Explanation
Background: This legislation will authorize the appropriation of $40,000.00 from the City Attorney Mediation Services fund to pay for the contract services of various mediators in Night Prosecutor Program.
Fiscal Impact: City Attorney Mediation Services are funded from amounts returned from Capital University upon relinquishing its administrative responsibilities for the Night Prosecutor Program.
Title
To authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $40,000.00 from the City Attorney Mediation Fund for the purpose of paying for the contract services of mediators in the Night Prosecutor Program, and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City Attorney administers the Night Prosecutor Program which provides neighborhood mediation services; and
WHEREAS, Capital University has returned funds to the City after relinquishing its administrative responsibilities for the program; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Attorney's Office, in that it is necessary to immediately authorize the appropriation and expenditure of the returned funds for the continuance of the program without interruption, and for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to appropriate Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00) from the City Attorney Mediation Fund as follows: department: 2401, City Attorney Mediation fund, fund 296, organizational cost account 296001, object level three 3336.
SECTION 2. That the City Attorney is hereby authorized to expend those funds for the purpose of paying for the contract services of mediators in the Night Prosecutor Program.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the City Attorney; and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. 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 (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.