Explanation
BACKGROUND:
The Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Recreation and Parks Department was awarded federal and state grants from the Ohio Department of Aging for the continuation of services to older adults in the Central Ohio area including Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and Union Counties.
This legislation authorizes 30 community services contracts for the provision of meals, adult day care, homemaker, personal care, transportation, home repair and legal services for the period January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016.
The service providers were selected from proposals submitted to the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging in 2013, and these contracts represent the third year of a four-year proposal period. Approximately 40,000 individuals are expected to be served.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION:
Emergency action is requested in order to have the contracts in place by January, 2016, as stipulated in the grant requirements, so there is no interruption of services to older adults.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$6,725,000.00 is required and budgeted from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to meet the financial obligation of these contracts.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into contracts with 30 community agencies to provide social and nutrition services to older adults in Central Ohio during 2016; to authorize the expenditure of $6,725,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($6,725,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize funding to enter into contracts with thirty community agencies to provide social and nutrition services to older adults in Central Ohio during 2016 was made available to the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging from the Ohio Department of Aging; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said contracts to avoid in...
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