...Explanation
BACKGROUND: In 2011, Columbus Public Health was awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $150,000.00 for the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project for the period January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011. The full appropriation of $150,000.00 was spent on the deliverables set forth in the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project's program narrative. Additional supplemental funds for interest income have accrued on this grant, which are required to be returned to ODH. This ordinance is necessary to appropriate those funds so they may be refunded to the grantor.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to comply with the Ohio Department of Health GAPP Federal requirement that interest income be returned immediately upon closing the grant.
FISCAL IMPACT: Monies for this interest income is available within the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, 2011 Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project.
...Title
To authorize the appropriation of $105.84 to the Health Department in the Health Department Grants Fund for interest earned; to authorize Columbus Public Health to return interest income from the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project to the Ohio Department of Health; and to declare an emergency. ($105.84)
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WHEREAS, Columbus Public Health is required to return interest income from the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project to the Ohio Department of Health; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to return interest income grant monies to the Ohio Department of Health to comply with Federal requirements and 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 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 ending December 31, 2012, the sum of $105.84 plus any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 50-01, as follows:
Creating Healthy Communities 2011:
OCA: 501109; Grant No.501109; Obj. Level 01: 05; Object Level 03: 5515; Amount $105.84
SECTION 2. That the Board of Health is hereby authorized to refund interest income earnedfrom the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project to the Ohio Department of Health, in the amount of $105.84 plus any eligible interest earned prior to thefinal closure of thisgrant.
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 1 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.