99-13 ORDINANCE NO. 99-13
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA,
ADOPTING THE ATTACHED TENTATIVE OPERATING
AND CAPITAL BUDGET, AS REVIEWED AND APPROVED
BY CITY COMMISSION AT THE REVIEW MEETING HELD
ON JULY 20, 1999, AS THE CITY OF AVENTURA FINAL
BUDGET FOR THE 1999/2000 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 COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
Section1. The tentative 1999/2000 Operating and Capital Improvement
Program Budget, reviewed and approved by the City Commission on July 20, 1999, 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 1999/2000 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 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 1999/2000 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.
Se,ction 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 pdvate 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 ware 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 1999/2000 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 odginal 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, 1999
shall lapse at that time; and all lapsed capital outlay encumbrances shall be reappropriated
in the 1999/2000 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 Vice Mayor Rogers-Libert, who moved
its adoption on first reading. This motion was seconded by Commissioner Berger, and
upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Commissioner Arthur Berger yes
Commissioner Jay R. Beskin yes
Commissioner Ken Cohen yes
Commissioner Harry Holzberg yes
Commissioner Jeffrey M. Perlow yes
Vice Mayor Patricia Rogers-Libert yes
Mayor Arthur I. Snyder yes
The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Commissioner Beskin, who moved its
adoption on second reading. This motion was seconded by Commissioner Holzberg
and upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Commissioner Arthur Berger yes
Commissioner Jay R. Beskin yes
Commissioner Ken Cohen yes
Commissioner Harry Holzberg yes
Commissioner Jeffrey M. Perlow yes
Vice Mayor Patricia Rogers-Libert absent
Mayor Arthur I. Snyder absent
PASSED AND ADOPTED on first reading this 9th day of September, 1999.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED on second reading this 23rd day of September, 1999.
ARTHUR I. SNYD~R, MAYOR
ATTEST:
~TERESA M. SOROKA. fiMc/AAE
CITY CLERK -
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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