88-57 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 1988-1989

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� " - . COUNCIL MEMORANDUM #88-83 July 12, 1988 TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members FROM: Leslie T. Allen, City Manager RE: Appropriation Ordinance - FY1988/89 An ordinance appropriating funds for FY1988/89 has been placed on the agenda for Monday, July 18. Prior to consideration of this ordinance, a public hearing on the ordinance has been scheduled. Public notice of the hear- ing was given ten days prior to the hearing. All funds to be expended in FY1988/89 have been included ex- cept those funds that are appropriated by other ordinances (e.g. , special assessments, motor fuel tax, debt service, bond proceeds, etc. ) . Ron Lappi has highlighted revisions from the budget that have been included in the ordinance in the attached Finance Memorandum. Two items that were recommended by the Housing and Neigh- borhood Task Force were included in the appropriation of CDBG funds as follows: (1) $2,000 - Tool Bank Project; and, (2) $21,743 - Receivership Revolving Loan Fund. I had originally recommended that the $21,743 for the latter program be financed with CDBG funds. In Council review session relative to Staff responses to the Task Force' s recommendations, Council indicated that it wished to hold these funds and to con- sider other uses for them. It was legally impossible to hold these funds for other uses since these funds had to be appropriated. HUD would not allow any funds to be held in a contingency account pending Council ac- tion. If we could have held the funds, we would have to go through the reallocation process requiring public notice, public , hearing, etc. �, None of the funds appropriated in the General Fund or CDBG � Fund to finance recommendations of the Task Force will be released for expenditures until Council directs Staff to proceed.