2021-0167
INTRODUCED BY: MATTHEW JEWELL, PARISH PRESIDENT
(DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE)
ORDINANCE NO. _____________
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An ordinance to amend the 2021 Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget, Amendment No. 4, to add revenues and transfers totaling $27,792,982, accumulated fund balance of $58,452,391 and expenditures, including transfers, totaling $79,427,823 for all Governmental Funds for the purpose of adjusting beginning 2021 fund balances across all funds to match ending 2020 Final Budget balances and to re-apply various construction, architectural/engineering, and other fees unexpended in 2020 for Parish projects that were not completed during 2020 and apply them to 2021.
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WHEREAS, the 2021 St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget was adopted November 16, 2020 by Ordinance No. 20-11-5; and amended January 6, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-01; January 25, 2021 by Ordinance No. 21-1-8; February 22, 2021 by Ordinance No. 21-2-9; February 8, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-02; February 18, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-03; March 23, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-04; March 30, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-05; April 14, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-06; April 27, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-07; May 6, 2021 by Executive Order No. 2021-08; June 21, 2021 by proposed amendments #3; and,
WHEREAS, the Parish Council has taken under consideration the study of Amendment No. 4 to the St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget for fiscal year 2021: to add from the 2020 Unexpended Fund Balance $23,618,692 in the General Fund and to transfer $15,796,329 to the Flood Protection Fund; to add from the 2020 Unexpended Fund Balance, including grant revenues and additional sales tax revenues totaling $32,010,052, for construction, architectural/engineering and other fees for: Fund 112 - Roads and Drainage - Drainage, Account No. 112-420260, in the amount of $22,545,681; Fund 112 - Roads and Drainage - Paved Streets, Account No.112-420210 in the amount of $5,236,234; Fund 112 - Roads and Drainage - Sidewalks, Account No. 112-420230 in the amount of $4,441,857, Fund 102 Parish Transportation in the amount of $710,000; Fund 123 - Flood Protection Fund - grant revenues totaling $5,310,245, General Fund transfers totaling $15,796,329, and capital expenditures of $21,127,818; Fund 310 - West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee for capital expenditures totaling $9,569,904, all of which are for the projects as shown by the Revision Schedule.
THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I. That in accordance with the provisions of Article V, Sections D, E, and F of the St. Charles Parish Home Rule Charter and with the Louisiana Local Government Budget Act (R.S. 39:1301 et. seq.), the St. Charles Parish Council does hereby amend the 2021 St. Charles Parish Consolidated Operating and Capital Budget, as amended, as per "Exhibit A".
The foregoing ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:
And the ordinance was declared adopted this ________ day of _____________, 2021, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.
CHAIRMAN:______________________________________________
SECRETARY:_____________________________________________
DLVD/PARISH PRESIDENT:_________________________________
APPROVED:______________ DISAPPROVED:__________________
PARISH PRESIDENT:______________________________________
RETD/SECRETARY:_______________________________________
AT:_______________RECD BY: _____________________________