Explanation
The Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department, received a "Recycle, Ohio!" grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for many years. This grant was intended to encourage recycling and litter prevention within the city. The Division no longer receives this grant.
The amount of $50,507.93 remains available within the General Government Grant Fund from the 2005 grant. This cash represents the remaining City-match that was originally transferred to the Grant Fund; provision of City match money was a condition of receiving the grant. This cash is unappropriated and unencumbered.
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of these monies within the General Government Grant Fund and their transfer to and appropriation within the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund to benefit the Refuse Collection Division. The Refuse Collection Division will utilize these funds to pay 2006 wage and benefit expenses for existing Keep Columbus Beautiful program employees, a use consistent with its originally intended recycling and litter prevention purpose. The midyear financial review documented a projected negative variance within the Refuse Collection Division's Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund appropriation.
Fiscal Impact: This transfer/appropriation constitutes an important step in the close out of this grant and is supported by the City Auditor's Office. Further, it will help mitigate the projected deficit within the Refuse Collection Division's Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund appropriation that must be addressed subsequent to the third quarter financial review and accordingly is supported by the Finance and Management Department.
Emergency action is requested to provide for expeditious grant close-out and make these funds available to the division as soon as practical to meet anticipated 2006 needs.
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To appropriate $50,507.93 within the General Government Grant Fund; to authorize the transfer of $50,507.93 from the General Government Grant Fund to the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund; to appropriate $50,507.93 within the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, Refuse Collection Division; to authorize the expenditure of $50,507.93 or so much thereof as may be needed from the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for 2006 wage and salary expenses of existing Keep Columbus Beautiful program personnel and allow for close-out of the 2005 "Recycle, Ohio!" grant; and to declare an emergency. ($50,507.93)
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WHEREAS, the Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department, received a "Recycle, Ohio!" grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for many years; and
WHEREAS, the Division no longer receives this grant; and
WHEREAS, city match funds in the amount of $50,507.93 remain available from the 2005 grant within the General Government Grant Fund; and
WHEREAS, subsequent to its transfer and appropriation this money can be expended to help mitigate the projected deficit within the Refuse Collection Division's Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund appropriation; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to transfer, appropriate and authorize the expenditure of said funds to provide for expeditious grant close-out and meet anticipated 2006 expenditure needs, 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 the sum of $50,507.93 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of Fund 220, the General Government Grant 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, 2006, to Department No. 59-02, Refuse Collection Division, Object Level One Code 10, Object Level Three Code 5501, OCA Code 595001 and Grant 595001.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director 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 the City Auditor be and hereby is authorized to transfer $50,507.93 between Funds as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
Fund# / Fund / Department No. / Object Level One/Object Level Three Codes / OCA Code / Grant
220 / General Government Grant Fund / 59-02 / 10/5501 / 595001 / 595001
Total Transfer From: $50,507.93
TRANSFER TO:
Fund# / Fund / Department Mo. / Object Level One/Object Level Three Codes / OCA Code / Grant
265 / Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund / 59-02 / 80/0886 / 594467 / N/A
Total Transfer To: $50,507.93
SECTION 4. That the sum of $50,507.93 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of Fund 265, the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair 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, 2006, to Department No. 59-02, Refuse Collection Division, Object Level One Code 01, Object Level Three Code 1101 and OCA Code 594467.
SECTION 5. That the monies appropriated in Section 4 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director 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 6. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to expend $50,507.93 or so much thereof as may be necessary from Fund 265, the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, Department No. 59-02, Refuse Collection Division, Object Level One Code 01, Object Level Three Code 1101 and OCA Code 594467 to pay 2006 wage and salary expenses for existing Keep Columbus Beautiful program personnel.
SECTION 7. 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 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.