Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to modify contract DL011992 with Deaf Services Center by adding $50,000 to the existing contract. The new amount will be $95,000. The additional funds will enable DSC to serve additional clients under their current contract with the Deaf Modification Program. The modification to the contract will provide $50,000 from the Community Block Grant Fund for the administrative and equipment costs necessary to eliminate environmental barriers in the residences of low and moderate-income individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Deaf Modification Program will provide grants for communication and adaptive equipment necessary to increase the independence and safety of deaf or hard of hearing individuals in the City of Columbus.
Examples of the equipment to be provided include amplified telephones, communication devices, answering machines, motion detectors, strobes, smoke alarms, bed vibrator, baby monitors, individual alert receivers, carbon monoxide detectors and alarm clocks. The Deaf Services Center will provide equipment to approximately 20 eligible applicants city-wide.
Emergency action is requested to allow this vital program to continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: $50,000 is allocated from the 2007 Community Development Block Grant Fund for this expenditure.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Development Department to modify the Deaf Modification Program contract with Deaf Services Center (DSC); to authorize the expenditure of $50,000 from the 2007 Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($50,000)
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WHEREAS, the Department of Development, Housing Division, desires to modify contract DL011992 with Deaf Services Center (DSC) by allocating an additional $50,000 to the existing contract; and
WHEREAS, this modification will allow the contractor to continue to support the operation of the Deaf Modification Program; and
WHEREAS, the Deaf Modification Program will provide grants for communication and adaptive equipment necessary to increase the independence and safety of deaf or hard of hearing individuals in the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, Housing Division, in that it is immediately necessary to modify the contract with the Deaf Services Center to allow vital program services to continue without interruption, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; and NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to modify contract DL011992 with Deaf Services Center (DSC) by allocating an additional $50,000 to the existing contract to support the Deaf Modification Program.
Section 2. That for the purpose stated in Section 1, the expenditure of $50,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized to be expended from the Department of Development, Housing Division, Department No. 44-10, Fund 248, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3336, OCA Code 440524.
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 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.