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2012-356s:llegallour documentslordinances1121budget amendment-health ins fund.docx ox�rNalvcE No. 2012-356 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR 2011-12 BUDGET AND ANNUAL PROGRAM OF SERVICES OF THE CITY OF DENTON TO ALLOW FOR AN ADJUSTMENT TO THE HEALTH 1NSURANCE FUND OF NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($900,000) FROM THE PREVIOUSLY AMENDED BUDGET AMOUNT OF NINETEEN MILLION, NINE HUNDRED FIFTY THREE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN DOLLARS ($19,953,113) TO TWENTY MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED FIFTY THREE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN DOLLARS ($20,853,113) TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY RELATED TO HEALTH CARE CLAIMS AND FEES; PROVIDING FOR RETROACTIVE APPROVAL, CONFIRIVIATION AND RATIFICATION THEREOF; DECLARING A MUNICIPAL PURPOSE; PROVIDING A SEVER.ABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN OPEN MEETINGS CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2011-144, the City Council of Denton, Texas, approved the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 Budget and Annual Program for Services (the "Budget"); and WHEREAS, the Health Insurance Fund will not be sufficient to cover the anticipated expenses that have been incurred due to increased fees associated with the City's self-insured plan and the volume of health claims filed; and WHEREAS, it serves a municipal purpose that the Budget be amended to allow for an adjustment of $900,000 to the Health Insurance Fund to provide for additional expenditure authority related to health care claims and fees; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that this Budget Amendment also serves an important municipal purpose already contemplated as eligible items for expenditure in the current Budget, consistent with Section 102.010 of the Texas Local Government Code and other applicable laws; NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS: SECTION 1. The findings set forth in the above preamble to this ordinance are true and correct and are hereby adopted. SECTION 2. This budget is hereby approved, confirmed and ratified retroactively. SECTION 3. The Fiscal Year 2011-2412 Budget and Annual Program for Services is hereby amended by the City Council to allow for an adjustment to and increase in the Health Insurance Fund budget of Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($900,000) from the previously amended budget amount of Nineteen Million, Nine Hundred Fifty Three Thousand, One Hundred Thirteen Dollars ($19,953,ll3) to Twenty Million, Eight Hundred Fifty Three Thousand, One Hundred Thirteen Dollars ($20,853,113) to provide for additional expenditure authority related to health care claims and fees. s:\legallour documentslordinances11216udget amendment-health ins fund.docx SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be filed with the City Secretary, who is directed to attach a copy of this ordinance to the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 Budget and Annual Program for Services and cause this Amendment to be published once in the Denton Record-Chronicle, and to file a copy of this ordinance with the County Clerlc of Denton County and the State Comptroller of Public Accounts in Austin. SECTION 5. This ordinance was approved by at least five members of the City Council as required by Section 8.08 of the City Charter. SECTION 6. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word in this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or under any circumstances is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, and the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares it would have enacted such remaining portions despite any such invalidity. SECTION 7. It is officially found and determined that the meeting at which this ordinance was passed was open to the public as required by law, and the public notice of the time, place and purpose of this meeting was given as required by law. SECTION 8. This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval. PASSED AND APPROVED this the /1� �/2 day of �(��(?�'/��(��'' , 2012. ATTEST: JENIVIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY BY: � - 1 APPRO AS LEGAL FORM: ANITA BURGESS, CITY ATTORNEY � BY: � i Page 2 , J/ � � � � / ��iWi �� � � ::• C� • �.