Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the additional appropriation of $137,958.53 in the existing Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, Performance Incentive Fund. This appropriation ordinance for Columbus Public Health grant fund allows for the continued operations of the Performance Incentive Fund grant program at the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division.
FISCAL IMPACT: This grant project is funded through grant project revenues arising from billing to Medicaid and some value-based contracting incentive payments from grant funders.
This ordinance will authorize the City Auditor to appropriate the unencumbered cash balance of Project No. G508320 to support the staffing and purchase of supplies and services for the various grant programs of the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division.
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To authorize the appropriation for the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division Grant Fund, Performance Incentive Fund, in various object classes, for the continued operations of the Performance Incentive Fund grant program; to authorize the Board of Health to appropriate and/or transfer any additional Performance Incentive Fund grant funds moving forward. ($137,958.53)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate unencumbered cash funds for the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, Performance Incentive Fund grant program to allow for the continued operations of the Performance Incentive Fund grant program in the Health Department; and
WHEREAS, revenues arising from billing to Medicaid through the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division grant programs and value-based contracting incentive payments from the Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Board of Franklin County may be used to cover expenses on various Alcohol and Drug Services Division grant programs; 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 appropriate the unencumbered cash balance of $137,958.53 in the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, Performance Incentive Fund.
SECTION 2. That from the monies in the fund known as the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, Performance Incentive Fund, and from monies estimated to come into said fund from revenues arising from the billing to Medicaid through the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division grant programs and value-based contracting incentive payments from the Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Board of Franklin County moving forward, there be and hereby are appropriated to the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, Performance Incentive Fund, per the accounting codes attached to this ordinance, for use moving forward, and any eligible interest earned during the grant period:
TOTAL ADDITIONAL AMOUNT APPROPRIATED TO FUND 2251, PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE FUND IS: $137,958.53
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 upon voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That the 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. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 6. That 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 7. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer between object classes and accept appropriations from the unencumbered cash balance for the Performance Incentive Fund grant program as needed upon request by the Columbus Public Health department.
SECTION 8. That the existing appropriations in the grant project in the Health Department’s Alcohol and Drug Services Division Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, Performance Incentive Fund at July 1, 2023, are hereby re-appropriated to the same grant, object class and purpose originally authorized by the Council and that the outstanding encumbrances in that grant project at July 1, 2023, are hereby re-encumbered.
SECTION 9. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.