Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $16,575.95 in the City’s Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, to the Health Department for fiscal year 2015. This ordinance is needed in order to appropriate the unencumbered cash balance in Health’s AED Defibrillator Devices Subfund, Subfund No. 223136. These monies will be used to purchase automated external defibrillators for the City.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance provides for the appropriation of all the cash in the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose and for the appropriation of all future deposits of cash into the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $16,575.95 in the City’s Special Purpose Fund, to the Department of Health, for Health’s AED devices special purpose activities; and to declare an emergency. ($16,575.95)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1135-2003 authorized the Board of Health to accept donations for the purchase of automated electronic defibrillator (AED) devices for the City and provided for the creation of the AED Defibrillator Devices Subfund in the City’s Special Purpose Fund to account for fiscal activities; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance provides for the appropriation of all the cash in the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose and for the appropriation of all future deposits of cash into the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate these funds to the Health Department 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 monies in the fund known as the City’s Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the 12 months ending December 31, 2015, there be and hereby are appropriated $16,575.95 to the Department of Health, Department No. 50-01, Subfund No. 223136, OCA - 223501, Object Level One - 02, for the purchase of AED devices.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, 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 funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. 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.