Explanation
This ordinance will appropriate $400,000.00 in 2005, to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of attendance at court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment centers. The Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services administers the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Program of the Court, pursuant to R.C. 4511.191 (N). This legislation is considered an emergency measure to insure for the continuation of uninterrupted payments to the referred treatment centers.
Title
To authorize an appropriation of $400,000.00 from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, pursuant to the requirements of R.C. 4511.191 (N); and to declare an emergency. ($400,000.00)
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 R.C. 4511.191 (N); and
Whereas, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds, in order to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of attendance at court-ordered drug and alcohol 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 Special Revenue Fund known as the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund, Fund No. 225, Sub-fund No. 001 from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose d...
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