Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has a need to make funds
available to increase a contract with The Council On Healthy Mothers and
Babies. The Columbus Health Department has been awarded an
additional $125,000 for a two month extension of the Healthy Start grant,
ending July 31, 2006. The grant funds awarded provide for an increased
contract with The Council On Healthy Mothers and Babies to assist in
developing a needs assessment and a to meet those needs as well as to
work on community engagement activities.
The additional contract will be in an amount not to exceed $83,302 for a
total contract not to exceed $160,440.
Emergency action is required to ensure the continued operation of the
Healthy Start Program.
FISCAL IMPACT: This contract is entirely funded by a grant from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The program does not
generate revenue or require a City match. The monies are budgeted in the
2006 Health Department Grants Fund.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to modify and increase a contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies to provide needs assessment and consultation services for the Healthy Start grant program; to authorize the expenditure of $83,302 from the Health Department Grant Funds to pay the cost thereof, and to declare an emergency, (83,302)
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WHEREAS, additional funding is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to modify and increase a contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies to provide needs assessment and consultation services for the Healthy Start grant program; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to modify a contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies to ensure continuation of services 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 modify and increase a contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies for needs assessment and consultation services for the Healthy Start grant program for the period ending July 31, 2006.
SECTION 2. That to pay the costs of said contracts, the expenditure of $83,302 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Health Department, Division 50-01, Grant No. 505017, OCA Code 505017, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337.
SECTION 3. That these contract is awarded in accordance with Sections 329.16 of the Columbus City Code.
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.