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192047

Emergency Ordinance

*Adopt the FY 2024-25 Technical Adjustment Ordinance and make other budget-related changes

Passed

The City of Portland ordains.

Section 1.  The Council finds:

  1. Exhibit 1, attached, includes all incremental changes to the City appropriation schedule as a result of the Spring Technical Adjustment Ordinance.
     
  2. A memorandum, attached as Exhibit 2, identifies programs, projects, or activities that require appropriation adjustment or transfer of appropriation within bureau and fund budgets.
     
  3. Exhibit 3, attached, shows, for informational purposes, a reconciliation of changes to all funds.
     
  4. Exhibit 4, attached, shows, for informational purposes, all requests materially affecting the General Fund.
     
  5. Exhibit 5, attached, shows all position changes. 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

  1. The FY 2024-25 Appropriation Schedule is hereby amended by adjusting appropriations for certain expenditures in various funds as indicated by the increases and decreases presented in Exhibit 1; explanation of these changes is provided in the memorandum attached as Exhibit 2.
  2. The number of authorized positions in the FY 2024-25 Revised Budget is hereby amended as presented in Exhibit 5.
  3. The actions amending the FY 2024-25 Revised Budget contained in this ordinance are binding City policy. 

Section 2.  The Council declares that an emergency exists because the FY 2024-25 Spring budget adjustments need to be implemented without delay; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council.


An ordinance when passed by the Council shall be signed by the Auditor. It shall be carefully filed and preserved in the custody of the Auditor (City Charter Chapter 2 Article 1 Section 2-122)

Passed by Council

Auditor of the City of Portland
Simone Rede

Impact Statement

Purpose of Proposed Legislation and Background Information

The Spring Supplemental Budget is primarily intended to allow bureaus to make technical adjustments and other revisions to their current year budget. However, bureaus are also permitted to request General Fund "Program Carryovers," draw from policy set-aside, and encouraged to submit General Fund returns for known underspending.

Financial and Budgetary Impacts

Approval of this ordinance will change appropriation in 47 funds by a net reduction of $1,777,925, primarily resulting from truing up beginning fund balance and other resources. There is a net increase of $3.46 million to the General Fund. These changes are summarized in Exhibit 2. This legislation adds net zero FTE as noted in Exhibit 5.

Economic and Real Estate Development Impacts

Not applicable.

Community Impacts and Community Involvement

The public had the opportunity to provide online testimony for several weeks leading up to a publicly-noticed hearing, where community members may also provide virtual testimony. This supplemental budget is a small part of the much larger budget process; the rest of the budget process is subject to extensive public outreach in the form of public meetings, public hearings, Council work sessions, requests and analysis provided online, and the inclusion of public budget, and the inclusion of community budget advisors.  

100% Renewable Goal

Not applicable.

Financial and Budget Analysis

Analysis provided by City Budget Office

The FY 2024-25 Mayor’s Proposed Spring BMP includes $3.5M in policy set-aside allocations; $6.1M in General Fund program carryovers; and $5.1M in General Fund returns. Other fund changes result in a net reduction of $1,777,925, primarily resulting from truing up beginning fund balance and other resources. 
As of filing, General Fund contingency sits at $36.5M, which breaks out as follows: $3.0 million remains in Unrestricted Contingency: $1.8 million remains in Compensation Set-aside; $6.1 million for General Fund Carryovers and $5.1M in General Fund returns to be added to FY 25 Budget; $13.3 million in Policy Set-aside accounts $7.3 million in Capital Set-aside.

Document History

Document number: 2025-120

President's referral: Finance Committee

Agenda Council action
Regular Agenda
Finance Committee
Referred to City Council
Motion to move the Emergency Ordinance to Adopt the FY 2024-25 Technical Adjustment and make other budget-related changes to be sent to the full Council with the recommendation that it be passed: Moved by Pirtle-Guiney and seconded by Novick. (Aye (5): Pirtle-Guiney, Novick, Green, Avalos, Zimmerman)
Regular Agenda
City Council
Passed
Motion to call the question: Moved by Green and seconded by Smith. (Aye (11): Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (1) Ryan)

Motion to make adjustments to the supplemental budget as proposed to change General Fund return decision packages to General Fund carryover decision packages in the Public Safety Service Area: Moved by Kanal and seconded by Avalos. (Aye (6): Kanal, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, Dunphy; Nay (6) Ryan, Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney) Motion failed to pass.

Motion to call the question: Moved by Green and seconded Zimmerman. (Aye (9): Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney; Nay (3) Kanal, Avalos, Dunphy)

Votes
  • Aye (10):
    • Koyama Lane
    • Ryan
    • Novick
    • Clark
    • Green
    • Zimmerman
    • Avalos
    • Dunphy
    • Smith
    • Pirtle-Guiney
  • Nay (2):
    • Kanal
    • Morillo

Document number

2025-120

Introduced by

City department

Service area

Contact

Ruth Levine

Deputy Director, City Budget Office

Agenda Type

Regular

Date and Time Information

Meeting Date
Time Requested
30 minutes
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