Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Columbus Health Department has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $750,000 in grant money to fund the Healthy Start grant program.
The Healthy Start grant program enables The Columbus Health Department to conduct care coordination in the project area neighborhoods of South Linden, the Near South, and the Near East, focusing primarily on perinatal and infant clients and their families. The goal of the program is to improve perinatal delivery systems in the project communities.
This grant is for the period June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.
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 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and does not generate revenue or require a City match.
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To authorize and direct The Columbus Health Department to accept a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the amount of $750,000; to authorize the appropriation of $750,000 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($750,000)
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WHEREAS, $750,000 in grant funds have been made available through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 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 The Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department 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 Columbus Health Department is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award of $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the Healthy Start grant program for the period June 1, 2009, through May 31, 2010.
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 May 31, 2010, the sum of $750,000 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 50-01, as follows:
OCA: 509117; Grant No.: 509117; OL1:01; Amount: $567,057
OCA: 509117; Grant No.: 509117; OL1:02; Amount: $90,554
OCA: 509117; Grant No.: 509117; OL1:03; Amount: $92,389
Total for Grant No. 509117: $750,000
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. 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.