Explanation
Background: Ordinance No. 1092-2003, passed by City Council on July 23, 2003 authorized the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contracts for the provision of PASSPORT services to older adults in Central Ohio.
This ordinance is to authorize the City Auditor to increase the existing Auditor Certificate due to additional grant funds made available by the Ohio Department of Aging.
Emergency action is requested in order to have sufficient grant funds available to modify various contracts for increased services through June 30, 2004.
Fiscal Impact: $2,000,000.00 is needed from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to increase the Auditor's Certificate.
Title
To authorize an increase to an existing Auditor's Certificate by $2,000,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund for the provision of PASSPORT services to older adults and to declare an emergency. ($2,000,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1092-2003 passed by Columbus City Council on July 23, 2003 authorized the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into various contracts for the provision of services to older adults.
WHEREAS, additional grant funds are being made available by the Ohio Department of Aging for this purpose, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to increase said Auditor' Certificate in order to have sufficient grant funds available to modify various contracts for increased services through June 30, 2004, 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 City Auditor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to increase Auditor's Certificate #AC020596 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund for the provision of PASSPORT services to older adults.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $2,000,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, Department No. 51, as follows
Grant No. 518139
OCA 511675
Object Level 03
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.