Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the repeal of ordinance 0251-2016, passed on February 22, 2016, to appropriate funds in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to provide funds for accident investigation training courses and the Driving While Impaired (DWI) Enforcement Conference for officers in the Traffic Bureau. The funds were deposited in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 4511.99. However, ORC Code 4511.99 has been amended removing the language that distributed a portion of that fund to the arresting agency. Therefore, CPD’s Traffic Bureau is not entitled to the funds.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested so that the ordinance can be repealed and the appropriation can be cancelled allowing the monies to be returned.
FISCAL IMPACT: This cancellation will make available $119,659.81 from the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund that will be returned to the Franklin County Municipal Court.
Title
To repeal Ordinance 0251-2016, passed on February 22, 2016, and direct the City Auditor to cancel the appropriation of $119,659.81; and to declare an emergency. ($119,659.81)
Body
WHEREAS, ordinance 0251-2016, passed on February 22, 2016, authorized an appropriation of $119,659.81 from the unappropriated balance of the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund for the Division of Police to pay for advanced training for the Accident Investigation Unit and a DWI Conference for Traffic Bureau personnel, as well as to purchase supplies and equipment; and
WHEREAS, Ohio Revised Code 4511.99 has been amended removing language that allowed for a percentage of the money collected in the Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund to go to the arresting agency to be used for training and supplies; and
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to repeal said ordinance and cancel the appropriation so that the funds can be returned to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in that it is immediately necessary to authorize these actions to allow the return of these funds for another purpose, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and, NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance 0251-2016, passed February 22, 1999, is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to cancel the appropriation of funds and return $119,659.81 to the Franklin County Municipal Court.
SECTION 3. That from the unappropriated monies 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, 2016, the sum of $119,659.81 is hereby appropriated and authorized to be expended in Fund 225 Indigent Drivers Alcohol Treatment Fund in Object Class 05 per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble thereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance is 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.