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BACKGROUND: The Columbus Health Department has been awarded a grant from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $20,000.00 in grant money to fund the Developing Weight Management Competency in Children and the Adults Who Impact Them program, for the period of January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004.
The Developing Weight Management Competency in Children and the Adults Who Impact Them program develops weight management competency in children and adults who impact them in clinical, faith-based, and child care settings.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible, given the grant start date of January 1, 2004. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is subsidized by the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation and does not generate revenue. The program does require additional funding from the City and a grant which is budgeted and available.
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To authorize and direct the Columbus Health Department to accept a grant from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation in the amount of $20,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $20,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($20,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $20,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation, and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department 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 Columbus Health Department is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award of $20,000.00 from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation for the Developing Weight Management Competency in Children and the Adults Who Impact Them program for the period January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 291, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources during the twelve months ending December 31, 2004, the sum of $20,000 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 50, as follows:
Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Grant
OCA: 504060 Grant : 504060 Obj. Level 01: 03 Amount $20,000
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, 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 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.