Explanation
BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept an addendum to the transportation grant in the amount of $363.15 from Operation Legal Help Ohio, and to appropriate from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the specialized dockets of the Franklin County Municipal Court, the total amount of the grant. This grant will provide transportation services to participants of the Military and Veteran Service (MAVS) program.
FISCAL IMPACT
$363.15 will be expended from the General Government Grant Fund.
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION is requested so that the Court can begin expending the funds as soon as possible.
Title
To authorize and direct the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court to accept an addendum to the transportation grant from Operation Legal Help Ohio; to appropriate $363.15 from the unappropriated balance of the general government grant fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court; and to declare an emergency. ($363.15)
Body
WHEREAS, it is in the city’s best interest that the Franklin County Municipal Court to continue to receive support for the specialized dockets; and
WHEREAS, additional grant monies from Operation Legal Help Ohio in the amount of $363.15 have been awarded to provide transportation services to participants of Military and Veteran’s Court; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Court, in that it is immediately necessary to accept the aforementioned grant to provide transportation services and to appropriate and transfer the necessary funds for the program 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 the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court be and is hereby authorized to accept an addendum to the transportation grant in the amount of $363.15 from Operation Legal Help Ohio.
SECTION 2. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated. That from the unappropriated balance in the general government grant fund, fund 2220, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and appropriated for any other purpose during the months ending December 31, 2019, the sum of $363.15 is appropriated to the Franklin County Municipal Court.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Administrative and Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Municipal Court 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. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grant is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements
SECTION 5. 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.