16-1441 Adopting Proposed Amendments to the City Charter

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as it deems necessary to prevent or reduce any deficit, and for that purpose it may resolution reduce or eliminate one or more appropriations. (d) Transfer of Appropriations. At any time during- or before the fiscal year, the City Commission ma by resolution transfer part or all of the unencumbered appropriation balance from one department, fund, service, strategy or organization unit to the appropriation for other departments or organizational units or a new appropriation. The Manager may transfer funds among _programs within a department, fund, service, strategy or organizational unit and shall report such transfers to the Commission in writing in a timely manner. (e) Limitation; Effective Date. No appropriation for debt service may be reduced or transferred, except to the extent that the debt is a refinance and less debt service is required, and no appropriation may be reduced below any amount required by law to be appropriated or by more than the amount of the unencumbered balance thereof. The supplemental and emergency ppropriations and reduction or transfer of appropriations authorized by this section may be made effective immediately upon adoption. SECTION 3. The City Clerk is hereby directed to ensure that all advertising, translation and notice requirements are complied with and to coordinate all activities necessary to conduct the referendum election called in Section 1 of this Ordinance with the Supervisor of Elections for Seminole County to place the above - described questions on the ballot for referendum election to be held on August 30, 2016, or as otherwise worded in an enabling resolution of the City Commission as may be needed to conform to the requirements of the Florida Election Code or to better state the proposals submitted to the electors of the City of Casselberry. SECTION 4. The proposed amendments, the ballot titles and the wording of the substance of the proposed amendments to the Charter, as contained in this Ordinance, shall appear on the ballot in the form of questions as set forth in Section 2 of this Ordinance. SECTION 5. Conflicts. All Ordinances and Charter provisions or parts of Ordinances and Charter provisions in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion hereto. Further, the lack of approval by a majority of electors of one or more separate amendments to this Charter, as set forth in Section 2 herein, shall not be deemed to affect the validity of any amendments that maybe approved by a majority of the electors. SECTION 7. Codification. It is the intention of the City Commission of the City of Casselberry, Florida, and it is hereby ordained that the provisions of this Ordinance approved by the electors shall become and be made a part of the Code of Ordinance of the City of Casselberry, Florida; that the Sections of this Ordinance may be renumbered or re- lettered to accomplish such intention; that the word, "Ordinance" may be changed to "Section," "Article," or other 7