Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes payment of prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals for the Division of Police. The Division of Police is responsible for medical care provided to prisoners in police custody. The Division of Police works with the City Attorney's office to determine if individuals were incarcerated or in the custody of the Division of Police during the specified dates of services on the medical invoices.
Contract Compliance: 31-4394942 - NPO
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested for this ordinance in order to pay outstanding prisoner medical bills in a timely matter. Original bills were more than $80,000.00; Grant/Riverside has given the Division a discount as long as we pay in a timely matter.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $40,505.06 from the General Fund for payment of prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Hospitals. The Division of Police budgeted $375,000.00 in the 2010 General Fund Budget for medical services for prisoners. Thus far in 2010, $226,980.00 has been encumbered or expended for such medical claims. The Division spent or encumbered $468,652.00 for prisoner medical bills in 2009.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to authorize payment of prisoner medical bills to Grant/Riverside Hospitals for the Division of Police, to authorize the expenditure of $40,505.06 from the General Fund; and to declare and emergency. ($40,505.06)
Body
WHEREAS, the Division of Police is responsible for medical bills for prisoners under custody, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the City Attorney's office and the Division of Police findings, the Division is responsible for the medical bills; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary for payment of medical services to Grant/Riverside Hospitals for the preservation of 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 Public Safety be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay Grant/Riverside Hospitals for prisoner medical bills.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $40,505.06, or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same is hereby authorized as follows:
DIV FUND OBJ LEV (1) OBJ LEV (3) OCA#
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SECTION 3. 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 enforced from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.