Explanation
Background:
This ordinance provides for the appropriation of grant funds for staffing and service costs in 2013 that are funded through grants and donations. Staffing will include part time and full-time costs associated with the operation of Music in the Air programs.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $160,000.00.
Title
To authorize an appropriation of $160,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department for various staffing, service, and supply costs during 2013 funded through grants and donations; and to declare an emergency. ($160,000.00)
Body
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 for the preservation of public health, peace, property and safety and to carry on services without interruption; 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 Grant Fund No. 286, 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, 2013, the sum of $160,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Grant OCA Object
Grant Title No. Code Level 3 Amount
Music in the Air-Donations/Grants 518626 510784 1101 $40,000.00
Music in the Air-Donations/Grants 518626 510784 3336 $120,000.00
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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.