Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the reimbursement to the Franklin County Engineering Department $330,532.71 for snow and ice removal provided to the City of Columbus during the 2007-2008 winter season from existing appropriation authority within this Fund. To capture operating efficiencies, county and city forces occasionally service portions of the others' roadways that lie within the other's jurisdiction. The county always services more city roadways than the city services county roadways. The entities settle up once each year and this payment represents the net amount due the county.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
The Transportation Division has budgeted $330,532.71 in the 2008 Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund appropriation for contracted services. This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $330,532.71.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to provide reimbursement to the Franklin County Engineer as soon as possible in the interest of good inter-jurisdictional relations.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Service to reimburse the Franklin County Engineer for snow and ice removal services rendered to the City of Columbus during the 2007-2008 winter season; to authorize the expenditure of $330,532.71 from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the Division of Transportation; and to declare an emergency. ($330,532.71)
Body
WHEREAS, services were performed for the removal of snow and ice from certain city streets by Franklin County Engineering Department forces and the removal of snow and ice from certain county streets by city Transportation Division forces; and
WHEREAS, subsequent to the conclusion of this activity every year, the parties equitably distribute the mutually benefitting services; and
WHEREAS, the net cost to the city is $330,532.71 for the winter of 2007-2008; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Transportation, Department of Public Service in that it is immediately necessary to provide for the reimbursement of this expense by the city to the county as soon as possible in the interest of good inter-jurisdictional relations, 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 Director of Public Service be and hereby is authorized to make payment of $330,532.71 to the Franklin County Engineer for snow and ice removal services rendered by the county engineer on city streets during the 2007-2008 winter season for the Division of Transportation.
SECTION 2. That for the purposes of making this payment, the expenditure of $330,532.71 be and hereby is authorized from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Fund 266, Department No. 59-09, Division of Transportation , Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3375 and OCA Code 599115.
SECTION 3. 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.