Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the appropriation of $146,601.44 in the City’s Special Purpose Fund, Fund No. 223, to the Health Department for fiscal year 2016. This is the annual appropriation ordinance for Health’s five special purpose activities: 1) Childhood Auto Safety Program, 2) Rabies Clinic Program, 3) TB Prevention and Control Program, 4) AED Defibrillator Devices, and 5) the Medicaid Provider Incentive Program, or MPIP, that allows for the continued operations of these special purpose programs the Health Department provided in 2015. This ordinance provides for the appropriation of all the cash in the fund not encumbered for any other purpose and for the appropriation of all future deposits of cash into the fund not encumbered for any other purpose.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: These special purpose programs collect fees for the services provided.
Title
To make appropriations for the twelve months ending December 31, 2016, for the City’s Special Purpose Fund, to the Department of Health, in various object level ones, for the continued operations of Health’s special purpose activities; and to declare an emergency. ($146,601.44)
Body
WHEREAS, the matter herein provided for constitutes an emergency in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds for the Health Department’s Childhood Auto Safety Program, Rabies Clinic Program, TB Prevention and Control Program, AED Defibrillator Devices Program, and the Medicaid Provider Incentive Program, or MPIP, in the City’s Special Purpose Fund for the 12 months beginning January 1, 2016, and ending December 31, 2016; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possi...
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