Explanation
The following ordinance is similar to ordinances submitted annually by this office. It gives the Auditor the ability to transfer and increase, if necessary, appropriations within each fund to ensure that final costs occuring prior to passage of the 2015 budgets can be met.
The ordinance also authorizes the payment of payrolls and other obligations occuring prior to the passage of the 2015 appropriation ordinances.
Fiscal Impact
Possibly no net impact. Some increases, however, in appropriations may occur, but only to the extent as described herein.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to transfer and increase, if necessary, appropriations within any of the various funds of the City to provide for payrolls, internal services, tax adjustments, and other obligations for periods prior to passage of the 2015 budget, and to authorize the payment of payrolls and other obligations occuring prior to the passage of the 2015 appropriation ordinances; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the last pay period of fiscal year 2014 will end on December 20, 2014 and will be paid on December 24, 2014, and
WHEREAS, it may be necessary to make various budget transfers and or encumbrance cancellations within appropriated funds and to increase appropriations, if necessary, to meet said payroll, bills for internal services, tax adjustments, and other obligations for 2014, and
WHEREAS, pay periods may end in 2015 before the 2015 annual appropriation ordinances will be approved by Council so this ordinance is being submitted as an emergency measure; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Auditor to transfer and increase, if necessary, appropriations within any of the various funds of the City to provide for payrolls, internal services, tax adjustments, and other obligations occuring prior to the passage of the 2015 appropriation ordinances 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 City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer appropriations within any fund, if necessary, and to cancel encumbrances, if necessary, to provide for City payrolls, unpaid internal services, tax adjustments, and other obligations from any object level one with available appropriations to the appropriate object level one.
Section 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to honor and pay all properly presented payrolls, related items, tax adjustments, and other obligations occuring prior to passage of the annual appropriation ordinances for fiscal year 2015.
Section 3. Sufficient appropriations and expenditures necessary to pay such costs referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance are hereby authorized.
Section 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is incorporated herein, 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.