The Board of Health has been awarded a grant from the State of Ohio Commission on Minority Health. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $5,000.00 in grant money to fund the Community Chats Program.The Community Chats Program will enable the Health Department to collect information from community residents and focused community-based organizations and leaders concerning health issues and community-identified interventions. One or two meetings will be held in the Black, Hispanic, Native American, Indian, and Asian communities.
This grant is for the period June 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This program is entirely funded by the State of Ohio Commission on Minority Health and is budgeted in the 2003 Health Department Grants Fund. This grant will not generate revenue or require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from State of Ohio Commission on Minority Health in the amount of $5,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $5,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($5,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $5,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the State of Ohio Commission on Minority Health for the Community Chats Grant Program; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the State of Ohio Commission on Minority Health and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department 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 Board of Health is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award of $5,000.00 from the State of Ohio Commission on Minority Health for the Community Chats Program for the period June 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
SECTION 2. That from the monies in the Fund known as the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the twelve months ending December 31, 2003, the sum of $5,000.00 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 50-01, as follows:
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One OCA Code Three Purpose Amount
01 504054 1100 Personnel Services $2,400
02 504054 2200 Supplies 700
03 504054 3300 Services-Operation & Maintenance 1,900
Total for Grant No. 504054 $5,000
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, 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. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is 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.