Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Department of Public Services, Division of Facilities Management was awarded $230,000 of Community Development Block Grant funds in July, 2000, for the Building Renovation Program. The program involved the rehab of three city-owned public facilities: 657 S. Ohio Avenue (Police Athletic League), 1393 E. Broad Street (Model Neighborhood Facility) and 2300 W. Broad Street (Greater Hilltop Community Development Corporation. The projects involving 657 W. Ohio and 1393 E. Broad St are complete and the project at 2300 W. Broad is ready to begin its final phase. Encumbered balances for the two completed projects will be cancelled and utilized for the third project. This ordinance will re-appropriate the prior year unused funds.
Emergency action is requested so that funds are appropriated and available to complete this project without further delay.
FISCAL IMPACT: No additional funds are required. Funds are available from the cancellation of prior year encumbrances.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $6,284.00 within the Community Development Block Grant fund to the Department of Public Services in order to complete the Building Renovation Program, and to declare an emergency. ($6,284.00)
Body
WHEREAS, funds were appropriated in fiscal year 2000 for building renovation projects of three city-owned public facilities, and
WHEREAS, two of the three projects are completed with the final phase of the project at 2300 W. Broad ready to begin, and
WHEREAS, the first two projects expended less than originally encumbered, and
WHEREAS, a portion of these funds is needed to complete the third project, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds, 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. That from the unappropriated monies in the Community Development Block Grant fund, fund 248, subfund 001, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the year ending December 31, 2003, the sum of $6,284.00 is hereby appropriated to Department 59-07, OCA 594671, Object Level One: 06, Object Level Three 6620.
SECTION 2. That for the reasons stated in the preamble 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.