Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will authorize an appropriation in grant funds in connection with the Congregate Housing Services Program. Emergency action is requested so that there is no lapse in services.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Department Grant Fund's unappropriated balance of $414,000.00. This appropriation will enable the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging to implement this program for the fiscal year beginning, October 1, 2004.
Title
To authorize an appropriation in the amount of $414,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department for the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, and to declare an emergency. ($414,000.00)
Body
Whereas, funding for the Congregate Housing Services Program is being made available by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and
Whereas, it is necessary to appropriate said grant funds so that the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department can provide services beyond October 1, 2004, and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks 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 ending December 31, 2004; the sum of $414,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51, Fund No. 286, as follows:
Grant Title: Congregate Housing Services Program
Project: 518002
OCA No.: 514273
Object Level 1: 01
Amount: $300,000.00
Grant Title: Congregate Housing Services Program
Project: 518002
OCA No.: 514273
Object Level 1: 02
Amount: $13,000.00
Grant Title: Congregate Housing Services Program
Project: 518002
OCA No.: 514273
Object Level 1: 03
Amount: $100,000.00
Grant Title: Congregate Housing Services Program
Project: 518002
OCA No.: 514273
Object Level 1: 05
Amount: $1,000.00
TOTAL: $414,000.00
Section 2. That the monies in the foregoing Section 1. shall be paid upon the 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 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.