Explanation
BACKGROUND: An appropriation is needed in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to provide funds for accident investigation training courses and the Driving While Impaired (DWI) Enforcement Conference for officers in the Traffic Bureau. This advanced training will result in officers that are better equipped for their work with fatal, near fatal, and hit-skip accidents where drivers are under the influence of alcohol. Funds are also needed to purchase sodium fluoride collection kits and to purchase supplies for OVI Checkpoints. Fines are received each time an officer arrests a person and they are convicted for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). The funds are then deposited in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 4511.99.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is needed to make funds available for upcoming training courses.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $142,173.00 in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment fund for the Division of Police to pay for training, supplies, services and equipment. A total of $21,118.69 was expended from this fund in 2014 for supplies and training and a total of $22,203.82 was expended in 2013.
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To authorize an appropriation of $142,173.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund for the Division of Police to pay for advanced training for the Accident Investigation Unit and a DWI Conference for Traffic Bureau personnel, as well as to purchase supplies and equipment, and to declare an emergency. ($142,173.00)
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WHEREAS, the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund receives funds from the arrests and fines of DUI drivers; and
WHEREAS, these funds are now needed to cover expenses for advanced training for Accident Investigation officers and to fund a DWI Conference; and
WHEREAS, funds are also needed to purchase supplies and equipment; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operation of the Division of Police, Department of Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize an appropriation in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to purchase supplies and equipment 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 monies in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund 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, 2015 the sum of $142,173.00 is appropriated as follows:
DIV FD SBFD OBJ#1 OBJ#3 OCA AMOUNT
30-03 225 002 02 2215 303225 $42,651.90
30-03 225 002 03 3330 303225 $42,651.90
30-03 225 002 06 6643 303225 $56,869.20
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Public Safety; 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 all funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this fund in 2015 are hereby deemed appropriated in an amount not to exceed the available cash balance in the fund.
SECTION 4. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is 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.