Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to modify various contracts that provide PASSPORT home care services for older adults in Central Ohio.
There are one hundred and seven (107) PASSPORT agencies that provide services to older adults in accordance to the Ohio Department of Aging contracting requirements.
Emergency action is requested in order to meet the conditions of the grant so that providers can be paid within 30 days of providing service.
Fiscal Impact:
$24,000,000.00 is required from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to enter into said contracts.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to modify various contracts with agencies for the provision of PASSPORT home care services for older adults in Central Ohio, to authorize the expenditure of $24,000,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund. and to declare an emergency. ($24,000,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the funds to modify said contracts have been made available from the Ohio Department of Aging; now, therefore and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to modify said contracts for the preservation of public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Recreation and Parks be and he is hereby authorized and directed to modify various contracts for the provision of PASSPORT home care services for older adults in Central Ohio for the period July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2004.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $24,000,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, Department No. 51, Object Level Three-3337, Project No. 518139, OCA 511675, to pay the cost thereof.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons state...
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