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AN ORDINANCE making an appropriation of $3,982,018 from the current expense fund to various agencies to pay for costs associated with the Green River homicide investigation and the case State v. Ridgway; and amending the 2003 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 14517, Sections 14, 17, 17, 27, 27, 29, 29, 31, 42, and 42, as amended.
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SECTION 1. From the current expense fund there is hereby approved and adopted a total of $3,982,018 of appropriation from various current expense agencies and provisos in Ordinance 14517 are hereby amended.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 14517, Section 14, as amended, is hereby amended as follows:
From the current expense fund there is hereby appropriated to:
Office of management and budget $4,205,629
The maximum number of FTEs for office of management and budget shall be: 41.00
PROVIDED THAT:
Of this appropriation, $25,000 shall be expended or encumbered only after the council approves by motion a report detailing how the budget office, or its successor, will meet the provisions of Motion 11491 for the following executive departments:
A. Department of adult and juvenile detention;
B. Department of community and human services;
C. Department of judicial administration; and
D. Office of the public defender.
The budget office should submit its report by May 1, 2003. The report should, at minimum, contain a detailed and quantified analysis of each of agency's budget projections for 2004 through 2006, the quantified estimates of how each will reduce or otherwise contain expenditures, and identify options for reducing other law and justice agency expenditures. In addition, the budget office should identify potential alternative sources of revenues for the law and justice agencies. Finally, the budget office should provide its projected expenditure/revenue plans for all law and justice agencies. The projections should identify how the county will meet its law and justice responsibilities with declining resour...

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