Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Franklin County Board of Commissioners has a need to continue the operation of a tuberculosis clinic for the detection, surveillance, and containment of tuberculosis. Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners in the amount of $1,830,882.00 for the continued operation of the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic. This grant is for the period January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the city's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This program is entirely funded by the Franklin County Board of Commissioners and is budgeted in the 2015 Health Department Grants Fund. This grant will not generate revenue or require a city match.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners in the amount of $1,830,882.00 for the continued operation of the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic; to authorize the appropriation of $1,830,882.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($1,830,882.00)
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WHEREAS, $1,830,882.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for the continued operation of the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic at Columbus Public Health; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the city's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners and to appropriate these funds to Columbus Public Health 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 accept a grant award of $1,830,882.00 from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for the operation of the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic through December 31, 2015.
SECTION 2. That from the monies in the Fund known as the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the twelve months ending December 31, 2015, the sum of $1,830,882.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Department No. 50-01, as follows:
Tuberculosis Prevention and Control/Elimination
OCA: 504055 Grant: 504055 Obj. Level 01:01 Amount: $1,656,612.00
OCA: 504055 Grant: 504055 Obj. Level 01:02 Amount: $ 64,000.00
OCA: 504055 Grant: 504055 Obj. Level 01:03 Amount: $ 110,270.00
Total: $1,830,882.00
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, 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. 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 5. That 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 6. 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.