Explanation
Background:
This ordinance provides for the appropriation of fees charged for the purchase of trees and plant materials for park and street tree plantings.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency in order to have funding available for necessary expenditures.
Fiscal Impact:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Tree Replacement Fund's unappropriated balance by $9,908.00.
The expenditure of $9,908.00 is budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Tree Replacement Fund.
Title
To authorize an appropriation of $9,908.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Tree Replacement Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department for the purchase of trees and plant materials, and to declare an emergency. ($9,908.00)
Body
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 to have funding available for necessary expenditures; 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 Tree Replacement Fund No. 234, 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 $9,908.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51-01, as follows:
Object
Project Title OCA Code Level 3 Amount
Recreation and Parks Tree Replacement 516781 2271 $9,908.00
Section 2. That the monies in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Recreation and Parks, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
Section 3. That for the reasons stated ...
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