Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus City Council passed Ordinance 0811-2012 that made provisions for a Graffiti Abatement Assistance Program for owners of occupied structures, in accordance with Section 4525.16 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959. The Graffiti Abatement Assistance Program helps residential and commercial property owners to comply with the law by offering a no-cost graffiti removal services. This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $400,000 to continue this program through 2013.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for these services are budgeted within the Community Development Block Grant Fund and the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund. Additional legislation will be submitted at a later date to authorize a contract for the graffiti removal services.
Emergency action is requested due to the closing of the fiscal year.
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To authorize the appropriation of $180,000.00 within the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; to authorize the transfer of $180,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund to the General Fund; to authorize the appropriation of $180,000.00 from the General Fund to the Department of Development; to authorize the expenditure of $220,000.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund and $180,000.00 from the General Fund to support the continuation of the Graffiti Abatement Assistance Program; and to declare an emergency. ($400,000.00)
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WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the transfer, appropriation and expenditure of $400,000 to support graffiti abatement services; and
WHEREAS, funds for this expenditure are available within the Community Development Block Grant Fund and the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Graffiti Abatement Assistance Program helps residential and commercial property owners to comply with the law by offering a no-cost graffiti removal services; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $400,000 to continue this program through 2013; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Development Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the transfer, appropriation and expenditure of $400,000 in support of the Graffiti Abatement Assistance Program due to the closing of the fiscal year, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, property, safety and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund, Fund No. 018, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources for the period ending December 31, 2012, the sum of $180,000.00 is hereby appropriated to the City Council, Division No. 20-01, Object Level One - 10, Object Level Three -5501, OCA 200018.
Section 2. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $180,000 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund to the General Fund, as follows:
From: Neighborhood Initiatives Fund, Fund No. 018, City Council, Dept. No. 20-01, OCA 200018, Object Level One - 10, Object Level Three - 5501
To: General Fund, Fund No. 010, Department of Development, Code Enforcement Division, Dept. No. 44-03, OCA 499046, Object Level One - 03, Object Level Three -0886
Section 3. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Fund, Fund No. 010, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources for the period ending December 31, 2012, the sum of $180,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Development, Code Enforcement Division, Dept. No. 44-03, Object Level One - 03, Object Level Three - 3336, OCA 499046.
Section 4. That the expenditure of $220,000.00 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund, Fund 248, Development Department, Division 44-03, OCA Code 410227, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336 is hereby authorized.
Section 5. That the expenditure of $180,000.00 from the General Fund, Fund 010, Development Department, Division 44-03, OCA Code 499046 Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336 is hereby authorized.
Section 6. That any expenditure authorized by this ordinance shall be subject to compliance with all requirements of City Code Chapter 329, including City Council approval of contracts as required by that Chapter.
Section 7. 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.