Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to increase the existing general budget reservation created with the passage of ordinance 0243-2017 by Columbus City Council on February 27, 2017 and authorizes the corresponding expenditure to match. This legislation is necessary to correct an error that occurred when calculating the proper payment.
2. FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the increase of the general budget reservation created with ordinance 0243-2017 from $6,179.40 to $6,361.69, an increase of $182.29. The Department of Public Service, Division of Infrastructure Management has sufficient resources to pay this expenditure.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is requested for this legislation to reduce any further delay in paying this expenditure.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Auditor to increase the general budget reservation created with the passage of ordinance 0243-2017 on February 27, 2017 by $182.29 from $6,179.40 to $6,361.69; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the City Auditor to increase the existing general budget reservation created with the passage of ordinance 0243-2017 by Columbus City Council on February 27, 2017 and authorizes the corresponding expenditure to match; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to correct an error that occurred when calculating the proper payment; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the increase of the general budget reservation created with ordinance 0243-2017 from $6,179.40 to $6,361.69 an increase of $182.29; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service, Division of Infrastructure Management, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize payment in order to reduce any further delays; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the City Auditor be, and hereby is, authorized to increase the general budget reservation created with ordinance 0243-2017 passed by Columbus City Columbus on February 27, 2017 by $189.29 from $6,179.40 to $6,361.69.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $6,361.69 or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as instructed in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
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 its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.