Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $12,000.00 in the City's Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, for fiscal year 2011. This is the annual appropriation ordinance for Health's Rabies Clinic Program that allows for the continued operations of this special purpose program the Health Department provided in 2010.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This special purpose program collects fees for the services provided.
Title
To make appropriations for the twelve months ending December 31, 2011, for the City's Special Purpose Fund, to the Department of Health, in various object level ones, for the continued operations of the Rabies Clinic Program; and to declare an emergency. ($12,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the matter herein provided for constitutes an emergency in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds for the Health Department's Rabies Clinic Program in the City's Special Purpose Fund for the 12 months beginning January 1, 2011 and ending December 31, 2011; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate these funds to the Health Department for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; Now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the monies in the fund known as the City's Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, and from all monies estimated to come into ...
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