Explanation
This supplemental appropriation of $80,000.00 from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Account is needed to pay the cost of attendance of court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment centers. Not only has the cost of treatment centers risen in 2004, our Judges are referring more second-time OMVI offenders for treatment. The Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services (ADAMH), administers the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Program of the Court, pursuant ORC 4511.191 (N). This legislation is considered an emergency measure to ensure for the continuation of uninterrupted payments to the referred treatment centers.
Title
To authorize a supplemental appropriation of $80,000.00 from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, pursuant to the requirements of ORC 4511.191 (N); and to declare an emergency. ($80,000.00)
Body
Whereas, Ordinance No. 2070-90 was submitted by the City Attorney's Office and passed by Columbus City Council on July 23, 1990, which established the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Account as a Special Revenue Fund; and
Whereas, the Board of Alcohol , Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services, (ADAMH) administers the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Program of the Court, pursuant to ORC 4511.191 (N); and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds, in order to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of attendance of court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment centers, and to allow for the continuation of uninterrupted payments to these referred treatment centers, thereby preserving 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 unappropriated monies in the Special Revenue Fund known as the Indige...
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