Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a contract with the Chiller at Easton ( Fed. ID# 31-1535747/002) and provide adequate funding for expenditures in conjunction with Ice Hockey Program for the remainder of 2003 and through January 31, 2004.
Expenditures include costs for ice rental time at the Chiller at Easton and for introductory ice skating trips.
Emergency legislation is requested to enable the Hockey Program to operate during November and December of 2003 and through January 2004.
Fiscal Impact:
$2,200.00 is required and budgeted from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund to meet the financial obligation of this expenditure.
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a contract with the Chiller at Easton, to authorize an expenditure from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund in the amount of $2,200.00 in conjunction with the Ice Hockey Program for the remainder of 2003 and through January 31, 2004, and to declare an emergency. ($2,200.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to to enter into a contract with the Chiller at Easton and to pay expenses associated with the Ice Hockey Program for the remainder of 2003 and through January 31, 2004; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said contract 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 Columbus Recreation and Parks Department is hereby authorized to pay expenses associated with the Ice Hockey Program for the remainder of 2003 and through January 31, 2004.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $2,200.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund, Department No. 51-01, as follows, to pay the cost thereof.
Fund Object OCA
Type Fund Project Title Level 3 Code Amount
Operating 285 Youth Ice Hockey 3336 510297 $2,200.00
Program at the Chiller
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or monies paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
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.