Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: Legislation is needed to pay prisoner's medical bills to Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Within the guidelines established by representatives of City Attorney's office and the Division of Police findings regarding each patient referenced, it has been determined that these individuals were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices.
Contract Compliance: 316400067 - NPO
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested, since there are outstanding invoices from December 2007.
FISCAL IMPACT: $375,000.00 has been budgeted in the Division's 2008 General Fund Budget for medical services for prisoners. The Department of Public Safety and Division of Police expended $412,204.45 in 2007 for such medical services.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to authorize payment of prisoner medical bills to Franklin County Sheriff's Office for the Division of Police from the General Fund in the amount of $150,000.00, and to declare an emergency. ($150,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, individuals were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the City Attorney's office and the Division of Police findings, the Division is responsible for the medical bills; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation in the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary for the Division of Police to pay Franklin County Sheriff's Office for medical services provided to prisoners for the preservation of the public health, peace, property safety, welfare; now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Safety be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay Franklin County Sheriff's Office for prisoner medical bills.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $150,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same is hereby authorized as follows:
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SECTION 3. That for 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.