Record #: O2012-7761   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 10/31/2012 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Budget and Government Operations
Final action: 11/8/2012
Title: Allocation of Motor Fuel Tax funds for maintenance of traffic signal and street lighting systems for county and state highways during Year 2013
Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
Topic: FINANCE FUNDS - Motor Fuel Tax - 2013
Attachments: 1. O2012-7761.pdf
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR
 
 
October 31, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
 
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
At the request of the Budget Director, I transmit herewith an ordinance addressing Motor Fuel Taxes.
 
Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.
 
Mayor
 
Very truly yours,
 
ALLOCATION OF MOTOR FUEL TAX FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR MAINTENANCE OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND STREET LIGHTING SYSTEMS ALONG IMPROVED STREETS, COUNTY AND STATE HIGHWAYS DURING
YEAR 2013
 
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
 
SECTION 1: Authority is hereby given to the Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation to expend the sum of Three Million Five Hundred Forty-eight Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy-four Dollars ($3,548,874) from the part of the Motor Fuel Tax Fund which has been or may be allocated to the City of Chicago for maintenance of traffic signal and street lighting systems along improved streets, county highways and state highways for the period of January 1, 2013 and ending December 31, 2013.
 
SECTION 2: Motor Fuel Tax Funds allocated for this project shall not be transferred to any other Motor Fuel Tax project or Motor Fuel Tax funds allocated for any other project shall not be transferred to this project, in either instance, without prior approval of the City Council.
 
SECTION 3: The City Comptroller shall set up a separate account for this project. The Commissioner of Transportation shall not expend or authorize the expenditure in excess of the amount shown and the City Comptroller shall not authorize the payment of any vouchers in excess of the amount shown without the prior approval of the City Council.
 
SECTION 4: The operating department shall maintain a separate ledger account for each project utilizing standard account classifications acceptable under generally accepted accounting principles with all charges for direct or indirect expenses delineated, categorized, and detailed for each such project,
 
SECTION 5: The City Comptroller and the City Treasurer are authorized and directed to make disbursements from said fund when properly approved by the Commissioner of Transportation.
 
SECTION 6: The City Clerk is directed to transmit two (2) certified copies of this ordinance to the Division of Highways, Department of Transportation of the State of Illinois, through the District Engineer of District 1 of said Department of Transportation.
 
SECTION 7:
approval.
 
This ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and