...Explanation
BACKGROUND: In 2011, Columbus Public Health was awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $150,000.00 for the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project for the period January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011. The full appropriation of $150,000.00 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 ODH. 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 that interest income be returned immediately upon closing the grant.
FISCAL IMPACT: Monies for this interest income is available within the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, 2011 Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project.
...Title
To authorize the appropriation of $105.84 to the Health Department in the Health Department Grants Fund for interest earned; to authorize Columbus Public Health to return interest income from the Creating Healthy Communities Grant Project to the Ohio Department of Health; and to declare an emergency. ($105.84)
...Body
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 return interest income grant monies to the Ohio Department of Health to comply with Federal requirements and 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 from the unappropriated monies in the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monie...
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