Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $100,000.00 from the unappropriated cash balance within the Columbus Fire K-9 Private Grant; this fund was established for the deposit of revenues generated from a private grantor and Columbus Fire Division K-9 training activities in the Division of Fire, and for the expenditure of goods and/or services for the Fire Division's K-9 Bureaus as authorized in Ordinance 0699-2008, passed October 6, 2008.
Bid Information: N/A
Contract Compliance: N/A
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make funding immediately available for pending Columbus Fire K-9 supplies and training requests.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an appropriation of $100,000.00 in the Columbus Fire K-9 Private Grant Fund; there is no impact on the General Fund due to this appropriation.
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To authorize an appropriation of $100,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Columbus Fire K-9 Private Grant to provide funds for the purchase of goods and/or services for the Division of Fire's K-9 Bureau; and to declare an emergency. ($100,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Fire Division's K-9 Bureau, as authorized by Ordinance No. 0699-2008, generates revenues through a private grantor, which are deposited and expended via the Division's Columbus Fire K-9 Private Grant, and
WHEREAS, the Fire Division's K-9 Bureau needs to appropriate funds within the aforementioned fund to purchase goods and/or services for K-9 supply needs and training related activities, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Safety Department, Fire Division, in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate funds within the unappropriated cash balance of the aforementioned fund for the purchase of needed goods and/or 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 cash balance and from any and all sources estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose, the following sum of $100,000.00 is appropriated per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That all funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this sub-fund are hereby deemed appropriated in an amount not to exceed cash in the sub-fund.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Public Safety Director and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That the Public Safety Director be and hereby is authorized to expend these monies or so much thereof as may be needed to fund the aforementioned purchases on behalf of the Division of Fire for the City of Columbus.
SECTION 5. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.