Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the expenditure of $1,000.00 from the appropriated balance of the Keep Columbus Beautiful donations within the private grant fund. The appropriated funds will be used to provide supplies for the overall mission of community improvement for the City of Columbus and its neighborhoods.
2. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
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.
3. FISCAL IMPACT
The donation within the private grant fund for Keep Columbus Beautiful has sufficient funding to support a $1,000.00 expenditure.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of $1,000.00 from the appropriated balance of the private grant fund within the Department of Public Service, Division of Refuse Collection; and to declare an emergency. ($1,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Keep Columbus Beautiful program receives donations from time to time from various sources, and
WHEREAS, this donation/grant will continue efforts to remove blight and revitalize the neighborhoods of the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, the content of supplies and equipment purchased from the donation/grant will be used to advance the mission of Keep Columbus Beautiful and the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service, Division of Refuse Collection, in that it is immediately necessary to expend said funds 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 the Director of Public Service, be and hereby is authorized to expend $1,000.00 from the private grant fund, 291 Department of Public Service, Division of Refuse Collection 5902, OCA Code 591095, Object Level One - 02, Object Level Three - 2290.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing SECTION 1 shall be paid upon the order of Director of Public Service 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 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.