SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: Res 32116

• Record No: Res 32116
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution (Res)
• Status: Adopted
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 12/5/2023
• Title: A RESOLUTION relating to the City's annual budget process; updating modified biennial budgeting processes; establishing guidelines for mid-year budget changes; establishing data sharing and reporting requirements; and superseding Resolutions 28885 and 31954.
• Sponsors: Teresa Mosqueda
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Amendment 1 to RES 32116, 3. Signed Resolution 32116, 4. Affidavit of Publication
• Related files: Inf 2350, CB 120716

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/18/2023	2	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
12/18/2023	2	Mayor	returned unsigned
12/7/2023	2	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
12/5/2023	1	City Council	adopted	Pass
11/30/2023	1	Select Budget Committee	adopt as amended	Pass
11/21/2023	1	City Council	referred
11/16/2023	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
11/15/2023	1	City Clerk	sent for review

CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION relating to the City's annual budget process; updating modified biennial budgeting processes; establishing guidelines for mid-year budget changes; establishing data sharing and reporting requirements; and superseding Resolutions 28885 and 31954.
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WHEREAS, chapter 35.32A of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) provides the framework for adoption of The City of Seattle's annual budget, further guided by Resolution 28885, adopted in 1994; and
WHEREAS, Resolution 28885 established a modified biennial budget process beginning in 1995; and
WHEREAS, since 1995, every two years the Council and Mayor have adopted a budget for the following year and endorsed a budget for the year following; and
WHEREAS, appropriations have always been adopted on an annual basis under chapter 35.32A RCW; and
WHEREAS; the City process to develop and approve the annual budget in the second year of the modified biennial budget process are similar to the first year of the biennium; and
WHEREAS, in 2020, the City Council and Mayor adopted Resolution 31954, suspending the modified biennial budget process for the 2020-2021 biennium; and
WHEREAS, via Resolution 31954, the Council requested that the City Budget Office (CBO) and the Department of Finance and Administration Services (FAS), in consultation with Council Central Staff, evaluate and report on both the near- and long-term solutions that allow for sufficient and transparent budget planning; and
WHEREAS, the City's supplemental and carryforward budget processes have broadly utilized RCW 35.32A.060, which allows appropriating funds mid-year to meet the needs of the city "for which insufficient or no appropriations have been made due to causes which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of the making of the budget"; and
WHEREAS, this broad application of the state budget act has resulted in increasingly time-intensive supplemental and carryforward budget proce...