Explanation
BACKGROUND: In February, City Council (Ord. # 0087-2009) appropriated Special Income Tax Funds for payment of lease agreements with various lessors for leased office and warehouse space for the Departments of Public Safety and Development and authorized expenditure of certain funds for leases as defined in the attachment to the ordinance. The attachment defined the annual expenditure to be paid to the lessor, Southside Settlement Foundation, for rent for the 2009-2010 term for offices for the South Side Pride Center located at 310 Innis Avenue. The annual rent amount to be paid to the Southside Settlement Foundation was in error. An annual rent expenditure of $8,853 was indicated rather than the actual amount of $9,119, resulting in a difference of $266.
This ordinance will authorize the expenditure of an additional $266 from the existing appropriation within the Special Income Tax Fund for lease payments and allow for the full payment of rent due to the Lessor, the Southside Settlement Foundation for the 2009-10 lease term for the South Side Pride Center office.
Emergency action is requested to allow immediate payment of the correct rent amount to the Lessor, Southside Settlement Foundation.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of an additional $266 to the Southside Settlement Foundation, Contract Compliance Number 31-4380068, expiration date 05/08/2010, from the Special Income Tax Fund appropriation for lease payments authorized by Ordinance 0087-2009, passed February 10, 2009.
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to expend $266 within the existing Special Income Tax Fund appropriation for office and warehouse lease payments, for payment of the full annual rent due for office space leased from the Southside Settlement Foundation at 310 Innis Avenue for the Southside Pride Center; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the need exists to correct the amount of the annual rent to be paid the Lessor, Southside Settlement Foundation, for office space leased at 310 Innis Avenue for the Southside Pride Center, and
WHEREAS, funding for payment of lease agreements is appropriated within the Special Income Tax Fund for 2009, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Real Estate Management Office, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance Director to expend $266 to provide for full payment of rent to the Lessor, Southside Settlement Foundation, for office space leased for the South Side Pride Center at 310 Innis Avenue, thereby ensuring that City operations continue uninterrupted, 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 the expenditure of $266, or so much thereof that may be necessary, to provide for full payment of rent to the Lessor, Southside Settlement Foundation, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 45-51
Fund: 430
OCA Code: 430459
Object Level 1: 03
Object Level 3: 3301
Amount: $266
SECTION 2. 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.