Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award of $1,000 from Target Corporation for the purchase of smoke detectors for the Fire Division smoke detector distribution program. This ordinance also appropriates $1,000 in the Special Revenue fund for this purpose. This grant will permit the purchase of approximately 75 smoke detectors for distribution. If grant funds permit, the Fire Division typically distributes between 500 to 800 smoke detectors annually in areas following fatal house fires, during home inspections, or at community events.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance appropriates $1,000 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 and distribution of these smoke detectors by the Fire Division.
Emergency Legislation: The Fire Division needs a replacement stock of smoke detectors. This is an emergency ordinance that will allow the timely purchase of smoke detectors.
Title
To authorize the Columbus Fire Chief to accept a grant award from Target Corporation for the purchase of smoke detectors for the Fire Division distribution program, to appropriate $1,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Special Revenue Private Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($1,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Division of Fire received a grant award from Target Corporation 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 the 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 immedia...
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