Explanation
Background:
This ordinance provides for the appropriation of special purpose funds to continue purchasing supplies and providing services in 2009 that are supported by donations and fees.
Emergency legislation is required in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures in February.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Special Purpose Fund's unappropriated balance by $3,426,627.38.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $3,426,627.38 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Special Purpose Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department to continue purchasing supplies and providing services during 2009, and to declare an emergency. ($3,426,627.38)
Body
WHEREAS, this ordinance provides for the appropriation of lapsed funds in order to continue purchasing supplies and providing services during 2009; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds in order to have funding available for February expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, 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, 2009, the sum of $3,426,627.38 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Sub OCA Object
Project Title Fund Code Level 3 Amount
Various Park Improvement Donations 025 511220 3340 $ 50,000.00
Various Park Improvement Donations 025 511220 6602 $3,127,406.27
Recreation Center Donations 028 510966 2269 $ 11,970.91
Recreation Center Donations 028 510966 3346 $ 10,000.00
Recreation Center Donations 028 510966 3337 $ 15,000.00
Kids Discover Columbus Program 031 511030 3346 1.88
Golf Classic 041 516161 2269 3,677.15
Boating Safety Education 043 511261 2269 5,879.50
Boating Safety Education 043 511261 3331 6,000.00
Christopher Columbus Invitational 052 511873 1101 12,000.00
Christopher Columbus Invitational 052 511873 2269 10,000.00
Christopher Columbus Invitational 052 511873 3346 22,974.48
Waterways Nature Preservation 062 511477 6621 70,245.99
Home for the Holidays 066 511568 3346 875.00
Waterways Improvement 076 511345 3375 30,513.34
Shaved Ice Cone Sales 098 514711 2269 10,000.00
Shaved Ice Cone Sales 098 514711 3336 39,581.86
Youth Sports Partnership 125 512277 3336 501.00
TOTAL $3,426,627.38
SECTION 2. That the monies in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, 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 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.