Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the annual appropriation of monies within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the Transportation Division to pay for roadway materials, salt and a variety of services related to street maintenance operations and utilities payments. This $2.8 million represents total anticipated receipts into this Fund in 2005. The amount being appropriated within this ordinance is detailed below. These proposed expenditures are estimates and are subject to change. Where required, expenditure ordinances will be submitted to City Council for approval to procure these commodities and services.
Materials and Supplies/ Amount
Rock Salt / $1,000,000.00
Liquid Calcium Chloride, Calcium-Coated Sand/ $100,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 02: $1,100,000.00
Services / Amount
Utilities (gas, electricity, city electricity, water and sewerage) / $1,000,000.00
Maintenance Services - Snow Removal Services with the Franklin County Engineering Department, guardrail and fence repair, weed and vegetation control, utility excavation and repair / $700,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 03: $1,700,000.00
Grand Total: $2,800,000.00
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $2.8 million in the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund. The fund has averaged $3 million in receipts for the past three years. The Transportation Division appropriated $2.8 million in 2004 and through December has spent and/or encumbered nearly all of the appropriated funds. The Transportation Division spent $3 million in 2003 from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund and $2.57 million in 2002.
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the division as soon as practical to meet anticipated 2005 needs.
Title
To appropriate $2,800,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for various expenditures for the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, and to declare an emergency. ($2,800,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, planned expenditures utilizing monies from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund are ready to proceed; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is necessary; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds to permit these expenditures and allow services to be procured without delay to meet anticipated 2005 needs, 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 the sum of $2,800,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Fund 266, 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, 2005, to the Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, as follows:
Commodities / O.L. 01/03 Codes / OCA Code / Amount
Rock Salt/ 02/2192/ 599115 / $1,000,000.00
Liquid Calcium Chloride, Calcium-Coated Sand, etc. / 02/2204 / 599115 / $100,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 02: $1,100,000.00
Services / O.L. 01/03 Codes / OCA Code / amount
Natural Gas / 03/3310 / 599104 / $130,000.00
Electricity / 03/3311 / 599104 / $550,000.00
Water and Sewerage / 03/3312 / 599104 / $50,000.00
Electricity-City/ 03/3314 / 599104 / $270,000.00
Maintenance Services (such as snow removal, Franklin County Engineering Department; snow removal, private contractors; guardrail and fence repair; weed and vegetation control and utility excavation and repair) / 03/3375 / 599115 / $700,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 03: $1,700,000.00
Grand Total: $2,800,000.00
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director 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.