AGENDA #4b

MEMORANDUM

TO:                  Mayor and Town Council

FROM:            W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager

SUBJECT:       Budget Amendment for Cablecasting of Council Budget Work Sessions

DATE:             February 11, 2002

At the Council’s January 28, 2002 meeting, the Council directed staff to provide for cablecasting and rebroadcasting of the Council’s budget work sessions.

The attached budget amendment would appropriate funds from the Council’s contingency funds to cover the costs associated with cablecasting the eight scheduled budget work sessions.

I recommend adoption of the attached budget ordinance.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND “THE ORDINANCE CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS AND THE RAISING OF REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 2001 (2002-02-11/O-1)

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, 2001” as duly adopted on June 25, 2001, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

ARTICLE I

                                                Current                                                 Revised

APPROPRIATIONS Budget Increase Decrease Budget

GENERAL FUND

            Non-Departmental

                        Contingency     24,565                                     2,000               22,565                 

            Manager/Clerk 992,128           2,000                                     990,128                                    

This the 11^th day of February, 2002.