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File #: 25-1204-1210    Name: Ordinance Authorizing Transfers Among Operating Funds for Fiscal Year 2025
Type: Action Item Status: Passed
File created: 11/13/2025 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 12/10/2025 Final action: 12/10/2025
Title: ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS AMONG OPERATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025
Sponsors: Chief Financial Officer, Budget and Management
Indexes: Transfer of Operating Funds
Attachments: 1. Ordinance
Title

ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING TRANSFERS AMONG OPERATING FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025

Body
To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of the Chicago Park District

I. Recommendation

It is recommended that the Board of Commissioners (the "Board") of the Chicago Park District ("District") adopt an ordinance that authorizes the transfers among operating funds as set forth below:
Transfer Among Operating Funds Ordinance

From
Corporate Fund
Materials & Supplies (class 620000) $(400,000.00)
Other Expense (class 625000) $(1,100,000.00)

To
Corporate Fund
Contractual Services (class 623000) $1,500,000.00


From
Liability Fund
Personnel Services (class 610000) $(1,000,000.00)

To
Liability Fund
Contractual Services (class 623000) $700,000.00
Other Expense (class 625000) $300,000.00

This transfer among operating funds is authorized pursuant to Section 17(h)of the Act and Chapter XII, Section C. 10 of the Code of the Chicago Park District (the "Code").


II. Explanation

The Transfer Among Operating Funds Ordinance will authorize transfers within two funds.

The first transfer from the Corporate Fund Material & Supplies and Program Expense, account classes, which have an identified combined budgetary surplus of $1,500,000, to the Corporate Fund Contractual Services account class. The main reasoning for the overrun in the contractual services class is for the better than anticipated activity at Soldier Field.

The second transfer will authorize a transfer from the District's Liability Fund Personnel Services account class, which is expected to have a budgetary surplus in excess of $1,000,000, to the District's Liability Fund Contractual Services account class and the District's Liability Fund Other Expense account class. The District Liability Fund Contractual Services account class is expected to exceed the 2025 budgeted levels by $700,000 due to greater than anticipated expenses related to insurance. The District Liability Fund Othe...

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