Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance appropriates and transfers $150,000 within the general permanent improvement fund to provide for the Finance Department's acquisition, through the Department of Technology, of a performance management application. The application, an integral part of the city's overall performance management system, will allow for the storage, tracking and reporting of the city's performance data.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds are available for this transfer within the unallocated balance of the general permanent improvement fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate and transfer $150,000 within the general permanent improvement fund to provide funding for a performance management application, and to declare an emergency ($150,000.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the Department of Finance, through the Department of Technology, intends to acquire a performance management application that will allow for the storage, tracking and reporting of the city's performance data; and
WHEREAS, funds for the aforementioned application are available within the unallocated balance of the general permanent improvement fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to effect the transfer of funds within the general permanent improvement fund for provision of a performance management application 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 balance of the general permanent improvement fund, fund number 748, the amount of $150,000 is hereby appropriated to project number 748999, oca 945748, object level 1 - 10, object level 3 - 5501.
SECTION 2: That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $150,000 within the general permanent improvement fund, fund number 748, from project number 748999 to project number 450003, oca 450003, object level 1 - 6, object level 3 - 6600.
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.