4048409 Resolution 19-683, "Reprogramming $6,456,592 in O-type Budget Authority to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2012"

A RESOLUTION

19-683

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

November 1, 2012

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve the reprogramming request of $6,456,592 in O-type budget authority from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.  

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Reprogramming $6,456,592 in O-type Budget Authority to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2012”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) The Executive submitted a reprogramming to the Council on October 25, 2012, to transfer $6,456,592 in O-type budget authority from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) to ensure that WMATA meets is programmatic requirements in fiscal year 2012 and to avoid the risk of being anti-deficient.

(b) Emergency legislation is necessary to actively approve this fiscal year 2012 reprogramming before the Congressionally mandated deadline of November 1, 2012.  There is no time to wait for the traditional passive approval of most reprogrammings.Therefore, it is necessary for the Council to actively approve this reprogramming on an emergency basis. 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Reprogramming $6,456,592 in O-type Budget Authority to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Emergency Approval Resolution of 2012 be adopted on an emergency basis.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.