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File #: 1371-2004    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/6/2004 In control: Health, Housing & Human Services Committee
On agenda: 7/19/2004 Final action: 7/21/2004
Title: To authorize the Director of the Development Department to enter into a contract with the Deaf Services Center to support the Deaf Modification Program; to authorize the expenditure of $45,000 from the 2004 Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($45,000)
Explanation

BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into a contract with the Deaf Services Center to support the Deaf Modification Program. The contract will provide $45,000 from the Community Block Grant Fund for the administrative and equipment costs necessary to eliminate environmental barriers in the residences of low and moderate income individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Deaf Modification Program will provide grants for communication and adaptive equipment necessary to increase the independence and safety of deaf or hard of hearing individuals in the City of Columbus.

Examples of the equipment to be provided include amplified telephones, communication devices, answering machines, motion detectors, strobes, smoke alarms, bed vibrator, baby monitors, individual alert receivers, carbon monoxide detectors, alarm clocks. The Deaf Services Center will provide equipment to approximately 40 eligible applicants city-wide.

Emergency action is requested to allow vital program services to begin immediately.


FISCAL IMPACT: $45,000 is allocated from the 2004 Community Development Block Grant Fund for this expenditure.



Title

To authorize the Director of the Development Department to enter into a contract with the Deaf Services Center to support the Deaf Modification Program; to authorize the expenditure of $45,000 from the 2004 Community Development Block Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($45,000)



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WHEREAS, the Department of Development, Housing Division, desires to enter into a contract with the Deaf Services Center to support the Deaf Modification Program; and

WHEREAS, the contract will provide $45,000 from the Community Block Grant Fund for the administrative and equipment costs necessary to eliminate environmental barriers in the residences of low and moderate income individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing; and

WHEREAS, the Deaf Modification...

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