Ordinance No. 8,385F lished in the Baytown Sun:
rsday, September 17, and,rdday, September 24, 1998
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ORDINANCE NO. 8385
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS,
ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING OCTOBER 1,
1998, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1999, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHARTER AND
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION
AND EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
WHEREAS, the City Manager of the City of Baytown has submitted to the City Council a budget estimate
of the revenues of said City and the expense of conducting the affairs thereof for the ensuing fiscal year, beginning
October 1, 1998, and ending September 30, 1999, and which said estimate has been compiled from detailed
information obtained from the several departments, divisions, and offices of the City containing all information
as required by the Charter of the City of Baytown; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has received said City Manager's estimate and held a public hearing thereon
as provided by Section 44 of the Charter; and
WHEREAS, after full and final consideration of the public hearing and after certain revisions to the
proposed budget, it is the opinion of the Council that the budget as revised should be approved and adopted; NOW
THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That the budget estimate of the revenues of the City of Baytown and the expenses of
conducting the affairs thereof for the ensuing fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1998, and ending September 30,
1999, as finally submitted to the City Council by the City Manager of said City (a copy of which is on file in the
City Clerk's office) be, and the same is in all things, adopted and approved as the budget estimate of all the current
expenses as well as the fixed charges against said City for the fiscal year beginning on the 1 st day of October,
1998, and ending September 30, 1999.
Section 2: That the sum of FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY -FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
NINETY -FIVE AND NO /100 DOLLARS ($535,295.00) is hereby appropriated out of the Hotel/Motel Tax Fund
for the payment of Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay of the City Government.
Section 3: That the sum of THIRTY -ONE MILLION NINE HUNDRED NINETY THOUSAND
EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY -ONE AND NO /100 DOLLARS ($31,990,821.00) is hereby appropriated out of
the General Fund for the payment of Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay of the City Government.
Section 4: That the sum of TWO MILLION SIX HUNDRED FOURTEEN THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED FORTY -THREE AND NO /] 00 DOLLARS ($2,614,343.00) is hereby appropriated out of the
Sanitation Fund for the Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay of the municipally owned Solid Waste Collection
System.
Section 5: That the sum of FIFTEEN MILLION FORTY THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED
NINETY -SIX AND NO /] 00 DOLLARS ($15,040,496.00) is hereby appropriated out of the Waterworks and
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Sanitary Sewage System for operating costs and for the purpose of paying the accruing interest and redeeming
the Serial Bonds as they mature on the Waterworks and Sanitary Sewer Fund Debt Service Bonds.
Section 6: That the sum of ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED NINETY -SEVEN THOUSAND SIX
HUNDRED FIFTY -THREE AND NO /I 00 DOLLARS ($1,197,653.00) is hereby appropriated out of the Central
Services Fund for the Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay for Municipal Garage Services System and Central
Warehouse Activities.
Section 7: That the sum of SEVEN MILLION SEVEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY -
NINE AND NO/] 00 DOLLARS ($7,007,989.00) is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund Debt Service
for the purpose of paying the accruing interest and redeeming the Serial Bonds as they mature on the General
Fund Debt Service Bonds.
Section 8: That the City Manager is hereby authorized to transfer any unencumbered appropriation
balance or portion thereof between general classifications of expenditures within an office, department or agency,
in accordance with Section 68 of the Charter.
Section 9: That the City Manager shall have the authority to increase a department's line item budget
by the amount equal to outstanding purchase orders as of September 30, 1998, to be appropriated out of the Fund
Balance.
Section 10: This ordinance shall be and remain in full force and effect from and after its passage and
approval of the City Council, and it shall be published once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in the
official newspaper of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City Council of the City of Baytown
this the 10th day of September, 1998.
ATTEST:
EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ACTO RAMIREZ, SR., Attorney
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PETE C. ALFARO, Mayor