Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the annual appropriation of monies within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the Transportation Division to pay for roadway materials, salt and a variety of services related to street maintenance operations and utilities payments. This $2.8 million represents total anticipated receipts into this Fund in 2005. The amount being appropriated within this ordinance is detailed below. These proposed expenditures are estimates and are subject to change. Where required, expenditure ordinances will be submitted to City Council for approval to procure these commodities and services.
Materials and Supplies/ Amount
Rock Salt / $1,000,000.00
Liquid Calcium Chloride, Calcium-Coated Sand/ $100,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 02: $1,100,000.00
Services / Amount
Utilities (gas, electricity, city electricity, water and sewerage) / $1,000,000.00
Maintenance Services - Snow Removal Services with the Franklin County Engineering Department, guardrail and fence repair, weed and vegetation control, utility excavation and repair / $700,000.00
Subtotal, Object Level One Code 03: $1,700,000.00
Grand Total: $2,800,000.00
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $2.8 million in the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund. The fund has averaged $3 million in receipts for the past three years. The Transportation Division appropriated $2.8 million in 2004 and through December has spent and/or encumbered nearly all of the appropriated funds. The Transportation Division spent $3 million in 2003 from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund and $2.57 million in 2002.
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the division as soon as practical to meet anticipated 2005 needs.
Title
To appropriate $2,800,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for various expenditures for the T...
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