Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This legislation will authorize an appropriation of grant funds in connection with the Older Americans Act Title III Congregate and Home Delivered Meals program.
Additional grant funds are being made available to the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging from the Ohio Department of Aging for the period March 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020 by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
This funding should significantly expand home delivered and other meal programs in the Central Ohio area including Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and Union Counties.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION:
Emergency action is requested in order to have the funding in place as soon as possible, as stipulated in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Older Americans Act Title III grant requirements.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The fiscal impact of this ordinance will appropriate $1,076,132.00 to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund. This appropriation will enable the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging to continue administering said program in accordance with the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
Title
To authorize an appropriation in the amount of $1,076,132.00 to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund for the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging in connection with the Older Americans Act Title III -Congregate and Home Delivered Meals; and to declare an emergency. ($1,076,132.00)
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WHEREAS, the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging has a need to appropriate funds received from the Ohio Department of Aging to supplement the Older Americans Act Title III Congregate and Home Delivered Meal programs; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to appropriate said funds so there is no interruption of services to older adults thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 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, 2020, the sum of $1,076,132.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department No. 51, Fund No. 2286, per accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. That the monies in the foregoing Section 1 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 3. That, 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 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. 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 its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.