Explanation
Background
This ordinance authorizes and direct the City Auditor to authorize payment to Blue Chip Broadcasting LTD dba Radio One for marketing services rendered and to declare an emergency. The services were provided in January of 2025 for the Martin Luther King celebration.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding in the amount of $3,662.00 is available and appropriated for the payment of this expenditure in the general fund within the Department of Neighborhoods as noted in the attached “Then and Now Certificate” as approved by the City Auditor.
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to ensure payment is made for past services at the earliest date possible.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to authorize payment to Blue Chip Broadcasting LTD dba Radio One per invoice approved by the Department Director (or designee) in an amount not to exceed $3,662.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($3,662.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Blue Chip Broadcasting LTD dba Radio One, provided services to the City of Columbus, and,
WHEREAS, after these goods or services were rendered, the City received an invoice for which a purchase order, with a prior certification of availability of funds by the City Auditor attached, had not been obtained; and,
WHEREAS, Section 5705.41 (D)(1) of the Ohio Revised Code provides that in certain circumstances a political subdivision may authorize payment on a contract executed without prior certification by the City Auditor; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council now has before it a certificate from the City Auditor certifying there was at the time of making the contract and at the time of the execution of such certificate a sufficient sum appropriated for the purpose of such contract and in the treasury or in process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any encumbrances (a “then and now certificate”); and,
WHEREAS, less than thirty days have passed since the City Council’s receipt of the certificate from the City Auditor; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to satisfy the obligations of the contract; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Neighborhoods in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the City Auditor to authorize payment to Blue Chip Broadcasting LTD dba Radio One to ensure payment is made for past services at the earliest date possible, 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 City Council hereby acknowledges receipt of the “then and now certificate” from the City Auditor and authorizes and directs the City Auditor to authorize payment to Blue Chip Broadcasting LTD dba Radio One per invoice approved by the Department Director in an amount not to exceed $3,662.00 to Blue Chip Broadcasting LTD dba Radio One.
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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.