Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: An appropriation and transfer of funds from the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant (JAIBG) Operation Nite Lite and Central Ohio Regional Drug (CORD) Task Force is needed to return unused cash matching funds to their original source. The Columbus Division of Police is active in outside funded activities and collaborative projects to enhance the effectiveness of its limited resources. Such activities and projects often require cash matches from the participating agencies. The JAIBG Operation Nite Lite and CORD Task Force are recently completed examples of these endeavors by the Division. The Nite Lite program had an original budget of $104,473.00 and has $212.71 of remaining City matching funds. The CORD Task Force had an original budget of $134,000.00 and has $1,470.43 of State matching funds and $2,836.88 of City matching funds remaining. The nature of these program activities did not lend themselves to the exact total expenditure of all budgeted funds and it was necessary they not create any deficit balances or obligations. The State funds need returned to the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI&I). The City matching funds came from the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund and need returned there.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is necessary to enable the most expedient reimbursement to the State and to make the seizure funds available for other use.
FISCAL IMPACT
There will be no fiscal impact on the City General Fund account. The funds awaiting refund and transfer are in special grant accounts.
Title
To authorize the appropriation and transfer of unused cash matching funds from the Juvenile Incentive Accountability Block Grant Operation Nite Lite and Central Ohio Regional Drug Task Force to their original sources, the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund and to declare an emergency. ($4,520.02)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Police has been a participant in grant funded and collaborative law enforcement projects to enhance the effectiveness of its limited resources; and
WHEREAS, the participants in these projects have provided cash matching funds, and
WHEREAS, there are small amounts of unused cash matching funds that need returned to their original sources, the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure Fund, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to expedite the return of State provided cash match and City Law Enforcement Contraband Seizure funds to make them available for new uses as soon as possible, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists as it is immediately necessary to appropriate and transfer cash matching funds from the Operation Nite Lite and CORD Task Force grant accounts for the preservation of 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 the General Government Grant Fund and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated from any other purposes the sum of $4,520.02 is appropriated as follows:
Div FD OBJ#1 OBJ#3 OCAACD Grant Amount
30-03 220 10 5501 333005 333005 212.71
30-03 220 10 5501 333015 333015 2,836.88
30-03 220 05 5513 333015 333015 1,470.43
Section 2. That Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant Operation Nite Lite and Central Ohio Regional Drug Task Force Funds are transferred as follows:
FROM:
DIV FD OCA AMOUNT
30-03 220 333005 212.71
30-03 220 333015 2,836.88
TO:
DIV FD OBJ#1 OBJ#3 OCA AMOUNT
30-03 219 10 0886 040220 3,049.59
Section 3. That monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 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 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.