Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has a need to make funds available to contract with Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies. The Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies will provide health education/promotional services, support the Local Health System Action Plan, hold public forums, meetings, committees, prenatal care committees, and link pregnant women with appropriate providers through Pregnancy Care Connection (centralized first PNC appointment scheduling system). The contract period is June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2014. This contract will total an amount not to exceed $24,000.00. 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 2013 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 $24,000.00 from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund, to pay the cost thereof; and to declare an emergency. ($24,000.00)
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WHEREAS, proposals were formally submitted through the RFP process for health education/promotion services for the Healthy Start grant program; and,
WHEREAS, the bid from Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies, a local non-profit organization, was determined to be the lowest responsive, responsible bidder; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a 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 services for the Healthy Start grant program for the period of June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2014.
SECTION 2. That to pay the costs of said contracts, the expenditure of $24,000.00 is hereby authorized from the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, Division 50-01, Grant No. 501333, OCA Code 501333, Object Level One 03, Object Level 3337.
SECTION 3. That this contract is awarded in accordance with Sections 329.11 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 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.