Explanation
BACKGROUND: In 2012, Columbus Public Health was awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Health for the Immunization Action Plan in the amount of $401,318.00 on Ordinance No. 2360-2011. Additional supplemental funds for interest income were accrued on this grant, which are required to be returned to the Ohio Department of Health. 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 to return interest income.
FISCAL IMPACT: Monies for this refund are available within the Health Departments Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, 2012 Immunization Action Plan Grant.
Title
To authorize the appropriation of $87.62 to the Health Department Grants Fund for interest earned; to authorize the Board of Health to return interest income from the 2012 Immunization Action Plan Grant to the Ohio Department of Health; and to declare an emergency. ($87.62)
Body
WHEREAS, it is necessary to appropriate interest income in the amount of $87.62 plus any eligible interest earned prior to the return of the funds within the Health Department Grants funds; and,
WHEREAS, Columbus Public Health is required to return interest income from the 2012 Immunization Action Plan grant 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 appropriate these funds to the Health Department and to return interest to the Ohio Department of Health 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 to refund the interest earned on the 2012 Immunization Action Plan Grant in the amount of $87.62.
SECTION 2. That from the unappropriated monies in the Healt...
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