Explanation
This ordinance transfers $23,731.00 from Fund 225 Subfund 001 Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment (IDAT) Fund to Fund 227 Subfund 003 Municipal Court Probation User Fees. It is intended to go toward payroll of staff employee who performs assessments. The Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County (ADAMH) had given approval for the 5% of the IDAT Fund to be transferred to the Probation User Fees. Once in the Probation Use Fees the monies are to be appropriated into the payroll.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Transfer funds from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund for continued funding of the Municipal Court's Probation User Fees.
EMERGENCY: Emergency action is requested to continue funding of the program.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate and transfer of $23,731.00 from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to the Municipal Court Computer Fund Probation User Fees Fund; and to appropriate the monies in the Probation User Fees fund, and to declare an emergency. ($23,731.00)
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WHEREAS, The Franklin County Municipal Probation Department is performing the risk assessments, and;
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate and transfer $23,731.00 from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to the Municipal Court Computer Fund in order to continue to support the providing of assessments; and now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be authorized to appropriate and transfer $23,731.00 as follows:
From:
Fund 225 Subfund 001 Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund, OCA 250266, OL3 5501
To:
Fund 227 Subfund 003 Municipal Court, Probation User Fees, OCA 250324, OL3 0886
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in special revenue fund known as the probation user fees fund, fund number 227, subfund number 003, 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, 2015 the sum of $23,731.00 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, department 25 as follows: oca 250324 (probation user fees fund), object level 1 - 01, object level 3 - 1000, $23,731.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes necessary to ensure that these transactions are properly accounted for and recorded accurately on the city's financial records.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is 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.