Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has the need for clinic space to accommodate the Perinatal program in the City's Linden area. This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to enter into a lease with the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) for the use of approximately 2,504 square feet of clinic space at the COTA Four Corners site at 11th and Cleveland Avenues. This is within the program's target population. The Health Department has leased this site since December of 1999. This lease is for the period of July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006. The cost of the lease is $14.50 per square foot, which includes utility, janitorial, security, maintenance, repair and tax costs.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delays in payments of this lease.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this contract is included in the FY2005 budget for the Health Special Revenue Fund. Monthly payments will be $3,025.67 for a total annual cost of $36,308.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to enter into a lease agreement with the Central Ohio Transit Authority for clinic space for the Health Department's Perinatal Program, to authorize a total expenditure of $36,308 from the Health Special Revenue Fund, to authorize the Board of Health to sublease a portion of the space to other health care providers, and to declare an emergency. ($36,308)
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WHEREAS, the Board of Health has a need for clinic space for the Perinatal Program; and,
WHEREAS, it is important that the Columbus Health Department's Perinatal Program and Children's Hospital clinics both be housed in the same facility; and,
WHEREAS, the Columbus Health Department may sublease a portion of the space to other health care facilities; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to contract with the Central Ohio Transit Authority for the lease of clinic space for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and to avoid any delays in payments of this lease; 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 the Central Ohio Transit Authority for the lease of 2,504 square feet of clinic space for the period of July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006.
SECTION 2. That to pay the costs of said contract, the expenditure of $36,308 is hereby authorized from the Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 250, Department of Health, Department No. 50-01, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3301, OCA No. 502047.
SECTION 3. That the Health Commissioner is hereby authorized to sublease a portion of the space to other health care providers.
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.