Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of $5,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund for the Municipal Clerk's Office Training Program through Citywide Training and Development. The mission of the Citywide Training & Development Division for the City of Columbus is to promote, support and increase peak performance by providing City of Columbus employees and Enterprise customers training and development opportunities which enable them to reach personal, professional and organizational excellence. The Municipal Clerk's Office is a creation of the General Assembly rather than the City, and thus employees of that office are not City employees. Accordingly, it is necessary to treat Municipal Clerk's Office employees as Enterprise customers for purposes of providing training to them through Citywide Training & Development. Since the City provides funding to the Municipal Clerk pursuant to state statute, this ordinance provides the funding necessary for that training.
Council deems this project an appropriate use of $5,000.00 in monies from the Jobs Growth Fund.
Title
To authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $5,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund for the Municipal Clerk's Office Training Program; and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Municipal Clerk has requested her employees be provided with training through the Citywide Training & Development Division; and
WHEREAS, this Council finds that making such training opportunities available to the Municipal Clerk's Office will serve the public by strengthening the services that the Clerk's office provides; and
WHEREAS, this Council deems this an appropriate use of Jobs Growth Fund dollars; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the Department of Human Resources in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate and expend funds to support the efforts of the Municipal Clerk's Office Training Program, for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be and is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate $5,000.00 in the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 015, to the Department of Human Resources, Division No. 46-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 460015.
SECTION 2. That the Director of Human Resources be and hereby is authorized and directed to expend the funds appropriated herein to provide training through the Citywide Training & Development Division to the Municipal Clerk's Office.
SECTION 3. That the Director of Human Resources or her/his designee may promulgate rules to effect the purpose of this ordinance, including, but not limited to, the following: application and registration processes; timelines for applying for classes; those classes which will be made available to participants, provided that the maximum practicable training opportunities should be made available; and the number of seats available to eligible clerk's office staff for any given class.
SECTION 4. 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.