Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into agreement with the State of Ohio-Natureworks Program, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund. The State of Ohio-Natureworks Program awarded funding to the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department to construct a 1,350 linear foot, 4 foot wide crushed stone trail with a 90 linear foot boardwalk. The target completion date for this project is June 30, 2010. The total project cost is estimated to be $99,721.99. A local match of $70,245.99 is required from the Recreation and Parks Department and will be provided from the Recreation and Parks Special Purpose Fund 223, Waterways Nature Preservation.
Emergency action is requested in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact: $28,476.00 in grant funding will be used for the park improvements. The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unapproprited balance by $28,476.00. The expenditure of $28,476.00 is budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
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To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and enter into agreement with the State of Ohio-Natureworks Program for the Woodward Park Nature Preserve Trail, to authorize an appropriation of $28,476.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($28,476.00)
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WHEREAS, the State of Ohio-Natureworks Program has awarded the Recreation and Parks Department a grant to construct a 1,350 linear foot, 4 foot wide crushed stone trail and 90 linear foot boardwalk in the Woodward Park Nature Preserve; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept said grant and appropriate said funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate said grant funds for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $28,476.00 and enter into agreement with the State of Ohio-Natureworks Program for the Woodward Park Nature Preserve trail development.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, 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 $28,476.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Fund Type; Grant, Dept. No.; 51-01, Fund No.; 286, Grant No.; to be assigned by the Auditor's Office, Object Level 3; 6621, OCA Code; to be assigned by the Auditor's Office, Amount; $28,476.00.
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, 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 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.