Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health, in partnership with area veterinarians and technicians, will be offering Columbus residents access to low-cost rabies vaccinations for their pets. Individual veterinarians and technicians that participate in Columbus Public Health's Animal Response Team, have agreed to donate their time to these special clinics so that the charges for services can be set at a minimal rate such that the fees generated will be sufficient to purchase replacement vaccine for the following clinic. In order to properly track and account for these monies, we are requesting that the City Auditor create a new subfund within the City's Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223.
FISCAL IMPACT: The rabies clinic is designed and intended to be a self-sustaining operation. Start-up vaccine is available so there is no cost to the City of Columbus.
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To authorize the City Auditor to create a new subfund within the City's Special Purpose Fund to account for rabies clinic activities; to authorize an appropriation of $15,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Special Purpose Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($15,000)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for residents to have access to low-cost rabies vaccinations for their pets; and
WHEREAS, there are veterinarians and technicians who are willing to donate their services to the City's low-cost rabies vaccination clinics; and
WHEREAS, the arrangement that has been agreed to is that the fees charged at these clinics will be set at a price that enables the City to purchase and replenish the amount of vaccine dispensed at each clinic; and
WHEREAS, in order to properly account for these revenues and expenses, it is necessary for the City Auditor to create a new subfund within the City's Special Purpose Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Health in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the creation of the new subfund and to appropriate said funds for the preservation of public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to establish a subfund within the City's Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, titled Rabies Clinic Subfund, in order to properly track and account for clinic fiscal activities.
SECTION 2. That all revenues arising from the collection of vaccination fees at these rabies clinics shall be deposited into said subfund within the Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223.
SECTION 3. That from the unappropriated monies in the City's Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, 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, 2009, the sum of $15,000.00 is appropriated to the Department of Health, Department No. 50-01, as follows:
Subfund No.: to be assigned by the Auditor's Office, Object Level 3; 2207, OCA Code; to be assigned by the Auditor's Office, Amount; $15,000.00.
SECTION 4. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 4 shall be paid upon order of the Health Commissioner, 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 5. 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.