City of Columbus - File #: 1512-2010

• File #: 1512-2010
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 10/12/2010
• In control: Health, Housing & Human Services Committee
• On agenda: 10/25/2010
• Final action: 10/27/2010
• Title: To authorize and direct the Board of Health to enter into contract with the Franklin County Board of Health, to authorize the expenditure of $326,226.00 from the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($326,226.00)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/27/2010	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
10/26/2010	1	ACTING MAYOR	Signed
10/25/2010	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
10/25/2010	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
10/15/2010	1	City Clerk's Office	Sent back for Clarification/Correction
10/15/2010	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
10/15/2010	1	EBOCO Reviewer	Sent for Approval
10/15/2010	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/15/2010	1	Health Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
10/14/2010	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
10/14/2010	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
10/14/2010	1	Health Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
10/13/2010	1	Health Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/13/2010	1	HEALTH DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/13/2010	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
10/13/2010	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/13/2010	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
10/13/2010	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/13/2010	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
10/13/2010	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/13/2010	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
10/12/2010	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval

Explanation


BACKGROUND: The Board of Health was awarded $1,165,767.00 in grant monies from the Ohio
Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness
program. This ordinance is needed to authorize a contract with the Franklin County Board of Health for
$326,226.00 for the time period August 10, 2010 through August 9, 2011.

The purpose of the contract is to maintain a Public Health Emergency Preparedness/Emergency Response
system in the event of bioterrorism activities in Franklin County. This contract is necessary per the
requirements of the Ohio Department of Health, Public Health Emergency Preparedness proposal.

Emergency action is requested to facilitate and expedite the Franklin County component of maintaining a
public health emergency preparedness response in central Ohio.

FISCAL IMPACT: The Public Health Emergency Preparedness grant budget provides $326,226.00 for a
contract with the Franklin County Board of Health.


Title

To authorize and direct the Board of Health to enter into contract with the Franklin County Board of Health, to authorize the expenditure of $326,226.00 from the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($326,226.00)



Body

WHEREAS, the Franklin County Board of Health will establish a public health emergency preparedness structure; and,

WHEREAS, this contract is necessary per the requirements of the Ohio Department of Health, Public Health Emergency Preparedness proposal; and,

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize this contract 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 Heal...