Explanation
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this ordinance is to authorize the City Auditor to create a new subfund within the City’s Special Purpose Fund to account for the activities of the Car Seat Safety Program at Columbus Public Health. The Car Seat Safety Program has been providing classes to parents on the safety features of car seats and how to install them in their vehicle correctly so that it can protect their child best. This program helps provide car seats and booster seats at a reduced cost to families in need. To be eligible to purchase a seat, families must participate in a one hour car seat class at Columbus Public Health.
All monies received from these activities are used to replenish the inventory of car seats available for sale. In order to properly track and account for these monies, we are requesting that the City Auditor create a new subfund within the City's Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223.
FISCAL IMPACT: Currently, revenues collected from the sale of car seats are deposited into the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, to the Ohio Childhood Automobile Grant, Grant No. 508040. Utilizing the City’s Special Purpose Fund provides the best means for properly tracking and accounting for these monies.
At the writing of this ordinance, there is $8,982.40 available in Grant No. 508040. This ordinance will authorize the City Auditor to transfer the unencumbered cash balance of Grant No. 508040 to the City’s Special Purpose Fund and appropriate those monies to the Health Department for the purchase of car safety seats.
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To authorize the City Auditor to create a new subfund within the City’s Special Purpose Fund to account for car safety seats activities; to authorize the transfer and appropriation of $8,982.40 from the Health Department Grants Fund to the City’s Special Purpose Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($8,982.40)
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WHEREAS, there is a need for parents to have access to certified training on the safety fe...
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