HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-06-17 Ordinance 5197ORDINANCE NO.5197
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
AMENDING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2014 TO
PROVIDE AN APPROPRIATION OF $226,838.95 FROM THE
BUDGET STABILIZATION RESERVE FOR PARK MAINTENANCE
THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The Council of the City of Palo Al to finds and
determines as follows:
A. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of Article III of
the Charter of the City of Palo Alto, the Council on June 10, 2013
did adopt a budget for fiscal year 2014; and
B. From fiscal year 2010 through 2013 landscape maintenance
services for parks, City facilities, libraries, medians and
roadside strips, parking lots and garages, utility substations and
well sites, tennis court cleanings, Cubberley Community Center,
Regional Water Quality Control Plant, and Byxbee Park vegetation
w~re performed by Gachina Landscape Management under a three year
contract; and
C. The City of Palo Al to issued a request for proposal in
March 2013 seeking proposals from qualified firms to continue the
services described above and to perform habitat restoration of
Foothills Park; and
D. Following a formal solicitation process, Gachina was
selected to provide landscape maintenance services for parks, City
facilities, libraries,medians and roadside strips, parking lots
and garages , utility substations and well sites, tennis court
cleanings, Cubberley Community Center, Regional Water Quality
Control Plant,and Byxbee Park veg~tation; and
E. Following a formal solicitation process, Acterra was
selected to perform additional park maintenance throughout the
City; and
F. An appropriation of Two Hundred Twenty-Six Thousand Eight
Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars and Ninety-Five Cents ($226,823.95) is
needed to fund the contract; and
G. City Council authorization is needed to amend the 2014
budget as hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. The sum of Two Hundred Twenty-Six Thousand Eight
Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars and Ninety-Five Cents ($226,B23.95) is
hereby appropriated to the Community Services Department operating
budget and the General Fund Budget Stabilization Reserve is
correspondingly reduced.
SECTION 3. The General Fund Budget Stabilization Reserve is
hereby reduced by Two Hundred Twenty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred
Twenty-Three Dollars and Ninety-Five Cents ($226,B23.95) to Thirty
Million Eighty One Thousand Dollars ($30,OB1,000).
SECTION 4. As specified in Section 2.2B.OBO(a) of the Palo
Alto Municipal Code, a two-thirds vote of the City Council is
required to adopt this ordinance.
SECTION 5. As provided in Section 2.04.330 of the Palo
Alto Municipal Code, this ordinance shall become effective upon
adoption.
SECTION 6. The actions taken in this ordinance do not
constitute a project requiring environmental review under the
Califo.rnia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: June 17, 2013
AYES: BERMAN, BURT, HOLMAN, KLEIN, KNISS, PRICE, SCHARFF, SCHMID,
SHEPHERD
NOES:
ABSTENTIONS:
ABSENT:
ATTEST:
~~.~ City Clerk Mayor
Ci-ty Manager·
Dire Works