Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award of $1,000 from Target Corporation for the purchase of smoke detectors for the Fire Division smoke detector distribution program. This ordinance also appropriates $1,000 in the Special Revenue fund for this purpose. This grant will permit the purchase of approximately 75 smoke detectors for distribution. If grant funds permit, the Fire Division typically distributes between 500 to 800 smoke detectors annually in areas following fatal house fires, during home inspections, or at community events.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance appropriates $1,000 in the Special Revenue fund for the purchase of smoke detectors for distribution by Columbus Fire Fighters. There is no required city match for this grant. Therefore, there is no cost to the General Fund for the acquisition and distribution of these smoke detectors by the Fire Division.
Emergency Legislation: The Fire Division needs a replacement stock of smoke detectors. This is an emergency ordinance that will allow the timely purchase of smoke detectors.
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To authorize the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award from Target Corporation for the purchase of smoke detectors for the Fire Division distribution program, to appropriate $1,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Special Revenue Private Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($1,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Fire received a grant award from Target Corporation for the purchase of smoke detectors for the smoke detector distribution program, and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus for the Fire Chief to accept this grant, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate the funds from this grant in order to purchase the smoke detectors, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Fire, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize and direct the grant acceptance and appropriation of funds to enable the timely purchase of smoke detectors for the preservation of 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 Columbus Fire Chief be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award in the amount of $1,000.00 from Target Corporation for the purchase of smoke detectors for the distribution program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Special Revenue Private Grants Fund, and from any and all sources estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008, the sum of $1,000.00 is appropriated to the Division of Fire as follows:
Division 30-04, Fund 291, Object Level 1, 2200, OCA 348020, Grant # 348020, Amount $1,000.00.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Public Safety: 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.