Explanation
Background:
This ordinance will enable the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant and to provide for the appropriation of said funds to the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund.
Grant funding is being made available by the Ohio Department of Medicaid to a consortium of Area Agencies on Aging led by Region 5 in Mansfield. COAAA will sub-contract with Region 5 for the provision of assessment and case management services to consumers of the Ohio Home Care Waiver.
Emergency action is being requested due to the COAAA’s requirement to hire up to 25 new employees prior to taking on approximately 1,000 Ohio Home Care Waiver consumers on January 1, 2014.
Fiscal Impact:
$3,000,000.00 in grant funding will be used to cover the payroll and related expenses of an additional 25 staff to be employed by COAAA. The additional staff will be needed to service approximately 1,000 consumers in the Central Ohio area.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to accept a grant to provide assessment and case management services to Ohio Home Care Waiver consumers in Central Ohio in the amount of $3,000,000.00; to authorize an appropriation of $3,000,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to the Recreation and Parks Department; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Medicaid will be awarding the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department a grant for the provision of assessment and case management services to consumers of the Ohio Home Care Waiver; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept said grants, and appropriate said funds in a timely manner for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director o...
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