Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance appropriates $30,000 to the Franklin County Municipal Court from the Home Incarceration Program fund for 2020 to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of electronic monitoring of probationers. Emergency legislation is necessary to ensure the continuation of uninterrupted payments to the vendors.
FISCAL IMPACT: There are sufficient funds available within the Home Incarceration Program fund to support the requested appropriation level for 2020.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $30,000.00 from the Home Incarceration Program fund to the Franklin County Municipal Court for funding of electronic monitoring services; and to declare an emergency. ($30,000.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Municipal Court is in need of electronic monitoring services; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Franklin County Municipal Court to appropriate the aforementioned funds, in order to provide sufficient funds to pay the cost of court-ordered monitoring 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 monies in the special revenue fund known as the home incarceration program fund of the municipal court special projects, fund number 2226, subfund 222603, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and appropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020, a sum of $30,000 is hereby appropriated according to the account codes in the attachment.
SECTION 2. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 shall be paid upon order of the Franklin County Municipal Court Judges; 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 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, whi...
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