Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Columbus Health Department has been awarded a grant from the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $181,375 in grant money to fund the In-Home Visiting grant program.
Through the In-Home Visiting program , Public Health Nurses conduct visits to newborns and their mothers. Mothers and newborns will receive the following services: a physical assessments; maternal depression screening; and education and counseling on growth and development, breastfeeding, injury prevention, etc. The Public Health Nurses will provide linkages to needed health and social services.
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This grant is for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Emergency action is requested 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.
FISCAL IMPACT: This program is entirely funded by the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services and does not generate revenue or require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Columbus Health Department to accept grant from the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services in the amount of $181,375, to authorize the appropriation of $181,375 from the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($181,375.00)
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WHEREAS, $181,375.00 grant funds have been made available through the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services; 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 Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, 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 grant funds of $181,375.00 from the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services for the In-Home Parenting Program for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources during the twelve months ending June 30, 2010, the sum of $181,375 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 50, as follows:
OCA: 509137 Grant No.: 509137 Obj. Level 01: 01 Amount $164,825.48
OCA: 509137 Grant No.: 509137 Obj. Level 01: 02 Amount $11,033.02
OCA: 509137 Grant No.: 509137 Obj. Level 01: 03 Amount $5,516.50
Total for Grant No. 509137: $181,375
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.