Explanation
BACKGROUND: On April 24, 2006 City Council passed Ordinance number 0645-2006, authorizing the Director of Public Utilities to accept a rebate from AEP in the amount of $300,000, and to provide for the appropriation and expenditure of this amount. An error was made in Section 3, in that only $279,128 was asked to be appropriated, instead of the entire $300,000. (The amount of $279,128 was the amount to be expended from the $300,000.) This has caused a deficit of $20,872 in this project. This amendment is needed in order to fix this deficit.
It is requested that this Ordinance be handled in an emergency manner, as we would like to have the $20,872 deficit corrected immediately, in that the amount may possibly be needed for a future project.
FISCAL IMPACT: Project No. 670607 will have an increased appropriation of $20,872.
Title
To amend Section 3 of Ordinance number 0645-2006, passed April 24, 2006, to correct the appropriation amount, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, City Council passed Ordinance number 0645-2006, on April 24, 2006, authorizing the Director of Public Utilities to accept a rebate from AEP in the amount of $300,000; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to amend this Ordinance because there was an error in Section 3 in that the Division of Power and Water only asked for $279,128 to be appropriated, but $300,000 was the correct amount; and
WHEREAS, this has caused a deficit of $20,872 in this project and this amount may be needed for future projects; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Power and Water, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to amend Ordinance number 0645-2006 to reflect the correct appropriation of $300,000, and to authorize and direct the Auditor's Office to appropriate the deficit amount of $20,872, for the immediate preservation of public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That Section 3 of Ordinance number 0645-2006, passed April 24, 2006, is hereby amended to read as follows:
That the appropriation of $376,015.00 and expenditure of $355,143.00, or so much thereof as may be needed for wire and cable needed for the Italian Village Substation Project is hereby authorized as follows:
Division: Electricity
Fund Name: Voted 1995 and 1999 Street Lighting and Electricity Distribution Improvements
Fund No.: 553
Dept./Div. No.: 60-07
Project Name: Italian Village Substation
Project No.: 670607
OCA Code: 670607
OL3: 6621
Amount to be appropriated: $300,000.00
Amount to be expended: $279,128.00
Division: Electricity
Fund Name: Electricity Operating
Fund No.: 550
Dept./Div. No.: 60-07
OCA Code: 606723
OL3: 6621
Amount to be appropriated: $46,460.00
Amount to be expended: $46,460.00
Division: Sewerage and Drainage
Fund Name: Sewerage and Drainage Operating
Fund No.: 650
Dept./Div. No.: 60-05
OCA Code: 605089
OL3: 6621
Amount to be appropriated: $29,555.00
Amount to be expended: $29,555.00
SECTION 2. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance is 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.