Explanation
Background
This legislation will authorize the expenditure of up to $5,000,000.00 to increase various contracts for the provision of PASSPORT home care and assisted living services for older adults in Central Ohio.
Ordinance No. 0709-2008, passed May 19, 2008, authorized various PASSPORT and Assisted Living contracts for a two-year period beginning July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 in accordance with grant requirements. This ordinance authorizes additional funding for the second year of said contracts per the attached contract list.
Emergency action is requested so that there are sufficient funds available to pay for Medicaid home care services through these said contracts within a 30-day period as required by the grant.
Fiscal Impact
$5,000,000.00 is required and budgeted from the Recreation and Parts Grant Fund to meet the financial obligation for the second year of said contracts.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of up to $5,000,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund in order to increase various contracts for the provision of PASSPORT home care and assisted living services administered by the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging. ($5,000,000.00) and to declare an emergency
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WHEREAS, the funds to enter increase said contracts have been made available from the Ohio Department of Aging; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Recreation and Parks in that it is immediately necessary to increase said contracts, per the attached list, so there is no interruption of Medicaid-funded services for PASSPORT home care and assisted living clients for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; NOW, THEREFORE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the expenditure of $5,000,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286...
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