Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus health statistics show an increase in disease associated with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. To encourage healthy and active living Columbus Public Health has budgeted $25,000.00 for making grants to non-profit organizations for community gardening projects. The City's Neighborhood Initiative Fund has an additional $15,000.00 available for the community gardening projects.
The purpose of this ordinance is to appropriate funds within the Neighborhood Initiative Fund, to authorize the transfer and appropriation of $15,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiative Fund to the Health Special Revenue Fund, and to authorize the payment of $40,000.00 to The Columbus Foundation-Foundation for Active Living for the management of the 2012 Community Gardening Project. The Foundation for Active Living is a donor-advised fund that was established by the Columbus Board of Health with The Columbus Foundation in 2008 under the authority of Ordinance No. 1210-2008, approved by City Council on July 14, 2008. Ordinance No. 0493-2011, approved by City Council on April 4, 2011, amended the agreement with The Columbus Foundation by authorizing The Columbus Foundation-Foundation for Active Living, to accept funds from the City.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow this transfer to be completed and the expenditure to be received by The Columbus Foundation-Foundation for Active Living as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: $40,000.00 has been designated for this project, which includes $25,000.00 from the Health Special Revenue Fund and $15,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiative Fund.
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To authorize and direct the City Auditor to appropriate funds within the Neighborhood Initiative Fund; to authorize and direct the City Auditor to transfer these funds from the Neighborhood Initiative Fund to the Health Special Revenue Fund; to authorize the appropriation of these funds to the Health Special Revenue Fund; to authorize the expenditure of a total of $40,000.00 from the Health Special Revenue Fund to pay The Columbus Foundation-Foundation for Active Living for the management of the 2012 community gardening projects; and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus would like to encourage healthy and active living to address the increase in diseases associated with obesity and sedentary lifestyle; and,
WHEREAS, community gardens are a great way to get healthy foods and to offer local youth a way to learn something new about their world; and,
WHEREAS, $25,000.00 is budgeted in the Health Special Revenue Fund and $15,000.00 is available from the Neighborhood Initiative Fund to be transferred to Health Special Revenue Fund for the 2012 Community Gardening Project; and,
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2001-2011 transferred funds from the General Fund to the Neighborhood Initiative Fund for various purposes, including support of community gardens; and,
WHEREAS, $40,000.00 from the Health Special Revenue Fund will be expended to The Columbus Foundation- Foundation for Active Living, for the management of the 2012 Community Gardening Project; and,
WHEREAS, the Foundation for Active Living, a donor-advised fund established at The Columbus Foundation by the Columbus Board of Health under the authority of Ordinance No. 1210-2008 and modified by Ordinance No. 0493-2011, is qualified and able to direct the funds for the management of the community gardens in Central Ohio; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to allow the transfer and expenditure of City monies to The Columbus Foundation as soon as possible for the immediate preservation of 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 Neighborhood Initiative Fund, Fund No. 018, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources for the period ending December 31, 2012, the sum of $15,000.00 is hereby appropriated to the City Council, Division No. 20-01, Obj. Level One - 10, Obj. Level Three -5501, OCA: 200018.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to transfer $15,000.00 from the Neighborhood Initiatives Fund to the Health Special Revenue Fund, as follows:
From: Neighborhood Initiatives Fund, Fund No. 018, City Council, Dept. No. 20, OCA 200018, Obj. Level One - 10, Obj. Level Three - 5501.
To: Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 250, Health Department, Dept 50, OCA 500117, Obj. Level One - 10, Obj. Level Three - 0886.
SECTION 3. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 250, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources for the period ending December 31, 2012, the sum of $15,000.00 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 50-01, Obj. Level One - 03, Obj. Level Three - 3337, OCA: 500117.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $40,000.00 from the Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 250, be and is hereby authorized to pay The Columbus Foundation, Foundation of Active Living, for the management of the 2012 Community Gardening Project, as follows:
Fund OCA OL3 Amount
250 500117 3337 $40,000.00
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 and to make any accounting changes necessary to ensure that this expenditure is properly accounted for and recorded accurately on the City's financial records.
SECTION 6. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 3 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, 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 7. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is 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.