Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance 0542-2012 (passed 3/26/12) amended the 2012 Consolidated Plan Action Plan and provided supplemental appropriations for Community Development Block Grant activities. The Department of Development, Office of Land Management, was granted an additional $297,000 for the land care program. By the end of 2012, not all of the funding was allocated to specific vendors and, therefore, a portion of the funding lapsed. This ordinance will re-appropriate the remaining $140,855 to further the intended purpose.
This legislation is presented as an emergency for the effective implementation of CDBG programs and ongoing city operations.
Title
To authorize an appropriation of $140,855.00 within the Community Development Block Grant Fund, to the Department of Development, Office of Land Management, and to declare an emergency ($140,855.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the Office of Land Management, Department of Development received a supplemental appropriation in 2012 for the land care program, and
WHEREAS, at the end of 2012 a portion of the land care funding remained unreserved to specific vendors and became lapsed funds, and
WHEREAS, said funds are available in the carryover balance for the original program purpose, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds to continue the land care program activities, 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 from the unappropriated monies in the fund known as the Community Development Block Grant Fund, Fund No. 248, Subfund 001, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the 12 months ending December 31, 2013, $140,855 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Development, Office of Land Management, Dept 44-01, OCA 410215, as follows:
Object Level 01:02, Object Level 03: 2188, $5,000
Object Level 01:03, Object Level 03: 3354, $135,855
SECTION 2. 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.