Agenda Date: 07/187/2017
Subject:
Title
An ordinance on second reading amending Ordinance No. 21 Series of 2016 known as the Annual Appropriation Bill for all municipal purposes for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2017 and ending December 31, 2017.
Body
Presented By:
Tiffany Hooten, Finance Director
POLICY QUESTION:
Does city council support an amendment to the 2017 annual appropriation for the City of Littleton?
BACKGROUND:
Staff typically prepares a request to increase the annual appropriation at the end of each year. In an effort to provide updated information to city council throughout the year, staff will be preparing and presenting budget increase requests periodically. This will be in addition to the annual appropriation at the end of the year. Staff has identified a need to increase the annual appropriation for the 2017 budget for projects or service needs at this time.
These funds are recommended to be increased.
General Fund - $346,200
The General Fund increase is comprised of the following.
* Contract city attorney services and personnel recruitment - $134,200. Stephen Kemp will be joining the city as the Littleton City Attorney in July. It is anticipated to take up to nine months to attain the required credentials to practice in Colorado. Meanwhile, it will be necessary for the city to continue to contract for attorney services until this process is complete. This is the additional amount needed above the 2017 attorney office personnel budget to continue contracting for attorney services through the end of the year, maintaining a full time assistant city attorney through December 2017, and includes $4,340 in recruitment costs. Contracted attorney services average $22,000 per month. The city conservatively estimates that this amount will decrease to $15,000 per month through the end of the year.
* Roof inspection contract - $49,000. The Community Development Department issues approximately 3,000 building permits each year. Of...
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