Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Cardinal Health Foundation has granted funds to the CelebrateOne Community Fund at The Columbus Foundation in support of Baby and Me Tobacco Free program at Columbus Public Health. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $50,000.00 in grant monies for the period of June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.
The Cardinal Grant program will support initiatives of the Baby and Me Tobacco Free Program, funded in part by the Ohio Department of Health Moms Quit for Two grant program and the Central Ohio Hospital Council Ohio Better Birth Outcomes collaboration grant program at Columbus Public Health. The Baby and Me Tobacco Free program aims to improve birth outcomes, reduce low birth weights and preterm birth rates, and increase overall quit rates as part of a larger strategy to reduce infant mortality.
Since 2014, the Baby & Me Tobacco Free Program at CPH has had a direct impact on infant mortality in Franklin County, and has unequivocally become the largest in Ohio with over 203 enrolled; this represents a 434% increase in volume from year one. In 2018, 90% of the babies delivered in the CPH program were full term and healthy, with 95% of participants remaining smoke-free through the baby’s first year of life.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so a delay in service does not occur since the grant starts June 1, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Baby and Me Tobacco Free Cardinal grant is fully funded ($50,000.00) by The Cardinal Health Foundation and does not require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the CelebrateOne Community Fund at The Columbus Foundation on behalf of the Cardinal Health Foundation to fund the Baby and Me Tobacco Free Cardinal grant program in the amount of $50,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $50,000.00 to the Health Department in the Health Department’s Private Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $50,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Cardinal Health Foundation for the period of June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the CelebrateOne Community Fund at The Columbus Foundation on behalf of the Cardinal Health Foundation for the support of the Baby and Me Tobacco Free program at Columbus Public Health; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept these grant funds from the CelebrateOne Community Fund at The Columbus Foundation on behalf of the Cardinal Health Foundation and to appropriate these funds to Columbus Public Health for the immediate preservation of the public health, property, safety and welfare, and to avoid delay in client services; 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 $50,000.00 from the CelebrateOne Community Fund at The Columbus Foundation on behalf of the Cardinal Health Foundation for the Baby and Me Tobacco Free program at Columbus Public Health for the period of June 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department's Private Grants Fund, 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 $50,000.00 and any eligible interest earned during the grant period is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Division No. 5001, as indicated in the ordinance attachment.
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. 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 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 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.