Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the City Auditor to make payment to Godman Guild Association dba Blue Bow Tie Catering for services rendered and to declare an emergency.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding in the amount of $4,162.50 is available and appropriated for the payment of this expenditure in Fund 1000, Subfund 100016 within the Department of Public Safety as noted in the attached “Then and Now Certificate” as approved by the City Auditor.
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested as funds are needed immediately to pay an existing invoice.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to authorize payment to Godman Guild Association dba Blue Bow Tie Catering per the invoice approved by the Department Director (or designee) in an amount not to exceed $4,162.50; to authorize the City Auditor to transfer $4,162.50 between object classes within the General Fund, Public Safety Initiatives Subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($4,162.50).
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WHEREAS, Godman Guild Association dba Blue Bow Tie Catering provided catering services to the City of Columbus as part of City Council's Public Safety Week, and,
WHEREAS, after these goods or services were rendered, the City received an invoice for which a purchase order, with a prior certification of availability of funds by the City Auditor attached, had not been obtained; and,
WHEREAS, Section 5705.41 (D)(1) of the Ohio Revised Code provides that in certain circumstances a political subdivision may authorize payment on a contract executed without prior certification by the City Auditor; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council now has before it a certificate from the City Auditor certifying there was at the time of making the contract and at the time of the execution of such certificate a sufficient sum appropriated for the purpose of such contract and in the treasury or in process of collection to the credit of an appropriate fund free from any encumbrances (a “then and now certificate”); and,
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