City of Columbus - File #: 0252-2004

• File #: 0252-2004
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 1/28/2004
• In control: Health, Housing & Human Services Committee
• On agenda: 2/23/2004
• Final action: 2/25/2004
• Title: To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals to provide laboratory testing services for the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic; to authorize the expenditure of $36,000 from the Health Department Grants Fund to pay the costs thereof; and to declare an emergency. ($36,000)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/25/2004	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
2/24/2004	1	MAYOR	Signed
2/23/2004		Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
2/23/2004	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
2/13/2004	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
2/13/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
2/6/2004	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
2/6/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
2/5/2004	1	Auditor Reviewer	Reviewed and Disapproved
2/5/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
2/5/2004	1	Auditor Reviewer	Contingent
2/4/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
2/3/2004	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
1/30/2004	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
1/29/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/28/2004	1	Health Drafter	Sent for Approval
1/28/2004	1	Health Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
1/28/2004	1	HEALTH DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved

Explanation

BACKGROUND: The Health Department provides laboratory testing of medical specimens generated by Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic. A "Request for Proposals for Reference Laboratory Services" for a two-year period was sent out in 2003, and Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals was awarded a contract. This ordinance will authorize funding for the second year of a two-year period. Emergency action is requested to ensure continued testing services for the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic. The Contract Compliance number is 314394942.

FISCAL IMPACT: $36,000 is budgeted in the 2004 Health Department Grants Fund to provide funding for this contract.

Title

To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals to provide laboratory testing services for the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic; to authorize the expenditure of $36,000 from the Health Department Grants Fund to pay the costs thereof; and to declare an emergency. ($36,000)


Body

WHEREAS, proposals were formally submitted through the RFP process for laboratory testing services for the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic; and,

WHEREAS, it is necessary to enter into the second year of a two-year contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals; and,

WHEREAS, emergency action is requested to ensure continued testing services for the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic; and,

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; Now, therefore,


BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:


SECTION 1. That the Board of Health is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with Grant/Riverside Methodist Hospitals for laboratory testing of medical specimens for the Ben Franklin Tuberculos...