AGENDA #4d

MEMORANDUM

TO: Mayor and Town Council

FROM: W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager

SUBJECT: Budget Amendment to Accommodate Cleanup of Illegal Dump Site

DATE: February 28, 2000

The attached budget amendment ordinance would appropriate an additional $72,224 to the Landfill Fund to replace funds expended on the cleanup of an illegal tire dump site.

BACKGROUND

During summer, 1999 the State of North Carolina, Division of Solid Waste Management identified an illegal tire dump site in the northern section of Orange County. The State agreed to pay for the site cleanup, but assigned the administration of the site cleanup to the Chapel Hill Solid Waste Department. The State agreed to reimburse Chapel Hill for all related expenditures.

The cleanup of this site is completed, and the Town has received the promised reimbursement of expenditures related to the cleanup from the State of North Carolina in the amount of $72,224.

DISCUSSION

The attached budget amendment would recognize the additional revenue to the Landfill Fund from the State and appropriates it in the Solid Waste Department budget for FY 1999-2000 for the cleanup of an illegal tire dump.

RECOMMENDATION

The Manager recommends adoption of the attached ordinance.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND "THE ORDINANCE CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS AND THE RAISING OF REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1999” (2000-02-28/O-2)

BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that the Budget Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance Concerning Appropriations and the Raising of Revenue for the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 1999" as duly adopted on June 14, 1999, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

ARTICLE I

Current Revised

APPROPRIATIONS Budget Increase Decrease Budget

Landfill Fund $6,265,275 72,224 $6,337,499

ARTICLE II

Current Revised

REVENUES Budget Increase Decrease Budget

Landfill Fund $6,265,275 72,224 $6,337,499

This the 28th day of February, 2000.