Title
To authorize an appropriation of $50,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund to provide funds for the purchase of goods and/or services for the Division of Fire's Emergency Medical Services and Training Bureau; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND: There is a need in the Fire Division to authorize the appropriation of $50,000.00 from the unappropriated cash balance within the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund. This fund was established for the deposit of revenues generated from training activities and for the expenditure of said revenues for the purchase of goods and/or services for the Fire Division's Emergency Medical Services and Training Bureaus as authorized in Ordinance 1863-01, passed November 19, 2001.
Bid Information: N/A
Contract Compliance: N/A
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make funding immediately available for pending training requests.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $50,0000 in the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund. Approximately $50,000 is currently available in the fund for appropriation. Approximately $13,000.00 was encumbered/expended in 2009, and $24,000 was authorized and expended in 2008 training supplies and services.
Body
WHEREAS, the Fire Division's Training Bureau, as authorized by Ordinance No. 1863-01, passed November 19, 2001, generates revenues through EMS and fire fighting related training activities, which are deposited and expended via the Division's EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Fire Division's Training Bureau needs to appropriate funds within the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund to purchase goods and/or services for training related activities; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Safety Department, Fire Division, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds within the unappropriated cash balance of the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund for the purchase of needed goods and/or services, thereby preserving 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 cash balance and from any and all sources estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose, the following sums are appropriated to the designated code in the Public Safety Department 30, Fire Division #30-04, EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund #223, Sub-Fund 133, OCA Code 223133:
· OL3 Code 2213, $30,000.00
· OL3 Code 3336, $20,000.00
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.