Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Columbus Health Department has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $434,187 in grant money to fund the Immunization Action Plan grant program.
The IAP program will enable the Columbus Health Department to ensure that critical elements of vaccine provided and the vaccine delivery system are adequate; to establish and maintain a high level of awareness and demand for immunizations by parents, particularly racial/ethnic minority parents and other under-served population groups; and to accurately measure the ability of local vaccine providers to raise immunizations levels in children under the age of two toward the goal of 90% coverage.
This grant is for the period January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This program is entirely funded by the Ohio Department of Health. This grant will not generate revenue or require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Columbus Health Department to accept a grant from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $434,187; to authorize the appropriation of $434,187 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($434,187)
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WHEREAS, $434,187 in grant funds have been made available through the Ohio Department of Health for the Immunization Action Plan (IAP) grant program; and,
WHEREAS, 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. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department 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,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Columbus Health Department is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award of $434,187 from the Ohio Department of Health for the IAP program for the period January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
SECTION 2. That from the monies in the Fund known as the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the 12 months ending December 31, 2008, the sum of $434,187 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Department No. 50-01, as follows:
OCA: 508006; Grant No.: 508006; OL1:01; Amount: $412,495
OCA: 508006; Grant No.: 508006; OL1:02; Amount: $ 11,000
OCA: 508006; Grant No.: 508006; OL1:03; Amount: $ 10,692
Total for Grant No. 508006 $434,187
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.