Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Building and Zoning Services Department has a need to appropriate and transfer additional funds from the Jobs Growth Fund, and expend same from the Development Services in the amount of $25,000.00 to cover 2015 payroll costs for the Assistant Director position effective through the exhaustion of the aforementioned funds. The person hired for this position has been working successfully with small business entities to help make the business of doing business with the City of Columbus easier and more efficient, especially for new and startup small businesses. The purpose of this legislation is to appropriate and transfer from the Jobs Growth Fund, and expend these funds from the Development Services Fund for the aforementioned purpose.
The Columbus City Council is authorizing the use of these funds for the stated purpose.
FISCAL IMPACT: $25,000 is available in the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund 15, upon Council authorization.
Title
To authorize the supplemental appropriation and expenditure of $25,000.00 from the Jobs Growth Fund to the Building and Zoning Services Department to fund the position of Assistant Director created to fulfill the mission of small business liaison; and to declare and emergency. ($25,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, $25,000 has been allocated and is available in the Jobs Growth Fund for newly created position of Assistant Director is the department of Building and Zoning Services; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize, transfer, appropriate and expend these funds from the Jobs Growth Fund to support the Assistant Director position until the funds are exhausted; and
WHEREAS, this position is being established to help ease and expedite the process of working with the City of Columbus when starting and/or maintaining a small business in Columbus; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate and transfer said funds to have funding available for necessary expenditures; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the fund known as the Jobs Growth Fund, Fund No. 15, the sum of $25,000.00 is hereby appropriated as follows:
Fund: 015| Dept: 20| Div: 2001| OCA: 200115| OL3: 5501
SECTION 2: That the transfer of $25,000 is authorized as follows:
FROM:
Fund: 015|Dept: 20| Div: 2001| OCA: 200115| OL3: 5501
To:
Fund: 240| Dept: 43| Div: 4301| OCA: 430240| OL3: 0886
SECTION 3. That from the unappropriated monies in the fund known as Development Services Fund 240, the sum of $25,000 is hereby appropriated as follows:
Fund: 240| Dept: 43| Div: 4301| OCA 430240| OL1: 01
SECTION 4. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Sections 1 and 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Director of the Building and Zoning Services Department and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except upon voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 5. That for the reason stated in the preamble here to, 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.