Explanation
October 13, 2004
TO THE HONORABLE MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL:
Background: Passage of this Ordinance will enable the Municipal Court Clerk to continue to pay the Court receivables collections manager from the Clerk Collection Fee Special Revenue Fund, thus eliminating a potential staff lay-off in 2005. This manager was paid from the Clerk Collection Fee Special Revenue Fund in 2004 in accordance with Ordinance 2633-2003. Previous to Ordinance 2633-2003 the collections manager was paid out of the general fund.
Fiscal Impact: Sufficient funds are available in the cash balance of the Collection Fee Fund to accommodate the collection manager's payroll costs.
Title
To authorize an appropriation from the unappropriated balance of the Clerk's Collection Fee Special Revenue Fund and from all monies estimated to come into said fund during the 12 months ending December 31, 2005 in the amount of $85,015.00 and to declare an emergency. ($85,015.00)
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Whereas, in order to relieve General Fund costs it is necessary to pay the Court receivables collections manager from the Clerk Collection Fee Special Revenue Fund, and
Whereas, it is necessary to appropriate funds for this purpose, and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Court in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate these funds for use by the Court Clerk for the immediate preservation of 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 $85,015.00 is hereby authorized and directed to be appropriated from the unappropriated balance in the Clerk Collection Fee Special Revenue Fund, Fund 295, Subfund 02, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the 12 months ending December 31, 2005, to the Municipal Court Clerk, Department 2601, OCA Code 261295, Object Level One 01, Object Level Three as follows:
1101 $63,511
1104 650
1105 1,200
1121 5,454
1160 8,694
1171 930
1173 4,576
Section 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon the order of the Municipal Court Clerk and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except upon 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 affect 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.