Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant 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 Medicaid to a consortium of Area Agencies on Aging led by Region 5 in Mansfield. COAAA will sub-contract with Region 5 for the provision of assessment and case management services to consumers of the Ohio Home Care Waiver.
Emergency action is being requested due to the COAAA's requirement to hire up to 25 new employees prior to taking on approximately 1,000 Ohio Home Care Waiver consumers on January 1, 2014.
Fiscal Impact:
$3,000,000.00 in grant funding will be used to cover the payroll and related expenses of an additional 25 staff to be employed by COAAA. The additional staff will be needed to service approximately 1,000 consumers in the Central Ohio area.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant to provide assessment and case management services to Ohio Home Care Waiver consumers in Central Ohio in the amount of $3,000,000.00; to authorize an appropriation of $3,000,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Medicaid will be awarding the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department a grant for the provision of assessment and case management services to consumers of the Ohio Home Care Waiver; 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, and appropriate said funds 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 a grant from the Ohio Department of Medicaid in the amount of $3,000,000.00 for the period January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014.
Section 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund 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, 2013, the sum of $3,000,000.00 is appropriated to the Recreation and Parks Department to pay the cost thereof as follows:
Department: 51-01 / Grant Fund: No. 286,
Ohio Home Care Waiver
Project No.: To be Determined OCA: TBD OBJECT LEVEL 1: 01 AMOUNT: $2,200,000.00
Project No.: To be Determined OCA: TBD OBJECT LEVEL 1: 02 AMOUNT: $300,000.00
Project No.: To be Determined OCA: TBD OBJECT LEVEL 1: 03 AMOUNT: $500,000.00
*Appropriation amounts will be in effect upon receipt of executed grant agreement.
Total: $3,000,000.00
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 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. 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 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 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves no vetoes same.