Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This ordinance is needed to authorize the Board of Health to accept the new Healthy Start grant and to appropriate $1,080,000.00 in the Health Department Grants Fund for the period of November 1, 2015 through October 31, 2016.
The Healthy Start grant program enables Columbus Public Health to conduct care coordination in the project area neighborhoods of Franklin County, focusing primarily on perinatal and infant clients and their families. The goal of the program is to improve perinatal delivery systems in the project communities.
This ordinance is submitted as an emergency to not delay services to clients and their families and to allow the financial transactions to be posted in the City’s accounting system as soon as possible given the grant start date of November 1, 2015.
FISCAL IMPACT: The Healthy Start Grant Program is entirely funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This program does not generate any revenue or require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the Healthy Start Grant Program in the amount of $1,080,000.00; to authorize the appropriation of $1,080,000.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1,080,000.00)
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WHEREAS, $1,080,000.00 in grant funds have been made available through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the Healthy Start Grant Program for the period of November 1, 2015 through October 31, 2016; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary to authorize the Board of Health to accept these grant monies and to appropriate these funds for the continued support of the Healthy Start Grant program; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency to not delay services to clients and their families and t...
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