Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has been awarded a contract from the Licking County Board of Health. The contract provides funds for residential and school radon testing and outreach activities. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $30,238 awarded to fund the Indoor Radon Project.The Indoor Radon program will enable the Health Department to offer radon testing in homes and schools within the service areas of the City of Columbus and Worthington to document the extent of the environmental problem and to fulfill a responsibility to reduce radon health hazards. This contract is for the period October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting systemas soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This contract is entirely funded by the Licking County Board of Health and is budgeted in the 2003 Health Department Grants Fund. This project will not generate revenue or require a City match.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a contract from the Licking County Board of Health in the amount of $30,238; to authorize the appropriation of $30,238 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($30,238.00)
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WHEREAS, $30,238 has been made available through the Licking County Board of Health for the Indoor Radon program; 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 contract from the Licking County Board of Health 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 Board of Health is hereby authorized and directed to accept a contract award of $30,238 from the Licking County Board of Health for the Indoor Radon program for the period October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004.
SECTION 2. That from the monies in the Fund known as 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 12 months ending December 31, 2003, the sum of $30,238 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Department No.
50-01, as follows:
Object
Level One OCA Code Purpose Amount
01 504056 Personnel Services $18,778
02 504056 Supplies-Operation & Maintenance $ 2,625
03 504056 Services-Operation & Maintenance $ 8,835
Total for Grant No. 504056 $30,238
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.