Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to establish a certificate in the amount of $250,000.00 to allow the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into agreements with Columbus area musicians to provide programming to youth in Central Ohio. This ordinance also provides for the transfer of $576,300.00 from the General Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund. This transfer is necessary to provide funding for these contracts, as well as additional personnel administrative support costs and other services. This funding is requested at this time due to the need to have additional funding available for the summer season and to ensure that budget authority is aligned with expenditures. This ordinance will also authorize the appropriation of $42,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Community Development Block Grant Fund for the installation of flooring and fitness equipment in the Douglas fitness room.
Emergency Justification: Emergency legislation is required in order to have funding available for the provision of additional programming and services during the Recreation and Parks summer season.
Fiscal Impact: The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to increase the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund, 2285, by $576,300.00; to authorize the City Auditor to establish a certificate in the amount of $250,000.00 for contracting with Columbus area musicians in support of youth programming and to appropriate $42,000.00 in the Community Development Block Grant fund 2248.
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To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter in contracts with Columbus area musicians to provide programming to youth in Central Ohio; to authorize the City Auditor to establish a certificate in the amount of $250,000.00; to authorize the transfer of $576,300.00 from the General Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund; to authorize the appropriation of $576,300.00 within the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund; to authorize the appropriation of $42,000.00 within the CDBG Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $250,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($250,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary that the City Auditor establish a certificate in the amount of $250,000.00 to enter into agreements with Columbus area musicians to provide programming to youth in Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance also provides for the transfer and appropriation of $576,300.00 from the General Fund to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund to ensure sufficient appropriation in the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund to fund summer and youth programming initiatives and the appropriation of $42,000.00 to the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into agreements with Columbus area musicians to provide youth programming and services during the upcoming Recreation and Parks summer season, thereby preserving the City's public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish a certificate in the amount of $250,000.00 to enter into agreements with Columbus area musicians to provide programming to youth in Central Ohio.
SECTION 2. That the transfer of $576,300.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the actions authorized in Section 1, is hereby authorized from the General Fund 1000 to the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund 2285 per the accounting codes attached to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund, Fund 2285, 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, 2021, the sum of $576,300.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department 5101, per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That from the unappropriated monies in the Community Development Block 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 ended December 31, 2021, the sum of $42,000.00 is appropriated in Fund 2248 Community Development Block Grant Fund per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That the expenditure of $250,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the actions authorized in Section 1 is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Operating Fund 2285 in object class 03 services per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 6. That the Director of the Recreation and Parks is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with Columbus area musicians to provide programming to youth in Central Ohio.
SECTION 7. That this Council hereby recognizes that this ordinance does not identify specific contractors or vendors for the expenditure purposes authorized herein and hereby delegates sole and final contracting decisions relative to the determination of lowest, best, most responsive and most responsible vendor(s) to the Director of Recreation and Parks. All contracts will be entered into in compliance with the relevant procurement provisions of the Columbus City Codes Chapter 329.
SECTION 8. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 9. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 10. 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 approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.