Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the transfer of $70,000.00 within the General Government Grant Fund and the expenditure of $75,344.05 ($15,344.05 from cancelled cases and $60,000.00 of the transferred funds) from the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant. Funds are needed to pay various expenses associated with the Lead Safe Columbus program.
Lead Safe Columbus provides grants to qualified property owners in order to remove lead based hazards in owner and tenant occupied units. Funds are provided through the 2007 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant received from the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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. These expenditures need to be made prior to the end of the grant period October 31, 2010.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the transfer of $70,000.00 and the expenditure of $75,344.05 from the General Government Grant Fund, 2007 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant.
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To authorize and direct the transfer of $70,000.00 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant; to authorize the Director of the Department of Development to expend $75,344.05 from the General Government Grant Fund for various expenses associated with the Lead Safe Columbus program; and to declare an emergency. ($75,344.05)
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WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the transfer of $70,000.00 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant, and authorizes the expenditure $75,344.05 from the General Government Grant Fund for various expenses associated with the Lead Safe Columbus program; and
WHEREAS, Lead Safe Columbus provides grants to qualified property owners in order to remove lead based hazards in owner and tenant occupied units; and
WHEREAS, funds are provided through the 2007...
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