Explanation
BACKGROUND: An appropriation is needed from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to provide funds for accident investigation training courses and the 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 when the accidents occur. 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 OVI. 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 $109,373.00 in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment fund for the Division of Police to pay for training, supplies, services and equipment. Over $22,000.00 was appropriated from this fund in 2011 for supplies and training. Since the funds that are to be appropriated are from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund, there will be no effect on the financial status of the General Fund.
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To authorize an appropriation of $109,373.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to 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. ($109,373.00)
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WHEREAS, the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund receives funds from the arrest and fine 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 to purchase 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 appropriate the aforementioned funds 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, 2012 the sum of $109,373.00 is appropriated as follows:
DIV FD SBFD OBJ#1 OBJ#3 OCA AMOUNT
30-0 225 002 02 2215 303225 32,686.50
30-03 225 002 02 2290 303225 10,000.00
30-03 225 002 03 3330 303225 14,000.00
30-03 225 002 03 3331 303225 10,000.00
30-03 225 002 06 6643 303225 42,686.50
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 2012 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.