Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Ordinance 1002-2015 was done for appropriation and expense of $86,000 for fiscal year 2015 within the Franklin County Municipal Court's fund for Assisted Civil Self Help - Indigent. The program will provide information about the court system and non-legal assistance to civil litigants qualifying as indigent and appearing pro se before the Court.
To support the program, the Franklin County Municipal Court instituted a special project cost as authorized by Ohio Revised Code, § 1901.26(B)(1). The project cost is a $1.00 charge for all civil, traffic, and criminal cases.
Funds are to be used for the Franklin County Municipal Court to contract with the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law for services of an attorney to staff and provide services at the Help Center.
The cost of benefits at Ohio State University has subsequently increased, requiring an additional appropriation of $625.00.
Contract Compliance Number: Moritz College of Law (Ohio State University) 316025986
EMERGENCY: Emergency action is requested.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $625.00 for 2015 from the unappropriated balance of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges assisted civil self-help fund; to contract with the Moritz College of Law; and to declare an emergency. ($625.00)
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WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds from the Assisted Civil Self Help - Indigent fund is necessary in order to start the Help Center; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Administrative and Presiding Judge to enter into this contract with Moritz College of Law to provide service for the Help Center; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said contract and authorize the expenditures to Moritz College of Law so that the court can continue uninterrupted payments to the vendor, and for the preservation of the public health, peace, safety, and welfare; now, therefore;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the sum of $625 be and is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the special revenue fund, fund 226, subfund 005, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources unappropriated for any other purposes during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015, to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, department number 2501, oca code 226005, as follows: object level 1 - 03, $625 OL3 3000.
SECTION 2. That the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to enter into contract with Moritz College of Law for the provision of Help Center services.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $625.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is authorized from the Franklin County Municipal Court, department 2501, fund number 226 subfund 005; oca code 226005, object level 1 - 03, object level 3 - 3336, to pay the costs thereof.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which 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.