Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has a need to make funds available to
contract with The Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies. The Council will provide
health education/promotional services, support the Local Health System Action Plan,
hold public forums, meetings, committees, prenatal care roundtables, conduct PNC
Appointment wait time studies, and link pregnant women with appropriate providers
through Pregnancy Care Connection (centralized first PNC appointment scheduling
system). The contract period is June 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009. This
contract will total an amount not to exceed $32,049. The Council On Health Mothers
And Babies is a non-profit organization. The Federal ID number is 421546970.
Emergency action is required to ensure the continued operation of the Healthy Start
Program.
FISCAL IMPACT: This contract is entirely funded by a grant from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. The program does not generate revenue
or require a City match. The monies are budgeted in the 2008 Health Department
Grants Fund.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies to provide health education/promotion for the Healthy Start grant program; to authorize the expenditure of $32,049 from the Health Department Grant Funds to pay the cost thereof, and to declare an emergency, (32,049)
Body
WHEREAS, funding is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies, a local non-profit organization, to provide health education/promotion services for the Healthy Start grant program; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies 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 Board of Health is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contract with the Council On Healthy Mothers And Babies for health education/promotion for the Healthy Start grant program for the period June 1, 2008 through May 31, 2009.
SECTION 2. That to pay the costs of said contracts, the expenditure of $32,049 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Health Department, Division 50-01, Grant No. 508017, OCA Code 508017, Object Level One 03, Object Level Three 3337.
SECTION 3. That these contract is awarded in accordance with Sections 329.15 of the Columbus City Code.
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.