City of Columbus - File #: 0011-2009

• File #: 0011-2009
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/31/2008
• In control: Health, Housing & Human Services Committee
• On agenda: 1/26/2009
• Final action: 1/28/2009
• Title: To make appropriation for the twelve months ending December 31, 2009, for the Health Department Grants Fund, to the Department of Health, in various projects and object level ones, for the continued operations of grant programs, and to declare an emergency. ($2,901,499)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/28/2009	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
1/27/2009	1	MAYOR	Signed
1/26/2009	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
1/26/2009	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
1/14/2009	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/14/2009	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
1/14/2009	1	Health Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
1/13/2009	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/13/2009	1	Auditor Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
1/13/2009	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
1/8/2009	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
1/6/2009	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
1/5/2009	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
12/31/2008	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
12/31/2008	1	HEALTH DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
12/31/2008	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval

Explanation

BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $2,901,499 in the Health Department Grants Fund for fiscal year 2009. This is the annual appropriation ordinance for Health Department Grants that allows for the continued operations of the various grant programs the Health Department provided in 2008.

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: These grant projects are funded through Federal, State, and County grant awards. Some grant projects collect fees and some are subsidized by donations.


Title
To make appropriation for the twelve months ending December 31, 2009, for the Health Department Grants Fund, to the Department of Health, in various projects and object level ones, for the continued operations of grant programs, and to declare an emergency. ($2,901,499)


Body
WHEREAS, the matter herein provided for constitutes an emergency in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds for the Health Department's grant programs for the 12 months beginning January 1, 2009 and ending December 31, 2009, 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 operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate these funds to the Health Department for the immediate preservation of 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 monies in the fund known as the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monie...