Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has been awarded $4,126,652.00 in grant funds from the Ohio Department of Health to fund the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program for the period October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006. The Ohio Department of Health has provided $124,841 for the lease of real property to be used as clinic space for the WIC Program. The WIC and Immunization Programs share clinic space at 1120 Morse Road.
Property Owner Number Square Feet Contract Compliance Number
Four-D Holdings 6,215 311445996
PLM Company 3,000 311416454
Bruce Williamson 2,100 281341970
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delays in providing program services.
FISCAL IMPACT: The contracts cited above are entirely funded by the grant. This grant does not generate revenue or require a City match.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Finance and Management Department to enter into lease contracts with four property owners for the lease of clinic space for the WIC and Immunization programs, for the period of October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006; to authorize a total expenditure of $124,841 from the Health Department Grants Fund. ; and to declare an emergency. ($124,841)
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WHEREAS, The Ohio Department of Health has designated the Health Department as primary grantee agency and fund administrator for all WIC programs in Franklin County; and,
WHEREAS, the WIC Program will lease space from various property owners for their clinic sites for the continuation of Women, Infants and Children services; Now, therefore:
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into these leases to avoid delays in programming services and for the immediate preservation of 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 Director of Finance and Management Department is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contracts for the provision of rental space for three WIC clinics for the period of October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006.
SECTION 2. That to pay the costs of said contracts, the expenditure of $124,841, is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Grant No. 505016, Division No. 50-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3301, as follows:
Object Object
Property Owner OCA Grant # Level 01 Level 03 Amount
Four-D Holdings 505116 505016 03 3301 $ 9,868
505116 505016 03 3301 $53,133
PLM Company 505116 505016 03 3301 $33,840
Bruce Williamson 505116 505016 03 3301 $28,000
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes necessary to ensure that this contract is properly accounted for and recorded accurately on the City's financial records.
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. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.