Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health was awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) to fund the Women, Infants, and Children (W.I.C.) Program, for the period October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007. The Health Department submitted a grant budget revision and has received permission from the ODH to purchase a mobile clinic vehicle to improve the W.I.C. Program's ability to provide nutritionally desirable food and nutrition education to pregnant and lactating women, infants, and children at nutritional risk in Franklin County.
This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to purchase a mobile W.I.C. vehicle from Farber Specialty Vehicles in an amount not to exceed $225,000. The vehicle will serve as a mobile W.I.C. clinic in Franklin County. The Ohio Department of Health is mandating the equipment to be purchased, the vendor to purchase from, and the pricing structure in accordance with an existing state term contract. The schedule number of the contract is 7723300105. The contract expires April 30, 2008.
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delays in providing program services.
Farber Specialty Vehicles' contract compliance number is 412043544. Contract compliance number expires August 20, 2007.
FISCAL IMPACT: The W.I.C. Program is entirely funded by the ODH and does not generate revenue or require a City match. The funds to purchase this mobile unit are budgeted and available in the Health Department Grants Fund, W.I.C. Grant Program, Fund No. 251.
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To authorize and direct the Director of Finance and Management to purchase a W.I.C. mobile unit from Farber Specialty Vehicles in accordance with state term contract provisions, to authorize the expenditure of $225,000 from the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($225,000)
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WHEREAS, the Health Department submitted a grant budget revision and has received permission from the Ohio Department of Health to purchase a mobile clinic vehicle for the Women, Infants, and Children (W.I.C.) program to improve their ability to provide nutritionally desirable food and nutrition education to pregnant and lactating women, infants, and children at nutritional risk in Franklin County; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency to avoid delays in providing program services; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to purchase a mobile W.I.C. unit 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 Director of Finance and Management is hereby authorized and directed to purchase a mobile W.I.C. vehicle from Farber Specialty Vehicles, in accordance with an existing State term contract, for the period of October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $225,000 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Division No. 50-01, Grant No. 506016, Object Level One 06, Object Level Three 6652, OCA Code 506016.
SECTION 3. That this purchase is in accordance with the provisions of the Columbus City Code, Section 329.07(e), "Sole Source Procurement."
SECTION 4. 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.