Explanation
This ordinance transfers and appropriates monies within two different operating funds, the Development Services Fund and the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, for the Transportation Division. Consistent with third quarter financial review projections, these transfers/appropriations will provide for the fiscal needs of the division through the end of the year. In some cases, existing appropriation authority is being transferred to the division from the Public Service Director's Office.
Within the Development Services Fund, Fund 240, $100,000.00 in existing appropriation authority is being transferred from the Service Director's Office to the Transportation Division for projected personnel expenditure needs. An additional $90,000.00 is being appropriated for the same purpose within the Transportation Division from this Fund's unappropriated balance.
Within the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, Fund 265, $260,000.00 in existing appropriation authority is being transferred from the Service Director's Office to the Transportation Division for projected service expenditure needs. In addition, $440,000.00 is being transferred within the Transportation Division's existing appropriation authority from material and supply and capital outlay categories in order to provide for projected services expenditure needs.
The authorization for intra-fund transfers is $100,000.00 within the Development Services Fund and $700,000.00 within the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund. These intra-fund transfers total $800,000.00.
The authorization for a supplemental appropriation within the Development Services Fund totals $90,000.00.
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the division as soon as possible to meet pending and anticipated 2003 expenses.
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To authorize the transfer of $800,000.00 in existing appropriation authority between divisions and major expenditure categories within the Development Services Fund ($100,000.00) and the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund ($700,000.00) and to authorize the appropriation of $90,000.00 within the Development Services Fund for anticipated expenditures for the balance of 2003 within the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, all of which are consistent with third quarter review projections, and to declare an emergency. ($890,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division has identified pending and anticipated expenses that will be incurred by the Development Services Fund and the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund; and
WHEREAS, these figures were reported in the third quarter financial review; and
WHEREAS, intradepartmental and interdepartmental transfers and the appropriation of monies is necessary to allow 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 transfer and appropriate said monies, 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 transfer of monies between divisions and expenditure categories within the Development Services Fund, Fund 240, be and hereby is authorized as follows:
Transfer From:
Department No./ Department/ O.L. 01/O.L.03 Codes/ OCA Code/Amount
59-01/ Public Service Director's Office/ 01/1000/ 590159/ $100,000.00
Total Transfer From: $100,000.00
Transfer To:
Department No./ Department/ O.L. 01/O.L.03 Codes/ OCA Code/ Amount
59-09/ Transportation Division/ 01/1000/ 599002/ $100,000.00
Total Transfer To: $100,000.00
SECTION 2. That the sum of $90,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the Development Services Fund, Fund 240, 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 01, Object Level Three Code 1000 and OCA Code 599002.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in Section 2 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 4. That the transfer of monies between divisions and expenditure categories within the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund, Fund 265, be and hereby is authorized as follows:
Transfer From:
Department No./ Department/ O.L. 01/O.L.03 Codes/ OCA Code/ Amount
59-01/ Public Service Director's Office/ 01/1000/ 590135/ $260,000.00
59-09/ Transportation Division/ 02/2000/ 599109/ $190,000.00
59-09/ Transportation Division/ 06/6000/ 599114/ $250,000.00
Total Transfer From: $700,000.00
Transfer To:
Department No./ Department/ O.L. 01/O.L.03 Codes/ OCA Code/ Amount
59-09/ Transportation Division/ 03/3000/ 599001/ $700,000.00
Total Transfer To: $700,000.00
SECTION 5. 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.