Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Division of Planning and Operations and the Division of Mobility Options are engaged in a project for the Department of Public Health. As part of the Department of Public Health Art Walk initiative, the Division of Mobility Options will prepare work orders and provide basic engineering support, and the Division Planning and Operations crews will fabricate and install on various City streets informational signs for participants in Art Walks. The purpose of this signage is to inform the public of the Art Walk program, engage residents and visitors to be physically active in urban neighborhoods by creating a signed urban trail, and promote physical activity as a means of obesity and chronic disease prevention in our community.
The costs incurred for City Staff and equipment associated with the Sign Upgrading/Streetname Signs - Art Walk Sign Initiative project will be tracked. The Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund will then be reimbursed from Capital Funds.
This legislation authorizes reimbursement to the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, the division's operating fund, for capital improvement labor and equipment associated with the Sign Upgrading/Streetname Signs - Art Walk Sign Initiative project. These project costs will be tracked and billed against the auditor's certificate established by this ordinance in order to reimburse the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
This project is budgeted within the 2011 Capital Improvement Budget. This expense can be accommodated by appropriating and transferring funds needed in the amount of $64,000.00 from the Special Income Tax Fund. Bonds have yet to be sold for the whole project, necessitating a certification of $64,000.00 against the Special Income Tax Fund. Upon sale of bonds, this will be reimbursed.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency legislation is requested in order to process reimbursements to the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund as expenses occur for this work and promote proper accounting practices.
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To authorize the Director of Public Service to reimburse the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for material, labor and equipment costs associated with the Sign Upgrading/Streetname Signs - Art Walk Sign Initiative project performed by the Division of Mobility Options and the Division of Planning and Operations; to authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate and transfer $64,000.00 from the Special Income Tax Fund to the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund; to authorize the City Auditor to appropriate $64,000.00 within the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $64,000.00 from the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($64,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Mobility Options and the Division of Planning and Operations are engaged in the Sign Upgrading/Streetname Signs - Art Walk Sign Initiative project; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to reimburse the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for the cost of material, labor and equipment utilized for this project; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to transfer funds from the Special Income Tax Fund to this project; and
WHEREAS, the City will sell notes or bonds to fund this project and will reimburse the Special Income Tax Fund; and
WHEREAS, this transfer should be considered as a temporary funding method; and
WHEREAS, the aggregate principal amount of obligations which the city will issue to finance this project is presently expected not to exceed $64,000.00; and
WHEREAS, the City anticipates incurring certain Original Expenditures (as defined in Section 1.150-2(c) of the Treasury Regulations (the "Treasury Regulations") promulgated pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) with respect to the project described in this ordinance (the "Project").
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service, Division of Mobility Options and the Division of Planning and Operations, in that it is immediately necessary to process this payment prior to the close of the calendar year, 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 Director of Public Service be and hereby is authorized to reimburse the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for the Sign Upgrading/Streetname Signs - Art Walk Sign Initiative project-related work performed by the Division of Mobility Options and the Division of Planning and Operations.
SECTION 2. The sum of $64,000.00 be and is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the Special Income Tax Fund, Fund 430, 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, 2011 to the City Auditor, Department 22-01, Object Level One 10, OCA Code 902023, Object Level Three 5502.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer said funds to the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund, 704, at such time as it is deemed necessary by the City Auditor and to expend said funds or so much thereof as may be necessary.
SECTION 4. That $64,000.00 is hereby appropriated within Fund 704, the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund, Dept-Div. 59-11, for The Division of Planning and Operations as follows:
Fund / Project / Project Name / O.L. 01-03 Codes / OCA / Amount
704 / 540008-100002 / Sign Upgrading/Streetname Signs - Art Walk Sign Initiative / 06-6600 / 740802 / $64,000.00
SECTION 5. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 4 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Public Service 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 6. That upon obtaining other funds for this capital improvement, the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to repay the Special Income Tax Fund the amount transferred under Section 3 above.
SECTION 7. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish proper accounting project numbers and to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for any contract or contract modification associated with the expenditure of funds transferred in Section 3, above.
SECTION 8. That the City intends that this ordinance constitute an "official intent" for purposes of Section 1.150-2(e) of the Treasury Regulations, and that the City reasonably expects to reimburse itself for certain Original Expenditures incurred with respect to the Project from the proceeds of obligations to be issued by the City in a principal amount currently estimated to be $64,000.00 (the "Obligations").
The City intends to make a reimbursement allocation on its books for the Original Expenditures not later than eighteen months following the later to occur of the date of the Original Expenditure to be reimbursed or the date the Project for which such Original Expenditures were made is "placed in service" within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.150-2(c). Upon the issuance of the Obligations, the proceeds of such Obligations shall be used to reimburse the fund from which the advance for costs of the Project will be made.
SECTION 9. All funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated.
SECTION 10. That for the purpose of reimbursing the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund for said alley rehabilitation work, the sum of $64,000.00 is hereby authorized to be expended from the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund, Fund 704, Department No. 59-11, Division of Planning and Operations as follows:
Fund / Project / Project Name / O.L. 01-03 Codes / OCA / Amount
704 / 540008-100002 / Sign Upgrading/Streetname Signs - Art Walk Sign Initiative / 06-6621 / 740802 / $64,000.00
SECTION 11. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 12. 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.