Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the annual appropriation of monies within the Citywide Training Entrepreneurial Fund (Fund 2298) for the Department of Human Resources. The funds allow the Department of Human Resources to enhance the training supplies, equipment, staff professional development, and course offerings at the Citywide Training and Development Center. This money is used for operating expenses consistent with the 2025 budget. The amount being appropriated within this ordinance is $43,000.00. The proposed expenditures are estimates and are subject to change.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funds in the amount of $43,000.00 are currently available in the Citywide Training Entrepreneurial Fund and are specifically budgeted for this purpose. This ordinance appropriates the funds and allows for needed purchases to be made.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is respectfully requested to allow citywide training opportunities to continue without interruption. Up-to-date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
Title
To authorize an appropriation and expenditure of $43,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Citywide Training Entrepreneurial Fund to allow the Department of Human Resources to enhance the training supplies, equipment, and course offerings at the Citywide Training and Development Center; and to declare an emergency. ($43,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, an appropriation is needed to cover costs associated with the Citywide Training Entrepreneurial Fund; and
WHEREAS, funds for this appropriation are currently available in the Citywide Training Entrepreneurial Fund 2298; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Human Resources Department, Citywide Training and Development Center of Excellence in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the funds to allow citywide training opportunities to continue without interruption and to allow the financial transaction to be posted as soon as possible in order to promote accurate accounting and financial management, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Citywide Training Entrepreneurial Fund 2298, 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, 2025, the sum of $43,000.00 is appropriated in Fund 2298 (Citywide Training Entrepreneurial Fund), Dept-Div 4601 (Human Resources), in Object Class 02 (Materials and Supplies) and Object Class 03 (Purchased Services) per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon the order of the Director of the Department of Human Resources 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 the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. 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 is passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.