Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the transfer of $70,000.00 within the General Government Grant Fund and the expenditure of $75,344.05 ($15,344.05 from cancelled cases and $60,000.00 of the transferred funds) from the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant. Funds are needed to pay various expenses associated with the Lead Safe Columbus program.
Lead Safe Columbus provides grants to qualified property owners in order to remove lead based hazards in owner and tenant occupied units. Funds are provided through the 2007 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant received from the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. These expenditures need to be made prior to the end of the grant period October 31, 2010.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the transfer of $70,000.00 and the expenditure of $75,344.05 from the General Government Grant Fund, 2007 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant.
Title
To authorize and direct the transfer of $70,000.00 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to expend $75,344.05 from the General Government Grant Fund for various expenses associated with the Lead Safe Columbus program; and to declare an emergency. ($75,344.05)
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WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the transfer of $70,000.00 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant, and authorizes the expenditure $75,344.05 from the General Government Grant Fund for various expenses associated with the Lead Safe Columbus program; and
WHEREAS, Lead Safe Columbus provides grants to qualified property owners in order to remove lead based hazards in owner and tenant occupied units; and
WHEREAS, funds are provided through the 2007 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant received from the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to transfer and expend said funds so expenditures can be made by the end of the grant period, 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 be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $70,000 within the General Government Grant Fund, Fund No.220, Grant Number 447027, Division 44-10 as follows:
FROM:
Object Level 1 / Object Level 3 / OCA Code / Amount
01 / 1101 / 447027 / $70,000.00
TO:
Object Level 1 / Object Level 3 / OCA Code / Amount
03 / 3525 / 447027 / $5,000.00
03 / 3331 / 447027 / $5,000.00
05 / 5517 / 447027 / $60,000.00
Section 2. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to expend $75,344.05 of the General Government Grant Fund for eligible projects and activities associated with the Lead Safe Columbus program.
Section 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 2, the expenditure of $75,344.05 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized from the Department of Development, Division 44-10, Fund 220, Grant 447027, Object Level One 05, Object Level Three 5517, OCA Code 447027.
Section 4. That in the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part thereof, 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.