Explanation
BACKGROUND: Ordinance 1935-2004, passed November 8, 2004, authorized the Director of the Department of Development to apply for and accept a Certified Local Government Grant from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office for an amount not to exceed $8,031 to provide funds to co-sponsor the 2004 Building Connections Conference.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance appropriates the amount of the grant, $8,031, to the Department of Development, Neighborhood Services Division.
This legislation is submitted as an emergency so that grant funds can be made available immediately for conference expenses.
Title
To authorize an appropriation of $8,031 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund to the Department of Development, Neighborhood Services Division, to provide funds to co-sponsor the 2004 Building Connections Conference; and to declare an emergency. ($8,031.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus has accepted a grant in the amount of $8,031 from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office to co-sponsor the 2004 Building Connections Conference; and
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to appropriate the grant funds to the Neighborhood Services Division; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development where it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds so that grant funds can be made available immediately for conference expenses, all for the preservation of public health, peace, safety and welfare, now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Government Grant Fund, Fund 220, 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, 2005, the sum of $8,031 is appropriated to the Department of Development, Neighborhood Services, Division No. 44-05, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3430, OCA Code 444011.
Section 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Development Director; 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 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.