Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes and directs the city auditor to transfer $2,000,000 from the special income tax fund to the general fund, and to further authorize the appropriation of said funds to Division of Fleet Management. The Mayor's 2008 Budget included plans to spend $6 million from the special income tax fund for vehicles. In December 2007, City Council passed Ordinance No. 2014-2007, which authorized the purchase of 109 marked police cruisers so that they would arrive in time for the Mayor's Strike Force Initiative in the Spring of 2008.
The City Auditor and the Department of Finance and Management have come to agreement on the remainder of vehicles needed in 2008 that are deemed appropriately funded out of the special income tax Fund. A list of those vehicles is attached.
EMERGENCY ACTION is requested in order to ensure that vehicle production deadlines are met and the city can take delivery of the vehicles in 2008.
FISCAL IMPACT: The transfer amount of $2,000,000 has been factored into the current special income tax analysis and resultant capital capacity.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to transfer $2,000,000 from the Special Income Tax Fund to the general fund; to appropriate said funds to the Division of Fleet Management for the purchase of vehicles, and to declare an emergency. ($2,000,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Mayor's 2008 Budget included plans to spend $6 million from the Special Income Tax Fund for vehicles; and
WHEREAS, in December 2007, Ordinance No. 2014-2007 passed, authorizing the purchase of 109 marked police cruisers so that they would arrive in time for the Mayor's Strike Force Initiative in the Spring of 2008; and
WHEREAS, the City Auditor and the Department of Finance and Management have come to agreement on the remainder of vehicles needed in 2008 that are deemed appropriately funded out of the Special Income Tax Fund; and
WHEREAS, a list of those vehicles is attached; and
WHEREAS, a transfer of funds from the special income tax fund to the general fund will allow for these vehicles to be purchased in 2008; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management, Division of Fleet Management in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the transfer of said funds from the special income tax fund, 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 the sum of $2,000,000 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the special income tax fund, fund 430, 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, 2008 to the City Auditor Department 22-01, Object Level One 10, OCA Code 902023, Object Level Three 5501.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer and appropriate said funds to the General Fund, Division of Fleet Management, Division 45-05, OL1 06, OL3 6650, OCA 451201.
SECTION 3. 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.