City of Columbus - File #: 1935-2006

• File #: 1935-2006
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 10/25/2006
• In control: Safety Committee
• On agenda: 11/20/2006
• Final action: 11/22/2006
• Title: To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to authorize payment of prisoner medical bills to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office for the Division of Police from the General Fund in the amount of $113,517.77, and to declare an emergency. ($113,517.77)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/22/2006	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
11/21/2006	1	MAYOR	Signed
11/20/2006	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
11/20/2006	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
11/1/2006	1	Auditor Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
11/1/2006	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
11/1/2006	1	Safety Drafter	Sent for Approval
11/1/2006	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
11/1/2006	1	Safety Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
10/31/2006	1	Safety Drafter	Sent for Approval
10/30/2006	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/30/2006	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/30/2006	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/27/2006	1	SAFETY DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/27/2006	1	Safety Drafter	Sent for Approval
10/27/2006	1	EBOCO Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/27/2006	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/27/2006	1	Safety Drafter	Sent for Approval
10/26/2006	1	Safety Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/26/2006	1	Safety Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/25/2006	1	Safety Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/25/2006	1	Safety Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved

Explanation

BACKGROUND:

Need: Legislation is needed to pay prisoner's medical bills to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office. Within the provisions established by the contract between the Department of Public Safety and the Franklin County Jail, it has been determined that these individuals were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices, and the Division of Police is responsible for payments. The Division of Police currently has outstanding debt in the amount of $98,517.77 through October 2006 and the Division of Police is estimating an additional $15,000.00 will be needed to cover invoices for the remainder of 2006. This total request is $113,517.77

Contract Compliance: 316400067

Emergency Designation:  Since these debts are for services that occurred in 2005 - 2006, emergency legislation is requested.

FISCAL IMPACT: $75,000.00 has been budgeted in the Division's 2006 General Fund Budget for medical services for prisoners. Deficits for this type of service were reported to Finance & Safety in the 1^st, 2^nd  & 3^rd quarter reviews.

Title

To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to authorize payment of prisoner medical bills to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office for the Division of Police from the General Fund in the amount of $113,517.77, and to declare an emergency.  ($113,517.77)

Body

WHEREAS, individuals were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the contract between the Department of Public Safety and the Franklin County Jail, the Division of Police is responsible for the medical bills; and

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation in the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary for the Division of Police to pay the Franklin County Sheriff's Office for medical services provided to prisoners  for the preservation of the public health, peace, property safety, welfare; now therefore

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:

Section 1. That the Director of Public Safety be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay the Franklin County Sheriff's Office for prisoner medical bills.

Section 2. That the expenditure of $113,517.77 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same is hereby authorized as follows: |DIV        30-03 | FUND 010 | OBJ LEVEL (1)  03 | OBJ LEVEL (3)      3413 | OCA 301382.                  

Section 3. That for 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.