Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Office of the Mayor to accept and appropriate funds from The Columbus Foundation for the Healthy Beginnings at Home program. The amount totals $37,802.00 and will be for the period of September 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020.
The Healthy Beginnings at Home program provides rental subsidies and housing stabilization services to Medicaid-eligible pregnant women with medical needs who are experiencing housing instability. As a part of this work, CelebrateOne and its partners are examining whether the intervention leads to improved birth outcomes, reduced risk for infant mortality and better health outcomes for women and their infants in Franklin County. A portion of these funds will be used to modify a contract amount, PO187534, by increasing the award amount with Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the amount of $16,956.00 to provide continued services for the reduction of infant mortality. Ordinance 1302-2019 was authorized by City Council on June 3, 2019.
Emergency Request: This ordinance is submitted as an emergency as to not delay program services and to allow the financial transactions to be posted to the City’s accounting system as soon as possible.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Columbus Foundation grant number is G401901, Private Grants Fund 2291. This program does not generate any revenue or require a City match.
Title
To authorize the Office of the Mayor to accept a grant from the Columbus Foundation for the Healthy Beginnings at Home Program in the amount of $37,802.00; to authorize the appropriation of $37,802.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Private Grants Fund 2291; to modify an existing contract with Nationwide Children’s Hospital by increasing the award amount; and to declare an emergency. ($37,802.00)
Body
WHEREAS, $37,802.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Columbus Foundation for the Healthy Beginnings at Home Program for the period of September 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Columbus Foundation for the Healthy Beginnings at Home Program to continue without interruption; and
WHEREAS, Nationwide Children’s Hospital contract modification additional funding of $16,956.00 will provide continued evaluation services in the Healthy Beginning at Home Program; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is being submitted as an emergency measure so that timely services can begin and to allow the financial transactions to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible given the start date of September 1, 2019; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of the Mayor in that it is immediately necessary to accept these grant funds from the Columbus Foundation 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 Office of the Mayor is hereby authorized to accept an award totaling $37,802.00 from the Columbus Foundation for the Healthy Beginnings at Home Program for the period of September 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Private Grant Fund No. 2291 and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources during the grant period, the sum of $37,802.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Office of the Mayor, department 40-01, according to the attached accounting document.
SECTION 3. That the Office of the Mayor is hereby authorized to modify a contract with Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the amount of $16,956.00 to provide continued services for the reduction of infant mortality.
SECTION 4. That the expenditure of $16,956.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in Section 3, is hereby authorized in Fund 2291 Private Grants Fund in object class 03 per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 5. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon order of the Office of the Mayor and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except upon voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 6. 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 originate in accordance with all applicable grant agreements.
SECTION 7. Funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 8. 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 ordinance.
SECTION 9. That for 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