Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept grants, enter into agreements with the State of Ohio - Department of Natural Resources- Nature works program, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.Funding has been awarded to make improvements to Sills Park Athletic fields. Grant monies will be used to provide additional parking, walkways, landscaping, site furnishings, and a concession stand. The target completion date for this project is December 31, 2004. This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up-to-date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management. Emergency action is also necessary to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Total project cost estimated to be $162,354.00. A match of $40,588.00 is required from the Recreation and Parks Department. The required local match will be provided from the Recreation and Parks Capital Improvement program dollars.
Fiscal Impact:
$121,766.00 in grant funding will be used for the improvements to Sill Park. The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $121,766.00. The expenditure of $121,766.00 is budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $121,766.00 and enter into agreements with the State of Ohio - Department of Natural Resources- Nature works program, for improvements to Sills Park , to authorize an appropriation of $121,766.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department, and to declare an emergency. ($121,766.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the State of Ohio - Department of Natural Resources- Nature works program, have awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant for improvements to Sills Park; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept said grant and appropriate said funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate said grant funds for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept grants in the amount of $121,766.00 and enter into agreements with the State of Ohio - Department of Natural Resources- Nature works program, for improvements to Sills Park.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2003, the sum of $121,766.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Fund Type; Grant, Dept No.; 51-01, Fund No.; 286, Grant No.; 513026, Obj Lvl 3; 6621, OCA Code; 513026, Amount; $121,766.00
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, 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 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.