Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Homeland Security Department through the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $281,693.00 in grant money to fund this program for the period September 1, 2011, through April 30, 2014.
The Metropolitan Medical Response System grant provides assistance to the Columbus area medical emergency partner network to respond to a mass casualty event in central Ohio, e.g., local airport exercises, Poison Control services, Medical Reserve Corps Services.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is funded by the Homeland Security Department and does not generate revenue or require a city match.
Title
To authorize and direct Columbus Public Health to accept a grant from the Homeland Security Department through the Ohio Emergency Management Agency for mass casualty responding in the amount of $281,693.00; and to authorize the appropriation of $281,693.00 in the Health Department Grants Fund. ($281,693.00)
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WHEREAS, this grant provides assistance in the Columbus area for the response to a mass casualty; and,
WHEREAS, $281,693.00 in grant funds have been made available to Columbus Public Health through the Homeland Security Department for the Metropolitan Medical Response System program; 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 a grant award of $281,693.00 from the Homeland Security Department through the Ohio Emergency Management Agency for the Metropolitan Medical Response System for the period September 1, 2011, through April 30, 2014.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monies estimated to come into said Fund from any and all sources for the period ending April 30, 2014, the sum of $281,693.00 and any eligible interest earned during the gra...
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