Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the supplemental appropriation of $337,500 from the unappropriated balance of the Land Management Fund for the administration of the Land Reutilization Program (Land Bank). The Land Management Fund was created in September, 1998 to provide funds for various expenses associated with the management and maintenance of properties held in the Columbus Land Bank. The source of revenue is from the sale of Columbus Land Bank properties. The supplemental appropriation is necessary to service additional properties acquired since the beginning of the year and toalign budget authority with projected expenditures.
Emergency action is requested so that expenditures related to the administration of Land Redevelopment projects can be charged accordingly and that maintenance of City owned Land Bank properties can continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes the supplemental appropriation of $337,500 from the unappropriated balance of the Land Management Fund. The unencumbered cash balance of this fund is approximately $1,440,000.
Title
To authorize the supplemental appropriation of $337,500.00 in the Land Management Fund for the administration of Department of Development's Land Redevelopment Office and related projects; and to declare an emergency. ($337,500.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Land Management Fund was created in September 1998 to provide funds for various expenses associated with the management and maintenance of properties held in the Land Bank; and
WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the supplemental appropriation of $337,500 from the unappropriated balance of the Land Management Fund to the Department of Development for the administration of the Land Reutilization Program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to provide an appropriation so that expenditures related to the administration of Land Redevelopment projects can be charged accordingly, thus avoiding an interruption in the delivery of vital program services, all 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 in the Land Management Fund, Fund 206, and from and from all monies estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015, the sum of $337,500 be and hereby is appropriated to the Department of Development, Division 44-01, OCA Code 441206, as follows:
Object Level One / Object Level Three / Purpose / Amount
03 / 2194 / M&S-Safety / $2,000
03 / 2202 / Small Tools/Small Equip. / $5,000
03 / 2271 / M&S-Landscape / $2,500
03 / 3295 / Cell Phones and Pagers / $6,000
03 / 3353 / Advertising / $500
03 / 3354 / Weed/Grass Cutting / $150,000
03 / 3370 / Maint. Serv. - Bldg. Repair / $160,000
03 / 3394 / Pest Control Service / $10,000
03 / 3412 / Hazardous Waste Disposal / $1,500
Total: $337,500
SECTION 2. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance 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.