Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to accept and appropriate $132,000.00 in grant funds from the Ohio Department of Health, with some of the funding originating from the Centers for Disease Control, for the FY25 Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Grant, for the period of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
The Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program will increase the readiness of our community to initiate and engage in tobacco control and cessation strategies with an anticipated outcome of creating social norm change to decrease initiation and use of tobacco in local communities (including the initiation of the use of e-cigarettes/vaping products), to increase quitting of tobacco, to decrease the community’s exposure to secondhand smoke, and to decrease disparities in tobacco burden usually associated with health inequities.
Columbus Public Health received the NOA for this grant on June 3, 2024; therefore, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency in order to not delay these critical services and to ensure funds are available by the grant start date of July 1, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT: The program is fully funded by the Centers for Disease Control and the Ohio Department of Health and does not generate revenue or require a City match ($132,000.00).
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept grant funds from the Ohio Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control and any additional funds for the FY25 Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Grant Program; to authorize the appropriation of funds, including any additional funds, from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund; and to authorize the City Auditor to transfer appropriations between object classes for the FY25 Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Grant Program, and to declare an emergency. ($132,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $132,000.00 in grant funds have been made available to Columbus Public Health through the Ohio Departm...
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