Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health for the Drug Overdose Prevention Grant for the Addiction Services Division. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $140,000.00 in grant money for the period of September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020.
The purpose of this funding is to implement comprehensive sustainable interventions at the local level to prevent drug overuse, misuse, abuse, and overdose. The goal is to support local communities based on the needs identified within their community by providing resources for community coalitions and strategic plans, overdose fatality review boards, immediate community response plans and implementation of comprehensive sustainable systems in various settings to screen, identify and link at-risk populations with services.
This ordinance is submitted as emergency so a delay in services does not occur due to the start date September 1, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Drug Overdose Prevention Grant 2020 is fully funded ($140,000.00) by the Ohio Department of Health and does not require a City match.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Health for the Drug Overdose Prevention Grant 2020 in the amount of $140,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $140,000.00 to the Health Department in the Health Department’s Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($140,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, $140,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Ohio Department of Health for the Drug Overdose Prevention Grant 2020 for the period of September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to accept and appropriate these funds from the Ohio Department of Health for the support of the Drug Overdose Prevention Grant 2020; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to accept these grant fu...
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