Explanation
This ordinance appropriates $410,500.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the Transportation Division for various service needs that have been incurred or will be incurred during the balance of 2003. These include an additional:
$114,324.76 to reimburse the Franklin County Engineering Department for snow and ice removal services rendered on city roadways during the winter of 2002-2003 ($257,000.00 was previously appropriated for this purpose within Ordinance 0380-2003, passed by City Council on March 10, 2003). Two invoices for 2002-2003 snow removal were received from the Franklin County Engineer on September 30, 2003; the exact amount of these billings was unknown beforehand;
$50,000.00 for contracts with private snow removal firms (utilized on a contingency basis for residential street snow removal) for the approaching winter season;
$46,121.00 to reimburse the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) for State Issue Two program-related administrative expenses; and
$200,054.24 for projected expenses from uniform rental, copy machine rental, utilities, professional services, memberships, subscriptions, information services, maintenance services, fleet services and hazardous waste disposal.
Where appropriate, separate expenditure authorization legislation will be submitted to City Council for approval to procure and/or pay for these services.
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the Division as soon as practical to meet pending and anticipated 2003 expenses.
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To appropriate $410,500.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund to the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, for anticipated expenditures that will be incurred by the Transportation Division during the balance of 2003, and to declare an emergency. ($410,500.00)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division has identified pending and anticipated expenses that will be paid from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is necessary to allow the services to be performed and payments to be made without delay; 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, 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 $410,500.00 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, 2003, to the Transportation Division, Department No. 59-09, Object Level One Code 03 (Services) as follows:
Object Level Three Code/ OCA Code/ Amount
3303/ 599104/ $ 3,000.00
3310/ 599104/ 5,000.00
3311/ 599104/ 5,000.00
3312/ 599104/ 10,054.24
3325/ 599104/ 8,000.00
3333/ 599104/ 2,000.00
3334/ 599104/ 10,000.00
3336/ 599104/ 20,000.00
3339/ 599104/ 30,000.00
3372/ 599104/ 2,000.00
3375/ 599104/ 18,000.00
3398/ 599104/ 10,000.00
3407/ 599104/ 46,121.00
3307/ 599115/ 5,000.00
3375/ 599115/ 214,324.76
3380/ 599115/ 20,000.00
3412/ 599115/ 2,000.00
Total $410,500.00
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.