City of Long Beach - File #: 12-0752

• File #: 12-0752
• Version: 2
• Name: FM - A-3 ORD water rates
• Type: Emergency Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 8/23/2012
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 9/11/2012
• Final action: 9/11/2012
• Title: Recommendation to declare ordinance approving Resolution No. WD-1299, a resolution of the City of Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners establishing the rates and charges to be charged for water and sewer service and declaring the urgency thereof, and providing that this ordinance shall take effect at 12:01 A.M. on October 1, 2012, read and adopted as read. (Ordinance No. ORD-12-0013) (A-3)
• Sponsors: Financial Management
• Indexes: Budget
• Related files: 12-0765, 12-0764, 12-0759, 12-0758, 12-0749, 12-0750, 12-0751, 12-0753, 12-0754, 12-0755, 12-0756, 12-0757, 12-0760, 12-0761, 12-0762, 12-0763

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/11/2012	2	City Council	declare ordinance read and adopted as read	Pass
9/4/2012	1	City Council	approve recommendation to declare Emergency Ordinance No. ORD- , read, and adopted as read and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance approving Resolution
No. WD-1299, a resolution of the City of Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners establishing the rates and charges to be charged for water and sewer service and declaring the urgency thereof, and providing that this ordinance shall take effect at 12:01 A.M. on
October 1, 2012, read and adopted as read. (Ordinance No. ORD-12-0013) (A-3)

DISCUSSION
On August 1, 2012, the City Manager’s Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2013 (FY 13) was delivered by the Mayor to the City Council and community with recommended amendments for consideration. Hearings were set for March 6, April 17, June 10, July 3, July 24, August 7, August 14, August 21, August 28, and September 4 and September 11, along with five Budget Oversight Committee (BOC) meetings and ten community meetings at which the FY 13 Proposed Budget was discussed. We are pleased to report that through the scheduled hearings, BOC and community meetings, presentations have been made by multiple City departments resulting in 26 separate opportunities for public feedback, deliberation and input.

At the conclusion of the hearings, the City Council will amend the proposed budget as it deems appropriate, and adopt the proposed budget as amended. Since the publication of the FY 13 Proposed Budget, updated estimates of revenue and expense, which address technical corrections as well as decisions made by elected offices, are listed by fund and department in Attachments B and C to this letter, respectively.

The Appropriations Ordinance officially adopts the FY 13 budget and authorizes expenditures in conformance with the adopted budget. To become effective October 1, 2012, this Ordinance must include a finding of emergency. Specific resolutions provide for approval of the budgets for the Harbor, Sewer, and Water funds, which are not in the appropriation ordinance, and certain fee adjustments. Requests for approval include the FY 13 Capital Improvement...