Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and to provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
Grant funding is being made available by the Ohio Department of Aging to the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging to provide outreach and enrollment assistance to prospective MyCare Ohio enrollees. The MyCare Ohio Enrollment Assistance Grant is funded by the Ohio Department on Aging (ODA) through June 30, 2014.
Emergency action is being requested due to the funding being made available retroactive to November 1, 2013.
Fiscal Impact:
$450,000.00 in grant funding will be used to cover a portion of payroll expenses for an Outreach Specialist currently employed by the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging and to provide outreach and enrollment opportunities for enrollees who are eligible for the MyCare Ohio project beginning March 1, 2014. COAAA will also contract with area partners to provide enrollment counseling as well. The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Funds appropriated balance by $450,000.00. The expenditure of $450,000.00 is budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
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To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant to provide outreach and enrollment assistance to eligible MyCare Ohio enrollees in Central Ohio in the amount of $450,000.00; to authorize an appropriation of $450,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department; and to declare an emergency. ($450,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Aging has awarded the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, a grant for the provision of outreach services to MyCare Ohio enrollees in Central Ohio; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grants, and appropriate said funds in a timely manner for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant from the Ohio Department Department of Aging in the amount of $450,000.00 for the period November 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 286 and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013, the sum of $450,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department to pay the cost thereof as follows:
Department: 51-01 / Grant Fund: No. 286,
MyCare Ohio Enrollment Assistance
Project No.: 511314 OCA: 511314 OBJECT LEVEL 1: 01 AMOUNT: $70,000.00
Project No.: 511314 OCA: 511314 OBJECT LEVEL 1: 02 AMOUNT: $5,000.00
Project No.: 511314 OCA: 511314 OBJECT LEVEL 1: 03 AMOUNT: $375,000.00
*Appropriation amounts will be in effect upon receipt of executed grant agreement.
Total: $450,000.00
Section 3. That the monies in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Director of Recreation and Parks; 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 the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this legislation.
Section 5. At the end of the grant period, any repayment of unencumbered balances required by the grantor is hereby authorized and any unused City match monies may be transferred back to the City fund from which they originated in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
Section 6. 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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves no vetoes same.