Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance appropriates $65,000 from the Capitol South Debt Service Fund to the Department of Development, Housing Division, and authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to expend these funds for expenses associated with the Children's Hospital House Moves project and other related costs. Ordinance 0518-03, passed on April 14, 2003, provided $40,000 from the Capital South Debt Service Fund for this project. Unanticipated costs have driven the total project cost to $105,000. An additional $65,000 is now needed to cover the greater than anticipated costs of the Transportation Division and for overtime expenses of City and private utilities needed to meet City and Children's Hospital requirements.
Emergency action is requested in order to complete the project as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: $65,000 is allocated from the Capital South Debt Service Fund for this appropriation and expenditure.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $65,000 from the unappropriated balance of the Capitol South Debt Service Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to expend said funds for expenses associated with the Children's Hospital House Moves project and other related costs; to authorize the expenditure of $65,000 from the Capitol South Debt Service Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($65,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City Council passed Ordinance 0518-03 on April 14, 2003 in order to provide financial assistance to assure quality project/construction management and to reimburse the divisions of Police and Transportation those expenses normally charged to the project and other related costs; and
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to appropriate and expend additional funds from the Capitol South Debt Service Fund to cover the greater than anticipated costs for the Transportation Division and for overtime expenses of City and private utilities needed to meet City and Children's Hospital requirements; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, in that it is necessary to appropriate and expend said funds for the Children's Hospital House Moves Project for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Capitol South Debt Service Fund, Fund No. 481, 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, 2003, the sum of $65,000 is appropriated to the Department of Development, Division 44-10, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 481009.
Section 2. That the Director of the Department of Development be and is hereby authorized to expend said funds for expenses charged to the Children's Hospital House Moves project and other related costs.
Section 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $65,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Capitol South Debt Service Fund, Department of Development, Department No. 44-10, Fund 481, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 481009.
Section 4. 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.