Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $246,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Federal and State Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Funds for the Division of Police. Funds were received from seized and forfeited property and are used solely for law enforcement purposes as specified in Ordinance 1850-85. These funds are needed to cover the cost of some of the Division of Police travel and training needs, computer services, and supplies.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency legislation is requested in order to appropriate the funds needed for travel and training that is occurring in early March 2024 and to renew computer service contracts that expire in February 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $246,000.00 in the Federal and State Law Enforcement Contraband/Seizure Funds for the Division of Police.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $246,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund to the Division of Police to fund travel and training needs, computer services, and the purchase of supplies; and to declare an emergency. ($246,000.00)
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WHEREAS, monies were received from seized and forfeited property; and,
WHEREAS, funds received from these forfeitures must be solely used for law enforcement purposes as specified in Ordinance #1850-85; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Safety Department, Division of Police, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds in the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund in order to fund travel and training needs, and renew computer service contracts that are expiring in February 2024, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and...
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