HomeMy Public PortalAbout071-2015 - Appropriation - Sanitary - Solid WasteCOMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, INDIANA
ORDINANCE NO.71-2015
AN ORDINANCE FOR AN ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION TO THE
RICHMOND SANITARY DISTRICT'S 601 SOLID WASTE ACCOUNT
WHEREAS, The Board of Sanitary Commissioners (hereinafter "Board") for
the Richmond Sanitary District (hereinafter "RSD") is assigned,
and charged with, and is responsible for the annual collection of
leaves for the City of Richmond, Indiana (hereinafter "City") and
WHEREAS, The Street Department of City (hereinafter "Street Department"),
and not the RSD, has, for many years, used its employees and
equipment to annually clear Richmond's streets and sewers of
leaves, thereby dramatically reducing the cost RSD would have
incurred were it to do the leaf collection with its own employees
and equipment; and
WHEREAS, Employees of the City, including employees of the Richmond
Sanitary District and the Street Department, have gone without any
pay raises for at least seven (7) years and over that same period of
time have only been granted two (2) stipends of Five Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) each in 2013 and in 2014; and
WHEREAS, Common Council (hereinafter "Council") believes that the City
does not currently have, nor does it anticipate having, an operating
cash surplus in its 2015 budget in which to grant City employees
any stipends for 2015; and
WHEREAS, Council believes it is in the best interests of the Board of RSD and
Council for the RSD to pay the Street Department for the Street
Department's work for its leaf collection work on behalf of RSD,
with said payment to be made to the Street Department's Motor
Vehicle Highway fund (hereinafter "MVH); and
WHEREAS, There are not sufficient funds at the present time in RSD's 2015
budget in its 601 Solid Waste fund to make a payment to the City's
Street MVH account for stipends for City employees for 2015; and
WHEREAS, Council believes that there are sufficient cash assets available in its
601 Solid Waste account that could help assist and augment the
Street Department's MVH account for the purpose of granting all
City employees stipends for the year 2015, all of which would not
impair RSD's ability to operate its Solid Waste program or to
meets its obligations thereto; and
WHEREAS, The Board of RSD has recommended that its payment to the Street
Department's MVH fund be in the amount of $248,000, which
amount is the estimated cost of the equipment used, miscellaneous
expenses and the payment for the wages of Street Department
employees to do the City's annual leaf collection; and
WHEREAS, Council is willing to make an additional appropriation of $248,000
to the 2015 budget of RSD's 601 Solid Waste account, with said
additional appropriation of $248,000 being the amount that RSD
will pay from its 601 Solid Waste account to the Street
Department's Motor Vehicle Highway account.
WHEREAS, Common Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana passed an
annual budget for calendar year 2015 on October 21 st, 2014
(Ordinance No. 42-2014); and
WHEREAS, It has been determined it is now necessary to appropriate additional
sums of money to certain funds.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of
Richmond, Indiana, which said Council, having reviewed and discussed the recitals set
forth above, now adopts the findings of fact set forth above and hereby incorporates the
recitals set forth above into this ordinance and said findings of fact.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Common Council of
the City of Richmond, Indiana, that the following additional sums of money are hereby
appropriated to the following fund:
1. Richmond Sanitary District 601 Solid Waste Account $ 248,000.00
Passed and adopted this Z(, day of by the Common
Council of the City of Richmond, Indiana.
RICHMOND COMMON COUNCIL
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Karen Chasteen
PRESENTED to the Mayor of the City of Richmond, Indiana, this / day of November,
2015, at 9:00 a.m.
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Karen Chasteen
APPROVED by me, Sarah L. Hutton, Mayor of the City of Richmond, Indiana, this 17
day of November, 2015, at 9:05 a.m.
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