Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant from the Ohio Public Works Commission, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the State Issue II Projects Grant Fund.
Grant monies will be used for the restoration and protection of Glen Echo Ravine in Glen Echo Park. The City agrees to complete this project by the target date of October 31, 2004.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up-to-date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management. Emergency action is also necessary to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
$230,800.00 in grant funding will be used for the restoration and protection of Glen Echo Ravine in Glen Echo Park.
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the State Issue II Projects Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $230,800.00.
The expenditure of $230,800.00 is budgeted in the State Issue II Projects Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $230,800.00 from the Ohio Public Works Commission for the restoration and protection of Glen Echo Ravine in Glen Echo Park, to authorize an appropriation of $230,800.00 from the unappropriated balance of the State Issue II Projects Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department, and to declare an emergency. ($230,800.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio Public Works Commission, has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant to support the restoration and protection of Glen Echo Ravine in Glen Echo Park; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate said grant funds to have funding available for necessary expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $230,800.00 from the Ohio Public Works Commission, for the restoration and protection of Glen Echo Ravine in Glen Echo Park.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the State Issue II Projects Grant Fund No. 764, 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, 2004, the sum of $230,800.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Object
Project Title Grant No. OCA Code Level 3 Amount
Glen Echo Ravine 514764 514764 6621 $230,800.00
Restoration
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 money 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.