Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept two grants in the amount of $450,874.00 and enter into seven (7) contracts for the expansion of congregate and home-delivered meals for older adults, to authorize an appropriation of $450,874.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department; and to declare an emergency. ($450,874.00)
Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept two grants, enter into various contracts 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 in connection with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These funds are to be used to provide congregate and home-delivered meals to seniors in need of food, restore nutrition service s that have been cut and restore positions which may have been eliminated or reduced.
Contracts are being awarded to the seven (7) existing nutrition providers , per the attached contract list, who currently provide congregate and home-delivered meals under the Older American's Act.
Emergency action is being requested so that the expansion of congregate and home-delivered meals can be available to older adults as soon as possible in accordance with the conditions of the grants.
Fiscal Impact:
$450,874.00 in grant funding will be used to expand congregate and home-delivered meals to older adults in Central Ohio. The fiscal impact of this ordinance will be to reduce the Recreation and Parks Grant Funds appropriated balance by $450,874.00. The expenditure of $450,874.00 is budgeted in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
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Whereas, the Ohio Department of Aging has awarded the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Recreation and Parks Department, two grants for the expansion of congregate and home-delivered meals to older adults in Central Ohio in connection with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009; 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, appropriate said funds and enter into various contracts, per the attached list, so that the expansion of meals can be available to older adults 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 two grants from the Ohio Department Department of Aging in the amount of $450,874.00. and enter into seven (7) contracts for the period July 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 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, 2009, the sum of $450,874.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department, Department 51-01, Grant Fund No. 286, to pay the cost thereof as follows:
Grant Title Grant No. OCA Obj. Level 1 Amount
Aging Congregate Nutrition Services 519201 519201 03 $298,627.00
Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services 519200 519200 03 $152,247.00
Total Appropriation $450,874.00
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 expenditure of $450,874.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, Department No. 51, Object Level Three, 3337, to pay the cost thereof as follows:
Grant Title: Aging Congregate Nutrition Services
Grant No. 519201
OCA: 519201
Amount: $298,627.00
Grant Title: Aging Home-Delivered Nutrition Services
Grant No. 519200
OCA: 519200
Amount: $152,247.00
Section 5. 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 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 ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves no vetoes same.