Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $425,000.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the Division of Planning and Operations. This ordinance also authorizes the reimbursement to the Franklin County Engineer's Office up to $400,000.00 or for snow and ice removal services for the 2013-2014 winter season within this fund. In order to capture operating efficiencies, County and City forces occasionally service portions of the others' roadways that lie within the other's jurisdiction. The County always services more city roadways than the City services county roadways. The entities settle up once each year and this payment represents the estimated net amount due the County.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $425,000.00 and expenditure of up to $400,000.00 in the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, no. 266.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to make these funds available to the division as soon as practical to meet anticipated needs of the 2013-2014 winter season.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to appropriate $425,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund; to authorize the Director of Public Service to enter into contract with Franklin County Engineer's Office for snow and ice removal services; to authorize the expenditure of up to $400,000.00 from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the appropriation of funds in the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund for the Division of Planning and Operations; and
WHEREAS, this appropriation will allow for planned expenditures utilizing monies from said fund as early as possible; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $425,000.00 and expenditure of up to $400,000.00 within the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Planning and Operations, Department of Public Service, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds to permit the expenditure, 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 sum of $425,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated from the unappropriated balance of the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Fund 266, 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 , to the Division of Planning and Operations, Department-Division No. 59-11, as follows:
Fund / OCA / OL1-3 / Amount
266 / 591128/ 03-3375/ $425,000.00
SECTION 2. That the Director of Public Service be and hereby is authorized to enter into contract with the Franklin County Engineer's Office for reimbursement for snow and ice removal services rendered by the County Engineer on city streets during the 2013-2014 winter season for the Division of Planning and Operations in an amount not to exceed $400,000.00.
SECTION 4. That for the purposes of pay the cost of this contract, the expenditure of up to $400,000.00 be and hereby is authorized from the Municipal Motor Vehicle License Tax Fund, Fund 266, Department No. 59-11, Division of Planning and Operations, Object Level One Code 03, Object Level Three Code 3375 and OCA Code 591128.
SECTION 5. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
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.