Explanation
BACKGROUND: In 2012, Columbus Public Health was awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health originating from the Centers for Disease Control in the amount of $127,500.00 for the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project, Ord. 2360-2011. The full appropriation of $127,500.00 was spent on the deliverables set forth in the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project’s program narrative. Additional supplemental funds for interest income have accrued on this grant, which are required to be returned to the Ohio Department of Health. This ordinance is necessary to appropriate those funds so they may be refunded to the grantor.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to comply with the Ohio Department of Health GAPP Federal requirement to return interest income.
FISCAL IMPACT: Monies for this refund are available within the Health Departments Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, 2012 Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $51.68 to the Health Department Grants Fund for interest earned; to authorize the Board of Health to return interest income from the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project to the Ohio Department of Health; and to declare an emergency. ($51.68)
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate the interest income in the amount of $51.68 plus any eligible interest earned prior to the return of the funds within the Health Department Grants funds; and,
WHEREAS, Columbus Public Health is required to return interest income from the Creating Healthy Communities grant project to the Ohio Department of Health; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from the Ohio Department of Health, and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; Now, therefore,
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