Explanation
The Refuse Collection Division is the recipient of a $141,500.00 "Recycle, Ohio!" grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention. This is used to partially underwrite 2004 operations of the Keep Columbus Beautiful Program. This grant requires a City match for the 2004 grant. City matching funds in the amount of $28,300.00 are budgeted in the 2004 Refuse Collection Division's General Fund appropriation. This ordinance transfers the City match money from the General Fund to the General Government Grant Fund, appropriates it there, and authorizes its expenditure for approved program-related expenses.
Emergency action is requested to provide for efficient posting of these transactions in the interests of timely and accurate financial reporting and to allow for uninterrupted program expenditures.
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To authorize the transfer of $28,300.00 from the General Fund to the General Government Grant Fund as the required city match for a "Recycle, Ohio!" grant received from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for continued operation of the Keep Columbus Beautiful program within the Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department; to appropriate these funds within the General Government Grant Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to expend $28,300.00 from the General Government Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($28,300.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus recognizes the importance of having an effective litter program, and
WHEREAS, the Refuse Collection Keep Columbus Beautiful program works to address litter prevention at the local level and that public awareness and education of recycling and litter prevention is vital to the success of the Keep Columbus Beautiful program; and
WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources provides the Refuse Collection Division with a grant to help fund the operation of the Keep Columbus Beautiful program, and
WHEREAS, the Refuse Collection Division, Public Service Department is required to match the grant with city funds, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, in that it is immediately necessary to transfer, appropriate, and authorize the expenditure of funds for the continued operation of the Keep Columbus Beautiful program within the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division for calendar year 2004, to provide for efficient posting of these transactions in the interests of timely and accurate financial reporting, and to allow for uninterrupted program expenditures, 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 City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $28,300.00 from the Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division's 2004 General Fund appropriation to the General Government Grant Fund, Keep Columbus Beautiful Program 2004 "Recycle, Ohio!" Grant, Grant 594001, 2004 appropriation as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
Fund / Dept. No. / Object Level 01 / 03 Codes / OCA Code / Amount
010 / 59-02 / 10 / 5501 / 900316 / $28,300.00
Total Transfer From: $28,300.00
TRANSFER TO:
Fund / Dept. No. / Object Level 01 / 03 Codes / OCA Code / Amount
220 / 59-02 / 80 / 0886 / 101916 / $28,300.00
Total Transfer To: $28,300.00
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 fiscal year ending December 31, 2004, the sum of $28,300.00 be and hereby is appropriated to the Keep Columbus Beautiful program, Public Service Department, Refuse Collection Division, Department No. 59-02, as follows:
OCA Code / Grant / Object Level 01 / 03 Codes / Item / Amount
594001 / 594001 / 01 / 1100 / Personnel / $25,300.00
594001 / 594001 / 02 / 2200 / Supplies / $1,500.00
594001 / 594001 / 03 / 3300 / Services / $1,500.00
Total: $28,300.00
SECTION 3. That dollars remaining as of December 31, 2004, from the General Fund transfer into the Keep Columbus Beautiful program be allowed to roll forward into the subsequent year's appropriation.
SECTION 4. 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.