Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $13,000.00 from the unappropriated cash balance within the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund. This fund was established for the deposit of revenues generated from training activities in the Division of Fire and for the expenditure for goods and/or services for the Fire Division's Emergency Medical Services and Training Bureaus as authorized in Ordinance 1863-01, passed November 19, 2001. This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of these funds to reimburse costs incurred by the Fire Division for the aforementioned programs in an amount not to exceed cash received from said donations.
Bid Information: N/A
Contract Compliance: N/A
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make funding immediately available for pending training requests, and to provide for this appropriation action taking effect immediately to promote efficient accounting practices and ensure said training operations and purchases continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $13,000.00 in the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund. Approximately $13,800 is currently available in the fund for appropriation. Approximately $10,000.00 was encumbered/spent earlier this year, approximately $27,374.00 in 2012; approximately $12,959 in 2011; $36,500.00 was encumbered/expended in 2010; and $13,000.00 was encumbered/expended in 2009 for training supplies and services. There is no impact on the General Fund due to this appropriation. Actual and anticipated receipts into the said funds are estimated to be sufficient to support this appropriation.
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To authorize an appropriation of $13,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund to provide funds for the purchase of goods and services for the Division of Fire's Emergency Medical Services and Training Bureau; and to declare an emergency. ($13,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Fire Division's Training Bureau, as authorized by Ordinance No. 1863-01, passed November 19, 2001, generates revenues through EMS and fire fighting related training activities, which are deposited and expended via the Division's EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund, and
WHEREAS, the Fire Division's Training Bureau needs to appropriate funds within the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund to purchase goods and/or services for training related activities, and
WHEREAS, these funds are deposited into the City's Special Revenue Fund (Fund 223, Sub Fund 133) and are used to reimburse costs incurred by the Fire Division for the aforementioned training programs; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Safety Department, Fire Division, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds within the unappropriated cash balance of the EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund for the purchase of needed goods and/or services and to promote and reinforce efficient accounting practices, 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 cash balance and from any and all sources estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose, the following sums are appropriated to the designated code in the Public Safety Department 30, Fire Division #30-04, EMS & Fire Entrepreneurial Training Fund #223, Sub-Fund 133, OCA Code 223133:
· OL3 Code 2213, $10,000.00
· OL3 Code 3331, $3,000.00
SECTION 2. That all funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this sub-fund are hereby deemed appropriated in an amount not to exceed cash in the sub-fund.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in Section 2 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 4. That the Public Safety Director be and hereby is authorized to expend these monies or so much thereof as may be needed to fund the aforementioned fire training programs on behalf of the Division of Fire for the City of Columbus.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.