Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with LifeCare Alliance to support the operation of the Chores Program. The contract will provide $40,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund.
The Chores Program provides minor home maintenance and repair services to low and low/moderate-income elderly and disabled homeowner-occupants in the City of Columbus. Examples of program services include replacement or repair of leaking faucets and commodes, faulty light fixtures and switches, loose or missing sections of porch decking or steps and installation of handrails, smoke detectors and deadbolt locks. Eligible homeowners may receive up to $1,000 in home repairs within one calendar year. LifeCare Alliance will be the program provider to neighborhoods on the south and west sides of the City. This program will help about 100 households.
Emergency action is requested to allow program services to continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this expenditure are allocated from the 2004 Community Development Block Grant Fund budget.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with LifeCare Alliance for the Chores Program; to authorize the expenditure of $40,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of the Department of Development desires to enter into a contract with LifeCare Alliance to fund the Chores Program; and
WHEREAS, the Chores Program will provide minor home maintenance and repair services to low and moderate-income elderly and disabled homeowner-occupants in the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, LifeCare Alliance is a non-profit organization; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City in that it is immediately necessary to enter into contract with LifeCare Alliance so that necessary services can continue uninterrupted all for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter
into a contract with LifeCare Alliance to fund the Chores basic home maintenance
and repair program.
Section 2. That this contract is awarded pursuant to Section 329.15 of the Columbus City
Codes, 1959, as amended.
Section 3. That for the purpose as stated in Section 1, the expenditure $40,000.00 or so much
thereof as necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the
Department of Development, Department No. 44-10, Fund 248, Subfund 001, Object
Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337, OCA 444009.
Section 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which 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.