskin yes
Councilmember Ken Cohen yes
Councilmember Harry Holzberg yes
Councilmember Patricia Rogers-Libert yes
Vice Mayor Jeffrey M. Perlow yes
Mayor Arthur I. Snyder absent
PASSED AND ADOPTED on first reading this 9th day of September, 1997.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on second readings./this 23rd ~da~tember, 1997.
/'3'EICF REY'~ ~.PER LOW, V[C--"E"~AY O R
ATTEST:~, ,
TERESA M. SMITH,
CITY CLERK
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
CITY ATTORNEY
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