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Ordinance 3592ORDINANCE NO. 3592 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF. EDMONDS, WASHINGTON ADOPTING A BIENNIAL BUDGET PROCESS AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BE EFFECTIVE. WHEREAS, pursuant to RCW Chapter 35A.34, the City of Edmonds, Washington, is authorized to adopt a biennial fiscal budget; and WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it would be efficient to adopt a biennial fiscal budget process for the City; and WHEREAS, the beginning of a biennial budget process, pursuant to Chapter 35A.34, cities must begin the biennial budget on an odd - numbered year; and NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS DO .� I 11 1i i, 1 ; ,201W601113 Section 1. The City of Edmonds hereby adopts a fiscal biennial budget process as authorized pursuant to RCW 35A.34, as now or hereafter amended. The biennial budget process for the City of Edmonds will begin with the 2007 -2008 biennium. Section 2. Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifically delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take effect five (5) days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the title. APPROVED: MAY 6R GA HAAKENSON VAWORDATA \Ordinances 3500 to 3599 \Ord3592.doc ATTEST /AUTHENTICATED : ,V �� CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE APPROVED AS TO FORM: OFFICE OF HE C Y ATTORNEY: BY W. SCOTT SNYDER FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 05/12/2006 PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 05/16/2006 PUBLISHED: 05/21/2006 EFFECTIVE DATE: 05/26/2006 ORDINANCE NO. 3592 Page 2 of 3 SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3592 of the City of Edmonds, Washington On the 16th day of May, 2006, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, passed Ordinance No. 3592. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON ADOPTING A BIENNIAL BUDGET PROCESS AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BE EFFECTIVE. The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request. DATED this 17th day of May, 2006. CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE Page 3 of 3 • 35A.33.140 Title 35A RCW: Optional Municipal Code legislative body shall determine and fix by ordinance the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes. Upon adoption of the ordinance fixing the amount of ad valorem taxes to be levied, the clerk shall certify the same to the board of county commissioners as required by RCW 84.52.020. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.135.1 35A.33.140 Funds — Quarterly report of status. At such intervals as may be required by city charter or ordi- nance, however, being not less than quarterly, the clerk shall submit to the city's legislative body and chief administrative officer a report showing the expenditures and liabilities against each separate budget appropriation incurred during the preceding reporting period and like information for the whole of the current fiscal year to the first day of the current reporting period together with the unexpended balance of each appropriation. The report shall also show the receipts from all sources. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.140.] 35A.33.145 Contingency fund — Creation. Every code city may create and maintain a contingency fund to pro- vide moneys with which to meet any municipal expense, the necessity or extent of which could not have been foreseen or reasonably evaluated at the time of adopting the annual bud- get, or from which to provide moneys for those emergencies described. in RCW 35A.33.080 and 35A.33.090. Such fund may be supported by a budget appropriation from any tax or other revenue source not restricted in use by law, or also may be supported by a transfer from other unexpended or decreased funds made available by ordinance as set forth in RCW 35A.33.120: PROVIDED, That the total amount accu- mulated in such fund at any time shall not exceed the equiva- lent of thirty -seven and one -half cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation of property within the city at such time. Any moneys in the contingency fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse except upon reappropriation by the coun- cil to another fund in the adoption of a subsequent budget. [1973 1st ex.s. c 195 § 28; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.145.] Severability— Effective dates and termination dates— Construc- tion - 19731st ex.s. 095: See notes following RCW 84.52.043. 35A.33.146 Contingency fund — Withdrawals. No money shall be withdrawn from the contingency fund except by transfer to the appropriate operating fund authorized by a resolution or ordinance of the council, adopted by a vote of the majority.of the entire council, clearly stating the facts constituting the reason for the withdrawal or the emergency as the case may be,, specifying the fund to which the with- drawn money shall be transferred. [1967 ex.s:.:c 119 § 35A.33.146.1 ..;35A.33.150 Unexpended appropriations. All appro�,. priations in any;current operating fund shall lapse at the end of each fiscal year: PROVIDED,..That.this shall. not prevent payments in the following year upon uncompleted. programs or improvements in progress or on orders subsequently filled or- claims .subsequently billed for the purchase of material, equipment and supplies,or for personal or contractual ser- vices not completed or furnished by the end of the fiscal year, all of .which have been properly budgeted and contracted: for, prior to the close of such fiscal year but furnished or com- pleted in due course thereafter. All appropriations in a special fund authorized by ordi- nance or by state law to be used only for the purpose or pur- poses therein specified, including any cumulative reserve funds lawfully established in specific or general terms for any municipal purpose or purposes, or a contingency fund as authorized by RCW 35A.33.145, shall not lapse, but shall be carried forward from year to year until fully expended or the purpose has been accomplished or abandoned, without neces- sity of reappropriation. The accounts for budgetary control for each fiscal year shall be kept open for twenty days after the close of such fis- cal year for the purpose of paying and recording claims for indebtedness incurred during such fiscal year; any claim pre- sented after the twentieth day following the close of the fiscal year shall be paid from appropriations lawfully provided . for the ensuing period, including.those made available by provi- sions of this section, and shall be recorded in the accounts for the ensuing fiscal year. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.150.1 35A.33.160 Violations and penalties. Upon the con- viction of any city official, department head or other city employee of knowingly failing, or refusing, without just cause, to perform any duty imposed upon such officer or employee by this chapter, or city ordinance or charter, in con- nection with the giving of,notice, the preparing and filing of estimates of revenues or expenditures or other information required for preparing a budget report in the time and manner required, or of knowingly making expenditures in excess of budget appropriations, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for each separate violation. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.33.160.1 Chapter 35A.34 RCW BIENNIAL BUDGETS Sections 35A.34.010 Legislative intent. 35A.34.020 Application of chapter. 35A.34.030 Definitions, 35A.34.040 Biennial budget authorized — Limitations. 35A.34.050 Budget estimates - Submittal. 35A.34.060 Budget estimates -- Classification and segregation. 35A.34.070 Proposed preliminary budget. 35A.34.080 Preliminary budget. 35A.34.090 Budget message — Hearings. 35A.34.100 Budget— Notice of hearing. 35A.34.110 Budget — Hearing. 35A.34.120 Budget — Adoption. 35A.34.130 Budget — Mid - biennial review and modification. 35A:34.140 Emergency ;expenditures — Nondebatable emergencies. 35A.34.150 Emergency expenditures —Other emergencies— Hearing. 35A.34.160 Emergency expenditures- Warrants— Payment. 35A.34.170 Registered warrants— Payment. 35A.34.18a Adjustment of wages, hours and conditions of employment. 35A.34..190 'Forms- Accounting— Supervision by state. 35A.34.200 Funds — Limitations on expenditures— Transfers and adjust- meril 35A.34.205 Administration, oversight, or supervision of utility—Reim- bursement from utility budget authorized. 35A.34.210 . Liabilities incurred in excess of budget. 35A.34.220 Funds received from sales of bonds and warrants— Expendi- tures. 35A.34.230 Revenue estimates- Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes. 35A.34.240 Funds -- Quarterly report of status. 35A.34.25o Contingency fund — Creation. 35A.34.260 Contingency fund — Withdrawals. 35A.34.270, Unexpended appropriations. [Title 35A RCW —page 48] (2004 Ed.) Biennial Budgets Vi 35A.34.280 �yolations and.penalties.. 35A.34.010, Legislative intent. •; See RCW X35.34:010. v,'na r 35A.34.020, Application of chapter., This chapter .applies i6,411 code cities which have 'by ordinance adopted this'chapter'authorizing the adoption • of -a fiscal biennium budget.' [ 1985 c 175- § 34.] 35A.34.030 Definitions. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the definitions in this section -apply throughout this. chapter. l (1) "Clerk" includes the officer performing the functions of a finance,or, budget director, comptroller, auditor, or by whatever title the officer may he known in any code city. (2) "Department" includes each office; division, service, system, or institution oft the city for which no other statutory or charter provision is made for budgeting and accounting procedures or controls. (3) "Legislative body" includes the council, commission, or any other group of official s serving as the legislative body of a code city;; (4) "Chief administrative officer includes the mayor of cities having a mayor council plan of government, the com- missioners in cities having a commission plan' of government, the manager, or any other city official'designated by the char- ter or ordinances of such city under the plan of government governing the same, or the. budget or finance officer desig- nated by the mayor, manager,'o-r. commissioners, to perform the functions, or portions thereof,'contemplated by this chap- ter. (5) "Fiscal biennium" means the period from January 1 of each odd - numbered year,througl. December 31 of *the next succeeding even'numbered;year. (6) "Fund" and "funds" where clearly used to indicate the plural of "fund" means the budgeting or accounting entity authorized to provide a sum of money for specified activities or purposes. (7) "Funds" where not used to indicate the plural of "fund" means money in hand, or available for, expenditure or payment of a debt or obligation. (8) Except as- otherwise defined in this chapter, munici- pal accounting terms used in this chapter have the meaning prescribed by the state auditor pursuant to RCW 43.09.200. [1985 c 175 § 35.1 . "Fiscal biennium" defined. RCW 1.16.020. 35A.34.040 Biennial budget authorized— Limita- tions. All code cities are authorized to establish by ordinance a two -year fiscal biennium budget. The ordinance shall be enacted at least six months prior to commencement of the fis- cal biennium and this chapter applies to all code cities which utilize a fiscal biennium budget. Code cities which establish a fiscal biennium budget are authorized to repeal such ordi- nance and provide for reversion to a fiscal year budget. The ordinance may only be repealed effective as of the conclusion of a fiscal biennium. However, the city shall comply with chapter 35A.33 RCW in developing and adopting the budget for the first fiscal year following repeal of the ordinance. [1985 c 175 § 36.] 35A.34.070 35A.34.050. Budget estimates — Submittal. On or before the second Monday of the fourth month prior to the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium, or at such other time as the city may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk shall notify in writing the.head of each department of a city to file with the clerk -within fourteen days of the receipt of such notification, detailed estimates of the probable revenue from sources other than ad . valorem taxation and of all expendi- tures required by the:depart rent for the ensuing fiscal bien- nium. The.notice shall be accompanied by the proper forms . provided by the clerk,., prepared, in accordance with the requirements. and;classification established by the state audi- tor. The clerk shall prepare the estimates for interest and debt redemption requirements and all other estimates, the prepara- tion of which,falls properly,within the duties of the clerk's office. The chief administrative officers of the city shall sub- mit to the clerk detailed estimates of all expenditures pro- posed to be financed from the proceeds of bonds or warrants not yet authorized, together with a statement of the proposed method of financing them. In the absence or disability of the official or-person regularly in charge of a department, the duties required by this section shall devolve upon the person next in charge of such department. [1995 c 301 § 55; 1985 c 175 § 37.1 35A.34.060 _Budget estimates — Classification and segregation. All estimates of receipts and expenditures for the ensuing fiscal biennium shall be fully detailed in the bien- nial budget and shall be classified and segregated according to a standard classification of accounts to be adopted and pre- scribed by the state auditor after consultation with the Wash- ington finance officers association, the association of Wash- ington cities, and the association of Washington city manag- ers. [1995 c 301 § 56; 1985 c 175 § 38.] 35A.34.070 Proposed preliminary budget. On or before the first business day in the third month prior to the beginning of the biennium of a city or at such other time as the city may provide by ordinance or charter, the clerk or other person designated by the charter, by ordinances, or by the chief administrative officer of the city shall submit to the chief administrative officer a proposed preliminary budget which shall set forth the complete financial program of the city for the ensuing fiscal biennium, showing the expenditure program requested by each department and the sources of revenue by which each such program is proposed to be financed. The revenue section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund the actual receipts for the last com- pleted fiscal biennium, the estimated receipts for the current fiscal biennium, and the estimated receipts for the ensuing fiscal biennium, which shall include the amount to be raised from ad valorem taxes and unencumbered fund balances esti- mated to be available at the close of the current fiscal bien- nium. However, if the city was not utilizing a fiscal biennium budget for the previous three years, it shall set forth its fiscal years' revenues to reflect actual and estimated receipts as if it had previously utilized a biennial budgetary process. The expenditure section shall set forth in comparative and tabular form for each fund and every department operat- ing within each fund the actual expenditures for the last com- (2004 Ed) [Title 35A RCW —page 491 35A.34.080 Title 35A RCW: Optional Municipal Code pleted fiscal biennium, the appropriations for the current fis- cal biennium, and the estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal biennium. However, if the city was not utilizing a fiscal biennium budget for the previous three years, it shall set forth its fiscal years' expenditures to reflect actual and estimated levels as if it had previously utilized a biennial budgetary pro- cess. The expenditure section shall further set forth separately the salary or salary range for each office, position, or job clas- sification together with the title or position designation thereof. However, salaries may •be set out in total amounts under each department if a detailed schedule of such salaries and positions be attached and made a part of the budget doc- ument. [1985 c 175 § 39.1 35A.34.080 Preliminary budget. The chief adminis- trative officer shall prepare the preliminary budget in detail, making any revisions or additions to the reports of the depart- ment heads deemed advisable by such chief administrative officer. At least sixty days before the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium the chief administrative officer shall file it with the clerk as the recommendation of the chief adminis- trative officer for the final budget. The clerk shall provide a sufficient number of copies of such preliminary budget and budget message to meet the reasonable demands of taxpayers therefor and have them available for distribution not later than six weeks before the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium. [1985 c 175 § 40.] 35A.34.090 Budget message — Hearings. (1) In every city, a budget message prepared by or under the direction of the city's chief administrative officer shall be submitted as a part of the preliminary budget to the city's legislative body at least sixty days before the beginning of the city's next fiscal biennium and shall contain the following: (a) An explanation of the budget document; (b) An outline of the recommended financial policies and programs of the city for the ensuing fiscal biennium; (c) A statement of the relation of the recommended appropriation to such policies and programs; (d) A statement of the reason for salient changes from the previous biennium in appropriation and revenue items; and (e) An explanation for any recommended major changes in financial policy. (2) Prior to the final hearing on the budget, the legislative body or a committee thereof shall schedule hearings on the budget or parts thereof, and may require the presence of department heads to give information regarding estimates and programs. [1985 c 175 § 41.1 35A.34.100 Budget— Notice of hearing. Immediately following the filing of the preliminary budget with the clerk; the clerk shall publish a notice once a week for two consecu- tive weeks stating that the preliminary budget for the ensuing fiscal biennium has been filed with the clerk, that a copy thereof will be made available to any taxpayer who will call at the clerk's office therefor, that the legislative body of the city will meet on or before the first Monday of the month next preceding the beginning of the ensuing fiscal biennium for the purpose of fixing the final budget, designating the date, time, and place of the legislative budget meeting, and that any taxpayer may appear thereat and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The publication of the notice shall be made in the official newspaper of the city if there is one, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. If there is no newspaper.of general circulation in the city, then notice may be made by posting in three public places fixed by ordinance as the official places for posting the city's official notices. [1985 c 175 § 42.] 35A.34.110 Budget— Hearing. The legislative body shall meet on the day fixed by RCW 35A.34.100 for the pur- pose of fixing the final budget of the city at the time and place designated in the notice thereof. Any taxpayer may appear and be heard for or against any part of the budget. The hear- ing may be continued from day to day but not later than the twenty -fifth day prior to commencement of the city's fiscal biennium. [1985 c 175 § 43.] — 35A.34.120 Budget— Adoption. Following conclusion of the hearing, and prior to the beginning of the fiscal bien- nium, the legislative body shall make such adjustments and changes as it deems necessary or proper and, after determin- ing the allowance. in each item, department, classification, and fund, shall by ordinance adopt the budget in its final form and content. Appropriations shall be limited to the total esti- mated revenues contained therein including the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes and the unencumbered fund bal- ances estimated to be' available at the close of the current fis- cal biennium. Such ordinances may adopt the final budget by reference. However, the ordinance adopting the budget shall set forth in summary form the totals of estimated revenues and appropriations for each separate fund and the aggregate totals for all such funds combined. A complete copy of the final budget as adopted shall be transmitted to'the state auditor and to the association of Washington cities. [1995 c 301 § 57; 1985 c 175 § 44.] 35A.34.130 Budget— Mid - biennial review and modi- fication. The legislative authority of a city having adopted the provisions of this chapter shall provide by ordinance for a mid - biennial review and modification of the biennial budget. The ordinance shall provide that such review and modifica- tion shall occur no sooner than eight months after the start nor later than conclusion of the first year of the fiscal biennium. The chief administrative officer shall prepare the proposed budget modification and shall provide for publication of notice of hearings consistent with. publication. of notices for, adoption of other city ordinances. City ordinances providing. for a mid- biennium review and modification shall establish procedures for distribution of the proposed modification.to members of the city, legislative authority, procedures .for_ making copies available to. the public, and shall provide for public hearings on the proposed budget modification. The• budget modification shall be.by ordinance• approved inthe same manner as are other. ordinances of the city. A complete copy. of the budget modification as adopted shall be transmitted #o the state auditor and to the association of Washington cities. [1995 c 301 § 58; 1985 c 175 �§ 45.1 [Title 35A RCW —page 501 (2004 Ect) Biennial Budgets .35A.34.140 Emergency expenditures— Nondebat- able emergencies. Upon the happening of any emergency caused by violence of nature; casualty, riot, insurrection, war, or other unanticipated occurrence requiring the immediate preservation of .order or public health, or for the property which has been damaged or destroyed by accident, or for public relief from calamity; or in .settlement of approved claims for personal injuries or property damages, or to meet mandatory expenditures required by law enacted since the last budget was adopted, onto cover expenses incident to pre- paring for or establishing a new form of government autho- rized or assumed after adoption of the current budget, includ- ing any expenses incident to selection of additional or new officials required thereby, or incident to employee recruit -. ment at any time, the city legislative body, upon the adoption of an ordinance, by the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the legislative body, stating the facts consti- tutiug the emergency and the estimated amount required to meet it, may make the expenditures therefor without notice or hearing. [1985 c 175 § 46.1 35A.34.150 Emergency expenditures —Other emer- gencies— Hearing. If a public emergency which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of filing the pre- liminary budget requires the expenditure of money not pro- vided for in the budget, and if it is not one of the emergencies specifically enumerated in RCW 35A.34.140, the city legis- lative body before allowing any expenditure therefor shall adopt an ordinance stating the facts constituting the emer- gency and the estimated amount required to meet it and declaring that an emergency exists. , The ordinance shall not.be voted on until five days have elapsed after its introduction, and for passage shall require the vote of one more than the majority of all members of the legislative body of the city. Any taxpayer may appear at the meeting at which the emergency ordinance is to be voted on and be heard for or against the adoption thereof. [1985 c 175 § 47.1 35A.34.160 Emergency expenditures— Warrants- Payment. All expenditures for emergency purposes as pro- vided in this chapter shall be paid by warrants from any avail- able money in the fund properly chargeable with such expen- ditures. If, at any time, there is insufficient money on hand in a fund with which to pay such warrants as presented, the war- rants shall be registered, bear interest, and be called in the same manner as other registered warrants as prescribed in RCW 35A21.110. [1985 c 175 § 48.1 35A.34.170 Registered warrants — Payment. In adopting the final budget for any fiscal biennium, the legisla- tive body shall appropriate from estimated revenue sources available, a sufficient amount to pay the principal and interest on all outstanding registered warrants issued since the adop- tion of the last preceding budget except those issued and identified as revenue warrants and except those for which an appropriation previously has been made. However, no por- tion of the revenues which are restricted in use by law may be appropriated for the redemption of warrants issued against a utility or other special purpose fund of a self- supporting nature. In addition, all or any portion of the city's outstanding (2004 Ed.) 35A34.200 registered warrants may funded into bonds in any manner authorized by law.' [1985 c'175 § 49] ' 35A.34.180 Adjustment of wages, hours and condi -. tions of employment. Notwithstanding the appropriations for any salary or salary range of any employee or employees adopted in a final budget, the legislative body of any city may, by ordinance, change the wages, hours; and 'conditions of employment of any or all of its appointive employees if sufficient funds are available for appropriation to such pur- poses. [1985 c 175 § 50.1 '35A.,34.190 Forms — Accounting- Supervision by state. The state auditor is empowered to make and install the forms and clas'sifcations 'required 'by this chapter to define what expenditures are chargeable to each budget class and to establish the accounting and cost systems necessary to secure accurate budget information. [1995 c 301 § 59; 1985 c 175 § 51.] 35A.34.200 Funds— Limitations on expenditures— Transfers and adjustments. (1)'The expenditures as classi- fied and itemized in the final-budget shall constitute the city's appropriations for the ensuing fiscal biennium. Unless other- wise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction; and subject to further limitations imposed by ordinance of the city, the expenditure of city funds or the incurring of current liabilities on behalf of the city shall be limited to the following: (a) The total amount appropriated for each fund in the budget for the current fiscal biennium, without regard to the individual items contained therein, except that this limitation does not apply to wage adjustments authorized by RCW 35A.34.180; ' (b) The unexpended appropriation balances of a preced- ing budget which may be carried forward from prior fiscal periods pursuant to RCW 35A34.270; (c) Funds received from the sale of bonds or warrants which have been duly authorized according to law; (d) Funds received in excess of estimated revenues dur- ing the current fiscal biennium, when authorized by an ordi- nance amending the original budget; and (e) Expenditures authorized by budget modification as provided by RCW 35A34.130 and those required for emer- gencies, as authorized by RCW 35A34.140 and 35A34.150. (2) Transfers between individual appropriations within any one fund may be made during the current fiscal biennium by order of the city's chief administrative officer subject to such regulations, if any, as may be imposed by the city legis- lative body. Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 43.09.210 or of any statute to the contrary, transfers, as authorized in this section, may be made within the same fund regardless of the various offices, departments, or divisions of the city which may be affected. (3) The city legislative body, upon a finding that it is to the best interests of the city to decrease, revoke, or recall all or any portion of the total appropriations provided for any one fund, may, by ordinance, approved by the vote of one more than the majority of all members thereof, stating the facts and findings for doing so, decrease, revoke, or recall all or any portion of an unexpended fund balance, and by said [Title 35A RCW —page 511 35A.34.205 Title 35A RCW: Optional Municipal Code ordinance, or a subsequent ordinance adopted by a like majority, the moneys thus released may be reappropriated for another purpose or purposes, without limitation to depart- ment, division, or fund, unless the use of such moneys is oth- erwise restricted by law, charter, or ordinance. [ 1985 c 175 § 52.] 35A.34.205 Administration, oversight, or supervi- sion of utility — Reimbursement from utility budget authorized. Whenever any code city apportions a percent- age of the city manager's, administrator's, or supervisor's time, or the time of other management or general government staff, for administration, oversight, or supervision of a utility operated by the city, or to provide services to the utility, the utility budget may identify such services and budget for reim- bursement of the city's current expense fund for the value of such services. f 1991 c 152 § 4.] 35A.34.210 Liabilities incurred in excess of budget. Liabilities incurred by any officer or employee of the city in excess of any budget appropriations shall not be a liability of the city. The clerk shall issue no warrant and the city legisla- tive body or other authorized person shall approve no claim for an expenditure in excess of the total amount. appropriated for any individual fund, except upon an order of a court, of competent jurisdiction or for emergencies as provided in this chapter. [1985 c 175 § 53.] 35A.34.220 Funds received from sales, of bonds and warrants — Expenditures. Moneys received from the sale of bonds or warrants shall be used for no other purpose than that for which they were issued and no expenditure shall be made for that purpose until the bonds have been duly autho- rized. If any unexpended fund balance remains from the pro- ceeds realized from the bonds or warrants after the accom- plishment of the purpose for which they were issued, it -shall be used for the redemption of such bond or warrant indebted- ness. Where a budget contains an expenditure program to be financed from a bond.issue to be authorized thereafter, no such expenditure shall be made or incurred until after the bonds have been duly authorized. [1985.c 175.§ 54.] 35A.34.230 Revenue estimates — Amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes. At a time fixed by the city's ordinance or city charter, not later than the first Monday in October of the second year of each fiscal. biennium; the chief administra- tive officer shall provide the city's legislative body with cur- rent information on estimates of revenues from all sources as adopted in the budget for the current biennium, together with estimates submitted by the clerk under :RCW .35A.34.070. The, city's legislative body and the city's administrative officer or the officer's designated representative shall con- sider the city's total anticipated. financial requirements for the ensuing fiscal biennium, and thelegislative body shall deter- mine'and fix by ordinance the amount ,.to be raised the first year of the biennium by.ad valorernaaxes::The legislative body shall review such information as is, provided by .the chief administrative officer and shall adopt an ordinance establishing the amount to be raised by. ad valorem taxes dur- ing the second year of the biennium. Upon adoption of the ordinance fixing the amount of ad valorem taxes to be levied, the clerk shall certify the same to the county legislative authority as required by RCW 84.52.020. [1985 c 175 § 55.] 35A.34.240 Funds — Quarterly report of status. At such intervals as may be required by city charter or city ordi- nance, however, being not less than quarterly, the clerk shall submit to the city's legislative body and chief administrative officer a report showing the expenditures and liabilities against each separate budget appropriation incurred during the preceding reporting period and like information for the whole of the current fiscal biennium to the first day of the current reporting period together with the unexpended bal- ance of each appropriation. The report shall also show the receipts from all sources. [1985 c 175 § 56.] 35A.34.250 Contingency fund — Creation. Every city may create and maintain a contingency fund to provide mon- eys with which to meet any municipal expense, the necessity or extent of which could not have been foreseen or reason- ably evaluated at the time of adopting the annual budget, or from which to provide moneys for those emergencies described in RCW 35A.34.140 and 35A.34.150. Such fund may be supported by a budget appropriation from any tax or other revenue source not restricted in use by law, or also may be supported by a transfer from other unexpended or decreased funds made available by ordinance as set forth in RCW 35A.34.200. However, the total amount accumulated in such fund at any time shall not exceed the equivalent of thirty -seven and one -half cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation of property within the city at such time. Any moneys in the emergency fund at the end of the fiscal biennium shall not lapse except upon reappropriation by the council to another fund in the adoption of a subsequent bud- get. [1985 c 175 § 57.] 35A.34.260 Contingency fund—Withdrawals. No money shall be withdrawn from the contingency fund except by transfer to the appropriate operating fund authorized by a resolution or ordinance of the legislative body of the city, adopted by a majority vote of the entire legislative body, clearly stating the facts constituting the reason for the with- drawal or the emergency as the case may be, specifying the fund to which the withdrawn money shall be transferred. [1985 c 175 § 58.] 35A.34.270 Unexpended appropriations. All appro- priations in any current operating fund shall lapse at the end of each fiscal biennium. However, this shall not prevent pay - ments.in the following biennium upon uncompleted pro- grams or improvements in:progress or on orders subsequently filled or claims subsequently billed for the, purchase of mate- rial, equipment, and:supplies or for personal or contractual services not completed or furnished by the end. of the fiscal biennium, all of which have been properly budgeted and con- tracted for prior to the close of such fiscal biennium, but fur- nished or completed in due course thereafter.; All appropriations in a special hind :authorized<by ordi- nance or by state law to.be used only. for the purpose or pur- poses therein specified, including any cumulative reserve [Title 35A RCW —page 52] (2004 Ed.) Intergovernmental Relations funds lawfully established in specific or general terms for any municipal purpose: or "purposes, or a contingency fund as authorized by RCW 35A.34.250, shall not lapse, but shall be carried forward from biennium to biennium until` fully expended or the ,purpose has been accomplished or aban- doned, without necessity of reappropriation. The accounts for budgetary control for each fiscal bien- nium shall be kept "Open, for twenty days after the close of such fiscal biennium for the purpose of paying and recording claims for indebtednessincurred during such fiscal biennium; any claim presented after the twentieth day following the close of the fiscal biennium shall be paid from appropriations lawfully provided for.the ensuing period; including those made available' by provisions of this section; and shall be recorded in the accounts for the ensuing fiscal biennium. [1985 c 175 § 59.1 35A.34.280 Violations and penalties.. Upon the con- viction of any city official, department head, or other city employee of knowingly failing, or refusing, without just cause, to perform any duty imposed upon such officer or employee by this chapter, or city charter or city ordinance, in connection with the giving of notice, the preparing and filing of estimates of revenues or expenditures or other information required for preparing a budget report in the time and manner required, or of knowingly making expenditures in excess of budget appropriations, the official or employee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five . hun- dred dollars for each separate violation. [19.85 c 175 § 60.]. Chapter 35A.35 RCW INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS Sections - 35A.35.010 Joint facilities and agreements. 35A.35.020 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act — Authority to contract with federal government. 35A.35.010 Joint facilities and agreements. In addi- tion to exercising all authority granted to cities of any class for joint or intergovernmental cooperation and activity and agreements for the acquisition, ownership, leasing, control, improvement, occupation and use of land or other property with a county, another city, or governmental agency, and in addition to authority granted to code cities by RCW 35A.11.40, every code city may exercise the powers relating to jails, places of detention, civic centers, civic halls and 0 armories as is authorized by chapters 36.64 and 38.20 RCW. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.35.010.] 35A.35.020 Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act — Authority to contract with federal government. See RCW 35.21.660. Chapter 35A.36 RCW EXECUTION OF BONDS BY PROXY IN CODE CITIES Sections 35A.36.010 Appointment of proxies. 35A.36.020 Coupons— Printing facsimile signatures. (2004 Ed.) 35A.36.030 Deputies— Exemptions. 35A.36.040 Designation of bonds to be.signed. 35A.36.050 Liability of officer. 35A:36.060 Notice to council. 35A.36.070 Revocation of proxy. 35A.36.050 35A.36.010 Appointment of proxies. The mayor, finance officer, city clerk, or other officer of a code city who is authorized or required by law, charter, or ordinance to exe- cute bonds of the city or any subdivision or district thereof may designate one or more bonded persons to affix such officer's'signature to any bond or bonds requiring his signa- titre. If the signature of one of these officers is affixed to a bond during his continuance in office by a proxy designated by him whose authority has not been revoked, the bond shall be as binding upon the city and all concerned as though the officer had signed the bond in person. This chapter shall apply to all bonds, whether they constitute obligations of the city as a whole or of any local improvement or other district or subdivision thereof, Whether they call for payment from the general funds of the city or from a local, special or other fund, and whether negotiable or otherwise. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.010.1 35A.36.020 Coupons— Printing facsimile signatures. A facsimile reproduction of the signature of any of the code city officers referred to in RCW 35A.36.010 may be printed, engraved, or lithographed upon bond coupons with the same effect as though the particular officer had signed the coupon in person. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.020.] 35A.36.030 Deputies— Exemptions. This chapter shall not be construed to require the appointment of deputy finance officers or deputy city clerks of code cities to be made in accordance with this chapter insofar as concerns sig- natures or other acts which may lawfully be made or done by such deputy officer under the provisions of any other law. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.030.] 35A.36.040 Designation of bonds to be signed. (1) The officer of a code city whose duty it is to cause any bonds to be printed, engraved, or lithographed, shall specify in a written order or requisition to the printer, engraver, or litho- grapher the number of bonds to be printed, engraved or litho- graphed and the manner of numbering them. (2) Every printer, engraver, or lithographer who know- ingly prints, engraves, or lithographs a greater number of bonds than that specified or who knowingly prints, engraves, or lithographs more than one bond bearing the same number is guilty of a class B felony punishable according to chapter 9A.20 RCW. [2003 c 53 § 200; 1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.040.1 Intent — Effective date -2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180. 35A.36.050 Liability of officer. A code city officer authorizing the affixing of his signature to a bond by a proxy shall be subject to the same liability personally and on his bond for any signature so affixed and to the same extent as if he had affixed his signature in person. [1967 ex.s. c 119 § 35A.36.050.1 [Title 35A RCW —page 531 Affidavit of Publication STATE OF WASHINGTON, S.S. COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period. Yrtncipal e� Subscr and sworn to before me this 22nd day of May, 2006 s7AA. Q slofif �A �z 9i Notary Public i nd fort State of Washington, residing at ver L_j County. N� ' P SH�N� Account Name: City of Edmonds Account Number. 101416 Order Number. 0001402526 The undersigned, being first duly swom on oath deposes and says that she is Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Everett, County of -- — Snohomish, and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of general SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE o the it o Edmonds, Washington circulation in said Count and State; that said newspaper has been approved as a legal On the 16th day of May, 2006, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, passed Ordinance No. 3592. A summary of the newspaper by order of the Superior Court of Snohomish County and that the notice content of said ordinance, consisting of the title, provides as Summary of Ordinance No. 3592 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING A BIENNIAL BUDGET PRO- CESS, AND FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BE City of Edmonds EFFECTIVE. The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request. DATED this 17th day of May, 2006. CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE Published: May 21, 2006. a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said newspaper proper and not in supplement form, in the regular and entire edition of said paper on the following days and times, namely: May 21, 2006 and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of said period. Yrtncipal e� Subscr and sworn to before me this 22nd day of May, 2006 s7AA. Q slofif �A �z 9i Notary Public i nd fort State of Washington, residing at ver L_j County. N� ' P SH�N� Account Name: City of Edmonds Account Number. 101416 Order Number. 0001402526