Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, employs personnel that are engaged in traffic sign and signal installation, permanent pavement marking, and roadway design activities. Other project costs incurred by the operating fund are overhead, overtime, materials and other direct costs. These personnel and project expenses are budgeted within and paid from the division's operating fund, the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund. These costs can be capitalized. Doing so is consistent with earlier efforts by the Division to reimburse its operating fund when the operating fund incurred expenses more appropriate to capital improvement funding.
This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $1,150,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for this purpose.
Fiscal Impact: The amount of this expenditure is $1,150,000.00. $650,000.00 is budgeted and available within the Transportation Division's 2007 Capital Improvement Budget in the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and $500,000.00 is available in the Street and Highway Improvement Fund. The 2007 revenue estimate for the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund reflects and assumes this revenue.
Emergency Action is requested in order to in order to provide adequate operating resources for the Transportation Division.
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To authorize the appropriation and transfer $500,000.00 within the Street and Highway Improvement Fund; to authorize the Public Service Director to expend $1,150,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary to reimburse the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for traffic sign and signal installation, permanent pavement marking, roadway improvement design and construction expenses, salaries, overhead, overtime, materials and other direct costs incurred by the latter in connection with the Transportation Division's capital improvements program in 2007; to authorize the expenditure of $650,000.00 from the Voted 1995, 1999, 2004 Streets and Highways Fund and $500,000.00 from the Street and Highway Improvement Fund for the Transportation Division; and to declare an emergency. ($1,150,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Transportation Division employs personnel that are engaged in traffic sign and signal installation, permanent pavement marking activity, and roadway improvement design and construction activities and incurs expenses within its operating fund associated with capital projects; and
WHEREAS, these costs can be capitalized; and
WHEREAS, the 2007 revenue estimate for the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund reflects and assumes this revenue; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize this expenditure in order to provide adequate operating resources for the Transportation Division; now, therefore,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usually daily operation of the Transportation Division, Public Service Department, in that it is immediately necessary to proceed with this reimbursement to provide adequate operating resources for the Transportation Division, 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 the Streets and Highway Improvement Fund, Fund 766, and from the 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, 2007, the sum of $500,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated to the Transportation Division, Dept/Div. No. 59-09, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6600, OCA 642728 and Project 766999.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Service Director 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 the Transfer of monies within Fund 766 be authorized as follows:
TRANSFER FROM:
Fund / Project # / Project Name / Object Level One/Object Level Three Codes / OCA Codes / Amount
766 / 766999 / Unallocated Balance / 06/6600 / 642728 / $500,000.00
TRANSFER TO:
Fund / Project # / Project Name / Object Level One/Object Level Three Codes / OCA Codes / Amount
766 / 530161 / Roadway Improvements / 06/6600 / 642728 / $500,000.00
SECTION 4. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to expend $1,150,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary to reimburse the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund for traffic sign, signal installation, permanent pavement marking, roadway improvement design and construction expenses, salaries, overhead, overtime, materials and other direct cost expenses incurred in connection with the Transportation Division, Dept.-Div., 59-09, capital improvements program in 2007 as follows.
Fund/ Fund Name / O.L. 01/03 Codes / OCA Code / Project Number / Project Name / Amount
704 / the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund / 06/6631 / 644385 / 530161 / Roadway Improvements / $650,000.00
766 / Street and Highway Improvement Fund / 06/6631 / 642728 / 530161 / Roadway Improvements / $500,000.00
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 6. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.