Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award of $2,000.00 from State Farm Insurance under it's Good Neighbor Citizenship (GNC) grant program. The funds will be used to purchase smoke detectors for the Fire Division smoke detector distribution program. The legislation will also appropriate $2,000.00 for the grant.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance appropriates $2,000.00 in the Special Revenue fund for the purchase of smoke detectors for distribution by Columbus Fire Fighters. There is no required city match for this grant. Therefore, there is no cost to the General Fund for the acquisition of these smoke detectors by the Fire Division.
EMERGENCY LEGISLATION: The Fire Division needs to replenish its stock of smoke detectors. This emergency ordinance will allow the timely purchase of smoke detectors.
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To authorize the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award from State Farm Insurance for the purchase of smoke detectors for the Fire Division distribution program, to appropriate $2,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Special Revenue Private Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($2,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Fire received a grant award from State Farm Insurance for the purchase of smoke detectors for the smoke detector distribution program, and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus for the Fire Chief to accept this grant, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate the funds from this grant in order to purchase smoke detectors, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Fire, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize and direct the grant acceptance and appropriation of funds to enable the timely purchase of smoke detectors for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare: Now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE ...
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