Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to accept and appropriate $125,000.00 in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Ohio Department of Health for the Dental Sealant grant program, for the period of January 1, 2025 through December, 31, 2025.
The primary purpose of the Dental Sealant Program is to prevent dental caries among school children through an evidence-based community approach. The program targets higher-risk schools in order to reach higher-risk children. In addition to applying sealants to second and third grade students, the program will recheck third grade and seventh grade students that were seen the previous years.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transactions to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible given the funding begins January 1, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Dental Sealant program is entirely funded by the grant from Ohio Department of Health and does not generate revenue or require a City Match.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $125,000.00 for the Dental Sealant program that prevents dental cavities among school children through an evidence-based community approach, to authorize the appropriation of $125,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($125,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, $125,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Ohio Department of Health for the Dental Sealant grant program for the period of January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Ohio Department of Health for the continued support of the Dental Sealant grant program; and,
WHEREAS, the City may receive additional funds awarded from the Ohio Department of Health for the Dental Sealant grant program; and
WHEREAS,...
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