Chapter 7.09
Intrafund Budget Transfers

Sections:

7.09.010 Permitted When.

7.09.020 Report Required.

7.09.030 New Appropriations.

7.09.040 Expenditure Limits.

7.09.010 Permitted When.

Intrafund budget transfers may be made during the current fiscal year by order of the mayor, or in the library fund by the library director, or in the park fund by the director of parks and recreation; provided, however, that any transfer which will have the effect of creating or abolishing authorized employee positions, changes in authorized salary ranges, hours, or other conditions of employment, or which establish or discontinue administrative departments, must be approved by ordinance passed by the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the city council.

[Ord. C32957 § 10; Passed: 12/10/2001]

7.09.020 Report Required.

A.  The mayor shall prepare and submit to the city council within fifteen days following the calendar month a report of all intrafund budget transfers ordered during the calendar month. It shall not be necessary for the city council to approve the report. The report shall include but not be limited to the following:

1.   intrafund transfers between departments; and

2.   intrafund transfers between categories of personal services, maintenance and operation, capital outlay and debt service.

B.  Intrafund transfers within budgets of single departments which do not involve transfers between the object groups of personal services, maintenance and operation, capital outlay and debt service need not be included in the monthly reports to city council.

C.  For purposes of determining those transfers to be reported, the classification of accounts as established by the state auditor shall be followed.

[Ord. C32755; Passed: 12/4/2000]

7.09.030 New Appropriations.

Transfers between appropriated funds, which are actually new appropriations, require the approval of the city council by vote of one more than the majority of all members of the city council.

[Ord. C24815 § 4]

7.09.040 Expenditure Limits.

Budget expenditures shall be limited in the manner specified in RCW chapter 35.33 as now enacted or hereafter amended.

[Ord. C24815 § 1]