Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the appropriation and expenditure of up to $1,000,000.00 from the Opioid Recovery Fund and authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute a promissory note and loan agreement, with Maryhaven, Inc. for operations support.
Maryhaven is a nonprofit addiction treatment provider that operates four campuses in Columbus, as well as three regional clinics. Maryhaven provides comprehensive services for patients at all stages of recovery, including residential and outpatient care, medically assisted treatment as well as cognitive behavioral and other proven therapies, as well as individual and group counseling. Additionally, Maryhaven works closely with 12-step and other peer-to-peer recovery groups as they can be critical to long-term success for many patients. Maryhaven’s expert clinicians and counselors have served more than 350,000 men, women and adolescents since 1953.
Contract Compliance: Maryhaven, Inc., vendor number:004267, FID: 31-0732345.
Emergency Justification. Emergency action is requested in order to provide needed financial support to Maryhaven in a timely manner. This financial support is necessary to sustain existing operations.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $1,000,000.00 from the Opioid Settlement Fund 2210 with Marhaven, Inc. for operations support.
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To authorize the Director on behalf of the Department of Finance and Management to enter into a loan agreement and promissory note with Maryhaven Inc.to provide funding for operational support; to authorize the appropriation of $1,000,000.00 within the Opioid Recovery Fund; to authorize the expenditure of up to $1,000,000.00 from the Opioid Recovery Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1,000,000.00).
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WHEREAS, Maryhaven Inc, is a valued community partner that provides addiction treatment services to Columbus residents; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Finance and Management desires to provide Maryhaven, Inc. with operating support funding; and
WHEREAS, this operating support funding will be structured pursuant to a loan agreement and promissory note: and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Department of Finance and Management, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director on behalf of the Department of Finance and Management to enter into a loan agreement and promissory note with Maryhaven, Inc. to provide financial operating support for existing operations, all for the immediate preservation of 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 Finance and Management is hereby authorized to enter into a loan agreement and promissory note with Maryhaven, Inc. to provide funding for operational support.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies and from all monies estimated to come into the Opioid Recovery Fund 2210 from any and all sources and unappropriated for any other purpose during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, the sum of $1,000,000.00 is appropriated in Fund 2210, from Dept-Div 45-50, object class 05 (Other Expenses) per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $1,000,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized from the Opioid Recovery Fund 2210, from Dept-Div 45-50, Object Class 05, (Other Expenses), Main Account: 65030 (Loans to Others), per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. Funds are hereby deemed appropriated and expenditures and transfers authorized to carry out the purposes of this ordinance and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 6. 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 7. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer the unencumbered balance in a project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project.
SECTION 8. 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.