Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to amend contract number DL008967 with the Deaf Services Center to continue support of the Deaf Modification Program. The amendments will provide an additional $10,000 to the existing $45,000 from the Community Block Grant Fund and will extend the contract to December 31, 2006.
Contract funds are 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, alarm clocks. The Deaf Services Center will provide equipment to approximately 40 eligible applicants city-wide.
Emergency action is requested to allow this vital program to continue uninterrupted.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this expenditure are allocated from the 2005 Community Development Block Grant Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to amend a contract with the Deaf Services Center to continue support of the Deaf Modification Program; to authorize the expenditure of $10,000 from the 2005 Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($10,000)
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WHEREAS, the Department of Development, Housing Division, desires to amend contract number DL008697 with the Deaf Services Center to continue support of the Deaf Modification Program; and
WHEREAS, the Deaf Modification Program helps to eliminate environmental barriers in the residences of low and moderate income indivi...
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