Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded additional funding from the Ohio Department of Health for the Reproductive Health & Wellness Program grant program. The grant period for the Reproductive Health & Wellness Program grant has also been extended to August 31, 2018. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate the additional funding of $280,860.00 in grant monies and $105,000.00 in anticipated program fee revenues for the Reproductive Health & Wellness Program grant, and to also extend the grant period from April 1, 2017 through March 31, 2018 to April 1, 2017 through August 31, 2018.
The Reproductive Health and Wellness Program will allow for women's health services including family planning. Eligible patients will include women from the CPH Women's Health Services program at postpartum and women who have had a negative pregnancy test through our walk-in pregnancy testing service.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transactions to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible given the additional funding requirements and time frame the items need to be purchased. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Reproductive Health and Wellness Program is funded by the Ohio Department of Health (grant award of $928,860.00) and program fee revenues estimated to be $353,000.00. The grant is administered in the Health Department Grants Fund.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept additional funding and extend the grant period for the Reproductive Health & Wellness Program grant program from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $280,860.00; to authorize the appropriation of $385,860.00 in grant money and fee revenues to the Health Department in the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($385,860.00)
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WHEREAS, additional grant funding has been made available from the Ohio Department of Health; and
WHEREAS, the grant period from April 1, 2017 through March 31, 2018 has been extended to April 1, 2017 through August 31, 2018; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Board the Health to accept and appropriate $280,860.00 in additional grant funds that have been made available through the Ohio Department of Health for the Reproductive Health & Wellness Program grant program for the period of April 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018, and to appropriate these monies to the Health Department; and
WHEREAS, it is anticipated that $105,000.00 will be collected from addtional fee revenue; and
WHEARES, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept these additional grant funds from the Ohio Department of Health and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; 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 accept additional grant funding of $280,860.00 from the Ohio Department of Health for the Reproductive Health & Wellness Program grant program and $105,000.00 in anticipated fee revenues for the period of April 1, 2017, through August 31, 2018.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department Grant Fund, Fund No. 2251, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the seventeen months ending August 31, 2018, the sum of $385,860.00 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department 50, Division No. 5001, as follows:
Object
Class Main Acct Program Project No. Section 3 Sect. 4 Amt
01 61100 HE004 G501726 500110 HE20 $285,000.00
02 62000 HE004 G501726 500110 HE20 $ 70,860.00
03 63000 HE004 G501726 500110 HE20 $ 30,000.00
Total for Project No. G501726 $385,860.00
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 by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. 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, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated.
SECTION 6. That all related fee revenue income is hereby deemed appropriated.
SECTION 7. That for 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.