Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City of Columbus received funds for the Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Control grant program from the Ohio Department of Health. The STD Control program enables the Columbus Health Department to identify and prevent sexually transmitted diseases through gonorrhea culture screening, syphilis elimination, gonococcal isolate surveillance, and partner services. Additionally, the Columbus Health Department assures the quality of medical and laboratory services, surveillance, partner services, and data management. All activities are conducted with special emphasis on populations at high risk such as correction facilities, organizations focusing on adolescents, and managed care settings. The Board of Health will contract with Stonewall Columbus to provide community education and training for syphilis elimination.
A request is made to waive the provisions of competitive bidding. Stonewall Columbus is the only non-profit agency in Franklin County that works solely with the gay community and provides the services for the syphilis elimination project as required by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Emergency Action is required to ensure the continued operation of the STD Control program.
FISCAL IMPACT: This contract is entirely funded by a grant award from the Ohio Department of Health. This grant does not generate revenue or require a City match.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Stonewall Columbus to provide community education and training for syphilis elimination for the STD Control grant program for the period January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004; to authorize the expenditure of $65,000 from the Health Department Grants Fund to pay the costs thereof; to waive the City Code provisions for competitive bidding; and to declare an emergency. ($65,000)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Health Department has received funding from the Ohio Department of Health to identify and prevent sexually transmitted diseases under the STD Control program; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to enter immediately into a contract with Stonewall Columbus for the provision of community education and training for syphilis elimination, in order to ensure continued service provisions under the program; and,
WHEREAS, the contract period is January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract with Stonewall Columbus for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and to ensure the continued operation of the STD Control program; Now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Board of Health is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with Stonewall Columbus for the provision of services under the STD Control program, for the period of January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004.
SECTION 2. That to pay the cost of said contract, the expenditure of $65,000 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Department of Health, Department No. 50-01, Grant No. 504003, OCA Code 504003, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337.
SECTION 3. That the provisions of Section 329.13 of the Columbus City Code are hereby waived.
SECTION 4. That for 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.