Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has a need to make funds
available to increase a contract with Gerald Bean. The Columbus Health
Department has been awarded an additional $125,000 for a two month
extension of the Healthy Start grant, ending July 31, 2006. The grant funds
awarded provide for an increased contract with Gerald Bean for continued
evaluation services for the Healthy Start program in an amount not to
exceed $14,050, for a total contract amount not to exceed $49,050. This
ordinance waives competitive bidding provisions of the City Code.
Emergency action is required to ensure the continued operation of the
Healthy Start Grant Program.
FISCAL IMPACT: This contract is entirely funded by a grant from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The program does not
generate revenue or require a City match. The monies are budgeted
in the 2006 Health Department Grants Fund.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to modify a contract with Gerald Bean to design and implement a program evaluation plan for the Healthy Start grant program; to authorize the expenditure of $14,050 from the Health Department Grant Funds to pay the cost thereof; to waive the provisions of competitive bidding (See attachment ORD1260-2006bidwaiver.doc); and to declare an emergency, (14,050)
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WHEREAS, additional funding is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to modify and increase a contract with Gerald Bean to continue to provide program evaluation services for the Healthy Start grant program; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to modify a contract with Gerald Bean 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 modify and increase a contract with Gerald Bean for the design and implementation of a program evaluation plan for the Healthy Start grant program for the period ending July 31, 2006.
SECTION 2. That to pay the cost of said contract, the expenditure of $14,050 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Health Department, Division 50-01, Grant No. 505017, OCA Code 505017, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337.
SECTION 3. That the provisions of Sections 329.13 and 329.14 of the Columbus City Code are hereby waived.
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.