Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $175,790.74 in the City’s Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, for fiscal year 2014. This is the annual appropriation ordinance for Health’s Rabies Clinic Program and the Medicaid Provider Incentive Program, or MPIP that allows for the continued operations of these special purpose programs the Health Department provided in 2013. This ordinance provides for the appropriation of all the cash in the fund not encumbered for any other purpose and for the appropriation of all future deposits of cash into the fund not encumbered for any other purpose.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Rabies Clinic special purpose program collects fees for the services provided.
Title
To make appropriations for the twelve months ending December 31, 2014, for the City’s Special Purpose Fund, to the Department of Health, in various object level ones, for the continued operations of the Rabies Clinic Program and the Medicaid Provider Incentive Program; and to declare an emergency. ($175,790.74)
Body
WHEREAS, the matter herein provided for constitutes an emergency in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds for the Health Department’s Rabies Clinic Program and the Medicaid Provider Incentive Program, or MPIP, in the City’s Special Purpose Fund for the 12 months beginning January 1, 2014, and ending December 31, 2014; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary t...
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