Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the transfer and expenditure of $98,624.38 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant. Funds are needed to pay lead hazard control expenses associated with the Lead Safe Columbus Program.
The Lead Safe Columbus Program identifies and controls lead-based hazards in eligible rental and owner occupied housing as well as identifying, prioritizing and remediating other health and safety issues in those eligible units within the City of Columbus.
Lead Safe Columbus is a HUD grant-funded program that will end October 2014. In order to utilize all of the federal grant funds it is necessary to transfer funds between line items within the grant so that all of the funds can be used prior to the end of the grant period.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible and because of the need to continue program services without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes the transfer and expenditure of $98,624.38 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant.
Title
To authorize and direct the transfer of $98,624.38 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant; to authorize the expenditure of $98,624.38 from the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant to provide funding for expenditures related to the Lead Safe Columbus Program; and to declare an emergency. ($98,624.38)
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WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the transfer and expenditure of $98,624.38 within the General Government Grant Fund, Lead Grant, to provide funding for lead hazard control expenses relating to the Lead Safe Columbus Program; and
WHEREAS, the Lead Safe Columbus program identifies and controls lead-based hazards in eligible rental and owner occupied housing as well as identifying, prioritizing and remediatin...
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