Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health, in partnership with area veterinarians and technicians, offers Columbus residents access to low-cost rabies vaccinations for their pets. Individual veterinarians and technicians that participate in Columbus Public Health's Animal Response Team, have agreed to donate their time to these special clinics so that the charges for services can be set at a minimal rate such that the fees generated will be sufficient to purchase replacement vaccine for the following clinic. In order to properly track and account for these monies, in 2009, the City Auditor created a subfund within the City's Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223. This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of these funds through December 31, 2010.
FISCAL IMPACT: The rabies clinic is designed and intended to be a self-sustaining operation.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to appropriate $15,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Special Purpose Fund for rabies clinic activities; and to declare an emergency. ($15,000.00)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for residents to have access to low-cost rabies vaccinations for their pets; and
WHEREAS, there are veterinarians and technicians who are willing to donate their services to the City's low-cost rabies vaccination clinics; and
WHEREAS, the arrangement that has been agreed to is that the fees charged at these clinics will be set at a price that enables the City to purchase and replenish the amount of vaccine dispensed at each clinic; and
WHEREAS, in order to properly account for these revenues and expenses, the City Auditor created a subfund within the City's Special Purpose Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Health in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds for the preservation of public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF...
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