Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $16,575.95 in the City’s Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, to the Health Department for fiscal year 2015. This ordinance is needed in order to appropriate the unencumbered cash balance in Health’s AED Defibrillator Devices Subfund, Subfund No. 223136. These monies will be used to purchase automated external defibrillators for the City.
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 ordinance provides for the appropriation of all the cash in the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose and for the appropriation of all future deposits of cash into the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $16,575.95 in the City’s Special Purpose Fund, to the Department of Health, for Health’s AED devices special purpose activities; and to declare an emergency. ($16,575.95)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1135-2003 authorized the Board of Health to accept donations for the purchase of automated electronic defibrillator (AED) devices for the City and provided for the creation of the AED Defibrillator Devices Subfund in the City’s Special Purpose Fund to account for fiscal activities; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance provides for the appropriation of all the cash in the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose and for the appropriation of all future deposits of cash into the Subfund not encumbered for any other purpose; 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 operations of Columbus Public Health in t...
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