Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Columbus Division of Fire received a grant award from the Ohio Division of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to purchase training and patient care equipment. It is necessary to accept the grant and appropriate the funds. The Fire Division has received funding from this source for many years. Some recent examples of items purchased have included EMS training manuals and cervical immobilization devices.
Emergency Designation: We are currently in the grant cycle and would like to make purchases in a timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the Fire Chief to accept a grant in the amount of $5,500 from the Ohio Division of EMS for training and patient care equipment. There is no matching requirement from the General Fund.
Title
To authorize the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award from the State of Ohio Division of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for the purchase of training and patient care equipment for the Division of Fire, to appropriate $5,500.00 from the unappropriated balance of the General Government Grant Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($5,500.00)
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WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the Fire Chief to accept a grant award for the Division of Fire for training and patient care equipment from the State of Ohio Division of EMS; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate funds for said grant; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Fire, Department of Public Safety, in that it is necessary to authorize and direct the grant acceptance and appropriation of funds for the grant for the 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 Fire Chief be and he is hereby authorized to accept a grant award in the amount of $5,500.00 from the State of Ohio Division of EMS for the Division of Fire for training and patient care equipment.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the General Government Grant Fund, Fund No. 220, and from any and all sources estimated to come into said fund and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008, the sum of $5,500.00 is appropriated to the Division of Fire as follows:
Division 30-04, Fund 220, Object Level 3, 2207, OCA Code 349010, Grant No. 349010, Amount $5,500.00.
SECTION 3. That the monies in Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Director of Public Safety; 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 the 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 passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.