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To adopt the General Fund Budget for the fiscal year commencing Jul. 1, 2020, and ending Jun. 30, 2021, and to appropriate the estimated revenues for such fiscal year for the objects and purposes stated in such budget. (As Amended)
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WHEREAS, the sum of [$782,558,146] $744,050,117 of the estimated revenue for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, is the recommended General Fund Budget to be appropriated from the estimated receipts from all existing sources of revenue during the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, except estimated receipts from the gas, water, wastewater, electric, and stormwater utilities and the School Board, and is to be used by the respective departments and major operating units thereof and by the courts, bureaus, commissions, offices and agencies of the City in the sums itemized in said budget for the principal objectives and purposes thereof; [and]
WHEREAS, the recommended budget for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, is as set out in the attachment to this ordinance entitled “Mayor’s Proposed
Annual Fiscal Plan for FY2021 (4/16/2020),” and the Non-Departmental programs are set forth on the attachment to this ordinance entitled “FY2021 Non-Departmental Budget Programs (4/16/2020);” and
WHEREAS, the City Council’s amendments to the Mayor’s recommended budget are as set out in the attachments to this ordinance entitled “Richmond City Council, FY 2021 General Fund Budget Proposed Amendments,” “Ordinance No. 2020-049, General Fund Budget, Text Amendments,” and “Council FY 2021 Districts Funds;”
NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:
§ 1. That the budget designated as the General Fund Budget in the total amount of [$782,558,146] $744,050,117 for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, set forth on the attachment to this ordinance entitled “Mayor’s Proposed Annual Fiscal Plan for FY2021 (4/16/2020),” including the budget for Non-Departmental programs set forth on the attachment to this ordinance entitled “FY2021 Non-Departmental Budget Programs (4/16/2020),” as those attachments are amended or supplemented by the attachments to this ordinance entitled “Richmond City Council, FY 2021 General Fund Budget Proposed Amendments,” “Ordinance No. 2020-049, General Fund Budget, Text Amendments,” and “Council FY 2021 Districts Funds,” each of which is incorporated into this ordinance, is hereby adopted and made part of this ordinance.
§ 2. That the sum of [$782,558,146] $744,050,117 of the estimated revenue for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, be and is hereby appropriated from the estimated receipts from all existing sources of revenue during the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, except estimated receipts from the gas, water, wastewater, electric, and stormwater utilities and the School Board, and shall be used by the respective departments and major operating units thereof and by the courts, bureaus, commissions, offices, and agencies of the City, hereinafter collectively referred to as “agencies,” in the sums itemized in said budget, hereby adopted and made a part of this ordinance, for the principal objectives and purposes thereof. The total sum of the funds herein provided for the respective agencies, are as set out opposite each of them in the [attachment] attachments to this ordinance entitled “Mayor’s Proposed Annual Fiscal Plan for FY2021 (4/16/2020),” “Richmond City Council, FY 2021 General Fund Budget Proposed Amendments,” “Ordinance No. 2020-049, General Fund Budget, Text Amendments,” and “Council FY 2021 Districts Funds.”
§ 3. That the payment and settlement of claims of any kind heretofore or hereafter asserted against the City and final judgments hereafter asserted against the City and final judgments heretofore or hereafter obtained against the City, together with all costs, interest, fees for legal services and all other fees and expenses incident thereto, and all fees, costs and other expenses incurred in providing legal and other services authorized by section 2-57 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2015), as amended, shall be paid upon the approval and order of the City Attorney from the funds herein appropriated for defraying the expenses of performing the functions of the agency involved in the subject matter for which such services are provided.
§ 4. That, in accordance with section 6.18 of the Charter of the City of Richmond (2019) as amended, every appropriation made by ordinances adopting or amending the general fund budget and appropriations thereto for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, lapses as of the last moment of June 30, 2021. All unexpended and unencumbered funds for which the appropriation lapses as of the last moment of June 30, 2021, shall become part of the undesignated fund balance at the time such appropriation lapses unless expressly appropriated for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022.
§ 5. This ordinance shall be in force and effect at the first moment of the first day of July, 2020, and shall constitute the general fund appropriation ordinance for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021.