Explanation
BACKGROUND
The Division of Police, Department of Public Safety would like to transfer Law Enforcement State Seizure Funds to the Columbus Public Health Department. The Division of Police is obligated to spend state seizure funds on drug education and this transfer of funds will be part of this obligation. Providing these funds to the Health Department would enable them to utilize these funds for their Parenting Education programs, and their SAGE (Substance Abuse General Education) prevention programs.
Additional Need:
The Division of Police needs to appropriate additional funds from the Law Enforcement State Seizure Funds to enable this transfer.
Bid Information: N/A
Contract Compliance: N/A
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make these funds available for immediate use.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation requests an additional appropriation within the Law Enforcement Seizure Fund to accommodate this transfer to the Health Department. Further, this piece authorizes an appropriation within the Health Grants Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate and transfer $33,145.00 between the Law Enforcement Seizure Fund and the Health Grants Fund to enable the Health Department to utilize these funds for the Parenting Education programs and Substance Abuse Education prevention program; and to declare an emergency. ($33,145.00)
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WHEREAS, there is a need to transfer $33,145.00 from the Law Enforcement Seizure Fund to the Health Grants Fund to provide funding for prevention education programming; and,
WHEREAS, there is a need to appropriate additional funds in the Division of Police’s Law Enforcement Seizure Fund in order to accommodate this transfer; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Police, in that it is immediately necessary to transfer and appropriate funds for the aforementioned purpose 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 from the unappropriated monies 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, 2019 the sum of $33,145.00 is appropriated in Fund 2219-Law Enforcement Seizure Fund in Object Class 10 Transfer Out Operating per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $33,145.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, from fund 2219-221901 Law Enforcement Seizure Fund, to Fund No. 2251-000000 per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $33,145.00 within the Health Grants Fund per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
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 its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.