Explanation
Background
This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to make payment to the Ohio State University for services rendered and to declare an emergency. This accommodates expenses associated with the provisioning of a graduate research associate, for which a purchase order was inadvertently not established.
Emergency action is requested in order to ensure that this obligation is paid in a timely fashion.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding in the amount of $15,214.00 is available and appropriated for the payment of this expenditure in Fund 1000 within the Department of City Council (2001) as noted in the attached “Then and Now Certificate” as approved by the City Auditor.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to authorize payment to the Ohio State University per invoice approved by the Department Director (or designee) in an amount not to exceed $15,214.00 from Fund 1000; and to declare an emergency. ($15,214.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio State University, provided labor services to the City of Columbus in the form of a graduate research associate; and,
WHEREAS, after these goods or services were rendered, the City received an invoice for which a purchase order, with a prior certification of availability of funds by the City Auditor attached, had not been obtained; and,
WHEREAS, Section 5705.41 (D)(1) of the Ohio Revised Code provides that in certain circumstances a political subdivision may authorize payment on a contract executed without prior certification by the City Auditor; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council now has before it a certificate from the City Auditor certifying there was at the time of making the contract and at the time of the execution of such certificate a sufficient sum appropriated for the purpose of such contract and in the treasury or in process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any encumbrances (a “then and now certificate”); and,
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to satisfy the obligations of the contract;
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the daily operations of City Council in that it is immediately necessary to present this ordinance for the City Auditor to issue a warrant in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code Section 5705.41 (D)(1) all for the preservation of the public peace, property, health safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That City Council hereby acknowledges receipt of the “then and now certificate” from the City Auditor and authorizes and directs the City Auditor to authorize payment to the Ohio State University per invoice approved by the Department Director (or designee) in an amount not to exceed $15,214.00.
SECTION 2. 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 approved by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.