Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance appropriates $40,000 to the Franklin County Municipal from the Home Incarceration Program fund for 2015 to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of electronic monitoring of probationers. This legislation is considered an emergency measure to ensure the continuation of uninterrupted payments to the vendors.
FISCAL IMPACT: There are sufficient funds available within the Home Incarceration Program fund to support the requested appropriation level for 2015.
Emergency legislation is requested to authorize the appropriation of funds.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $40,000 from the Home Incarceration Program fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court, for funding of electronic monitoring services; and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Municipal Court is in need of electronic monitoring services; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is requested as an emergency to permit the immediate procurement of needed services; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the city, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate the aforementioned funds, in order to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of court-ordered monitoring services 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 home incarceration program fund of the municipal court special projects, fund number 226, subfund 003, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and appropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015, the sum of $40,000.00 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges, department 25 as follows: oca 250179 (home incarceration self-pay), object level 1 - 03, object level 3 - 3431.
SECTION 2. That th...
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