Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation and expenditure of $23,005.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Federal and State Law Enforcement Contraband/Seizure Funds for the Division of Police. Funds were received from seized and forfeited property and are used solely for law enforcement purposes as specified in Ordinance 1850-85. Funds are needed to adhere to a court order from Union County that forfeited a defendant’s money. The Court ordered that $23,005.00 of the $46,010.00 that was seized in this case be paid to Union County Prosecutor’s Office and the other $23,005.00 be paid to City of Columbus Division of Police. $46,010.00 has already been deposited into the Division of Police's State Law Enforcement Contraband/Seizure Funds.
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EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency legislation is requested in order to appropriate and expend the funds needed to adhere to the Union County Court order in a timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation and expenditure of $23,005.00 in the Federal and State Law Enforcement Contraband/Seizure Funds for the Division of Police.
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To authorize an appropriation and expenditure of $23,005.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund to the Division of Police to adhere to a Union County Court order forfeiting seized money to both Union County Prosecutor’s Office and the City of Columbus Division of Police, and to declare an emergency. ($23,005.00)
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WHEREAS, monies were received from seized and forfeited property; and
WHEREAS, funds received from these forfeitures must be solely used for law enforcement purposes as specified in Ordinance #1850-85; and
WHEREAS, funds are needed to adhere to a court order from Union County that forfeited a defendant's money; and
WHEREAS, the Court ordered that $23,005.00 of the $46,010.00 be paid to the Union County Prosecutor's office and the other $23,050.00 be paid to the City of Columbus, Division of Police; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Public Safety Department, Division of Police, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate and expend funds from the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund in order to adhere to a court order from Union County, 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 monies in the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund, Fund No. 219, 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, 2015 the sum of $23,005.00 is appropriated to the Division of Police, #30-03, as follows:
DIV 30-03 | FUND 219 | SUB FUND 02| OBJ LEVEL (1) 03 | OBJECT LEVEL (3) 3407 | OCA # 301838 |
SECTION 2. That the Director of Public Safety be and is hereby authorized to issue payment to Union County in the amount of $23,005.00, as ordered by Union County Common Pleas Court as follows:
DIV 30-03 | FUND 219 | SUB FUND 02| OBJ LEVEL (1) 03 | OBJECT LEVEL (3) 3407 | OCA # 301838 |
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Safety Director 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 all funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this fund in 2015 are hereby deemed appropriated in an amount not to exceed the available cash balance in the fund.
SECTION 5. 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.