Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to move appropriation within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund and authorize expenditure in the amount of $434,000.00 within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund for the Division of Transportation. This is necessary for the Division's operating expenses including the purchase of gravel, concrete, traffic signs and traffic signals.
These funds will be used to pay for these routine expenditures of materials, supplies and services which are required for the proper maintenance and operation of the city's roadways and bridges.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
Ordinance 1969-2007 passed by City Council February 4, 2008, authorized the 2008 appropriation of $51,110,683.00 for the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund. It is necessary to move appropriation in the amount of $434,000.00 and authorize the expenditure of those funds to provide funding for the Division of Transportation to fulfill its current operation and maintenance responsibilities for the city's roadways and bridges.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION:
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the division as soon as practical to meet anticipated 2008 needs.
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To authorize the City Auditor to move appropriation within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund; to authorize the expenditure of $434,000.00 from within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund to meet current projected operating needs for the remainder of 2008 for the Division of Transportation; and to declare an emergency. ($434,000.00)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to move appropriation within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund to provide for operating expenditures necessary for the daily operation of the Division of Transportation in 2008; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Transportation, Department of Public Service, in that it is immediately necessary to move appropriation within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair fund to allow materials, supplies and services to be procured without delay to meet anticipated 2008 needs, 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 appropriation of funds authorized within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund, Fund 265, be moved as follows:
from:
Fund / Dept.-Div / OCA Code / O.L. 03 Code / amount
265 / 59-01 / 590145 / 1101 / $300,000.00
265 / 59-02 / 591926 / 1101 / $100,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599161 / 6651 / $34,000.00
Total appropriation move from: $434,000.00
to:
Fund / Dept.-Div / OCA Code / O.L. 03 Code / amount
265 / 59-09 / 599161 / 1101 / $152,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599161 / 2197 / $110,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599161 / 2198 / $15,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599108 / 2265 / $148,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599108 / 2289 / $9,000.00
Total appropriation move to: $434,000.00
Section 2. That the expenditure of $434,000.00 is hereby authorized from the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund for expenses needed to perform daily operations of the Division of Transportation as follows:
Fund / Dept.-Div / OCA Code / O.L. 03 Code / amount
265 / 59-09 / 599161 / 1101 / $152,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599161 / 2197 / $110,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599161 / 2198 / $15,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599108 / 2265 / $148,000.00
265 / 59-09 / 599108 / 2289 / $9,000.00
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.