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File #: 1397-2005    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/11/2005 In control: Utilities Committee
On agenda: 9/12/2005 Final action: 9/15/2005
Title: To authorize the City Auditor to transfer of $900,000.00 within the Sewerage System Operating Fund to align budget authority with projected expenditures and to declare an emergency. ($900,000.00)

Explanation

 

This legislation transfers a total of $900,000.00 from Object Level 1 06 to Object Level 1 02 within the Sewerage System Operating Fund 650. The need to transfer funding within the operating budget was identified in the second quarter budget review. The transfer is requested to cover anticipated expenses for heating oil for heating buildings at the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant and Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant and replacement parts to be purchased for equipment at the various locations within the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.  The volume of heating oil use is projected to be greater than anticipated and the cost of oil is higher than projected.  The requested transfer will allow the division to contract for fuel sufficient to cover heating costs through the winter at the wastewater treatment plants.

 

This legislation is requested to be an emergency so that funding will be made available as soon as possible so as not to have any break in procurement of needed supply of heating oil for the inclement weather and replacement parts for equipment for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.

 

FISCAL IMPACT: Sufficient appropriation is available in Object Level 06 for this requested transfer to Object Level 1 02.

 

 

Title

 

To authorize the City Auditor to transfer of $900,000.00 within the Sewerage System Operating Fund to align budget authority with projected expenditures and to declare an emergency.  ($900,000.00)

 

Body

 

WHEREAS, anticipated expenditures for heating oil for the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant and Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant and replacement parts for equipment for various sections of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage within Character 02 necessitates the transfer of funds within the Sewerage System Operating Fund; and,

 

WHEREAS, available appropriation in Object Level 06 can be transferred to Object Level 02; and,

 

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to transfer appropriation within the Sewerage System Operating Fund for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore,

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:

 

Section l. That the City Auditor  be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $900,000.00 within the Sewerage System Operating Fund 650, Dept/Div. No. 60-05 as follows:

 

FROM

 

Object Level 06

OCA: 604793

Object Level 3: 6624

Amount: $600,000.00

 

Object Level 06

OCA: 604819

Object Level 3: 6624

Amount: $300,000.00

 

Total From 06: 900,000.00

 

TO:

 

Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant

Object Level 02

OCA: 605055

Object Level 3: 2278

Amount: $600,000.00

 

Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant

Object Level 06

OCA: 605022

Object Level 3: 2278

Amount: $300,000.00

 

Total To 02: $900,000.00

 

Section 2.  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 disapproves the same.