Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: Legislation is needed to pay prisoner's medical bills to Mount Carmel Health. 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. The Division of Police currently has outstanding debt in the amount of $118,000.00
Contract Compliance: 314379602 - NPO
Emergency Designation: Since these debts are for services that occurred in 2004, 2005 and 2006 emergency legislation is requested.
FISCAL IMPACT: $75,000.00 has been budgeted in the Division's 2007 General Fund Budget for medical services for prisoners. Deficits for this type of service were reported to Finance & Safety in the 1st quarter reviews.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to authorize payment of prisoner medical bills to Mount Carmel Health for the Division of Police from the General Fund in the amount of $118,000.00, and to declare an emergency. ($118,000.00)
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 Mount Carmel Health 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 Mount Carmel Health for prisoner medical bills.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $118,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same is hereby authorized as follows:
DIV FUND OBJ LEV (1) OBJ LEV (3) OCA#
30-03 010 03 3413 301382
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.