Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the annual appropriation of monies within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the Transportation Division. This $5.00 permissive tax has been levied by the City of Columbus since 1987. This money is used for division operating expenses consistent with the 2008 budget. The amount being appropriated within this ordinance is $3,769,000.00. Proposed expenditures are estimates and are subject to change. Where appropriate, expenditure ordinances will be submitted to City Council for approval to procure these commodities and services.
Fiscal Impact: Annual revenue into this Fund is consistently in the $3,000,000.00 to $3,500,000.00 range. Ordinance 0024-2007 passed by City Council January 30, 2007, authorized the 2007 appropriation of $3,878,000.00. The Transportation Division has expended and/or encumbered nearly all funds appropriated during 2007.
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the division as soon as practical to meet anticipated 2008 needs.
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To appropriate $3,769,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for anticipated 2008 operating expenditures for the Transportation Division, Public Service Department; and to declare an emergency. ($3,769,000.00)
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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 materials, supplies and services to be procured without delay to meet anticipated 2008 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 $3,769,000.00 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, 2008, to the Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, as follows:
materials and supplies / O.L. One/O.L. Three Code / OCA Code / amount
rock salt / 02/2192 / 599115 / $800,000.00
paint/02/2195/599115/$12,000.00
sand/02/2196/599115/$10,000.00
gravel / 02/2197 / 599115 / $150,000.00
concrete / 02/2198 / 599115 / $90,000.00
liquid calcium chloride, calcium-coated sand, etc. / 02/2204 / 599115 / $55,000.00
other street and sidewalk maintenance materials / 02/2262 / 599115 / $379,000.00
traffic signs and signals/02/2265/599115/$300,000.00
electrical supplies/02/2273/599115/$10,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 02: $1,806,000.00
services / O.L. One/ O.L. Three Code / OCA Code / amount
natural gas / 03/3310 / 599104 / $250,000.00
electricity / 03/3311 / 599104 / $610,000.00
water and sewerage / 03/3312 / 599104 / $80,000.00
electricity-city / 03/3314 / 599104 / $308,000.00
other professional services/03/3336/599115/$250,000.00
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 / $465,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 03: $1,963,000.00
Grand Total: $3,769,000.00
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.