Explanation
Background:
This ordinance provides for the appropriation of special purpose funds to continue purchasing supplies, additional part time staffing, and providing services in 2009 that are supported by donations and fees.
Emergency legislation is required in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures during summer season.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Special Purpose Fund's unappropriated balance by $173,989.83.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $173,989.83 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Special Purpose Fund to continue purchasing supplies, part time labor and providing services during 2009, and to declare an emergency. ($173,989.83)
Body
WHEREAS, this ordinance provides for the appropriation of lapsed funds in order to continue purchasing supplies, part time labor, and providing services during 2009; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Recreation and Parks, in that it is immediately necessary to establish purchase orders so that there is not an interruption of local telephone services with AT &T for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, 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, 2009, the sum of $173,989.83 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Sub OCA Object
Project Title Fund Code Level 3 Amount
Various Park Improvement Donations 025 511220 6621 $144,377.67
Recreation Center Donations 028 510966 1112 $ 21,000.00
Recreation Center Donations 028 510966 2269 $ 3,459.84
Christopher Columbus Invitational 052 511873 2269 $5,152.32
TOTAL $173,989.83
SECTION 2. That the monies in the foregoing Section 1 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 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this legislation.
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.