Explanation
This ordinance will appropriate $400,000.00 in 2005, to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of attendance at court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment centers. The Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services administers the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Program of the Court, pursuant to R.C. 4511.191 (N). This legislation is considered an emergency measure to insure for the continuation of uninterrupted payments to the referred treatment centers.
Title
To authorize an appropriation of $400,000.00 from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, pursuant to the requirements of R.C. 4511.191 (N); and to declare an emergency. ($400,000.00)
Body
Whereas, Ordinance No. 2070-90 was submitted by the City Attorney's Office and passed by Columbus City Council on July 23, 1990, which established the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Account as a Special Revenue Fund; and
Whereas, the Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services (ADAMH) administers the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Program of the court, pursuant to R.C. 4511.191 (N); and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds, in order to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of attendance at court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment centers, thereby preserving 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 in Special Revenue Fund known as the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund, Fund No. 225, Sub-fund No. 001 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, 2005 the sum of $400,000.00 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, Department 25, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, as follows:
OCA Code Amount
250266 $ 400,000.00
Total: $ 400,000.00
Section 2: That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Franklin County Court Judges; 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 3: 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.