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Adopting the 2017 Budget.
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WHEREAS, the Mayor has proposed budgets for the City of Saint Paul for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2017, in accordance with the Saint Paul City Charter and Chapter 56 of the Administrative Code; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, after publication of the notice in the newspaper on December 5, 2016, participated in a public hearing on December 7, 2016, on the Mayor's Proposed 2017 budgets and property tax levy, as required by the City Charter and applicable state and federal laws; and
WHEREAS, the Capital Allocation Agreement for the Rivercentre Complex among the City, Rivercentre Convention and Visitors Authority and Saint Paul Arena Company is set to expire in March of 2017, and the agreement provides that it may be extended upon agreement of the parties; and
WHEREAS, several budget items will be placed into a contingency reserve account pending future decisions on the 2017 right-of-way program; and
WHEREAS, budgets held in contingency cannot be spent without Council authorization; and
WHEREAS, the Council has revised the Mayor's proposed budgets as indicated in Attachment A; now therefore be it
RESOLVED, that in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the City Charter and other laws applicable thereto, the Council of the City of Saint Paul does hereby adopt the 2017 budgets as proposed by the Mayor with such monetary changes, additions and deletions as are hereby adopted and which, along with total budgets, are set forth in Attachment A; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the expenditures in dollars as may be made by the offices, departments, bureaus, and agencies of city government during the fiscal year 2017 shall be, and are hereby approved, and adoption of these budgets shall constitute appropriations of the money amounts as set at the department budget total in the General Fund budget, the project total in the Capital Improvements Budget, and the fund budget total in all other c...
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