Explanation
Background:
This legislation provides for the appropriation of $27,712.60 from the Recreation and Parks Tree Replacement Fund to purchase trees and other plant materials for the Department's comprehensive citywide street tree planting program. The Tree Replacement Fund is comprised of fees and assessments levied customers for street tree purchases and for damages to trees that are in city right-of-way. The biggest share of this fund is used to purchase a variety of tree species and plant materials. Some trees are large and can be planted immediately while plant materials such as seeds and/or seedlings and bare root tree stock items are sent to the Recreation and Parks Nursery where they will grow and mature until they are ready for transplanting.
Fiscal Impact: The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Tree Replacement Fund's unappropriated balance by $27,712.60.
This ordinance is being submitted as an emergency in order to have funding available in October for necessary expenditures.
Title
To authorize an appropriation of $27,712.60 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Tree Replacement Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department for the purchase of trees and plant materials; and to declare an emergency. ($27,712.60)
Body
WHEREAS, the Recreation and Parks Department has a comprehensive citywide street tree planting program; and
WHEREAS, the Tree Replacement Fund consists of fees and assessments levied customers for street tree purchases and for damages to trees that are in the city right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds so that funding is available in October, 2010 for necessary expenditures; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Tree Replacement Fund No. ...
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