Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance appropriates $400,000 to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges from the indigent driver alcohol treatment fund for 2015 to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of attendance at court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment centers. The Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services (ADAMH) Board administers the indigent driver alcohol treatment program of the Court, pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 4511.191 (N). This legislation is considered an emergency measure to ensure the continuation of uninterrupted payments to the treatment centers.
FISCAL IMPACT: There are sufficient funds available within the indigent driver alcohol treatment fund to support the requested appropriation level for 2015.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $400,000.00 from the indigent driver alcohol treatment fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, pursuant to the requirements of the Ohio Revised Code and funding the indigent driver alcohol treatment program; and to declare an emergency. ($400,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2070-90 was submitted by the City Attorney's Office and passed by Columbus City Council on July 23, 1990, which established the indigent drivers alcohol treatment fund; and
WHEREAS, the Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services (ADAMH) Board administers the indigent drivers alcohol treatment program of the Court, pursuant to O.R.C. 4511.191 (N); and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds in order to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of attendance at court-ordered drug and alcohol treatment centers, 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 special revenue fund known as the indigent driver alcohol treatment fund, fund number 225, subfund number 001, 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, 2015 the sum of $400,000.00 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, department 25 as follows: OCA 250266 (indigent driver alcohol treatment fund), object level 1 - 03, object level 3 - 3336, $100,000 and 250213 (non-OVI offender), object level 1 - 03, object level 3 - 3336, $300,000.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Franklin County Court Judges; 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 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.