Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of an additional $60,000 for fiscal year 2013 within the Franklin County Municipal Court Probation User Fees fund. The department was not awarded a VOCA grant this year. Since there was no grant the personnel are being paid by the probation user fee fund and the current budget will not cover the payroll cost.
EMERGENCY: Emergency action is requested to allow uninterrupted payments to staff.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $60,000 from the unappropriated balance of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges probation fee fund for payroll; and to declare an emergency. ($60,000.00)
Body
Whereas, an appropriation of these funds is necessary in order to continue to pay staff; and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges in that it is immediately necessary to undertake said activities, in order for the probation department to commence expending these funds, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and welfare; now therefore;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the sum of $60,000 be and is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the special revenue fund, fund 227, subfund 003, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources unappropriated for any other purposes during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013, to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, department number 2501, oca code 250324, as follows: object level 1 - 01, $60,000.
Section 2. That monies appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid upon the recommendation of the Chief Probation Officer and upon the order of the Administrative and Presiding Judge, and that no order shall be drawn or paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.