Explanation
Background
The Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging was awarded supplemental state grant funds from the Ohio Department of Aging for the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program.
Fiscal Impact
This ordinance will reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance of $45,140.00. This appropriation will enable the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging to continue administering said program during FY2005.
Emergency action is requested in order to meet the conditions of the grant so that services to older adults do not lapse.
Title
To authorize an appropriation in the amount of $45,140.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department for the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, in connection with the Long Term Care Ombudsman Grant, and to declare an emergency. ($45,140.00)
Body
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds so there is no interruption of services, now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Grant Fund 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, 2005 the sum of $45,140.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51, Fund No. 286, as follows:
Grant: Long Term Care Ombudsman Project: 518310 OCA NO.: 514547 Object Level: 3 Amount: $45,140.00 Total: $45,140.00
Section 2. That the monies in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon the 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 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part thereof, 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 same.