Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant, enter into an agreement with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
Grant funding will be used for the urban wetlands assessments.
Emergency action is required to have funds available for necessary expenditures to conduct surveys in early spring of 2006.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$30,000.00 in grant funding will be used for the urban wetlands assessments.
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unappropriated balance by $30,000.00.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant in the amount of $30,000.00 and enter into an agreement with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for funding for urban wetlands assessments, to authorize an appropriation of $30,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department, and to declare an emergency. ($30,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the City of Columbus, Recreation and Parks Department, a grant for urban wetlands assissments; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept said grant and appropriate said funds; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept and appropriate said grant funds to have funding available to conduct surveys in early spring of 2006; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant in the amount of $30,000.00 and enter into an agreement with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for urban wetlands assessments.
SECTION 2. 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, 2006, the sum of $30,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
OCA Object
Grant Title Grant No. Code Level 3 Amount
2006 OEPA Urban Wetland 516032 516032 2269 $ 2,000.00
2006 OEPA Urban Wetland 516032 516032 3346 $ 28,000.00
SECTION 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 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 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 its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.