Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to accept and appropriate $10,000.00 in grant funds from the National Healthy Start Association for the Maternal Child Health Bureau Policy Innovation Program for the period of February 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027.
The Maternal Child Health Bureau Policy Innovation Program NHSA will contract with selected Healthy Start sites and the expected amount of each contract is $10,000 to assist with travel to annual in person meetings, HS participant stipends and approved expenses related to program success.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible due to the grant start period of February 1, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Maternal Child Health Bureau Policy Innovation Program is funded by the National Healthy Start Association and does not generate revenue or require a city match.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept grant funds from the National Healthy Start Association in the amount of $10,000.00 and any additional funds for the Maternal Child Health Bureau Policy Innovation Program; to authorize the appropriation of funds, including any additional funds, from the unappropriated balance of the National Healthy Start Association; and to authorize the City Auditor to transfer appropriations between object classes for the Maternal Child Health Bureau Policy Innovation Program; and to declare an emergency. ($10,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $10,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the National Healthy Start Association for the Maternal Child Health Bureau Policy Innovation Program for the period of February 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the National Healthy Start Association for the continued support of the Maternal Child Health Bureau Policy Innovation Program; and
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