Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, requires a supplemental appropriation of funds within the Private Construction Fund to allow for sufficient authority for personal expenses.
This supplemental appropriation is necessary so that expenses match revenue. In this case, personnel expenses are from utilization of inspectors for private development projects. These inspectors are being paid out of Fund 5518, the Construction Inspection Fund, which is utilized for capital infrastructure projects. The work the inspectors do for private development projects needs to be funded from Fund 2241, as opposed to Fund 5518. This legislation will provide the funding to pay the inspectors from the appropriate fund, and allow for anticipated expenditure corrections to be processed.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
This ordinance authorizes the supplemental appropriation of $700,000.00 for personnel expenses within the Private Construction Fund. Funds to be appropriated will come from the unappropriated balance available within Fund 2241.
3. EMERGENY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to allow these funds to be in place for immediate use for the above mentioned operational needs with the Division of Design and Construction.
Title
To authorize the City Auditor to appropriate $700,000.00 from the unappropriated balance within Fund 2241, Private Construction Inspection Fund; to use these funds for the purpose of paying Construction Inspectors expenses for the Division of Design and Construction, Department of Public Service; and to declare an emergency. ($700,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Design and Construction, within the Department of Public Service, does construction inspection services for private construction inspection; and
WHEREAS, the funding in the Private Construction Inspection Fund is not sufficient to pay the cost of the inspections; and
WHEREAS, there is an unappropriated fund balance within the Construction Inspection Fund sufficient to pay this cost; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize additional authority to provide funding for personnel expenses incurred by the Division of Design and Construction for the preservation of 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 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 ended December 31, 2017, the sum of $700,000 is appropriated in Fund 2241 Private Construction Inspection in Object Class 01 Personnel per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying for private construction inspection the sum of up to $700,000.00 for services, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized to be expended from the Private Construction Inspection Fund.
SECTION 3. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. That 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.