(a) There is hereby created and established in the Treasury of the City of Los Angeles a special revenue fund to be known as the “Engineering Special Services Fund,” hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the “Fund.”
(b) The purpose of the Fund shall be the receipt and disbursement of funds received by the Bureau of Engineering for work done by the Bureau’s employees for the City’s proprietary departments, for private developers using overtime funds specifically paid for by such developers for services on their projects, for grant or special funds, and for other purposes as approved by the Mayor and the City Council.
(c) All transfers to the Fund shall be subject to the approval of the Mayor or his or her designee.
(d) Monies deposited in the Fund shall be used to reimburse budgetary salary and overtime accounts of the Bureau of Engineering when appropriate, and to pay for equipment and expenses in connection with the activities mentioned in Subsection (b) above, when such expenses are in excess of, or not provided for in, the monies budgeted in the General Fund. The Fund may also be used by the Bureau of Engineering to repay cash advances received from any other fund established by the City of Los Angeles and used for any of the purposes mentioned in Subsection (b) above.
(e) Any reimbursement from the Fund to the City’s General Fund shall be for the full cost to the City of providing the services mentioned in Subsection (b) above. In instances where City staff are used to complete projects involving the Fund, all reimbursements to the General Fund shall include, in addition to the items mentioned in Subsection (d) above, amounts sufficient to recover the City’s overhead costs, such as, but not limited to, pensions, health insurance, and office space, in accordance with the Controller’s Cost Allocation Plan.
(f) The Fund shall be administered and expenditures shall be authorized by the Board of Public Works or its designee.
(g) No appropriation or expenditure may be made from the Fund without the prior approval of the City Engineer or his/her designee, except that the appropriation or expenditure of any funds not deposited for services by developers, City departments or other agencies shall require the additional approval of the City Administrative Officer.
(h) The City Engineer is authorized to add special projects or special purposes for the use of the money in the Fund.
(i) The City Engineer is authorized to establish appropriate procedures to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
(j) The Mayor is authorized to transfer money among those accounts which may be established within the Fund in amounts not to exceed $50,000.00 per transfer.
(k) Monies not expended from the Fund in any fiscal year shall not revert to the Reserve Fund, but shall remain in the Fund.
(l) All interest and other earnings attributable to monies in the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.
(m) The Board of Public Works shall report to the City Council and the Mayor regarding and identifying all receipts into, and all expenditures out of, the Fund, as well as the purposes for which the expenditures were made. Each report shall cover a fiscal year and shall be submitted within 90 days after the close of said fiscal year.
SECTION HISTORY
Chapter and Section Added by Ord. No. 171,543, Eff. 4-25-97.
Amended by: Ord. No. 173,305, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00; Subsec. (h), Ord. No. 176,300, Eff. 1-1-05; Subsec. (g), Ord. No. 180,814, Eff. 8-31-09.