Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, requires the supplemental appropriation of $177,842.00 to reimburse the Construction Inspection Fund for personnel expenses associated with private construction inspections.
The supplemental appropriation is necessary so that expenses match revenue. The inspectors are paid out of Fund 518, the Construction Inspection Fund, which is utilized for capital infrastructure projects. The work the inspectors do for private development projects needs to be funded from Fund 241, the Private Construction Inspection Fund. An expenditure correction will be done to move the expense from Fund 518 to Fund 241. This legislation will provide the funding for the expenditure correction.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
This ordinance authorizes the supplemental appropriation of $177,842.00 for personnel expenses within the Private Construction Inspection Fund. Funds to be appropriated will come from the unappropriated balance available within Fund 241.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to allow these funds to be in place for immediate use for the above mentioned operational needs within the Division of Design and Construction.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to appropriate $177,842.00 from the unappropriated balance within the Private Construction Inspection Fund; to use these funds for construction inspection personnel expenses for the Division of Design and Construction; and to declare an emergency. ($177,842.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Division of Design and Construction does construction inspection services for private construction inspection; and
WHEREAS, the appropriation in the Private Construction Inspection Fund is not sufficient to pay the personnel expense of the inspections; and
WHEREAS, there is an unappropriated fund balance within the Private Construction Fund sufficient to pay this expense and it is necessary to appropriate sufficient authority for the personnel expenses; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Planning and Operations in that it is immediately necessary to authorize additional authority to provide funding for personnel expenses incurred by the Division of Design and Construction for the preservation of 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 balance of the Private Construction Inspection Fund, Fund 241, 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, 2013 the appropriation of $177,842.00 be and hereby is authorized as follows for the Division of Design and Construction, Dept.-Div. 59-12:
Fund / Dept / Dept Name / O.L. 01-03 Codes / OCA / Amount
241 / 59-12 / Division of Design and Construction / 01-1000 / 591444 / $177,842.00
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying personnel costs for private construction inspection the sum of up to $177,842.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized to be expended from the Private Construction Fund as follows:
Fund / Dept / Dept Name / O.L. 01-03 Codes / OCA / Amount
241 / 59-12 / Division of Design and Construction / 01-1000 / 591444 / $177,842.00
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 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.