Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award of $2,500.00 from State Farm Insurance under its Good Neighbor Citizenship (GNC) grant program. The funds will be used to purchase smoke detectors for the smoke detector distribution program. This is the second donation of it's kind from State Farm Insurance this year.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the Fire Chief to accept a grant and the City Auditor to appropriate a total of $2,500.00 in the Special Revenue Fund Private Grants for the purchase of smoke detectors for distribution by Columbus Fire Fighters. There are no required city matches for these grants. The Fire Division has spent $2,500.00 from this grant fund to purchase smoke detectors in 2011.
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION: The Fire Division needs to replenish its stock of smoke detectors and use the funds before the grant expiration dates.
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To authorize the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award from State Farm Insurance for the purchase of smoke detectors for the Fire Division distribution program, to appropriate $2,500.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Special Revenue Private Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($2,500.00)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Fire received a grant award of $2,500.00 from State Farm Insurance for the purchase of smoke detectors for the smoke detector distribution program, and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus for the Fire Chief to accept these grants, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate funds from these grants in order to purchase smoke detectors, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Fire, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize and direct the grant acceptance and appropriation of funds to enable the timely purchase of the items needed before the grant deadline for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare: Now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Columbus Fire Chief be and is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award in the amount of $2,500.00 from State Farm Insurance for the purchase of smoke detectors for the distribution program.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Special Revenue Private Grants Fund, and from any and all sources estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011, the sum of $2,500.00 is appropriated to the Division of Fire as follows:
Division 30-04, Fund 291, Object Level 3, 2249, OCA 348020, Grant # 348020, Amount $2,500.00
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Public Safety; 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.