A bill for an ordinance authorizing a cash transfer from the City Council Special Revenue Fund to the General Fund and making an appropriation in the General Fund. Approves a cash transfer of $143,146 from the City Council Special Revenue Fund and an appropriation in General Fund Contingency to meet a portion of City Council’s 2020 mid-year reduction target. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-2-20.
Nine eyes, three nays. Accountable for 95 has been introduced. Ladies and gentlemen, if you could, please, so that we can get through the rest of these. Thank you. Councilmember Canete, will you please vote count about 504 on the floor. Yeah, I move that council bill 20 20504 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Questions or comments from members of Council Councilmember CdeBaca. Thank you, Mr. President. Can you clarify what this is for real quick before I make my comment? I'm sorry. Who are you directing your question to? To you. You called out. It's the special revenue. So this is part of our. This is our. Furlough. No, this is not. This is part of your budget. Anything you didn't spend last year, if we don't vote on this, it goes into the general fund. This puts it back in your office budget for this year. Okay. And so does this have any connection to the dollars that we were supposed to sequester? Will we have to sequester this once we get it back? No, this is moving in. Councilmember Gilmore has our budget and she's flagging me as I'm going to. We'll let her answer that in case. Thank you, President Clark. Councilwoman CdeBaca, this transfer is a portion of the special revenue fund that was allocated for the 4% sequester from the central office. And then it's a portion of Councilwoman Torres, my office, Councilwoman Sandoval's office. The 4% that city council was sequestering was $7,979. And so this is a portion of some of those offices using their special revenue fund to use that for the 4% sequester. So like your office isn't included in this because I believe your office well, you aren't participating, but so the other offices there may be taking that 4% out of their services and supplies. And so we won't see that come forward. Awesome. Thank you very much. I wanted to clarify that because as you all are looking at your budgets, take a look at what city council budget is for us to operate 13 offices. There's a reason why some of you don't get callbacks or responses on email, and it's because our executive branch of government keeps our branch of government. That's supposed to be the check and balance starved so that we can't respond, so that we can't do these things. And so we were asked by the administration, even though we're not required to furlough, we were asked to furlough and to set aside budget cuts. And this is part of what some of those offices had decided to give or not give up. I chose not to because our office receives the highest volume of everything that happens in this city, and we need more staff than we currently have. We don't need to be cut. And so I wanted to explain that to you all and make sure that you understand that balance. Government requires balanced budgets and independently elected branches of government should have can measure its size budgets. So pay attention to that as you guys are scanning this information because it's critical. Thank you. Thank you. And I apologize. Thank you, Councilmember Gilmore, for stepping in there, Councilman Hines. But thank you, Mr. President. Just to echo Councilmember CdeBaca point, the woman in the front to the BlackLivesMatter shirt, I'm sorry that I did not respond to you. There is me, one person who is sick and one person who took voluntary furloughs this past week. And so and that's it. That's that's all we got. So just to councilmember said about this point, we are we are very lean and we try to do as much as we can with what we have. But but we are very lean. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilmember. All right. Madam Secretary, roll call on 504. CdeBaca, I. Flynn I. Gilmore I. Herndon High. Heights. High. Cashman High. Can I. Sandoval, I. Sawyer I. Torres I. Black I. Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary. Please go to voting and note the results. To. Advise by his council. Bill 504 has passed. Councilmember candidate, will you please vote? Council Bill 508 on the floor.