The city's current general fund contribution to library services may not be replaced by the parcel tax. If the city general fund contribution to the Sacramento Public Library Authority is reduced below $7,635,600, the parcel tax shall not be levied; provided, however, that if the reduction to the city general fund contribution is no more than the same proportion of reduction that is imposed on the city's net general fund budget for non-safety departments (which are all operating departments except police and fire) in any year, the tax may still be levied.
The city's net general fund budget for non-safety departments is the total general fund contribution to their operating budgets excluding expenditures that are offset by fees or other non-tax revenues. Following any reduction from the minimum level of $7,635,600 the Sacramento Public Library Authority must receive increases in its city general fund contribution proportional to the increases in the non-safety departments' net general fund budgets up to at least the minimum level of $7,635,600, before the parcel tax can be levied in any subsequent year. (Ord. 2024-0013 § 2; Ord. 2016-0002 § 2; Ord. 2004-029 § 2)