Explanation
Background:
This legislation will authorize the appropriation of $150,000.00 from the fund generated by fees collected by the City Attorney's Bad Checks Diversion Program to pay the annual salary of the Bad Checks Program Coordinator and for the services of various professional facilitators.
Fiscal Impact: The Bad Checks Diversion Program is entirely funded from collected fees.
Title
To authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $150,000.00 from the fees collected by the City Attorney's Bad Checks Diversion Program for the purpose of paying the salary of the Program Coordinator and the cost of professional facilitator services, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, administrative fees are imposed and collected by the City Attorney's Office for participation in the Bad Checks Diversion Program; and
WHERAS, the cost of this program is solely supported by the fees collected, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City Attorney's Office in that it is necessary to immediately authorize the appropriation and expenditure of these collected fees for the continuance of the program and for the preservation the pubic health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and, now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) from the Special Purposes Fund as follows: City Attorney's Office, department 24-01, Bad Check Fees fund, fund #223, organizational cost account 223131, object level three 1101, the amount of Ninety Thousand Dollars ($90,000.00) and object level three 3336, the amount of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000.00)
SECTION 2. That the City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to expend those funds for the purpose of paying the salary of the Bad Checks Diversion Program Coordinator and for professional facilitator services.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the City Attorney; 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 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 passage and approval by the Mayor or ten (10) days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.