Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Columbus Health Department has been awarded $1,120,000 in grant funds from the Ohio Department of Health to fund the Child and Family Health Services (CFHS) Perinatal Program for the period July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006. The Health Department has a need to make funds available for the CFHS program to provide for child and adolescent services from the Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies.
Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies will provide staffing for ongoing activities to address the prenatal care capacity crisis in Franklin County, including staffing and support to community meetings and committee work, and assessing system capacity among providers who serve un- and underinsured women including Medicaid eligible women. Council will also provide staffing to ongoing community group addressing SIDS risk reduction and safe sleep and provide for materials for educating the community.
A request is made to waive the provisions of competitive bidding.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delays in providing program services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this expenditure is provided with Grant Funds from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $25,000.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Council for Healthy Mothers and Babies for the provision of child and adolescent services for the perinatal program; to authorize the expenditure of $25,000 from the Health Department Grants Fund; to waive the provisions for competitive bidding; and to declare an emergency. ($25,000)
Body
WHEREAS, the Board of Health has a need for Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies to provide child and adolescent services for the perinatal program for the period of July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006, and,
WHEREAS, Council for Healthy Mothers and Babies has the expertise to provide such services to patients in the Child and Family Health Services Perinatal Program; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into this contract to avoid delays in needed services for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, and to avoid any delays in providing services; 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 enter into a contract with Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies to provide child and adolescent services for the period of July 1, 2005 through June 30, 2006, in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
SECTION 2. That to pay the cost of said contract, the expenditure of $25,000 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Department of Health, Department No. 50, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3351, Grant No. 505018, OCA Code 505018.
SECTION 3. That the provisions of the Columbus City Code, Section 329.02 are hereby met.
SECTION 4. That the provisions of Columbus City Code, Section 329.12, dealing with competitive bidding, are hereby waived.
SECTION 5. 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 6. 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.