Explanation
Background:
This legislation is to appropriate grant funds from the Ohio Department of Aging administered by the Central Ohio Area Agency to carry on various services in 2005 and 2006.
Emergency action is requested in order to continue services beyond December 31, 2005, without service interruption as stipulated in the various grant requirements.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund's unapproporiated balance of $10,672,058.00. This appropriation will enable the Recreation and Parks Department to continue those programs as required by the granting agencies for the balance of 2005 and 2006.
Title
To authorize an appropriation in the amount of $10,672,058.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department for the operation of various grant programs administered by the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate grant funds so that the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Recreation and Parks Department can provide services beyond FY 2005 without service interruption, thus this measure is being submitted as emergency legislation; 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 for the preservation of 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 Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2005, the sum of $10,672,058.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51, as follows:
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