Explanation
BACKGROUND:
The Health Department has a need to make funds available to
contract with Neighborhood House, Inc., which is a community-based,
not for-profit organization. Neighborhood House Inc. will provide care
coordination/case management services to pregnant and parenting women in
the target areas of South Linden, the Near East and the Near South for the
Federal Healthy Start grant program. Care coordinators will provide social
and lay medical support services to women who are pregnant and to their
infants until the child's first birthday. The contract period is June 1, 2003
through May 31, 2004.
Emergency action is required to ensure the continued operation of this
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
2003 Health Department Grants Fund.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Neighborhood House Inc. to provide care coordination and case management services for the Healthy Start grant program; to authorize the expenditure of $244,502 from the Health Department Grant Funds to pay the cost thereof, and to declare an emergency, (244,502)
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WHEREAS, funding is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to contract with Neighborhood House Inc., to provide care coordination and case management 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 enter into contracts with Neighborhood House Inc. 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 enter into contract with Neighborhood House Inc. for care coordination and case management services for the Healthy Start grant program for the period June 1, 2003 through May 31, 2004.
SECTION 2. That to pay the costs of said contracts, the expenditure of $244,502 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Health Department, Division 50-01, Grant No. 503017, OCA Code 503017, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337.
SECTION 3. That these contract is awarded in accordance with Sections 329.15 of the Columbus City Code.
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.