Explanation
Background
This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to modify and extend a contract with Catholic Social Services, Inc. in connection with Title IIIA Nursing Home Transitions. Federal grant funding was awarded to the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Catholic Social Services, Inc. assists COAAA case managers with securing housing, goods, and services necessary to establish a habitable dwelling for clients discharged from nursing facilities.
Fiscal Impact
$80,000.00 is required from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund as follows:
Grant Title: Title IIIA
Fund: Recreation and Parks Grant No. 286 / Department: #51
Object Level Three: 3337
Project No.: 518324
OCA: 514497
Total: $80,000.00
This modification will increase the existing contract from $20,000.00 to $100,000.00.
Contract Compliance No. 31-4379437 (001)
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to modify and extend a contract with Catholic Social Services, Inc. in connection with the Title IIIA Nursing Home Transitions; to authorize the expenditure of $80,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($80,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, federal grant funding for Title IIIA Nursing Home Transitions was awarded to the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to modify and extend said contract so that services can be expanded for the immediate preservation of public health, peace, prosperity, 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 is hereby authorized and directed to modify and extend a contract in the amount of $80,000.00 with Catholic Social Services for Title IIIA Nursing Home Transitions for the period April 1, 2012 through December 31, 2013.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $80,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund as follows:
Grant Title: Title IIIA
Fund: Recreation and Parks Grant No. 286 / Department: #51
Object Level Three: 3337
Project No.: 518324
OCA: 514497
Total: $80,000.00
Section 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to establish proper accounting project numbers and to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for any contract or contract modification associated with the expenditure of funds transferred in Section 2, above.
Section 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or 10 days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.