Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant from Franklin County (Court of Common Pleas and Prosecutor's Office), for management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project. The Courts Mediation Department will mange and provide the County's foreclosure mediations. This legislation also will appropriate $323,840.00 from the general government grant fund. Grant monies will fund all program cost, supplies, and administrative costs for the Franklin County Municipal Court from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011
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EMERGENCY ACTION is requested in order for this new cycle of funding to be in place as close to January 1, 2011 as possible.
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To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from Franklin County, for management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project; to appropriate $323,840.00 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund; and to declare an emergency. ($323,840.00)
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WHEREAS, grant monies from Franklin County, in the amount of $323,840.00 are available to provide for implementation and management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the city in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforesaid grant for mediation services, and to appropriate the aforementioned funds to assure that this grant cycle can and will be able to commence as close to January 1, 2011 as possible, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. To authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept a grant award from the Franklin County, for management of the Franklin County Foreclosure Mediation Project.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the general government grant fund, fund 220 and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the twelve months ending December 31, 2011, the sum of $323,840 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court, department number 2501, grant number 251008, oca 251008 as follows: $1,444 to object level 1 - 02, object level3 - 2000; $322,396 to object level 1 - 03, object level3 - 3000
SECTION 3. That the grant submitted to City Council is hereby approved and accepted in all respects, and, the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Administrative and Presiding Judge; 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 the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes necessary to ensure that these transactions are properly accounted for and recorded accurately on the city's financial records.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance in 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.