Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $16,105.15 from the unappropriated cash balance of the Public Safety Neighborhood Safety Cameras Project within the General Permanent Improvement Fund. This project was established in the General Permanent Improvement Fund for the deposit of funds that are reimbursed to the City by Insurance Companies, individuals or any entities that are responsible for the damage of any of the City's Neighborhood Safety Cameras. The deposited funds need appropriated in order to make monies available to pay for the replacement or repair costs of the damaged cameras.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE NO: N/A
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency legislation is requested to ensure that funds are available for the immediate replacement of damaged cameras in order to minimize lapses in security coverage of the neighborhoods involved.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $16,105.15 in the unappropriated balance of the General Permanent Improvement Fund. A Project was created in this fund for the deposit of checks received as reimbursement for the costs of safety camera replacements.
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To authorize an appropriation of $16,105.15 from the unappropriated balance of the General Improvement Grant Fund to the Department of Public Safety to provide funds for the costs associated with the replacement or repair of damaged Neighborhood Safety Cameras; and to declare an emergency. ($16,105.15)
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WHEREAS, the city of Columbus has received a check from an Insurance Company, as reimbursement, for costs associated with the replacement of damaged Neighborhood Safety Cameras; and
WHEREAS, the City Auditor and the Department of Finance and Management created a project in the General Permanent Improvement Fund for the deposit of such checks; and
WHEREAS an appropriation of the deposited funds is needed within the unappropriated balance of the General Permanent Improvement Fund in order to make funds available to pay for the cost of replacements; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds to ensure that the damaged cameras are replaced as quickly as possible in order to minimize any lapses in security coverage, 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 General Permanent Improvement Fund, No. 748, 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, 2013, the sum of $16,105.15 is appropriated to the Department of Public Safety, Safety Administration, as follows:
DIV FUND PROJECT OCA OBJ LEVEL 3 AMOUNT
30-01 748 310003-100000 748003 6644 $16,105.15
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Safety 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 all funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this fund in 2013 are hereby deemed appropriated in an amount not to exceed the available cash balance in the fund.
SECTION 4. That any such future deposits as the City may receive are hereby deemed to be appropriated in this project, and the City Auditor is hereby authorized to pay such amounts thereof, in accordance with City Purchasing Code 329.
SECTION 5. 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.