File #: ORD. 2025-001    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Consent Agenda
File created: 1/14/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/27/2025 Final action:
Title: To amend Ord. No. 2024-099, adopted May 13, 2024, which adopted the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 General Fund Budget and made appropriations pursuant thereto, to (i) transfer $500,000.00 from the Non-Departmental agency Right to Counsel for Evictions, (ii) create a new line item in the Non-Departmental agency called the "Right to Counsel for Evictions Program - Central Virginia Legal Aid Society," and (iii) appropriate such $500,000.00 to such new line item in the Non-Departmental agency for the purpose of providing funding for a right to counsel for evictions program.
Patrons: Mayor Avula
Attachments: 1. Ord. No. 2025-001

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To amend Ord. No. 2024-099, adopted May 13, 2024, which adopted the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 General Fund Budget and made appropriations pursuant thereto, to (i) transfer $500,000.00 from the Non-Departmental agency Right to Counsel for Evictions, (ii) create a new line item in the Non-Departmental agency called the “Right to Counsel for Evictions Program - Central Virginia Legal Aid Society,” and (iii) appropriate such $500,000.00 to such new line item in the Non-Departmental agency for the purpose of providing funding for a right to counsel for evictions program.

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THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:

§ 1.                     That Article I, Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2024-099, adopted May 13, 2024, which adopted a General Fund Budget for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, and made appropriations pursuant thereto, is hereby amended by:

(a)                     Transferring $500,000.000 from the Non-Departmental agency Right to Counsel for Evictions; and

(b)                     Creating a new line item in the Non-Departmental agency called the “Right to Counsel for Evictions Program - Central Virginia Legal Aid Society;” and

(c)                     Appropriating the funds in the amount of $500,000.00 transferred by subsection (a) of this section to the new line item in the Non-Departmental agency created by subsection (b) of this section called the “Right to Counsel for Evictions Program - Central Virginia Legal Aid Society,” for the purpose of providing funding for a right to counsel for evictions program.

§ 2. This ordinance shall be in force and effect upon adoption.